The shea butter doesnt have a smell, is this normal?
You should never use a shea butter if it has a very strong smell, as it is then most likely rancid. There is a lot of rancid shea butter sold in the marketplace. Never use it as it is damaging to your skin and your body. You also have a certain quality of shea butter that is not rancid but has a very strong smell that is impossible to hide with any fragrance, perfume or essential oil so therefore unsuitable for use in personal skin care products. Raw shea butter can always be detected by most people by its strong smell and colour. Aromantic sells Shea Butter that is naturally cleansed and deodorised by melting the raw shea butter and washing it with water. The melted butter and water mixture is transferred to a vacuum reactor where air and steam removes the odour. The melted shea butter is mixed with diatomaceous earth to remove most of the colour and then filtered for small particles and impurities by pressing through several layers of paper and cloth. The result is a Shea Butter that
