This month, Kahina is proud to partner with Beauty Heroes to celebrate the naming of Kahina Eye Serum as an Expert Selection. Beauty Heroes is a subscription box that gives...

Happy Lunar New Year! To usher in the year of the sheep, we're committing to buying some. For every bottle of argan oil purchased on givingbeauty.com from February 19th to...

A Kind Brand: Meet Kahina Giving Beauty by Rachel Murray, founder of Kind Eye You hear about finding beneficial ingredients from the rainforest, or the ocean but what about the...

In this age of the ever-present selfie, it is hard to imagine a world where many people have never even seen a photograph of themselves. This is often the case...

Girls on their way into school This September, 100% of every purchase of Kahina Argan Oil on givingbeauty.com goes to funding girls' education so they can go BACK TO SCHOOL....

In May of 2011, on a trip to visit my argan supplier in a remote village high in the Mid-Atlas Mountains, I was shown the weaving cooperative in the village,...

Prickly pear seed oil came onto my radar shortly after I discovered argan oil in Morocco in 2007. Numerous suppliers in Morocco were touting the anti-aging effects of the hard-to-obtain...

Mark your calendars: Katharine L'Heureux, Kahina founder, will be speaking on a panel at EcoSessions: Made in Africa hosted by Magnifeco at FIT. EcoSessions have two goals - one to...

Originally published July 3, 2009 In the Fall of 2007 I had the chance to travel to Morocco for the first time. Moroccans are strong believers in destiny and I...

Did you know Kahina Argan Oil comes from the argan nut? Using two stones, Berber women working in cooperatives crack these argan nuts open to get to the fleshy interior....

It was wonderful to see the sheep that we donated to the women of the village of Tazghelilt and what a difference they are making in their lives. Now the...

While most companies selling argan oil and argan-based products claim to purchase their products from women's cooperatives in Morocco, it is important to note that all cooperatives are not alike....

I've just returned from Morocco after a 10-day trip that took me from Casablanca to Marrakesh, Essaouira, Agadir, Taroudant and the Anti-Atlas Mountains, and finally to Rabat. Since my last...

Its been a great year for Kahina Giving Beauty. During our second full year of selling products we reached several milestones, including domestic and international expansion, strengthened ties with our...

When I first visited the remote village of Tazghelite, I received an especially heartwarming welcome from the women who live there.One of the tour of the tiny village we stopped...

There are varying qualities of cosmetic argan oil on the market, as evidenced by the wildly differing prices for oil sold on sites such as Amazon.com. There are several factors...

In an effort to preserve the quality of argan oil on the market and control the rights to the usage of the argan name, Morocco has a plan to instigate...

After the nuts are gathered, the nuts are weighed before being de-pulped and cracked. Each woman keeps a log noting the amount of nuts she has brought in. She is...

As is the case in several of the small remote villages I have visited in Morocco, Tazghilite is populated mostly by women. The men of the village leave to work...

I had the extreme pleasure of visiting a Fair Trade argan producer in the tiny village of Tazghilite in the Anti-Atlas Mountains, two hours from Taroudant. Instead of working in...

On my visit to Cooperative Tilila one year ago, the women had no work because they could not afford to pay for their organic certification, necessary to sell oil internationally....

I was introduced to Fatima by my friend Afafe. Fatima was widowed at a young age and left with four young children and debts to pay. On her own, she...

One of the biggest challenges facing girls in Morocco is education. While there are primary schools in the villages, most girls stop going to school at the age of 10...