Ashley created Skin&Bawdy because she refused to treat her body as an afterthought. With Ghanaian and Guyanese roots, she grew up watching her grandmother's shea butter rituals work beautifully. But the heavy texture and 10-minute absorption time? That didn't fit real life. So she spent five years figuring out how to remix it. She traveled to Ghana and learned from women who've been making shea butter by hand for generations. Watched them crack nuts, roast over fire, and knead for hours until the butter rises. She saw the sacred labor behind what most people buy in a jar at the drugstore. Then she came home and got to work. Every batch is made by hand. Every formula is tested on melanin-rich skin first. Every product is designed to elevate body care from afterthought to ritual. This isn't your grandma's shea butter... it's better. It's her ritual, remixed. Made for melanin-rich skin, loved by every bawdy.