soap with the environment

[dlowba]

hello everyone, I've been making soap for a few years. I've come up with a lot of ideas so that I can't do any harm to the environment, but so far I haven't been able to do it. Do you have any ideas?

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

What are your ideas and why can't you do them?

Edit - and what do you mean to do no harm to the environment? Using only hand made clay pots from clay that you have sustainably taken from a local source? Melting the oils using only the heat from the sun?

 

[Dawni]

Maybe she/he means to be "eco-friendly?"

If yes, then you're in for a lot of headaches lol and at the end I don't think making soap can be completely sustainable or eco-friendly..

There's packaging to think about - not just your final output but the containers your supplies come in. There's also the fact that a lot of oils will have to travel by plane or road to reach you (unless of course you're pressing your own lol). Then there's a question of whether your carrier oils and essential oils (if using them) were farmed ethically or are from sustainable sources. Then there's the energy you use, as the gent above mentioned (unless you also plan on always hand mixing your soap hehe). I can go on but I think you get the picture.

It's almost a no win for the environment really, as with most things. The best you can do is to do something, coz you can't do everything.

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

@Dawni that was pretty much my point - there is so much that it might mean that any answers will be pure guess work that might hit the mark by happenstance, but it would be easier to have a clearer picture of what the op was looking for.

 

[ResolvableOwl]

I have yet to find a credibly eco-friendly source of NaOH.