RAIN comes to the Limpopo

Written by on July 30, 2014. Posted in ECOPRODUCTS: HOW WE WORK

We were delighted to host Bev Missing from RAIN last week. Her wonderful shops stock exquisite handmade bath, body and homeware products using natural ingredients with African origins. One of those ingredients is Baobab oil and we'll be featuring some of those products in future posts. Bev came to see the source of the baobab oil that she uses in her products, learn about how it is made and meet the harvesters themselves. Here she is walking in the baobabs with harvester Crestina.  

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