Shea butter is a natural moisturiser made from the nut of the shea tree
When a group of women asked the Women's Development Agency in Tamale, in Northern Ghana, for help in setting up their own business, they were each loaned about £26 from Comic Relief funds.
The pooled their resources to form a shea butter co-operative. Within two years they had paid back their loan and are looking to expand.
Katy Hickman visits the co-operative to find out how shea butter is made.
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