Could a shea butter worker afford the products that use it?

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Akwasi Sarpong met a group of women who make and process shea butter in Ghana. They risk snake bites to collect shea nuts in the wild, manually crush and process its fruit into butter over hot open fires in a harsh dry and extremely hot climate. The butter is used as a base for products at the heart of a multi-million pound industry - but could the women who process the butter ever afford to buy these? Akwasi shows Rebecca Atornyege, one of the women who shea butter makers, the products to find out. Image: Rebecca Atornyege, on the left, prepares the shea butter Credit: BBC