Based in East London, and with a traditional workshop in the Lake District, The Soap Co. creates soap products with sophisticated fragrances, minimalist design and a strong social and environmental ethos.
We are a social enterprise providing training and work opportunities for people who are visually impaired, have disabilities or are otherwise disadvantaged. All our profits go back into our business so that we can provide these opportunities and more like them.
Ethically & Environmentally Friendly
All our products are made in the UK with natural extracts, added vitamins and are colour and paraben free. We never test our products on animals and we’re always striving to reduce our impact on the environment. But that’s only half the story.
A bottle that is made from old milk bottles? An exfoliating soap pebble supporting Lake District farmers? That is just the beginning! Our award-winning minimalist packaging, with Braille graphics, strives to be as environmentally sustainable as possible.
Subtle Gentle Fragrances
Select from four delicious fragrances across our body care products – rich and aromatic Black Poppy & Wild Fig, light and delicate White Tea, reviving Citrus, and awakening Bergamot & Mint.
Our hand wash and hand lotion are made with moisturising pro-vitamin B5, soothing aloe vera extract and natural antiseptic tea tree oil. The hand lotion is also full of softening cocoa butter. The handmade soap bars contain cocoa butter, pro-vitamin B5, olive, coconut and sustainable palm oil as well as water distilled from the Lake District.
See Ability Not Disability
When you buy a Soap Co. product, you are contributing to our social purpose – the creation of employment for our staff, 80 percent of whom are blind or otherwise disabled or disadvantaged. We empower our staff to build their skills, confidence and independence in our friendly and supportive workplace.
The Soap Co. and our parent organisation, CLARITY Employment for Blind People, trade for good with all our profits reinvested to help create further employment.
We caught up with Simeon to talk about his experience working on this project and to express our gratitude for the amazing job he and his team have done creating this wonderful piece that has moved so many of our supporters, clients and customers.
This week has been interesting. For those who don’t know, due to a similarity in names with a company called Soap & Co. which has been investigated by BBC Newsnight, many people mistook our brand for theirs.
We have been made aware of a BBC investigation into a company called SOAP & CO. Our company THE SOAP CO. has absolutely no connection to SOAP & CO. We are a completely separate company. This is us: https://thesoapco.org.
