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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

Aqua, Helianthus annuus, Stearic Acid, Talc, Glycerin, Orbignya oleifera, Coco-Caprylate/Caprate, Dicaprylyl Ether, Butyrospermum parkii, Corn Starch Modified, Parfum, Phenoxyethanol, Triethanolamine, Pentaerythrityl Distearate, Acrylates/Vinyl Isodecanoate Crosspolymer, Sodium Polyacrylate, Glyceryl Stearate, Methylparaben, PEG-100 Stearate, Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmethane, Disodium EDTA, Linalool, Butylparaben, Ethylparaben, Coumarin, Isobutylparaben, Propylparaben, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Limonene, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Citronellol, Citral, Geraniol, Eugenol, Caramel, CI 19140.

Pump the lotion into your hand and smooth onto the skin. Apply as often as required.

The Body Shop® difference: Our babassu oil from Brazil has had quite a past. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the women “babassu breakers” and their families were forced from their land by the military dictatorship. Families lost their livelihoods and their homes, and countless trees were destroyed to make room for cattle. The women formed the Association of Rural Working Women and fought a 10-year legal battle. Eventually they secured the “Free Babassu” law, giving them the legal rights to go back onto the land and gather the babassu nuts, and preventing the trees from being chopped down.