Butter up: The Ivory Coast shea business booms

摘要

Ivory Coast's shea butter holds export potential as a cosmetic ingredient. Provence, France-based company Sophim is a specialist producer of natural ingredients for the cosmetics and pharmaceuticals industries, and the company has been importing crude shea butter from Ivory Coast, as well as from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali since 2002, the company's Sales Manager, Christophe Blanc, says.