PALM OIL FREE
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Sustainable Soaps for a Living Future
Save the Orangutan Soap is palm oil-free soap in southern Oregon by Diggin' Livin' Farm and Apiary. Save the Orangutan Soap refuses to use palm-oil because of the destruction leveled on the tropical rainforests of southeast asia in clearing of land for the plantation of oil palm. In so doing, vast numbers of wild creatures loose their homes including orangutans, our red-ape sisters now known from nowhere else. By highlighting our refusal to use palm-oil we hope to encourage a conscious debate about the true cost of our ingredients. We might hope this will ultimately lead us toward practices that will be in greater balance with the world that sustains us.
Joy McEwen, soapmaker and beekeeper, crafts each 80 bar batch by hand. Joy’s soaps are made with large amounts of raw goat’s milk from a local dairy, and honey and beeswax from her apiary. She currently handcrafts eight different bars. Joy has focused on utilizing the highest quality natural ingredients including many organic vegetable and essential oils. As a local agriculture enthusiast, Joy has prioritized the use of local ingredients in her soaps, including olive oil, walnut oil, and almond oil from California, and tallow from Full Circle Bison Ranch in Williams, Oregon. Her North American bars have only oils from North America, and her bioregional bar has ingredients from only California and Oregon.
Our soap is now available online in decorative crates of six bars.
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