When manufacturing gets under your skin

Posted on 8 Mar 2024 by Joe Bush

In less than five years, cosmetics company Uhuru Botanicals has gone from manufacturing in a garage to establishing its own factory and successful line of skin and haircare products. Ahead of International Women’s Day, The Manufacturer Editor Joe Bush caught up with Founder, Neo Chatyoka to find out more.

Founded in 2017, the inspiration for Uhuru (meaning freedom in Swahili) Botanicals originated from Neo’s young daughter, and the fact she suffered from eczema. Not only was there a lack of natural products on the market at the time, the medicine prescribed by the doctor was having little impact. Having grown up in the rural…

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