Be Still Mint Soap

The Be Still Mint Soap is handcrafted by artisans working with Sacred Mark, a workshop of Prokritee, a fair trade group in Bangladesh. The artisans are women who have broken away from the sex trade and now make their living by making soap and handicrafts. The name “Sacred Mark” was inspired by Nobel Prize winning Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.

Who Made It: Palam Rural Centre offers employment opportunities to people of the marginalised Harijan community in a village in Tamil Nadu region of southeastern India. In the Tamil language, Palam means “bridge.” Palam Rural Centre seeks to build a “bridge” from the markets to the rest of the world. Palam has been able to purchase land and homes for artisans (ownership traditionally unavailable to lower castes) and built a school for artisans’ children. Through this work, Palam Rural Centre is providing dignity and security to artisans and helping to break down caste walls in society. 

Materials: Coconut oil, soybean oil, water sodium hydroxide, mint oil, caster oil, honey, sunflower oil, cucumber extract

Dimensions: 3.25” x 1.75” x 1”

Handcrafted in Bangladesh