Sunday, April 3, 2011

AMONKYE SOAP-the gift of Forests-

AMONKYE
traditional soap in the south of Ghana, 
is handmade purely from palm oil & ash of cocoa.



You know what, 
PALM OIL is native to West Africa!! 
Nowadays most of them are manufactured in Southeast Asia.



COCOA is one of the major cash crops in Ghana. 
COCOA PODS which were removed the seeds 
are firstly burned to be ashes. 




Then, the ashes processed with water
are to be simmered with boiled palm oil then... 
OMG!! You’ve made foamy natural soap




Strong washing and rich moisture of AMONKYE 
have a good effect on almost all the skin disease! 
such as pimples, rash, scar, boil, wounds and so on.




To buy this soap is to help 
improve 
income generation


of women groups 
in forest fringe communities 
(Kofitumgrom, Adantia, and more)
in Sunyani, Ghana.



It is wrapped by recycled drinking water sachets 
in a view of 
environmental issue.





You can buy these 100% natural handmade soap in ;



Sunyani, Brong Ahafo region in Ghana


2nd Floor, Elizabeth, No.68A, Senchi Link,
Airport Residential Area, Accra, Ghana
(P.O.Box. 6402, Accra-North, Ghana)

Their activities are aided by Samuel Akurugu,
*Environmental NGO: AGL (Action for Green Life) 
*Contact: +233207772762 / akurugusam@yahoo.com



and JOCV (Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers)
in rural community development, 
Naomi Ishida & Shoko Mori (20-4) 
from Forest Service Division in Sunyani, B/A.



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