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Beurre de karité

Nom INCI : Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter. Après saponification au NaOH, le nom déclaré est Sodium Shea Butterate ; au KOH, Potassium Shea Butterate.

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Valeurs publiées

Indice de saponification160–200 mg KOH/g
Utilisé par le calculateur180.0 mg KOH/g (milieu de plage)
Indice pour le NaOH0.1283 g/g
Indice d’iode30–75 g I₂/100 g
INS (SAP − indice d’iode)128
Point de fusion33–40.5 °C
Matière insaponifiable2.4–11.6 % (typ. 6.2)

Un savon fait à 100 % de beurre de karité

Dureté 45 29–54
Pouvoir lavant 0 en dessous de 12–22
Douceur 54 44–69
Mousse bulleuse 0 en dessous de 14–46
Mousse crémeuse 45 16–48

Qualités conventionnelles additionnées à partir des groupes d’acides gras ; un savon à une seule huile est un repère, pas une recette.

Profil d’acides gras

Acide grasPlage publiée, %Utilisé
Acide palmitique C16:0 · saturés 1.9–5 3.5
Acide stéarique C18:0 · saturés 27.7–55.7 41.7
Acide oléique C18:1 34–60.7 47.4
Acide linoléique C18:2 4.4–7.9 6.2
Acide arachidique C20:0 · saturés 0–1.8 0.9

D’où viennent ces nombres

Les notes sourcées ci-dessous, ainsi que les titres des documents qu’elles citent, sont conservées dans leur langue d’origine. Une référence traduite ne peut plus être retrouvée, et un résumé technique traduit n’est plus le résumé qui a été vérifié par rapport au document.

Journal of Oleo Science (Japan Oil Chemists' Society), open access via J-STAGEAkihisa T, Kojima N, Katoh N, Ichimura Y, Suzuki H, Fukatsu M, Maranz S, Masters ET. "Triterpene Alcohol and Fatty Acid Composition of Shea Nuts from Seven African Countries." J Oleo Sci. 2010;59(7):351-360. doi:10.5650/jos.59.351 · document daté du 2010 · consulté le 2026-09-21

Table 5 (GLC fatty-acid composition of 36 individual shea nut samples) and Results sections 3.2 (NSL/non-saponifiable lipid content, Table 2) and 3.5 (fatty-acid prose ranges) supplied the fattyAcidsPercent and unsaponifiablePercent fields.

Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of IndiaFood Safety and Standards (Food Products Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011 - Chapter 2.2 'Fats, Oils and Fat Emulsions', Version 5 (01.08.2025), item 12 'Shea butter', unrefined column · document daté du 2025-08-01 · consulté le 2026-09-21

Standard for 'Shea butter (Unrefined)': iodine value 30-75, saponification value 160-200 (used for those two fields), unsaponifiable matter not more than 19%, free fatty acids not more than 8%, refractive index 1.4620-1.4650 at 44 C. Item inserted by 2019 amendment, gazetted 2021.

Journal of Food Science and Technology (Springer), open access via PubMed CentralAjala EO, Aberuagba F, Olaniyan AM, Onifade KR. "Optimization of solvent extraction of shea butter (Vitellaria paradoxa) using response surface methodology and its characterization." J Food Sci Technol. 2015;53(1):730-738. · document daté du 2015-09-24 · consulté le 2026-09-21

Table 4: traditional wet-extracted butter (SBT) SAP 167.4 mg KOH/g, iodine 21.43 gI2/100g, melting point 33.0 C; solvent-extracted butter (SBS) SAP 202.9 mg KOH/g, iodine 13.19 gI2/100g, melting point 40.5 C. Nigerian samples. Melting-point figures used for the field; its iodine values were treated as an outlier and not used (see notes).

SpringerPlus (Springer), open access via PubMed CentralMegnanou R-M, Niamke S. "Improving the optimized shea butter quality: a great potential of utilization for common consumers and industrials." SpringerPlus. 2015;4:667. doi:10.1186/s40064-015-1454-0 · document daté du 2015 · consulté le 2026-09-21

Ivory Coast beige/yellow shea butter: iodine 52.64/53.06 gI2/100g (corroborates the FSSAI-sourced field). Its unsaponifiable matter (17.61%/17.27%) and fatty acids (palmitic 16.42%/26.36%, stearic 32.39%/36.36%, oleic 38.12%/29.09%, linoleic 9.72%/5.92%, arachidic 1.84%/1.59%) were NOT used - inconsistent with Akihisa et al.'s much larger 36-sample dataset, recorded here only for transparency.

FATTY ACIDS AND UNSAPONIFIABLE MATTER (both from the primary source): Akihisa et al. 2010 (J Oleo Sci) ran GLC on 36 individually-analyzed shea kernel fat samples from 7 countries (Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroun, Chad, Sudan, Uganda). Its own prose-stated ranges (Results 3.5): oleic 34.0-60.7%, stearic 27.7-55.7%, linoleic 4.4-7.9%, palmitic 1.9-5.0%, arachidic 'tr-1.8%' (trace treated as 0 for min). Myristic acid was present only as 'tr' (trace) throughout all 36 samples in Table 5, with no quantified range stated, so it is left out rather than guessed. Unsaponifiable matter uses this paper's 'NSL' (non-saponifiable lipid) content, Table 2/Results 3.2: range 2.4-11.6% across the 36 samples, mean 6.2% (used as typical) - NSL is obtained by saponification and partition, the same concept the AOCS 'unsaponifiable matter' test targets. SAPONIFICATION VALUE 160-200 mg KOH/g and IODINE VALUE 30-75 gI2/100g are both from the FSSAI (India) regulatory standard for unrefined shea butter (see provenance) rather than from Akihisa et al., which does not report either classical constant. Two additional primary sources were checked and partly corroborate, partly conflict: Ajala et al. 2015 (PMC4711458, Nigerian samples) measured SAP 167.4 mg KOH/g (traditional wet extraction) and 202.9 mg KOH/g (solvent extraction, slightly above the FSSAI ceiling), and melting point 33.0 C / 40.5 C for the same two extraction methods (used as the meltingPointC field, since no other primary source measured it) - but its iodine values (21.43 and 13.19 gI2/100g) are far below every other source checked and were treated as a discrepant outlier, excluded from the field. Megnanou & Niamke 2015 (PMC4631807, two Ivory Coast composite samples, beige/yellow) measured iodine 52.64/53.06 gI2/100g, comfortably inside the FSSAI band (used only as corroboration, not the field itself, which already came from FSSAI); but its fatty-acid figures (palmitic 16.42%/26.36%, stearic 32.39%/36.36%, oleic 38.12%/29.09%, linoleic 9.72%/5.92%, arachidic 1.84%/1.59%) and unsaponifiable matter (17.61%/17.27%) are far outside Akihisa's 36-sample range - especially palmitic, which every other source puts at roughly 2-5%, not 16-26% - so these Megnanou figures were NOT used for any field, recorded here only for transparency. See shea-butter-refined.json for AAK's refined (RBD) commercial product spec, which is a meaningfully tighter/different profile.

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