Yaa Serwah grew up watching the women in her family process shea butter by hand in Northern Ghana. The ritual was sacred — shea nuts gathered from wild trees in Ghana's Shea Belt, sun-dried under the West African sky, ground on stone. It was not a business. It was life. It was love.
When she saw what the commercial world was selling as "shea butter" — refined, bleached, stripped of everything that made it extraordinary — she knew something had to change. She knew what real shea felt like, and the world deserved to feel it too.
TUNTUMM was born from that belief. The name means "black" in Akan — a tribute to the rich, dark shea nut at the heart of every jar. Today, every batch is still handcrafted the traditional way, with women harvesters in Northern Ghana who are paid fairly and treated as the partners they truly are.