While growing up, my sister had a skin-related illness which foreign dermatological products could not heal. On a fateful day, our Grandma visited us and she also came with a substance tied in a black plastic bag and which had an awful smell to be used on my sister’s skin. My sister had no choice than to apply the substance. This resulted in her skin getting restored within 3 days. All I remembered about that substance was its name – it was called Ori (shea butter).

Many years later, I remembered that experience and decided to work on the disadvantages of the substance called Ori (shea butter). The local shea butter has a crude smell, is not easy to rub in and mostly is not packaged nicely,  hence its unattractiveness to urban dwellers.

Tea’s Nature indulges your senses with our products through their easy- to- rub- in effect, attractive packaging and fragrance varieties.

Oluwatobi Sola-Abiola is an entrepreneur and an innovation enthusiast with over 10 years of Leadership, Administration and Management experience working in the Real Estate, Manufacturing and Not-For-Profit sectors of the Nigerian economy.

She started off as an Administrative Executive for a Graduate Finishing School while in the University. This led her to her acquiring a DELF Certification in French Language. Upon graduation, these experiences gave her leverage to gain more experience in a Property Development Company where she gained competencies in Administration, Sales, Procurements and Project Management whilst being a Student Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management, Nigeria (CIPMN) and the Daystar Leadership Academy, Nigeria.

Oluwatobi is currently the Founder and Lead Formulator at Tea’s Nature, a NAFDAC-approved Shea Butter-based beauty products company which has strawberry, vanilla, minty and native variants.

Her drive for the work she currently does is attributed to the passion she has for the rural women she adopted as primary beneficiaries of her products through the two- way sustainability model she operates. In the urban centers, she engages youths through the advocacy of making money legitimately. This she does through the signing up of these youths as distributors of her products.

She holds a B.Sc degree in Psychology from the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife, Nigeria. In 2017, Bank and Entrepreneur Africa Magazine featured her as one of the top 100 Nigerian SME Women. In the same year, she, alongside 49 other Entrepreneurs attended the first ever Business Acceleration Bootcamp organized by the British Council in Nigeria. She is a member of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and a mentee alumnus of the same.

For her excellent business idea, she was one of the beneficiaries of the Women-X World Bank Scholarship Programme where she studied Entrepreneurial Management at the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC), Pan Atlantic University, Lagos, Nigeria. She also won the “Toke Makinwa – On Becoming” Entrepreneurship grant in 2017. She is also a beneficiary of the WIMBIZ Capital Entrepreneurship Training.

In 2019, she was on board as a facilitator for the International Breweries Foundation Kickstart Programme for SMEs in Nigeria.

Her core skills include Business Incubation and Development, Story Telling, Research, Brand Building and Networking. She connects people. If you ever need anyone that does anything, she’s 70% most likely to be your link to that person. She also instructs Swimming and Dance asides being a Photographer.

She loves God very dearly, and all she ever wants is to make Him proud of her.