Refresh your senses with this natural, handmade soap from Tamil Nadu, India.
Made with cedar and rosemary, each bar benefits the environment: no chemicals, parabens, or palm oil are involved. Plus, the recyclable packaging makes it a sustainable choice.
Artisans with Palam Rural Centre produce small batches using traditional soap-making techniques.
One bar of soap from Palam Rural Centre sends one child to school for one day.
Ingredients: Hydrogenated rice bran oil, coconut oil, mahua oil, water, coconut stearic acid, glycerin, lavender essential oil, rosemary essential oil, cedar essential oil, citric acid, zinc oxide, sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide
Weight: 6.4oz
Handcrafted in India
Palam Rural Centre (People’s Association for Leather and Allied Manufacturing) offers employment opportunities to people of the marginalized Harijan community in a village in Tamil Nadu region, southeastern India. In the Tamil language, Palam also means "bridge." Palam Rural Centre seeks to build a "bridge" to the markets of the rest of the world. With money from product sales, Palam has purchased land and homes for artisans (ownership traditionally unavailable to lower castes) and built a school for artisans’ children. Other artisan benefits include health care and retirement pensions. Palam artisans see education of their children as the key to hope and change. Through this work, Palam Rural Centre is providing dignity and security to artisans and helping to break down caste walls in society.
