organic body butter.

There’s a part of me, and it’s not very dormant, that’s in love with all things humanitarian. In high school I had the opportunity to go on a few humanitarian expeditions to Mexico, and I fell in love with service. I actually wanted to join the Peace Corps after college, but then I met and married Victor, and the rest is history.

When I became aware of Basa Body through my dear friend Jyl of Mom it Forward, I was thrilled to find out about an organization that created a long term plan of action to help women out of an impoverished state.

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“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.”

Basa Body is an amazing company, and I’m thrilled to know about it. Not only are their products delicious {hello Basa Body Stick!}, any purchase of them contributes towards keeping over 100 Kenyan families employed. Beyond fabulous, right?

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Allison

Hello there! I'm Allison Czarnecki, founder + editor of Petit Elefant, a blog all about style on a budget for every part of your life: style / home / travel / family. I do a lot of how-to beauty + style tutorials, travel posts, easy recipes, home remodel projects, and cool DIY crafts you totally want to try. I'm super happily married (to a hot Polish immigrant) and am the mother of two kids, a daughter and son, all of whom are featured here on the regular. We live in the country but we're a little bit rock + roll. Welcome!