Five steps take soap from factory off-cut to a child's hands — sorted, cleaned, pressed, extruded, and shipped by women at our four hubs.
Factory waste collected from our partners around the world, preventing usable soap from reaching the landfill. The collected soap arrives at regional manufacturing hubs where it is sorted, inspected, and prepared for upcycling.
The soap scraps are thoroughly cleaned and screened before being double or triple milled. This creates a clean, uniform material that can be efficiently processed into new bars while maintaining consistent quality.
The soap "noodles" are refined and extruded under carefully controlled conditions. This process transforms the waste material into newly formed bars with a consistent shape, density, and finish.
Once the soap is extruded, each block is precisely cut into individual bars. Every bar is inspected for quality, trimmed if necessary, and prepared for packaging before leaving the manufacturing facility. Finally, each batch is tested in our lab, including for a balanced pH suitable for all skin types.
The finished bars are packaged and delivered to schools, healthcare facilities, and communities where access to soap is limited. Through local distribution partners, upcycled soap helps improve hygiene, support public health, and reduce preventable disease.
Soap makers send the raw material. Donors keep the presses running. Either way, a bar reaches someone who needs it.
A bar of soap shouldn’t cost the earth — or anyone’s livelihood. We upcycle soap waste into clean hands and good jobs.
Clean-hands stories, a few times a year.