Chapter 959 Woman’s Gold (2/2)

The lion hunter nodded ”There is a reason for that, but it is mostly because the people

of the tribe are too stupid to cultivate the tree” Here he looked scornful and sarcastic

again

Li Du understood He felt that the lion hunters looked down upon their own people and

upon black people in general

There was another reason why South Africa didn't have mass production of shea butter,

and that was because according to African tradition, only women, not men, were

allowed to handle shea butter

If there were any shea trees in the tribe, women were the ones who took care of them

and extracted the shea butter

Shea butter was known locally as Woman's Gold, because it was the only business

exclusive to African women, and made a skin care product that was a real treasure

The tradition has lost some of its authority inthe plant, such as both the men ent to pick shea fruit

The party was resting when Abdo and his companion hurried back with soan to extract the oil by hand

Curious, Li Du looked back and saw that the shea nuts were oval and ranged in length

froht centimeters The two black men sliced the fruit with knives and cut off

the white and yellow flesh to collect the seeds

It looked soe, up to five centi

and four centimeters wide

Sophie, Brother Wolf, and the others came to help so they could speed up the process

The first step was to peel off the outer shell of the core, which usually needed to be

dried and broken with a stone or a small hammer, and then the seeds inside were

pulled out

Since there was no tiht horizontal

and vertical cut and quickly sliced the fruit into four pieces, and then took out the seeds

The next step was to crush the seeds For this purpose, Lilikas carried a stone bowl

The seeds of shea butter were so strong that he pounded them for a while before they

were crushed Godzilla pushed him away and crushed them himself He held the stone

bowl Lilikas carried in his hand, and with the other hand, he pounded it, crushi+ng the

seeds before long

Lilikas went to prepare for the next step He made a fire beneath an iron pot, poured the

crushed shea butter seeds into it, and stirred quickly until the shea butter was extracted

Because the pot itself was already red hot, when the seeds of shea butter reached a

high temperature, they produced some smoke

The lion hunter told Li Du that the best shea butter had a smoky smell because naturally

processed shea seeds produce sradually dissolved the shea butter seeds Lilikas

poured some transparent mucus into the shea butter seeds and cooked theh fire

Gradually, the mucous mixture of shea butter seeds turned into a creamy paste and

divided The upper layer was ivory white, and the second layer was beige, while the

botto, the shea butter was finally boiled, and Lilikas poured it out,

placed it in the shade and said with a sigh, ”All right, wait for Woman's Gold”

Li Du squatted nearby to observe and saw that the shea butter was unlike vegetable oil

It was semi-solid at room temperature, looked a bit like cream, had a hint of smoky

sradually solidified