Description

Both Olive oil and Tallow make one of the gentlest and skin loving soaps. 80% of this soap comprises those 2 ingredients. It has a great lather and the scent is fresh, uplifting and with a lot of depth. The same essential oil blend as the hugely popular FLOWER POWER SOAP.

MYTHS, STORIES & INSPIRATION

My turtle soaps were inspired by a trip, some years back to Rocktail Bay, just south of Kosi Bay.

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

As far as I’m aware, this stretch of Northern KZN coastline, from Cape Vidal up to the Mozambique border, is the only place in South Africa where Leatherback and Loggerhead turtle’s breed. Green Turtles are also in this area, but so very few exist anymore as humans have virtually annihilated their species.

Sea turtles are some of the most ancient reptiles still alive today and have been around for over 200 million years.  The characteristics that helped them to survive over millions of years didn’t account for the impact of the population explosion of the most destructive predator on earth. Humans have rendered them vulnerable to the point of being critically endangered.

Turtles wander the oceans, on routes determined by evolution, returning to their natal areas (where they were born) to mate and lay their eggs. Pressure on turtles include entanglement with fishing gear or accidental capture, plastic pollution and, historically, population declines due to harvesting of eggs and adults for meat.

Nesting beaches along the northern KwaZulu-Natal coastline are protected. Ongoing monitoring since 1963 has revealed remarkable results demonstrating the importance of beach protection for nesting female turtles.

In 1966, fewer than 10 leatherback turtles nested on the Zululand coast. The average number of nesting leatherback females has now risen to more than 70 nests per year.

The number of loggerhead turtles has risen even more spectacularly from less than 250 in the early 1960s to 1 700 nesting annually within the iSimangaliso Wetland Park.

The protected far Northern KwaZulu coastline is a wild and stunningly beautiful area with miles of pristine beaches and mere scatterlings of humans.

The turtles return to the same beaches where they and their ancestors before them were born, to lay foundations for the next generation.

Both laying and hatching take place between November and March each year. The middle months providing a rare opportunity for the nature lover to catch a glimpse of these beautiful creatures. Only around 1 in a 1000 survive to continue the species.

Guided trips of small groups are all that is allowed near them.

I would still love to witness many thousands of hatchlings running their first gauntlet to the sea one day. A veritable feast too, for gulls, crabs and other predators.

The front of the soap is the logo and the back has a turtle entering the ocean. Poetic license much with turtle

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