Processed foods, spices, oils, preserved goods, skincare, haircare, soaps and natural beauty products — registered, documented, traceable and connected to buyers across the African free trade market.
Request a service →African food and cosmetics already have what the world wants. What they often lack is documentation that buyers can trust.
Processed foods, spice blends, cold-pressed oils, preserved goods, traditional snacks, natural skincare, haircare, soaps and cosmetic formulations — these are products with real value and real demand. What holds them back is not quality. It is proof: proof of origin, proof of ingredients, proof of process, proof that the producer is who they say they are.
ACE provides the documentation, verification, traceability and market access infrastructure that turns a good product into a product a buyer can buy with confidence — across borders, at the price the quality deserves.
Both segments face the same core challenge: proving what is inside the product and where it comes from. ACE handles both under one identity and one record system.
Processed and semi-processed foods with cross-border market potential. From small-batch spice blends to larger producers of oils, flours, preserved goods and traditional snacks.
Natural and semi-natural cosmetic products rooted in African botanical knowledge. From single-ingredient oils to formulated skincare, haircare and body care products.
Every service below is available through a formal request. Some are live today. Some are in the pilot. Each card links to the service page where you can read more.
Register your product on ACE with its name, ingredients, origin, production method and the producer behind it. Get a verifiable digital identity for every product and every batch.
Structured ingredient records that a buyer, a regulator or a customs officer can verify. For cosmetics, this connects to ABS compliance where botanicals come from community-held knowledge.
Origin-of-goods records and full chain-of-custody traceability — from raw material source to finished product. Verifiable in seconds via a QR code or link.
Workflow support for certification — regional origin, materials and process, and ABS compliance. Certificates issued by competent authorities are linked to the product's digital identity.
Where your product uses African botanicals, ACE documents the plant source, the community origin and the benefit-sharing arrangement — the foundation of any honest natural-cosmetics claim.
List your products on the ACE Market and connect to buyers, distributors and retail partners across the African free trade market and beyond.
These are the practical barriers that keep African food and cosmetics out of the markets they deserve to be in.
A buyer in another country cannot visit your facility. They need a record they can check. ACE gives every product a verifiable digital identity — ingredients, origin, producer, process — that travels with the product across borders.
"Natural" and "African" are claims, not facts. When a cosmetic uses a botanical from community-held knowledge, ACE documents the source and the benefit-sharing arrangement — so the claim is real, and the community is acknowledged.
Customs and standards officials need to check what is in the shipment quickly. ACE provides a public verification endpoint that any official, buyer or consumer can use in seconds — no login required for the verification itself.
ACE does not approve food products for consumption, does not authorise cosmetics for sale, and does not replace food safety authorities, standards bodies or health regulators. Product authorisation, food safety approval and market approval remain with the competent authorities in each jurisdiction.
ACE documents what producers and authorities have determined, connects that record to the product, and makes it verifiable across borders. The legal authority to sell a food or cosmetic product stays with the authority that grants it.
Register your product, request a documentation or traceability service, or list your products on the ACE Market. Tell us what you produce and what market you are aiming at — we will contact you and prepare a written proposal.