How Hand-Crafted Shea Butter is Made

Making Shea Butter – from fruit to butter 

Baraka shea butter is made by hand by women's producer groups at the Konjeihi Women's Enterprise Centre in Wa, Ghana. Shea fruit is gathered in the wild shea forest and turned into unrefined butter that is strained and filtered only. Watch the video above to see each step, from fruit to finished butter.

This video takes you through the entire process, starting in the wild shea forest and finishing with beautiful, hand-crafted shea butter.

Learn about the steps in the process and all the hard work that goes into making shea butter.

#KnowAboutShea – a series of informational posts about shea butter and the women, families and communities that make it

These next lines give you more information about Baraka Shea Butter – read them if interested.

What we hope you take away from this post more than anything is that you impact women, families and communities when you buy shea butter and that it is important to know the source of your shea butter.

It is so easy to have ‘raw and unrefined’ shea butter that was industrially processed, chemically extracted and all the income and impact ripped from the women and given to the factory. See more in this blog Refined vs unrefined shea butter: what's in a label

Baraka Shea Butter is handmade by women at the Konjeihi Women's Enterprise Centre in northern Ghana using age-old traditions and techniques. It is core to traditional life and to their economic well-being.

Recent Topic: How to Know Your Shea Butter!

You make a difference with every purchase from Baraka, or from people who make products with Baraka Shea Butter.

It has a direct impact on hard-working women and their families.

You can learn more, or order at https://barakasheabutter.com/

Read 10 Reasons to Use Handmade Shea Butter if you want more detail