N'KIRA Cosmétiques

N'KIRA is an african company which produces natural cosmeticsfrom forest plants. The Gabonese forest contains 5,400 listed plant species including nearly 650 endemics. This rich flora remains however insufficiently documented more than 1000 species remain to be described. Many species can be used in the materials chemichal industry, in the pharmaceutical industry, in the cosmetics industry. Africa is the most unequal continent; 60% of the population lives on less than $ 4 a day and the number of poor people continues to grow. N'KIRA is an inclusive development project that creates its products from raw materials supplied by the people of the hinterland. N'KIRA gives these marginal partners the opportunity to increase their income, and thus contributes to human development in rural areas. The particularly intense logging in Africa has reduced the vegetation cover by 7% over the last 12 years. N'KIRA wants to promote a low-impact logging by valuing non-timber forest products. "We better protect what we know the value". This is why N'KIRA has the ambition to reveal through its products, the best of these forest species. The Gabonese pharmacopoeia is rich and little known. N'KIRA wishes to share through its products, the ancestral knowledge and enrich modern cosmetics. The scientific research in Africa remains marginal. N'KIRA brought together traditional therapists, botanists, physiologists, biochemists, environmental chemists, doctors and pharmacists to develop products that respect nature and body.