Beauty enthusiasts are raving about shea butter for skin and hair. Although the popular ingredient has only recently been showing up in the formulas of most lotions, shampoos, and other moisturizing ...

There's a gold rush on in the African nation of Mali, but it has nothing to do with the metal. This gold grows on shea trees, the nut of which is being processed into a multipurpose butter that not ...

COVID-19 had a strong negative impact on the Kusanaba Women’s Group in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region. The group won a significant contract to sell the shea butter they process, but ...

Approval for a second shea ingredient could boost the West African economy by over $8.5 million a year. Shea growers in Africa are celebrating after Dutch supplier Bunge Loders Croklaan received ...

The use of shea in the plant-based products is a fast-growing sector that would drive additional economic opportunities to women collectors/processors and their communities, the Global Shea Alliance ...