It began with a trip to Kenya where we connected with wonderful, intelligent women working hard to feed their families. We met with the women of Mombasa and visited the first small-scale coconut oil plant called Coast Coconut Farms where they produced pure organic coconut oil by hand. Determined to find a way to assist them in selling their oil and to help them grow their business, we came home and through the help of many good people, created Basa Body (named after the women of Mombasa). It is our hope that by sharing this natural healing lotion with their inspiring story, we can help lift these women of Africa out of poverty and help them become self-reliant. Basa not only purchases all our coconut oil from CCF, but we also donate back 10% of our profits to projects in Kenya to fight poverty.

Coast Coconut Farms

If you are interested in purchasing organic, virgin coconut oil for cooking and food storage, please visit the Coast Coconut Farms (CCF) website. Basa uses CCF coconut oil as a base ingredient for all beauty products. Coast Coconut Farms was created by The Pope Foundation in 2005, as a social business designed to lift rural poor out of poverty. This company’s mission is to provide sustainable employment, management and ownership opportunities for the rural people of Kenya, and eventually, across the globe. This is done by giving the rural poor access to capital, equipment and training to create organic coconut oil harvested from wild coconuts grown along the beautiful coast of Kenya. Coast Coconut Farm’s vision is to create thousands of sustainable livelihoods for the rural poor using Fair Trade Principles.

Currently, Coast Coconut Farms has created employment for over 100 Kenyan families, including farmer’s cooperatives who harvest the coconuts, to groups of CCF microfranchisees who own and operate their own small-scale coconut oil presses in their village, to managers and workers in our larger facility on the coast of Kenya. Coast Coconut Farms believes in being earth-friendly and we use a fully-sustainable production process with no waste. The coconut water is used by the local people, while the coconut husks and shells are used to fuel to dry the coconut meat and converted to charcoal so the local people can use it for cooking rather than deplete the forests in search of firewood. The lye from making charcoal can be used to make soap out of our coconut oil and the residual from our process, the seed-cake, is used as feed for the local livestock.

CCF coconut oil is made on the beautiful coast of Kenya from wild organic coconuts, using a fully-sustainable, earth-friendly process. Thanks for making a difference with your purchase of Basa Body and Coast Coconut Farms products.