Baraka Blogs
Every order and every tip made an impact. Your purchases & contributions, and your customers purchases, impacted the lives of over 1,000 rural women and their families in December. Read on for some of the highlights.
- January 13, 2023
- 5 min read
- November 21, 2022
- 2 min read
Every Baraka Shipment to our customers is now shipped carbon neutral, with the support going towards a project in Kenya, providing hard-working rural women with stoves that reduce cooking time, conserve fuel, combat climate change and deforestation and reduce the fuel cost for the women.
This only happened because of the support and encouragement of our customers.
- October 12, 2022
- 2 min read
The most common answer is that it is because of the dark colour given from the ash of locally harvested plants and peels that are used to create natural sodium hydroxide, which breaks the molecules of the oils and butters apart and bonds with them to create a new compound called Soap!
- October 08, 2022
- 2 min read
What is the story behind the name Baraka? We often get that question. In truth, it is an interesting question and the answer links tradition, historic cultural interaction and Baraka’s brand purpose.
- October 06, 2022
- 2 min read
- September 29, 2022
- 3 min read
- September 27, 2022
- 3 min read
Red Palm Oil is great in body butters and skin and hair formulations, bringing many benefits and so easy to work with.
And no, using it doesn’t mean you are destroying rainforest and obliterating Orangutans, especially when you use Baraka Red Palm Oil, sustainably produced and sourced from small scale farmers in Ghana. Check this blog if you want more detail: Why Baraka Palm Oil is Sustainable.- September 13, 2022
- 3 min read