The blue cohosh is a wild plant in North America, it likes wooded valleys and wet slopes, exposed to the north It can also be cultivated by sowing or by division of the roots in the fall.

Fat or shea butter is currently sold on the market in slabs or balls. The African method of butter preparation consists in ridding the fruits of their pulp by fermentation and washing. The almond is then reduced to pulp by shelling and the resulting mass is thrown into the boiling water, and on cooling, the fat floats and can be collected almost clean.