Product Description

What We Do Shear Butter UK has the mission to source West African Commodities and secure the logistics to build a solid relationship with international buyers. Its purpose is to help local producers of West Africa to market and sell the raw materials while meeting the international requirements for quality. We believe that Africa has many resources that can be leveraged to accelerate its development. Our approach consists of building strong relationships with companies that are willing to invest in Africa by building a strong level of reliability and quality. Shear Butter UK has the purpose of being the African hub for companies that are willing to purchase commodities safely, conveniently and quickly. Our Vision Our vision is dedicated to the alleviation of poverty in developing regions of the world by establishing a system of trade that allows women’s cooperatives in West African rural areas to gain access to foreign markets. We’ve partnered with different international institutions to set ambitious goals in job creation and educational investment for communities in the West African region . We strongly believe that a market-oriented approach with entrepreneurial principles can make some significant social changes for the lives of millions of people in developing countries. We seek to estimate the social, ecological and economic impact with specific metrics to assess our effectiveness in the area we're investing. Profit is of course necessary, however, it is not our ultimate goal. As a company in this new century, our ultimate goal is humanitarian and socially-oriented. We seek to have a balanced mix of the three components, mentioned above, in our activity to develop Africa, the SEE (Social, Ecological, and Economic) approach How We Work We work with companies that share the same values, that is integrity, passion for value creation and sense of responsibility of our world beyond nations, religion and race. In our company, we work closely with companies that are aligned with these values and which created a positive impact such as the creation of women's cooperative that enable to fight poverty more effectively or reforestation program Quality, Certified Produce The quality of our products is strictly monitored by internal control quality. Our goods are always verified by international control quality companies such as SGS to meet the specific requirements of our clients before shipment. Our Shea Butter is produced by the Shea Butter Village, a co-op in Tamale, Northern Ghana. The process of production has been improved over years and is strictly controlled by quality control institutions such as Ghana Standard Board and SGS to control the level of moisture content, iodine value, insoluble impurities, relative density or free fatty acids. Learn More