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  Shea Butter

  Our Community Fair Trade shea butter comes from Ghana. Local women hand-harvest shea nuts, dry them in the sun and crack them to extract the kernels. These are roasted and ground into a paste to make the butter. Our trade with the Tungteiya Women’s Shea Butter Association has helped to fund three medical centres and 10 nursery schools. To find out more, visit our Community Fair Trade section.

Full Ingredients

Water, Citrus Paradisi (Grapefruit) Seed Oil, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Butter, Cyclomethicone, Glycerin, Glyceryl Stearate, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), PEG-100 Stearate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Lanolin Alcohol, Phenoxyethanol, Fragrance, Limonene, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Xanthan Gum, Linalool, Benzyl Alcohol, Disodium EDTA, Tocopherol, Hexyl Cinnamal, Citral, Sodium Hydroxide, Citronellol, Geraniol, Hydroxyisohexyl 3-Cyclohexene Carboxaldehyde, Yellow 6, Red 33.

Scoop out with your fingers and message into your skin as often as required.

Our shea butter is provided by our Community Trade partner, the Tungteiya Shea Butter Association, in Ghana. Dame Anita Roddick visited northern Ghana in 1992 while making a television program about women entrepreneurs. She met the women producing shea butter and discovered that they used this natural moisturizer to prevent dry skin, especially when the dry and dusty “Harmattan” winds blow in from the Sahara from November to January. It seemed obvious to her that it should be in our products, and we placed our first order two years later in 1994. The rest, as they say, is history.