Keeping with long held traditions, indigenous women still turn to the African wild for all their skincare needs. Our Journey for beautiful skin begins in Malawi where growing Fair Trade sugar provides clean water and education for farmers’ children. Evaporated cane juice contains glycolic acid which breaks down dead skin. We whip this naturally grown sugar into an emollient cream made from skin loving, certified organic East African shea butter. This rare butter, also known as nilotica, is sourced from a cooperative of women who live in war torn Uganda. Many of them have escaped enslavement by the rebel army. Their shea butter project has allowed them to buy homes and begin their own micro-businesses. We next travel further north to Somaliland where local women collect leaves known locally as qasil. This traditional treatment adds skin softening and conditioning properties to our luxury scrub. 

     Surprising perhaps, in different places throughout Africa people eat ripe bananas directly with their food. Maybe its the high potassium content, or perhaps simply the fact that bananas turn every meal into desert time. Whatever the case, these super sweet treats grow throughout Africa appeasing apes and humans alike. We like our naturally fragrant banana extract with baobabs for desert in the tub. Rich in an array of vitamins and omegas, baobab oil is a treat for the skin as much as bananas are a treat to tickle your senses.

Contains only: pure spring water (no recycled water), Fair Trade Malawi cane sugar, certified organic nilotica shea butter, volcanic stone, natural emulsifying wax, baobab oil, all natural banana extract, qasil, naturally based preservative (glucono delta-lactone, sodium benzoate), natural fruit/vegetable coloring

Apply scrub to slightly wet skin. Buff away dead skin in circular motions. Rinse well. Moisturize skin with one of Shea Terra Organics Whipped Shea Butter Body Cre’mes. 

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