Teach Soap

I spent the day with Clean the Word today, and I just have to tell you guys: WHAT A FANTASTIC GROUP OF PEOPLE.

They were all so positive and nice, it was very laid back but efficient. What we were doing today was processing hotel soaps for shipment to Haiti. They first clean the soaps off in a sanitizing solution, removing anything gross like hairs or dirt or whatever, and put them on trays for the "steamer", the machine they use to sanitize the soaps.





Once they process in the sanitizer, they take them out and leave them out to dry.




After they are dry, they package all of the soaps that are the same into boxes, seperating the layers with wax paper, until they are full. The full boxes were about 30 pounds.


It was such a positive experience there. At one point, one of the co-founders Shawn Seipler came in to say hi and let everyone know how much he appreciated everyone. They think that the "boutique" soaps (like we make) are fantastic. They can't believe what they get in and are amazed that we are able to make soap smell like chocolate and coffee.

All in all- it was very uplifting to help out, and I can't wait to go back.

Pretty cool! Thanks for sharing the pics.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Great pictures. Thank you so much for posting this redfishingirl.

Staci

That's very cool... wish I could get there easily.
I was under the impression that they rebatch the soaps. Do they also do that or just sanitize existing bars?

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- Mickey!

What a great experience. I had no idea that hotel soap was recycled this way. It's good to see. Glad to know they like some of our more exotic soaps. They must be a nice break after thousands of generic hotel bars.

All I can say is Totally Awesome! Thanks for the great pics. too redfishingirl. It's heartwarming to know there are people that care to make a difference. Wish I could have gone down and helped out as well, but I will continue to send my mugglies to them. Cool to think that they actually like our artisan stuff!

That's amazing! Thanks for the pictures which make it more of a reality. It's nice to know my fugglies and not-so-fuglies will be helping. Great of you to help out in person!

Thanks so much for the pics and also thanks for the tip about using the flat rate box. I loaded mine up full and hauled it to the post office. They know me there from mailing out soaps all the time an so I got a big friendly razz from them about how I was "killing" them on the flat rate! I told them it was for a good cause

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I'm going back up there again tomorrow. He said they have about 100 volunteers signed up, I'm hoping I get to see their rebatch process

It's a cause that is quickly becoming very close to my heart!