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If you could buy a fabulous pampering product that benefits a community somewhere in the world, why wouldn't you? The Body Shop® spends around $11.5 million annually buying ingredients, gifts and accessories from communities across the world, paying a fair price and giving producers access to a global market that would normally be out of their reach.
Thanks to your purchases, over 25,000 people in more than 20 countries across the world are earning a fair wage and working in fair conditions.
Accessories from India
Not only can you find the perfect toiletries bag at The Body Shop®, you can also benefit a community in southern India. Teddy Exports was our very first Community Trade supplier and this year enjoys 21 years of trading with us! It is a truly progressive employer, providing jobs to people with HIV and AIDS. In 1994, The Teddy School was opened, bringing an opportunity for education to the local children.
Teddy Exports, India
Wild-harvested Seaweed from Ireland
Our highly-innovative seaweed products purify and balance skin tone. Wild-harvested off the shores of Ireland by The Roaring Water Bay Seaweed Co-operative, it is entirely natural, grown without chemicals or fertilizers. It's also 100% sustainable! Our Community Trade supplier cuts the seaweed by hand and leaves the root on the rock, allowing the plant to re-grow. The work provides much needed employment, building a brighter future for the area.
The Roaring Water Bay Seaweed Co-operative, Republic of Ireland
Honey from Zambia
You'll love the certified organic honey featured as a key ingredient in a fabulous array of The Body Shop® products. Since 1991, our skin-nourishing honey has been sourced through North Western Bee Products. 6,000 beekeepers (500 of them women) in the beautiful forests of Miombo are working to make beekeeping both commercially and environmentally sustainable. By producing just four buckets of honey, a beekeeper earns enough to put his or her child through school for a year!
North Western Bee Products, Zambia
Marula Oil from Namibia
Looking fabulous has never felt so good. The magic in many of our make-up products is super-moisturizing marula oil. This wonderfully-light oil is made from the nut of the marula tree, regarded as sacred in Africa. What's more, it sourced from our Community Trade Partner, the Eudafano Women's Cooperative.
Eudafano Women's Cooperative, Namibia
Organic Olive Oil from Italy
The Body Shop® adores olive oil and includes its moisturizing goodness in our award-winning Body Butter, Body Mists and Olive Glossing Hair Care products. Our organic olive oil is sourced through the Community Trade program, from a region of Italy which has grown olives since the middle-ages! This rural community was once one of the most financially depressed in Italy. Today, it is one of the largest organic oil producers in the country, with some 270 members.
The Nuovo Cilento Cooperative, Italy
Cocoa Butter from Ghana
If you love creamy formulas and chocolaty fragrances, The Body Shop® has the perfect Cocoa Butter product for you. Since 1996, we have been buying Community Trade cocoa beans from the Kuapa Kokoo Ltd (KKL) in Ghana, a cooperative with over 40,000 small-scale farmers. The money made by the cooperative helps the farmers to provide for their families and allows the development of community projects such as schools and village wells.
Kuapa Kokoo Ltd, Ghana
