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Green Tea Soap
Green Tea Soap

Earthy, floral, and slightly sweet. Lather up with this long-lasting soap that's reminiscent of a barefoot walk in a grassy meadow. Handcrafted in small batches by traditional soap makers in Tamil Nadu, India.

HANDCRAFTED IN INDIA

  • Responsibly-sourced ingredients: Hydrogenated rice bran oil, coconut oil, mahua oil, water, coconut stearic acid, glycerine, perfume, citric acid, zinc oxide, sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide.
  • Measures: 3.2 oz
  • Handcrafted in India

SKU: 6813280

THE MAKERS

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. Ten Thousand Villages has purchased products from Palam Rural Centre since 2001.
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