Black Soap Base (Crumbs)
Black Soap Crumb Base. Handmade in Ghana. Ready to Create.
Baraka Black Soap Base (Crumbs) is a traditional African black soap base, handmade by skilled women artisans in Ghana and sold in crumb form — ready to dissolve into liquid soap, whip into a paste, or use as the base for a custom soap rebatch. Made with raw shea butter, coconut oil, apricot kernel oil, sweet almond oil, and kale, this is a rich, naturally derived soapmaking ingredient with deep roots in West African traditional craftsmanship. Versatile, customisable, and ethically sourced — this is the ingredient that takes your DIY soap projects from ordinary to genuinely African-made. Every order supports the skilled women artisans in Ghana who handcraft this base.
Quick Specs:
- Ingredients: Raw Shea Butter · Coconut Oil · Apricot Kernel Oil · Sweet Almond Oil · Kale
- Form: Crumbs — dissolve in water to create liquid soap, paste, or rebatch base
- Origin: Ghana, West Africa — handmade by women artisans
- Processing: Handcrafted using traditional African black soap techniques
- Sizes: 500g · 1kg · 4kg
- Suitable For: Liquid soap, paste soap, soap rebatching, scalp and body cleansing
- Customisation: Can be enhanced with turmeric powder, moringa powder, coconut powder, and additional oils and butters
Perfect For:
- DIY soapmakers wanting to work with a traditional African black soap base
- Creating liquid black soap for face, body, and scalp cleansing
- Crafting black soap pastes and custom soap rebatches with personalised additives
- Natural beauty makers who want to understand and work with traditional West African ingredients
- Scalp care formulations — black soap crumbs dissolve well into scalp cleansing bases
- Anyone who wants to support fair trade, handmade production in Ghana through their DIY practice
Key Takeaways:
- Traditional African black soap base in crumb form — handmade in Ghana, ready to dissolve and create
- Rich ingredient base: raw shea butter, coconut oil, apricot kernel oil, sweet almond oil, and kale
- Three creation methods: slow dissolve (best), microwave, or water bath — all covered in the included DIY blog post
- Every order directly supports skilled women artisans and fair trade communities in Ghana
👉 Order now and support the women artisans who handcraft this base in Ghana
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HOW BLACK SOAP IS MADE
Black Soap is an incredible product that is just starting to be known and used in North America.
Ghanaian women have been making black soap with shea butter for generations. Taught by their mothers and grandmothers as they were growing up, Ghanaian women make and use black soap.
Follow along in this video as we interview Amina Yussif where she explains how it is made and how it is part of the traditional shea butter process.
BARAKA BLACK SOAP
FROM OUR HANDS TO YOURS
Baraka Black Soap is handmade from pure, natural, and traditionally sourced ingredients by hard-working Ghanaian women. Truly a circular economy product, Baraka Black Soap uses by-products from shea butter production, including natural lye sourced from the ashes.
ALL NATURAL
No chemicals, additives, animal testing, or harsh industrial processing. Just pure, natural black soap.
COMMUNITY IMPACT
Every time you purchase Baraka’s black soap you have a direct impact on the women, families, and communities in northern Ghana. Not only does your order provide the dignity of income to hardworking women but helps support educational and economic projects in the community.
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