New Delhi, Oct. 17 -- Our search for that one cream or lotion that can put an end to all our skin problems at times may just seem eternal. Many a time our dressing shelves are inundated with products and for once we wonder if we have mixed up or messed up with the lotions and creams.

Moreover, as creams get more and more expensive with every single step at the supermarket reverting to good old gram flour may seem to be the only option left. Or it "may no more be," assures MaryfaithVutale, fondly known by many as the shea queen as she makes and sells shea butter, specially harvested from a village adopted by her in Ghana.

For thousands of years, African women have traditionally extracted shea butter from the nuts of shea trees (Vitellari...