Sesame oil and shea butter are two African skincare secrets that have been used for centuries. Both natural ingredients are ...

Bitoreci Omara rests in the shade of one of her family’s shea trees in Otuke District in northern Uganda. She holds out a handful of dried shea nuts. These nuts make women beautiful and strong, she ...

If your skin or hair is feeling or looking dull and parched, shea butter can help bring it back to life. "As an emollient, ...

Discover the amazing benefits of African Shea Butter in today's video! I'll show you how raw, unrefined grade A Shea Butter can transform your skincare and haircare routine. Perfect for moisturizing ...

An curved arrow pointing right. When you hear "shea butter," you probably think of the West African kind. But in East Africa, a different variety of shea nut grows, called nilotica. It's easier to ...

It was about 12 years ago when Aminata Dukuray’s young daughter developed a skin condition that caused her to lose her hair — one that didn’t respond the typical treatments recommended by doctors.So ...

You might have seen this hashtag “#AfricanButter” around social media, however, African butter doesn’t just describe beautiful black people with melanin on overload as you might think. Nature bestowed ...

The fruit of the shea tree has long been considered sacred by many in Western Africa because of its myriad health benefits. But now growing demand among Western consumers for the fruit, known as ...

There's a gold rush on in the African nation of Mali, but it has nothing to do with the metal. This gold grows on shea trees, the nut of which is being processed into a multipurpose butter that not ...

The Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, has highlighted the untapped potential of the Shea butter sector, despite African women having earned $227 million ...