Fair Trade Shea Butter: The Konjeihi Women's Enterprise Centre Story

Baraka Shea Butter has maintained a direct cooperative relationship with the Konjeihi Women's Enterprise Centre in Ghana's Upper West Region for over 15 years. This page tells that story — how shea butter is hand-processed using traditional water-based methods, what chain-of-custody documentation means, and why the source of an ingredient matters as much as the ingredient itself. Topics covered include the cooperative structure, the women who produce Baraka's ingredients, the economics of hand-processing versus factory extraction, and what fair trade sourcing looks like in practice. Every batch of Baraka shea butter is traceable to the Konjeihi cooperative.