Description

This luxury soap with nourishing oils of avocado and lard also contains natural mineral rich Oryx Desert Salt crystals on top, which may scratch. Please use from the bottom of the soap when lathering to avoid this. The salt crystals will dissolve in water with use over time.

Each soap is handcrafted and unique. They will never look exactly the same

Activated Charcoal is well known for drawing impurities both internally and externally.

Benefits Of Lard For The Skin

• One of the reasons lard is such an extraordinary moisturizer lies in its cellular makeup, which shares a lot of similarities to human skin. Because of this similarity, lard absorbs effortlessly into the skin, softening and smoothing out skin tone, while reducing the appearance of age spots. The pH of lard is also similar to human skin. Lard contains both monounsaturated and saturated fats, but no transfat. It is rich in vitamins A, D, and E, and omega 3 fatty acids, all highly beneficial for the skin.
• Lard contains immune-boosting vitamin D. Vitamin D reduces inflammation

MYTHS, STORIES & INSPIRATION

Dark, dangerous and holds untold riches….and the illegal miners known as Zama Zamas have taken advantage of these mothballed or abandoned old gold mines that are of little worth to the big mining groups. The lives of these artisan miners are equally so described.

Desperation as a result of a slow economy of years, heavy job losses and unemployment in the mining sector have given rise to the Zama zama. The term stems from Zulu and means to “take a chance” or “try again.”

Their story and evolvement intrigues me.

It has been estimated that there are 6000 zama zamas underground at any given time. By whom and what reliable survey remains a mystery?  Probably many more….who knows if no one goes and looks. They live underground, a kilometre or more down, for many months on end under horrendous conditions and heat, having none of the facilities or equipment normally provided by the mining house. The work is incredibly dangerous and many lose their lives.

They are an ever-increasing fact of the colourful South African landscape and are not going to go away. Law enforcement are terrified of them as they’re heavily armed.

These guys are raking it in, commensurate with the associated risk and very tough life.

In 2010, the South African government apparently lost an estimated US$500 million in tax and export revenue alone from illegal mining.

Perhaps time to bury egos and face the fact that the zama zama have the mines anyway. Legalise the guys, regulate them, issue licenses, get taxable income, export revenue, add to economic growth, perhaps encourage further employment. Let them build and manage their own artisan, recognised mines.