OUR STORY: THE WOMEN BEHIND THE BUTTER

Susana Sampamdoug, chairwoman of the FairTale GHANA women's Shea butter cooperative in Northern Ghana
Meet Susana: The Chairwoman Who Answers for Every Batch
Every brand claims quality control. Ours has a name, an opinion and no interest in flattering me. Susana Sampamdoug chairs our Shea butter cooperative in Northern Ghana. Meet the woman... Read more...
Meet Tembire: The Last Hands on Your Shea Butter
Meet Tembire: The Last Hands on Your Shea Butter
Thousands of nuts cracked by hand, days of work, and a batch can still be lost in the final ten minutes. Tembire Aduabono runs packaging at our cooperative in Northern... Read more...
Women of the FairTale GHANA Shea butter cooperative in Northern Ghana
Love at Our Shea Butter Co-op: Meet the Women Who Make It
Our cooperative started with 10 women and is now more than 30. No decision passes until everyone agrees. Meet the makers, and the honest part about capacity. Read more...
Why Is Our Shea Butter Still Handcrafted? The Unused Machine
Why Is Our Shea Butter Still Handcrafted? The Unused Machine
A donated kneading machine stands in our cooperative in Northern Ghana, in working order, switched off. The reason has less to do with tradition than you would expect, and the... Read more...
Rose Asonge, elder of the FairTale GHANA women's Shea butter cooperative in Northern Ghana
Meet Rose: Nobody Knows Her Age, Everybody Takes Her Advice
Rose Asonge is somewhere between 75 and 85. She counts her life in farming seasons rather than birthdays, raised five children on her own and is now raising four grandchildren.... Read more...
Women of the FairTale GHANA cooperative handcrafting raw Shea butter
How Our Shea Butter Is Made: Step Inside the Cooperative
By hand, every step, in a village in Northern Ghana. From a wild tree to pale gold butter: the full process, who does the work, and why we refuse to... Read more...
FairTale GHANA Baobab oil pouches and Shea butter tins with dark glass dropper bottles, laid on straw
Why FairTale GHANA Sells on Amazon
An automated system closed our Amazon store. We left, opened our own shop and shipped straight from Ghana, and lost 90 percent of our sales in a few months. This... Read more...
Kai-Liis Lepik, founder of FairTale GHANA
This Is How FairTale GHANA Really Began
No boardroom, no business plan. Ghanaian friends in New York, a village 500 miles north of Accra, and one coincidence too many. How FairTale GHANA was born. Read more...
Schoolchildren from the Shea butter village in Northern Ghana
Children Out of School? Not in Our Shea Butter Village
Not in our Shea butter village! Every child of the women in our Shea cooperative in Northern Ghana is in school. Here is what direct trade with skilled women makes... Read more...
Ethically sourced raw Shea butter from the women's cooperative in Northern Ghana
Ethically Sourced Shea Butter: Good for Your Skin, Good for the World
Not all Shea butter is the same. FairTale GHANA works directly with a women's cooperative in Northern Ghana to bring you 100% raw, unrefined Shea butter with full transparency on... Read more...