Shea Butter is Doubly Amazing!
Shea Butter: Double Down for impact, benefit and more. Happy, healthy skin AND healthy, happy families! Skin Impact AND Human Impact! Amazing properties, and so much impact. Unrefined shea butter has amazing skin care properties. A quick google search will yield all sorts of claims and testimonials about its healing, regenerative… [read more]
Colours of Baraka Shea Butter
Shea Butter ranges in colour from gray/white through to buttery yellow. The properties of the shea butter are not affected by colouration. The colours are caused by several factors; the mineral content of the soil where the shea tree it came from grows, the time of the crop (seeds from… [read more]
Baraka’ing Through Summer
Wandering through summer information about our efforts to help our customers sell more, do more and impact more. I’m excited about the impact we (all of us, you too) are having as we build a business and value-chain that has positive impact from the women who make Baraka Shea Butter,… [read more]
I’m Off To Kperisi, Ghana for a Month
And I’m off… to Kperisi. As you are reading this I am just arriving in the community where Baraka Shea Butter is made. And for a bit longer than normal – so be ready for a blizzard of posts and photos…from my hands to your screen… (OK, not as exciting… [read more]
Customer Question: Are Baraka Baskets “Fair Trade”?
Recently, one of our customers contacted us questioning us about our Bolga Baskets and whether they are Fair Trade. Because we thought you might be interested, here is our response… Hi and thanks so much for your call. I really appreciate it. It always amazes me to see the claims… [read more]
Great time, Great Memories
I’m in Ghana’s capital city of Accra today and thinking back to mid-October last year when I was able to take a couple of days and head up to Bolgatanga in Ghana’s Upper East Region and go back out to meet with the basket making groups that I had met… [read more]
School supplies for Kperisi
Yesterday I was in the Staples Store in Duncan, BC, near where I live and I saw they had a sale on backpacks and pens. Actually it was a discount bin full of them. The management at the local Staples has always been really supportive of our efforts to… [read more]
Baraka Buys Bolga Baskets
In about 2010 we were approached by a wonderful local business, The Community Farm Store to supply them with Bolga Baskets from Ghana. They were already a Shea Butter client and great friends, and we were already importing Shea Butter from northern Ghana so it all made sense. Little did we know… [read more]
The Women of Kperisi, Ghana
I just read my first blog post. Maybe I came out of it with my foot in my mouth? Or close? So much of what Baraka Supplies does and is about has to do with women and families and communities. And yet when I look at my first blog post, the pictures were… [read more]
