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Alaffia Fair Trade Shea Butter and Sustainable Skin Care builds community empowerment through the fair trade of indigenous, handcrafted Shea Butter and sustainable skin care products. We are members of the Fair Trade Federation, and we produce all of our products under fair trade and organic guidelines. Our products are:
- Fair Trade
- Handcrafted
- Paraben Free
- Petroleum Free
- Cruelty free
Shea butter is a unique African natural resource. Shea trees grow no where else on Earth but Africa, and African women have been making and trading Shea butte for millennia. Due to colonial circumstances, ex-African colonial powers now control the Shea butter trade and have taken away the market from African women. Alaffia’s moral responsibility is to empower these women by directly bringing their indigenous product to market, returning the funds to Africa, and conducting sustainable local based project that will lead these women and the community out of pervasive poverty.
Alaffia is more than skin care products. We are also the producers of our Shea Butter, specialty oils and extracts. From gathering wild Shea nuts to formulating our lotions and creams we are one organization. This means our cooperative members, women whose families have been producing Shea butter for centuries, are once again benefiting directly directing from the trade of their traditional knowledge and indigenous resources.
Here in Olympia we repackage our Shea Butter and formulate our lotions, soaps and creams using the same principles as our Togo cooperative.
Empowerment Alliance:
Fair Trade Federation