Soaps and Dreams Environmental Policy
Good truly honest green credentials

 

Honesty Policy

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Soaps and Dream’s endeavour to ensure that every business decision made from manufacturing, waste, deliveries, are made with an environmentally sustainable conscience.

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All products are made from ethical, sustainable sources, considering the World environment, animal welfare, workers’ rights and their health and safety from ingredients to packaging.

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What/who is Soaps and Dream’s Soap?

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A small soap manufacturer based in Lancashire, Soaps and Dream’s Soap is all hand made using ecological and natural oils, the finest grade, extra virgin, first pressing, organic and unrefined. Nothing else is added, no petroleum or mineral oils, no artificial fragrances or colours and no preservatives. Just a bar of soap made from oils and butters. Wrapped in reusable packaging. Soaps and Dream’s Soap is presented with zero to landfill waste as all the packaging can be reused, recycled or composted. And the soap is good for your skin too!

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The environmental benefits of using Soaps and Dream’s Soaps are:

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1. In the ingredients of the soap.

2. In the packaging, it is recyclable, reusable and compostable.

3. In the manufacturing base.

4. In the waste policy both manufacturing and the end user the consumer.

5. In transportation and delivery.

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In the ingredients:

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All oils and butters used in Soaps and Dream’s Soaps are from UK based suppliers, although regrettably most materials used are not grown in the UK. All oils are from a cold press process avoiding chemical base solvents for extraction purposes. Where possible oils and butters are organic and always unrefined (without bleach).

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Soaps and Dream’s Policy is to ensure only the best grade of oils and butters are is used in the manufacturing of the soap, without causing harm to the planet, giving the end user a high grade product that is truly natural, that you want to put on your skin.

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Soaps and Dreams chooses to use extra virgin olive oil, which is a renewable product. Our soap is made of the extra virgin olive oil because it is pure, full of antioxidants and vitamin E. The cosmetic industry tends to use olive pomace oil; this is not a pure product, as the extraction involves the use of high temperatures and petrochemical solvents such as hexane.

 

Soaps and Dreams imports their Extra Virgin Olive oil directly from the growers in Spain, we also import our Organic Extra Virgin Coconut oil direct from growers in Sri Lanka.

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Oils purchased from UK Suppliers are:

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• Organic Cocoa Butter

• Sweet Almond Oil

• Castor Oil

• Unrefined Avocado Oil

• Organic Jojoba Oil

• Unrefined Shea Butter
   

In its packaging:

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Soaps and Dream’s Soap considered various methods of packaging soap from paper to bio-degradable packaging.

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Stickers used on the Soaps and Dreams packaging boxes are all made from recycled paper.

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No plastics are used in any of the Soaps and Dreams packaging solutions.

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Soaps are individually wrapped in compostable biodegradable soap wrappers – these are not plastic! The cellophane is made from renewable wood pulp and will breakdown, unlike plastic. The compostable wrappers will decompose in any well-managed compost system and can go in your food recycling bin.

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Soaps and Dream’s paper consumption:

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Invoicing, letters, courier labels – Soaps and Dreams use certified recycled paper - printed via a Brother printer which accepts the used toners for recycling.

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Gift Boxes and laundry boxes - are made from 76% recycled card, 24% FSC sustainable sourced card.

Recycled Tissue Paper, acid free sourced in EU.