From My Home, to Yours

About Me

I'm the founder of Tuntumm — and my story starts long before the first jar was ever whipped.

I'm Jamaican and Ghanaian, raised in the States, and for most of my life I felt the pull of two homelands I was never quite standing in. Growing up, I watched the women in my family — on both sides — carry traditions of skincare, healing, and self-care passed down through generations. Shea butter wasn't a trend to them. It was medicine, ritual, and inheritance.

The idea for Tuntumm came to me years ago, right before the pandemic hit. I had this vision of bringing raw, unrefined shea butter — made the way my ancestors made it, by hand, from the land — but then the world stopped. Life had other plans for a while.

I found my way back to the idea of Tuntumm: a women-led operation rooted in Ghana's Northern Shea Belt, where shea nuts are still wild-harvested, sun-dried, and stone-milled the traditional way.

For me, this isn't just a business. It's a way of staying connected to where I come from, to who I am, and celebrating it. I am African, and I am grateful for the inheritance my ancestors left for me. Every jar carries a piece of that heritage — the patience, the simplicity, the belief that the earth already gives us everything we need. And so the earth does — your skin will show their beliefs to be true.