Baraka Blogs

What Is Cocoa Butter? Cocoa butter is a natural and luxurious ingredient that has captured the hearts of both skincare enthusiasts and chocolate lovers alike. Derived from cocoa beans, the same source of the beloved sweet treat, cocoa butter is a rich and creamy fat with numerous beneficial properties

Baraka is impacting 16 of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

With the support of our customers and their customers, we are thrilled to share this short report on our SDG Impact. The SDGs were adopted unanimously by all member nations of the United Nations and provide the framework for working towards a more fair, equitable, sustainable and just future for all.

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.

All Baraka orders are now shipped carbon free, and benefit rural women in Ghana and Kenya

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.

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.

The hard-working women of Konjiehi are getting a new enterprise center and the community is getting a new well thanks to Baraka's customers and their purchases of Baraka butters and oils.  Every purchase makes a difference

The women of Konjiehi are getting a new Women's Enterprise Centre and Community Water Well thanks to you and others who purchase Baraka Shea Butter and other ingredients.