Fairly Traded Shea Butter means the premier Raw Shea Butter we offer at 24Karite Gold is a product with true soul. In addition to nourishing your health and beauty, our Raw Shea Butter is produced and traded with mindfulness and honesty. 24Karite Gold is a skincare company built on the conviction that the only way to trade right is to trade fairly.
“Fairly Traded” means the developing countries from which many of our raw materials are sourced are treated in honest, straightforward terms. Workers are paid fair wages, the trade helps the nation create a sustainable economy and the health of their natural resources is protected. It means that people who live in countries still working toward economic equality can do so without harming themselves or their environment. 24Karite Gold’s Raw Shea Butter promotes the empowerment the West African nation of Burkina Faso. We also place a special emphasis on supporting woman.
Fairly Traded Shea Butter means the premier Raw Shea Butter we offer at 24Karite Gold is a product with true soul. In addition to nourishing your health and beauty, our Raw Shea Butter is produced and traded with mindfulness and honesty. 24Karite Gold is a skincare company built on the conviction that the only way to trade right is to trade fairly.
“Fairly Traded” means the developing countries from which many of our raw materials are sourced are treated in honest, straightforward terms. Workers are paid fair wages, the trade helps the nation create a sustainable economy and the health of their natural resources is protected. It means that people who live in countries still working toward economic equality can do so without harming themselves or their environment. 24Karite Gold’s Raw Shea Butter promotes the empowerment the West African nation of Burkina Faso. We also place a special emphasis on supporting woman.
The Shea nuts that make up our Raw Shea Butter are hand harvested by women Burkina Faso. The butter is processed under their direction, and the profits are paid to the women directly. In Burkina Faso, the Shea nut is considered a food commodity and legally woman and only woman can collect any profits from the sale and trade of food and food products. 24Karite Gold gathers and fairly employs over three hundred women through the sale of Shea Butter, so that they can take care of their families, communities and themselves!
In addition, 24Karite Gold products help expand the health and economy of Burkina Faso as a whole. The sale of 24Karite Gold Shea Butter represents 75% of the local annual income and benefits a population of 38,637 people. Still, there is room for more growth. About 50,000 tons of Shea nuts are harvested yearly in Burkina Faso but the country has the ability to produce 17x more than that. Fairly Traded Shea Butter fuels vibrant, sustainable economic growth in the region.
Lastly, our Raw Shea Butter is a “Fairly Traded” product because it supports the health of the planet. Our Shea nuts are hand harvested from wild growing Karite Trees. This means that we don’t have a plantation that sucks up ground mineral resources or pollutes the earth with the overuse of fertilizers and pesticides. We don’t change the landscape in any way to produce our Shea butter; we use only what Mother Nature provides. This ensures the working conditions of the women who produce our Shea butter stay healthy and intact and that our planet incurs no damage.
At 24Karite Gold, our Shea Butter is an exquisite product and a powerful tool to reach out and nourish the world in ways that count.