Organic & Fair Trade Grade A Shea Butter (100g-1kg)

IMO Certified Organic Wild Collection

Fairly traded Grade A Shea Butter
100g-1kg

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This Fair Trade Shea Butter has been certified Grade A Premium by the American Shea Butter Institute. 
100% Raw Organic Grade A Shea has the usual smokey, nutty smell .

SHEA BUTTER (KARITE BUTTER)-Premium Quality

Product Information;

Shea Butter belongs to the family sapotaceae.
Shea Butter is a substance that is drawn from a nut that comes from the shea tree. When the fruits are ripe they fall off the trees and are handpicked. The fruits are green – yellow in colour, oval in shape.
The fruits are then depulped, boiled and sun dried, decorticated to kernel, sun dried again, crushed, roasted before grinding into paste.
The paste is then kneaded into cream and finally the cream is boiled and the fat separated from the residue.
It contains high levels of unsaponifiables (7 – 12%) and vitamin A & E making it the best single oil for anti-aging, creams, UV sun protection, hair creams, swelling and arthritis, cell regeneration and circulation which favours the healing processes of damage skin. Ect.. It also contains other elements like free fatty Acid, peroxide betasitosterols and cinnamic Acid.

Uses For Organic Grade A Shea Butter;

7/ Very good anti-ageing and wrinkle cream.


SUPERIOR Ouality FAIR TRADE Product!

This shea butter comes from a womens cooperative
in the Upper East Region of Ghana. 
The women make this Shea butter, Black Soap and also baskets to sell.
 Profits go back into the business which the women have shares in.

In Northern Ghana, many families are single parents, as the men go out to urban areas to seek work. 
Many women find themselves the head of the family and therefore have to seek out supplementary sources of income.
To ensure the independance of members, they receive training on the basics of finance and commerce.
The oraganisation also conducts campaigns to promote workers rights.
Ensuring a decent wage for parents, the organisation allows them to send their children to school and thus fight agains child labor.