Burkina Faso

“A project born from the hearts of women”

It is from the right encounters that the most beautiful things, virtuous and fruitful projects can be born.

It all started in 2004 with a request from Sister Laura Bonin, of the Immaculate Queen of Peace Institute, to Doctor Reynaldi: to help a small group of women from Bobo Dioulasso, in Burkina Faso, find a job.

Despite being one of the poorest territories in all of Africa, Burkina Faso has great wealth: what in those parts is known as the "tree of beauty", better known as the Shea tree. From the nuts of this Shea Butter is extracted from an extraordinary plant: a true concentrate of nourishing and soothing properties for the skin whose artisanal processing is no longer easily found in Italy.

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Hence Doctor Reynaldi's idea:

— Set up an on-site laboratory for the extraction and artisanal processing of shea butter and give these women all the tools necessary to manage it in the best possible way. After having followed a training course and having received from the Doctor the necessary equipment to start the business, the small group of 5 women made the first 100 kg of butter commissioned by Maria Grazia herself: an excellent quality product was born, which would become in a very short time the raw material protagonist of one of the most loved lines of the Doctor Reynaldi brand: the Shea Butter line from Burkina Faso. Almost 20 years after the birth of this business, the group has expanded: there are 25 women from Yelen-Noi per Voi who manage the company from which, even today, we purchase Shea Butter for our processing. Thank you With this project, Dr. Reynaldi continues to promote the dignity and worth of women and spread the power of female entrepreneurship around the world.

Hence Doctor Reynaldi's idea:

— Set up an on-site laboratory for the extraction and artisanal processing of shea butter and give these women all the tools necessary to manage it in the best possible way. After having followed a training course and having received from the Doctor the necessary equipment to start the business, the small group of 5 women made the first 100 kg of butter commissioned by Maria Grazia herself: an excellent quality product was born, which would become in a very short time the raw material protagonist of one of the most loved lines of the Doctor Reynaldi brand: the Shea Butter line from Burkina Faso. Almost 20 years after the birth of this business, the group has expanded: there are 25 women from Yelen-Noi per Voi who manage the company from which, even today, we purchase Shea Butter for our processing. Thank you With this project, Dr. Reynaldi continues to promote the dignity and worth of women and spread the power of female entrepreneurship around the world.

Dottoressa Reynaldi burro di karité selezione — The production process of Shea Butter begins with the selection of nuts

Hence Doctor Reynaldi's idea:

— Set up an on-site laboratory for the extraction and artisanal processing of shea butter and give these women all the tools necessary to manage it in the best possible way. After having followed a training course and having received from the Doctor the necessary equipment to start the business, the small group of 5 women made the first 100 kg of butter commissioned by Maria Grazia herself: an excellent quality product was born, which would become in a very short time the raw material protagonist of one of the most loved lines of the Doctor Reynaldi brand: the Shea Butter line from Burkina Faso. Almost 20 years after the birth of this business, the group has expanded: there are 25 women from Yelen-Noi per Voi who manage the company from which, even today, we purchase Shea Butter for our processing. Thank you With this project, Dr. Reynaldi continues to promote the dignity and worth of women and spread the power of female entrepreneurship around the world.

Dottoressa Reynaldi burro di karité tostatura — Selected nuts are toasted

Hence Doctor Reynaldi's idea:

— Set up an on-site laboratory for the extraction and artisanal processing of shea butter and give these women all the tools necessary to manage it in the best possible way. After having followed a training course and having received from the Doctor the necessary equipment to start the business, the small group of 5 women made the first 100 kg of butter commissioned by Maria Grazia herself: an excellent quality product was born, which would become in a very short time the raw material protagonist of one of the most loved lines of the Doctor Reynaldi brand: the Shea Butter line from Burkina Faso. Almost 20 years after the birth of this business, the group has expanded: there are 25 women from Yelen-Noi per Voi who manage the company from which, even today, we purchase Shea Butter for our processing. Thank you With this project, Dr. Reynaldi continues to promote the dignity and worth of women and spread the power of female entrepreneurship around the world.

Dottoressa Reynaldi burro di karité triturazione — Once the nuts are toasted, they are chopped

Hence Doctor Reynaldi's idea:

— Set up an on-site laboratory for the extraction and artisanal processing of shea butter and give these women all the tools necessary to manage it in the best possible way. After having followed a training course and having received from the Doctor the necessary equipment to start the business, the small group of 5 women made the first 100 kg of butter commissioned by Maria Grazia herself: an excellent quality product was born, which would become in a very short time the raw material protagonist of one of the most loved lines of the Doctor Reynaldi brand: the Shea Butter line from Burkina Faso. Almost 20 years after the birth of this business, the group has expanded: there are 25 women from Yelen-Noi per Voi who manage the company from which, even today, we purchase Shea Butter for our processing. Thank you With this project, Dr. Reynaldi continues to promote the dignity and worth of women and spread the power of female entrepreneurship around the world.

Dottoressa Reynaldi burro di karité centrifuga — The paste obtained from chopped walnuts is centrifuged until this mixture is obtained.

Hence Doctor Reynaldi's idea:

— Set up an on-site laboratory for the extraction and artisanal processing of shea butter and give these women all the tools necessary to manage it in the best possible way. After having followed a training course and having received from the Doctor the necessary equipment to start the business, the small group of 5 women made the first 100 kg of butter commissioned by Maria Grazia herself: an excellent quality product was born, which would become in a very short time the raw material protagonist of one of the most loved lines of the Doctor Reynaldi brand: the Shea Butter line from Burkina Faso. Almost 20 years after the birth of this business, the group has expanded: there are 25 women from Yelen-Noi per Voi who manage the company from which, even today, we purchase Shea Butter for our processing. Thank you With this project, Dr. Reynaldi continues to promote the dignity and worth of women and spread the power of female entrepreneurship around the world.

Dottoressa Reynaldi burro di karité raffreddamento — Once the mixture has boiled, it is filtered and cooled

Hence Doctor Reynaldi's idea:

— Set up an on-site laboratory for the extraction and artisanal processing of shea butter and give these women all the tools necessary to manage it in the best possible way. After having followed a training course and having received from the Doctor the necessary equipment to start the business, the small group of 5 women made the first 100 kg of butter commissioned by Maria Grazia herself: an excellent quality product was born, which would become in a very short time the raw material protagonist of one of the most loved lines of the Doctor Reynaldi brand: the Shea Butter line from Burkina Faso. Almost 20 years after the birth of this business, the group has expanded: there are 25 women from Yelen-Noi per Voi who manage the company from which, even today, we purchase Shea Butter for our processing. Thank you With this project, Dr. Reynaldi continues to promote the dignity and worth of women and spread the power of female entrepreneurship around the world.