Alaffia in the Media

UC Davis Magazine

Olowo-n’djo Tchala and Alaffia were featured in the alumni section of the Summer 2007 edition of the “UC Davis Magazine”. Read the full article at our blog.

The Whitman Magazine

Beauty of natural skin-care product reaches far beyond healthy glow
By Lenel Parish

The Alaffia Sustainable Skin Care Company has a history as rich as the pure, unrefined shea butter it sells.
The fledgling multinational company, brainchild of Prairie Rose Hyde ’95 and her husband, Olowo-n’dja Tchala, also provides fair
prices and wages to the farmers and the members of the Agbanga Karite Cooperative in Togo, West Africa.

The Seattle PI

Olympia couple uses their shea-butter business to build a brighter future for Togo
By Cecelia Goodnow

The nuts of the wild shea tree of West Africa produce a rich butter prized for cooking, cosmetics and healing. As a boy in Togo, Olowo-n’djo Tchala spent hours gathering them to pay for clothing and school supplies.

The Star Banner

Spread it on: Shea butter has grown popular as part of skin- and hair-care regimens
by Lashonda Stinson

Shea butter - in recent years, this term has been appearing more and more in the skin care and beauty aisles. Products that are made with it promise to relieve dry skin and make it softer and more radiant.

Colors NW Magazine

Alaffia and Global Trading Network
by Pat Tanumihardja

Pick up a free copy on the streets in Seattle or visit the ColorsNW website to order a copy.

iAfrica.com

Shea butter: Africa’s beauty secret
by Irmin Durand

“For centuries West African women have been using shea butter, or karite, in traditional medicines, to cook meals or to massage newborn babies….”

Treehugger.com

Sustainable Shea Butter by Alaffia
by Justin Thomas

“Alaffia is a company that is focused on producing fairtraded, sustainably grown, unrefined shea butter….”

TheOlympian.com

Nut cream connects Olympia with Togo
by Kari Neumeyer

“Olowo-n’djo Tchala founded the cooperative in 2003 to lift the women of Togo, his native country, out of poverty. Profits help the members directly through fair market salaries and indirectly through development projects….”

MarlenesMarket-Deli.com

Fair Trade: Know where your money’s going
ed. Lori Lively

“Africa has always been a place of abundant natural resources. Today, one of the most important commodities is shea butter, her “liquid gold.” Unfortunately the people in west and central Africa who are ultimately responsible for bringing this valuable oil to the rest of the world are rarely compensated fairly….”

Lori’snatural.com

Meet our newest member of our Fair Trade Family
by Joe Star

“These products are made and marketed by
a group of women in the tiny country of Togo,
which is located in West Africa….”