Introducing Bari Gold: Shea Butter With Soul

It’s Just Shea

 Handcrafted on a traditional Shea farm in Ghana, Bari Gold is more than just Shea butter—it’s a movement rooted in heritage, healing, and humanity.

In proud partnership with Labour of Love, proceeds from every jar go directly toward providing jobs, shelter, and empowerment to the women and families who sustain this sacred tradition. By choosing Bari Gold, you’re not only nourishing your skin—you’re helping preserve generations of wisdom and keep the spirit of traditional Shea alive.

This is Shea with a purpose. This is Bari Gold.

Bari Gold: The Hands That Hold a Village

Bari Gold is not just shea butter—it is the story of survival, sisterhood, and sacred tradition.

Handmade in Bolgatanga, a small village in the Northern region of Ghana, this shea is created by the hands of widowed women who carry entire families on their backs. For many of them, shea is not just a craft—it is their lifeline. With few options for income and children to raise, these women come together in community to do what they have always done: work, support each other, and rise.

Shea-making here is a communal ritual. Women gather in the early hours, singing, talking, and moving in rhythm—a labor of love passed from mother to daughter. Each jar of Bari Gold holds the strength of these women, their laughter, their struggle, and their hope.

Through Labour of Love, every purchase of Bari Gold directly supports their livelihood, helping to provide jobs, shelter, and sustainability to those holding up their families and their culture.

This is not charity. This is recognition. This is dignity.
This is Bari Gold.

The Sacred Tree of the Savannah

The shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) is no ordinary tree. It grows wild—never farmed—across the dry savannahs of West Africa and nowhere else on Earth. Its presence is rare, sacred, and deeply tied to the land and the people who care for it.

Native only to specific regions stretching from Senegal to Uganda, the shea tree takes over a decade to bear fruit. And yet, it gives generously: rich, nourishing kernels hidden inside its fruit are the source of pure shea butter. In the Upper East Region of Ghana, especially near Bolgatanga, these trees are part of the ancestral landscape. They are not planted—they are protected, honored, and passed down like family.

To the women who harvest them, the shea tree is more than a resource—it is a spiritual gift. It connects them to the earth, to their grandmothers, and to the generations yet to come. Making shea butter by hand is not only a means of survival—it is a way of respecting the sacred cycle of nature, community, and legacy.

When you hold Bari Gold, you hold a gift that can only come from one place on Earth, made by the people who have known it best for centuries.