Soap Mistletoe

Bring the peaceful scent of the forest into your daily ritual—and make every wash count. This handcrafted bar blends fresh pine, eucalyptus, warm clove, and cleansing cedarwood into an earthy, inviting scent you’ll love year-round. Made in small batches by traditional soap makers in Tamil Nadu, India, it’s a simple everyday luxury with a powerful purpose: every bar sends one child to school for one day.

• Responsibly-sourced ingredients: Hydrogenated Rice Bran Wax, Palm Oil, Coconut Oil, Water, Coconut Stearic Acid, Glycerin, Perfume, Citric Acid, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Hydroxide, Zinc Oxide

• 3.2oz Bar

• Handmade in India

The hands that made it: 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.