About Sheólogy Organics

The Sheólogy story is a simple one. We felt the need to give back to the community. We have experience and connections in West Africa; we have expertise in biochemistry and cosmetics. Coupled with our business experience we have launched an effort to bring fair trade to the women of Burkina Faso while providing very pure custom she butter formulations to the women so that they can feel good about how they look and satisfied how the spent their money.

Although few outsiders know this tree, shea (Vitellaria paradoxa, Sapotaceae) remains among West Africa’s most extensive food sources. West Africans employ its smooth-skinned, egg-shaped nut much like Westerners employ lard and butter. For a vegetable lipid this one is strange in that it remains solid even under tropical conditions. Countless Africans also use it for skincare, and these days shea butter is going global and going upscale as an ingredient in some of the most expensive cosmetics ever formulated.

Our opportunity has been our dismay of the modern cosmetic industry practices to add ingredients that extend the profit while neglecting the consumers sensibilities, health and the growers livelihoods. To be sure this is not the entire market but enough to say that there is a need in the market place to deliver this miraculous product in an unadulterated way.