Shea Butter Processing - Peace Corps Ghana
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Peace Corps Volunteers show how the hard working women of northern Ghana process shea nuts into shea butter.
Music: Ayize Nyin Bohima
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I will never again complain about the price of shea butter, seeing how hard these women work to extract it from the nuts.
@fashionality1
8 жыл бұрын
why does my butter smell like paint
@fashionality1
8 жыл бұрын
why does my butter smell like paint is it bad or rancid
@fashionality1
8 жыл бұрын
why does my butter smell like paint is it bad or rancid
@fashionality1
8 жыл бұрын
why does my butter smell like paint is it bad or rancid
@fashionality1
8 жыл бұрын
why does my butter smell like paint is it bad or rancidv
Support fair trade brands these women deserve equal pay and safe work environments
@corpsebrideemilie69
8 жыл бұрын
I buy mine from Mississippi market . coop
@ritujadhav4164
6 жыл бұрын
aquarius88_ ys i agree
@dcsvppq
6 жыл бұрын
The Creeper fuck yourself instead 😉
@dcsvppq
6 жыл бұрын
The Creeper weirdo
@dcsvppq
6 жыл бұрын
The Creeper no thanks
as much WORK THEY put into making this they should be GETTING top dollars for there product...they have a FAMILY to feed
@annemarie8053
8 жыл бұрын
I wish there was a way to directly pay these ladies for the shea butter and their hard work. They probably don't even get 10% of the proceeds.
@lucyfavoredmusic5462
7 жыл бұрын
Woow! it's truly a hard work! my question is;can't they do it the way coconut oil is done?coz they r almost the same except this ones looks abit smaller than coconut itself,if so.. it will be easier 4 this ladies.
@GodGotMe762
7 жыл бұрын
ebbie2009 Wow
@nicolepilgrim3142
2 жыл бұрын
although I see your point money is a western concept/tool, maybe they like this simple way of living I mean they have been living this way all along
Thank you , dear African sisters for all your hard work and blessings us with fabulous Shea. I use Shea from Ghana- and it's a miracle!
@GodGotMe762
7 жыл бұрын
Jane Farrer. isn't that the truth and it's offensive that China tries to imitate these beautiful women ugh!!
@anamondragon5868
6 жыл бұрын
Where i can find it?
@angelmoon2106
6 жыл бұрын
Ana Mondragón eBay
@amah2957
5 жыл бұрын
@Tony C Hell to the no African girls are much more curvier and beautiful
@amah2957
5 жыл бұрын
@Tony C Are you white? If u are I won't be surprised
I think what makes it good for our skin is their lovely singing energy.
@SSKMusicBeats
5 жыл бұрын
PREACH
Totally wish I had the means to pay them from my hand to theirs in exchange for their product and hard work but I'm a broke college student 😩😩😩
@pmerancier
7 жыл бұрын
i feel you lol...i had no idea it took this much work wow
@myssieB504
6 жыл бұрын
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@patmwa7214
4 жыл бұрын
Hi..
Well one thing for sure I"ll never look at shea butter the same way again after watching this. Thanks for the women's hard work, for something I really like using every day!!! God Bless you all!!!!!
@VampirelaPR
8 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the exact same thing! These women are amaazing.
@alvarojacome3191
7 жыл бұрын
THAT SO TRUE
@SadiesE
7 жыл бұрын
lennie right! amen to that....wow allot of work went into this
@Johnykeys
6 жыл бұрын
Please which one is the pure shea butter? The white or yellow?
@michaelsliders3421
2 жыл бұрын
@@Johnykeys both are ✊🏿
This really breaks my heart seeing these lovely people working SO HARD just to make Shea butter and to produce it to the USA for cheap. I buy organic pure Shea butter from a dollar store near my house, and I have to say now that it's not worth $1 for a 3oz of Shea butter but worth like $100 an oz. god bless all the ladies and men that do this on a daily basis
@MiMiOrt
8 жыл бұрын
Sooo true. . .
@mrsc6917
6 жыл бұрын
Support fair trade. 🖤
@ilovenoodles7483
6 жыл бұрын
Ihsan Deeb And are you sure it's real shea butter 100% raw organic?
@Athecubus
6 жыл бұрын
Ihsan Deeb I
@leilanidru7506
5 жыл бұрын
Ihsan Deeb would u pay HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS for just ounces of Shea butter? People love to talk about proper compensation and fair trade practices as if people woukd be willing to pay for the price jump. I’m actually African and a teenager with a minimum wage job woukd be earning a 6 figure salary in Africa. $100 is 10,000 Kenyan shillings. And just $1000 is 100,000 Kenyan shillings. And for Nigerian currency the gap is even bigger. So $5 shea butter would be the equivalent of hundreds of dollars over there. I’m speaking in general terms of the African countries I’ve been to but I don’t know what the exchange rate is for Ghana specifically. And I’m not saying these women shouldn’t be properly compensated, they probably are behaving taken advantage of😣 but we should also be realistic and consider every factor.
I love the way they sing there songs wile there working, it's beautiful. 🐱❤️
The baby who was cracking them was so adorable! Awwww!
I love that they sing while working :)
One day all of us ladies should thanks them by going there and bring gifts
@latasham.g2g330
6 жыл бұрын
Ivoy Luo 🐝... I'm down😊
@AH-bh4zw
6 жыл бұрын
Or At least complain the brands to pay them well.
The guy standing in every camera shot was unnecessary; hope the Ghanaians don't have their subsistence stolen from them. Shea is big business now, I feel nervous for these African's resource. Lord Jesus, please protect the inheritance you gave the Africans.
@miragebeautysupply894
9 жыл бұрын
You know that would be a doggone shame and disgrace. I pray with you too @Gobber Fries. May Jehovah shine his merciful light of protection upon his African children. The camera man did skip two important steps though. He could have skipped 2 more steps if you ask me.
@officiallyroyalty4527
9 жыл бұрын
Goober Fries he was a freaking volunteer! stop making something out of nothing!
@noury5us
9 жыл бұрын
That's right...westerners will only be there to make huge profit margin out of these poor women
@gengarsmaster3529
6 жыл бұрын
Who are you selling these products to? How are they exploiting it if it's a business deal? They could easily not sell the products and keep it themselves. Interruption and greed, funny considering U.S. donated hundreds of millions each year in HIV drugs, food, and aid.
@anweshakarmakar4829
6 жыл бұрын
Alan Scott u should read about African history a bit. Read "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe if u want to know about the exploitation of native africans by the "West" who by giving the excuse of "civilizing" third world ppl loots their resources . The western factories buy shea butter in a very low price ,the workers are paid awfully low amount . But the first world companies r selling it to ppl like u in a high price.
Omg soo hard and Difficult to make it thanks to those great women
@GodGotMe762
7 жыл бұрын
chantal 4 amen
I was wondering why my fair-trade shea butter was much more expensive, now I know and I appreciate all the hard work behind it !
@sureboy5
7 жыл бұрын
i can supply shea butter direct from our village to anywhere globally. sample is available for free contact. wechat/whatapp +2347060727672 or call.......... facebook.com/olurotim
I thank these ladies for making Shea butter. This is some serious back breaking work that I know many people would not want to put up with....it isn't easy. Respect is 100% due to these Ladies in Africa for doing this. Also, it is nice to see once again the natural colour of Shea butter when it is done and not that fluorescent bright yellow stuff (which I know is also Shea butter, but with dye added to give it that ultra deep yellow color).
@TRACKtoU
9 жыл бұрын
Venusstar22 keep looking, the color comes from the tree root!...the root is put on simmer in pot with water until the water is out and only oil is left...then mixed with the shea...
@corpsebrideemilie69
8 жыл бұрын
+Track Peters what if yellow Shea that I bought doesn't state that it raw Shea. just says 100% natural
@TRACKtoU
8 жыл бұрын
sage osbourne-plant still could be raw, if it were refined they would have to say or print it...should smell earthy...
@corpsebrideemilie69
8 жыл бұрын
Track Peters it kinda smells earthy. I bought this one Shea butter from Sally's . It's smells chemical. Do you know of it
@TRACKtoU
8 жыл бұрын
sage osbourne-plant www.ebay.com/usr/clayssheashop?_trksid=p2053788.m1543.l2754 This is one place I purchase from and pleased with item...hope this helps
This is a labour intensive product sold for peanuts in the west. There is something very wrong with our system.
@MiMiOrt
8 жыл бұрын
Right!!
@corpsebrideemilie69
8 жыл бұрын
amen
@mugrad25
8 жыл бұрын
Fair trade is expensive ...$25 for a pound
@AH-bh4zw
6 жыл бұрын
No doubts our system is truly wrong, the ones using these products are rich & the ones producing them are poorest 😡
@leilanidru7506
5 жыл бұрын
Valerie Valerie I’m an African immigrant in America with family in the states, Europe, and obviously Africa. Just came from Kenya this summer and trust me, what we consider peanuts over here is A LOT MORE back there. Just $5 is 500 Kenyan shillings. And I think $1 here is like 320 Nigerian naira. So yea. Of course we don’t want these women to get cheated but trust me it isn’t peanuts to them😌
I'll suck it up and pay for fair trade. This is a lot of work, I would have been fired DAY ONE look
@MsNoStankYou
8 жыл бұрын
*lol
@pmerancier
7 жыл бұрын
😂seriously they need more money this is not fair.
@GodGotMe762
7 жыл бұрын
MsNoStankYou me too!
This is hard work! shea butter is not necessarily cheap so I hope the pay them fairly.
@Brand989
8 жыл бұрын
They probably don't especially if they don't know how much it is being sold
The goodness of the Shea Butter comes from the love that is put into producing them. These women along with their children are pouring their hearts, love, sweat and voices into all this work! Thank you!
Wow 😳, I never thought it was this much work. Suddenly I appreciate my shea butter even more
I love Shea Butter thank you for your hard work my African Queens
*African brothers and sisters are very* *hardworking. God bless them*
I just bought shea butter and I love it!!im 50 years old but now I feel younger and my skin on my face is tight and soft clean...love it !!
these ladies make me miss living in africa
I never used Shea butter but God bless all these sisters for their hard work.
Dear all my Africans brother and sister u ppl deserve more salute love u all
i'm an american born person of nigerian 🇳🇬 paternity and ghanaian 🇬🇭 maternity, with amazigh 🇲🇦 (berber) ancestry. and i've got a container of shea butter from ghana! 😀👍
i have a newfound respect for the hard work these ladies put into making this product that i use so very much of. i only hope they are adequately rewarded for their labor. god bless them! thanks a lot lades mwah!!
I almost cried watching this video with the efforts put in from these hard working women and they goes through by singing omg I love the togetherness to may God bless every hands that had put into making that miracle butter and bless your families great video btw thanks for sharing to
Thy r sooooo hardworking..... Lots of love and respect from my side 🇮🇳
Starring "Scott Robbinson" first? Excuse me? This video was ACTUALLY starring ALL those African women as being CENTRAL to this whole thing & he doesn't even have the human decency to acknowledge them. SMFH Give credit where it's due!
@ratedr9672
3 жыл бұрын
Ikr 😐
For all that work they get 10cents, needs change.
God bless them because shea butter works wonders for my hair
Ok. I will never complain about the price again. These women do amazing work and really deserve more for the butter if it could get directly to them.
After watching this video my respect for shea butter has went up. These women have mad skills.
omg this is my home town Tamale/ Ghana oo woow hands up for all the hard work I love shea butter is goood for my hair And my skin !##
im so proud of my people ,i love all of us with a passion✊🏾👏🏾 beautiful hard working woman, they deserve to be very rich!! i love it!!! we get so much hate but we are solid
I will start using only Shea butter for my skin!!! I think this is the only way to help myself and them as well. Little I can do for their hard work.
Soo Much respect to these women, they really don't make much out of this, all their hard work is benefiting the middle men Thanks to these beautiful and strong women, without shea butter , my skin will not be looking this good. I love it and cant do without it
Me and my young goddaughter who is 3yrs old just watched this together. She is always talking about Shea butter because she loves it on her skin and hair. I already knew of where and how it's made but I'm glad I found this video. Those women work so so hard for us. And shea butter isn't exactly cheap. I'm from Britain and its widely used here too.
I love my Shea Butter! I support the people of Ghana! Thanks , guys! Love you!
All I can say is Wow! Those women put in a lot of hard work to produce shea butter it's amazing to watch the process it just brings to mind how often we take the simplest things for granted & what we sometimes deem as hard work is nothing Compared to what these women do to produce a product that many of us use.
the song they are singing is so beautiful!! we dont have shea butter in my country but i bet its wonderful after all that work
So much hard work to make shea butter. I love Shea Butter from Ghana and use it almost daily. Thank you ladies of Ghana for this wonderful product.
These beautiful ladies work so hard for my Shea butter ..... GOD BLESS THEM 🙏👍❤️🇺🇸🙏
Thank you my African sisters for all your hard work! I am a user of Shea Butter, on my hair and skin. Thank thank you thank you!!!
Wow! I started really loving this beautiful stuff, after years of holding back thinking it would be sticky and annoying, now I shower and lather myself up with it, even deep conditioning my hair ✨ and the results are more than fantastic 😍 so thankful and grateful for Shea and the hard work behind the extraction we wouldn’t have the quality without you ✨👍🏻💕🙏🏻 oh and I love how it is done with love, singing and good vibrations how can you not!!!
Alchemy or Chemistry has its root in Afirika and this is one of the evidences that we taught the whole world CHEMISTRY...
That's a lot of hard work . I take my hat off on those lady's. Awesome
It's quite labor-intensive! We're quite impressed.
Woooow!!!! They really bust their ass making shea butter!! This definitely makes me more appreciative and grateful. God bless these beautiful hardworking women
These women deserve an award for this.
Omg the energy invested is more than the price.I won't complain about the price of Shea butter.Thank you my African sisters 😍😍😍😍😍
Song is very sweet It makes me sleepy
This is amazing and I appreciate all the hard work they do just to keep our bodies naturally healthy....I look at Shea butter different now because I didn’t know the long process that goes into making it...I won’t complain about the price anymore cause every dime is worth it
A team of hard workers showing hiw its done. I hope the Presenter is well now and thank you for taking the time out to film this and upload it on to KZread for our information.
I buy my raw african shea butter from one if the african markets in houston tx. . Love it
this video was very insightful i just ordered 5lbs of ivory shae from Ghana online for soaping and homemade cosmetics i wanted to know how it was processed and watching this video i learned alot
The women's hands must look pretty.
@ratedr9672
3 жыл бұрын
Must feel soft
WOW! Thank you ladies for your wonderful hard work.
They should all be rich. You’re not just paying for their sheer hardwork and hours but the spirit in which they make it. Their rhythm to produce such a magnificent cream can’t be copied, even with a machine
These women just made me feel lazy. It's amazing what humans endure, do, create and etc. Blessings to them all!
Amazing and brilliant. A lot of hard work and should get paid more for this. I love shea butter. Thank you lord for Africa!!
Woahhhh!!!!! Such hard work, and shea butter is so nice and moisturising. That little girl is so so cute.
Oh wow...so much work ..I never knew ..thank you ladies for all the hard work...I have a new found respect for shea butter and will always use this product..
We should appreciate how munch working goes in our things in America and see how hard working people did a lot of it over seas so America has it so munch easier so we should have respect for every little thing
amazing God given talent and knowledge to know these processes 💪
Thanking these women for the very strenuous, hard work they do! May they be protected and paid abundantly
Look how they are making music and stay positive . I love this . It makes me appreciate everything in life bad and good .
I want that big bowl of fresh Shea ,these people are amazing ,it’s a painstakingly long process and they re producing one of the most amazing butters on earth
Wow a lot of work to extract this precious butter. . . I wonder who was the first to do this process?
@SayconTalks
8 жыл бұрын
Africa is an entire continent, not simply a region . . . my question eludes to specificity of country and tribe. . . could it have been the Bassa or Gola people of Liberia for example.
@SayconTalks
8 жыл бұрын
+Nana Dufie Well apparently you are unaware that you began the tone of condescension with your reply to my commentary and exuberance regarding this precious commodity. Perhaps you could have given the response that you have given now, take a moment to teach rather than berate and belittle some one who is learning. This KZread space is not just one for experts like yourself but others who are unafraid to express themselves. Before finished the video and continued my research I made this joyful comment, contrary to popular belief as a knowledgeable Ghanaian not everyone in the diaspora knows the details and specifics of where shea/nut butters origins come. I pray you find more positivity and openess in future exchanges. And also you might research my name as well to not belittle me in regards to my own background as well. God bless.
@Esteeopolis
8 жыл бұрын
+Nana Dufie Idiot
@ericktheone
6 жыл бұрын
Nana= pms alert 😅
@guavaprince3247
6 жыл бұрын
SayconTalks You handled that really well :) If more people could respond to an argument like that, the world would be a lot simpler. God Bless
With all these natural resources Africa should be number 1 in the world my heart ache for my African ppl
Look how hard they work but they still smile and sing while working.
I'm proud of these women - thank u ladies somuch
Thanks for educating us. I hope these ladies are rewarded for all of their hard work.
It’s so nice that I can actually understand the ladie’s conversations in the background. Such beautiful sisterhood❤️
God Blesd these women. Thanks for giving us so much. ❤️
Yes my strong hard working people!✊🏾 they deserve good pay
Thank you ladies and gentle man for hard work on shea butter!! u r guys r d real advert for it!!
Got to Love the Makeshift Mic Filter (a sock)..Brilliant...a d yes..this is labor intensive and very interesting.
MUCH RESPECT! ❤❤❤ I LOVE MY SHEA BUTTER FROM GHANA
Was I the only person shook at the end when the shea butter went from brown to yellow?! 😂 omg! This is amazing
@bethanybdavidson
4 жыл бұрын
ShannaShow the brown underneath is the burnt shea nut cake, but what comes up to the surface is closer to a vegetable oil color.
THIS is the BEST ❤ video I've ever seen about the whole process making this beautiful shea. HOW I WISH I WAS THERE TO HELP or to buy this REAL UNREFINED product. There are so many. I wish to speak to these beautiful ladies. ❤
omg, thank you thank you, you ladies and gentlemen just taught me a lot.
Beautiful. I appreciate how much work goes into making the butter. 😍 I love it.
That intro music is amazing!
May God bless them immensely....:)
That was AMAZING!!! Informative and Rooted Thank you 🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️
Amazing, hard working ladies ❤️
SO Inrensive eh. NEW Understanding with Respect for these Wonderful Women. THANK YOU :-) Continued Blessings to each one of you xoxox AND LOVE your SINGING Sisters xoxoxo
The guy interviewing them looks scared lol
@abuzaffarmohammed9561
7 жыл бұрын
Nera Natural haha!! thats true though!!
@RavenWolfDrum69
5 жыл бұрын
No he don't stop
@yemixakin
5 жыл бұрын
@@RavenWolfDrum69 he honestly does 😂😂
@bananakampreto3033
5 жыл бұрын
Nera Natural why
@victoriat9972
4 жыл бұрын
And he is Hiding mike with cloth
Thank you for sharing! Hopefully they are rewarded well for their hard work!
I wish we can buy from them directly.
It's amazing how you learn to do this , like how did you know that many steps of making it before the final process? Bless these hardworking women.
@bethanybdavidson
4 жыл бұрын
I do often wonder who was the first person/people that were like “let’s take this nut, boil it, crack it open, fry it, pound it and grind it, then boil it again, and then sieve it.” It’s such a lengthy and intense process and obviously one that came about over a long time. But many natural products we have today - I wonder who decided to do something with it first. 🧐
Wowww... sooo much hard work to create this product.... thank you ladies
Am here because I have seen many videos talking how shea butter is good to grow hair and i diceided to go and buy one to use on my hair wow it was so expensive didn't buy it something came up in my mind like what is Shea butter exactly and here i'am seeing these women working so hard to give us the best shea butter and am like do they really even know how much their shea butter is sold out of their country after all this hard work.God bless these women.
great hard work .. those ladies get really tired to make it ... we appreciate your effort
Wow thank you ladies ❤️
Blessings to all the African Sisters for their hard work 💓