• Marula hair and body shampoo
• Marula conditioner
• Marula and shea butter body lotion
• Marula hand made soap
• Trichilia hand made soap

Marula Exfoliator is back!  Lovers of our marula exfoliator (and we know there are lots of you) will be pleased to learn that Swazi Secrets marula exfoliator will be available again in late April. We are sorry that this has taken a while, but this is a product that has to use a preservative and it has proven to be a long hard search to find an oil based preservative that did not contain parabens.

We have managed it and then extensively tested it to make sure we have it right.

The secret is out!  Swazi Secrets pure marula oil was featured in Elle UK Magazine, December issue, as one of the ‟best buys that will change your life‟ in their 2010 Beauty Awards. If you speak Italian, you can also see the virtues of marula oil being extolled by a skin care guru at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxBqjs0A3cM

We are delighted to be on display in Germany's Store of the Year 2011, Shop der guten Taten gemein-nützige GmbH, or in English, the House of Good Deeds.

We are delighted to now span five continents with Swazi Secrets. In the last few months, we have added the following countries and distributors to where you can buy Swazi Secrets: Taiwan: Collish International Belgium and Luxembourg: SYNTHESIS S.a.r.l Reunion: Danielle Francois-Marie A warm welcome to each of our new distributors - we look forward to strong growth in each of those countries.

In 2010, two researchers from Beloit College, USA, visited SIP to investigate how involvement with SIP affects the rural women's lives: how kernel income impacts on family nutrition and welfare, health especially vis a vis HIV/AIDS, and the women's sense of empowerment. Their findings confirm that SIP is living up to its mission and motivate us to continue working hard to achieve even more impact. You can download the study at https://www.beloit.edu/polisci/publications/

We never like the letter each year advising of a price increase, because we know your costs are rising too, but we can at least tell you that we have kept 2011 price increases below the rate of inflation. Price rises this year have been kept in the region of 3-4%, although many of the increases from our suppliers have been well in excess of that.  Although increases were implemented as usual on 1 April 2011, we have held the increases back until 1 May for export customers.

Welcome to the first of what is planned to be a regular newsletter feature. Our distributors are an integral part of the Swazi Secrets team, and we are happy to share their experiences more widely. Where better to start than with our first overseas distributor.

The story starts when a Swedish couple, Mary and Arne Nordfors, turned up at our factory back in 2005. Already running a natural products business, they had read about marula in their in-flight magazine and had come to investigate. Mary was soon actively selling Swazi Secrets back home with a vigor that came not only from loving the products but also from being inspired by SIP's work with rural Swazi women.

A couple of years back, Mary contracted cancer – she bravely fought her way through it, but decided to take a back seat. At this point, her son and daughter-in-law, Ulrik and Elizabeth Nordfors, actively took over the distributorship, and Swedish Swazi Secrets sales are now booming again.

Asked to comment on their success with Swazi Secrets. Elizabeth remarked, "I worked with Mary earlier in her business, so I was already very dedicated to the products and SIP’s working concept, which gave me a flying start. Marula is now becoming known for its great properties, the products being natural and organic, women given a way to support themselves and their families - those are things that I regard as most important."