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    Sustainability

    At Soap Folk, we create beautiful handmade products, designed to be used and loved. We always aim to work in the best interests of people and the planet, inspired by our core values of creativity and kindness

    Our Values

    • Work only with natural, biodegradable ingredients
    • Avoid all use of Palm oil and its derivatives
    • Make our soaps by hand, using a traditional cold process technique in our Stroud based workshop
    • Collaborate with skilled artisan makers and producers
    • Follow the principle of reduce, reuse and recycle across the product lifecycle
    • Listen to our customers. to make it easy for them to talk to us, give feedback and champion the values which matter to them

    Here's some recent things we've done to improve our sustainability

    Waste Hero

    We reduced waste in the Soapery by turning off-cuts into customer favourite, "All Kinds" soap selection

    Collaboration

    From working with acclaimed potter, Tom Knowles Jackson on a series of soap dishes, to the sustainable florist Amberley Meadow providing seasonal interest for our shop dresser.

    Community

    More options for safe deliveries for our local community, including a click and collect direct from the workshop to free deliveries to local residents during lockdown.

    Plastic

    We made a series of plastic-free swaps in the workshop and were awarded plastic free champion status from Stroud District Action on Plasticon behalf of Surfers Against Sewage

    More Local Ingredients

    Source more local natural ingredients to use in our soaps and skincare products to enable more transparency and cut our carbon footprint

    Carbon Free Deliveries

    Work with a local social enterprise to deliver orders within the community on electric bikes

    B-Corp Assessment

    Start our B-Corp journey by measuring our impact on our workers, community, environment, and customers.

    More Ideas & Practical Tips

    Develop more blogs and resources for our website to provide inspiration and practical tips to lead a more sustainable lifestyle
    Everything is handmade by us in our Stroud Valleys workshop

    We make all our products under one roof so we know exactly how they are made and who is making them. Working together makes us more creative and learn different skills from each other. It also means that all our team are paid fairly for the work they do and treated with respect.

    Our products only contain sustainably sourced and natural ingredients or materials

    We use high-quality, all-natural ingredients from approved and trusted suppliers. We believe this creates a higher quality product with the lowest environmental impact. 

    Our packaging is designed to tread lightly on the earth

    All our packaging is designed to maximise the amount of material that can be reused or recycled. All our product wraps are from traceable FSC stock and printed with vegetable inks.

    We use resources responsibly

    The entire making process is designed to have the low environmental impact possible, so we monitor our use of energy and water, whilst trying to keep our waste to a minimum.

    We like to work with suppliers and partners who share our values

    We use a supplier policy to make sure the people we work with meet our standards of quality, delivery, ethics, sustainability, and compliance. Where possible, we like our suppliers to be local and independently owned.

    Give back to the community

    Our biggest initiative is our All Kinds campaign where we donate bags of our off-cut soaps to food banks and community interest groups across the UK.