For Ojok Okello, a Ugandan shea nut farmer, turning his harvest into a marketable product was a lengthy and labor-intensive process. It would take at least 10 hours, with several workers helping ...

KAL AWINYA, Uganda ... tradition. Shea nuts are a critical part of her livelihood: she collects, dries, processes and sells shea nuts and their byproducts, like shea oil and butter.

In Uganda, nilotica producers are trying to meet growing demand for this butter. More from Retail When you hear "shea butter," you probably think of the West African kind. But in East Africa ...

A dermatologist explains hydrating shea butter as a moisturizer. Shop the best shea butter products from Summer Fridays, Sol ...

To find out the day-to-day impact it has on people’s lives, I travelled with The Body Shop to the Ghanaian town of Tamale, to meet the women who make the Community Trade shea butter in all the ...

Whenever I went round to her house she’d mention it, I don’t really know why it was that body part in particular ... the ritual of slathering on this shea butter post-shower, safe in the ...

Laziness is not entirely to blame—I also dislike the feeling of putting on clothes or getting into my clean sheets after applying greasy body lotion. Formulated with shea butter and shea oil ...