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GOOD FOR YOU, GOOD FOR THE WOMEN WHO MAKE IT, GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.

shea butter

Our shea butter is made by hand, using age-old techniques passed down through generations.

about shea butter

The Wali people of northern Ghana have been making shea butter for centuries. Living on the edge of the Sahara with its dry, harsh conditions meant the hot sun and wind constantly battered their face, hands, and skin.

Today, the women who make Baraka Shea Butter do everything by hand, using age-old techniques passed down through generations from their ancestors. Centuries of practice has taught them how to extract every bit of goodness from the shea nut, and that quality is now passed on in every package of Baraka Shea Butter and all the products made from it.

Every time you purchase Baraka Shea Butter, or any products made with it; you have a direct impact on the women, families, and communities in northern Ghana. We believe we have the strongest and most authentic community impact connection of any shea butter producer in the world, and we take great pride in that.

Known for its amazing skin care qualities, traditionally made shea butter can be used in its natural state, or in product formulations. Our customers rave about how well it works in creams, lotions, soaps, salves, shampoos, and many other recipes.

Baraka Shea Butter is wholesome, nourishing, AAA quality and Certified Fair Trade – no chemicals or additives, no animal testing, no harsh industrial processes. Just pure, natural, unrefined shea butter from our hands to yours.

the art of making shea butter

Making high-quality shea butter is truly a labor of love and a work of art. Building from the age-old techniques passed down through generations, we have worked closely with the women that produce our shea butter to help them integrate modern quality and hygiene techniques into their natural processes, without disrupting their art and traditions.

This time-honored, traditional process is used to ensure you receive a superior good that is wholesome, consistent and pure every time you buy it. Watch the animated video below to learn more about the process.

What You Need to Know
About Shea Butter Colors

Shea Butter can range in color from a grayish white to buttery yellow. The properties of the shea butter are not affected by its coloration, and you can rest assured that no matter the color it will work well for whatever products you are making.

The color variations are caused by several factors including:

  • the mineral content of the soil where the shea tree it came from grows
  • the time of the crop (seeds from early shea fruit seem to produce more yellowish colored shea butter than fruit from later in the season)
  • the climate during the year the seeds were produced (rains, heat, etc.).

Additionally, age will affect color, but it tends to turn shea butter very white and will be accompanied by a rancid smell. Baraka Shea Butter is produced to order for each container so anything we ship will have a minimum 18-month shelf life.

Beware of Things Added

If someone promises and consistently gives you a very yellow shea butter, you may want to have it tested. Because many people think buttery yellow means better shea butter, some unscrupulous producers have taken to adding yellow dye to their shea butter to make it appear more yellow. This makes it looks better when customers open packages.

With Baraka Shea Butter you will never get that. You will always get fresh, pure, hand-crafted, unrefined shea butter in its natural color and full of its natural goodness.

Double Impact Shea Butter

At Baraka, we are passionate about shea butter, and the shea butter industry as a whole. We are proud of the way we work with the women and communities who make shea butter. These are hardworking women who only ask for an opportunity to earn an income and are proud to share the wonder of shea butter with the world.

At Baraka Shea Butter, we focus on the DOUBLE IMPACT. First, from the healing, restorative and maintenance properties shea butter has on the body. Secondly, the positive human impact that most raw, unrefined shea butter has on the the women and communities where it comes from.

Baraka Shea Butter will continue to focus on increasing and enhancing the human impact and will continue to do what we can to inform our community of how their purchases make a difference. And most importantly, as a focal point of our business model and values, we will continue to bring the best quality, provide the best service, and give the best support to the women who make it.

We hope you will join us and help us continue to create Double Impact Shea Butter!

Using Baraka Shea Butter

Traditionally made shea butter is a superb moisturizer with exceptional healing properties. Using shea butter raw, or in product formulations can help with the following:

Skin Care: To calm skin irritations such as eczema, psoriasis, and dermatitis. Shea butter also aids in the skin’s natural collagen production to minimize the appearance of scars, fine lines and stretch marks with regular use. It is very nourishing and also acts as an emollient to help protect the skin by sealing in moisture.

Hair and Scalp: To moisturize the scalp, restore damaged hair, reduce frizz or as a leave-in conditioner.

Feet and Hands: To prevent, relieve and cure cracked heels, knees, elbows, and hands.

Pre and Post Natal Mothers: To prevent and minimize stretch marks and as nipple cream for breastfeeding mothers.

Newborn Babies: As a multi-purpose cream to heal the navel, as diaper rash cream, to treat dermatitis or simply as a gentle moisturizer after baths.

Wound Treatment: To help heal small scars and burns.

Traditional Uses: From stretch mark and infection prevention, to ancient beauty balm for Cleopatra herself, shea butter has withstood the test of time, proving to be an invaluable multi-purpose resource for beautification, medicinal and a myriad of other uses.

Additionally, Baraka Shea Butter customers rave about how well it works in its natural state and how amazing it is for creams, lotions, soaps, salves, shampoos, and the many other products they make with it.

Do you have other ways that you’ve used your Baraka Shea Butter?
We’d love to hear about them!

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