AAK’s shea sourcing programme in West Africa has grown and now includes more than 86,000 local women. Last month AAK sourcing director Henrik Vingaard addressed the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit in Paris and explained how to create sustainable supply chains, with a positive social and economic impact on local communities.
In 2009, AAK established a shea solidarity programme in West Africa called Kolo Nafaso, which means ‘the house of shea kernel benefits’. The objective is to create a win-win situation for AAK and the collecting women and their families. Today, the programme engages and empowers more than 86,000 women and the number is growing every year. The programme is inspired by fair trade principles. It fights poverty and improves local living conditions while ensuring shea availability and high quality.
AAK Personal Care has launched several successful shea products in recent years, for example Lipex SheaLight and Lipex SheaClear.
