Description

Unadulterated luxury soap filled with incredible botanicals.

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

The blend of essential oils creates a nostalgic scent of the African bush. This is a large bar containing many extraordinary ingredients – a bounty of wild harvested botanicals including wild indigenous rosemary and the iconic sausage tree, which is scientifically proven and hailed as the most exciting breakthrough in skin care with a myriad of benefits.

Any soap with lard or tallow is incredibly gentle on skin.

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

Imagine the feeling of silk on your skin. Your luxury bar of soap creates a glorious silky glide on your skin. Great lather.

I chose tussah silk over bombyx mori, commonly known as the domesticated, farmed mulberry silk-worm moth. Tussah is wild harvested mostly in India, and whilst no certificate was provided, my source is harvested after the moth has naturally vacated her cocoon and gone on to mate. In the mulberry silk industry, the entire cocoon with larvae/pupae inside are boiled. In my eyes, there is no justification for latter.

MYTHS, STORIES & INSPIRATION:

There is a big difference between poverty and having very little. In the same way, it can also be said that living a rich life has very little to do with how much money one has. Poverty is essentially not having access to sufficient food, water or shelter.

I called this soap “tranquility” despite the depicted Masai living a hard life against the elements for over 1000 years as nomads and shepherds. As with all indigenous people, be they African, American Indian, Aborigine….. they lived a lifestyle of being as one with nature and living with respect and care. I’ve so often noticed that people who live and work with the land and nature, have a different, easygoing outlook on life to those who live in suburbia and cities

The Masai people have lived with nature for thousands of years. They can no longer only be sustained by their cattle with little room to move to new pastures as they always have. Poaching has additionally escalated as a means to an end.

Across Kenya and Tanzania, the Masai have need to be employed.

You can now see more and more people dressed in red clothes complete with shields and spears, guarding the perimeters of the many luxury hotels that have sprung up in recent years. Only in the most remote corners of the Savannah will you find some nomadic people still living in their original state, following the ancient ways of life of a once formidable and well known East African tribe.