Community Fair Trade 

 

Community Fair Trade is an alternative approach to conventional trade and it is based on a partnership between the producers and the buyers. The system is a powerful and easy way to reduce poverty through peoples everyday shopping. Large companies such as The Body Shop buy ingredients from areas that are suffering poverty, such as Shea butter in Ghana. The women in the towns make the Shea butter that is then sold to the large companies in return for money. The women love making the Shea butter and over 4,000 people are benefiting from the Fair Trade system. 

 

Community Fair Trade is a very strong belief of The Body Shop. Ingredients that are supplied from this system are in over 80% of the products at The Body Shop meaning that it is very important part of the company. Supplies come from all over the world with different ingredients coming from different areas such as Honey from Ethiopia, Aloe Vera from Guatemala and Shea Butter from Ghana.

 

In The Body Shop product ' Shea Body Butter', Shea butter is a very important ingredient as it is contained in over 75 of the company’s products. Without it the body butter would not be able to be made. This is why the women of Community Fair Trade are so important to The Body Shop. Without them supplying the ingredients The Body Shop would not be able to make many of their products.