Bioester production from shea oil using ethanol and alkaline catalyst

Bioester production from shea oil using ethanol and alkaline catalyst

Bioester with medicinal property offers opportunity to be used in pharmaceutical and personal care product industries

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Shea butter is a vegetable oil. Shea butter is a tiny yellowish or ivory-colored fat extracted from the nut of the African shea tree. It is widely used in cosmetics as a moisturizer, salve or lotion. It is edible and is used in food preparation in Africa. One problem associated with the use of neat shea butter is its relatively high viscosity (80 mm2/s at 50oC). Possible process for the reduction of viscosity is splitting off of glycerol backbone thorough transesterification. Due to toxicity, methanol is not suggested to use in transesterification of shea butter. In this study, transesterifica...