Environmental Impact of Liquid Soap
Did you know that the carbon footprint of liquid soap is significantly larger than that of bar soaps? For a typical visit to the sink, we use almost 7x more liquid soap (2.3 grams) than bar soap (0.35 grams). That extra soap means more chemical feedstocks and more processing, and more weight to ship so more energy and carbon emissions.
Liquid soaps also require more energy for production: 5x more for materials and 20x more energy for packaging and disposal.
Since packaging and production for bar soap require so much less energy to produce, using bar soap lessens your carbon footprint, and the SoapStandle makes it work better. It feels great to know that you’re reducing your contribution to environmental waste.
Liquid soap containers add up to 5 million pounds of plastic trash. Each year.
One little SoapStandle can make a liquid soap container unnecessary... that's 3 grams vs 40 grams... and the SoapStandle is used one bar of soap after another... so if 4 liquid soap containers are used in one year, that's 3 grams of plastic vs 160 grams of plastic. Wow!
Friendly to your body
No one likes gooey soap bars, but to avoid that a lot of people use liquid soap. The containers are neat and orderly (put aside for the moment the chemical additives and harsh components in liquids), and maybe even the fragrance (more additives, that the experts say aren’t good for your skin). But if you could get rid of the gooey aspect of the soap bar, then you could use those cool looking craft soaps, soaps that naturally smell great, soaps that lather… soaps that are tailored to what you like, and that like you / your skin / your children’s skin / even your husband’s skin (hopefully he cares!).
You can read about the impact liquid soap chemicals and additives have on your skin at HealthyWomen.org but it’s basically saying:
Many of the products we use to get clean - soaps, facial cleansers and body washes - might actually be doing us more harm than good.
One of the main ways your body acquires nutrients, other than eating, is transdermally - through the skin. Your skin is your largest organ - 22 square feet on average - and 60 percent of the substances you put on it are eventually absorbed into the bloodstream. This semipermeable membrane allows us to absorb vitamins and minerals, but, unfortunately, it absorbs harmful chemicals we put on it, too.
Chemicals in common soaps are no joke. They can disrupt our hormones, promote allergies, lead to reproductive issues and increase risk of some cancers. With serious side effects like these, we need to be particular about what we put on our skin.
Here are four chemicals I watch out for when buying soap (and you should, too): Fragrance… Parabens… Sulfates… Triclosan
Think about it. If we are washing our bodies with soap that contains harmful ingredients every single day, this adds up over a lifetime to wreak havoc on our health. With minimal government testing on these chemicals, it becomes up to us, as smart consumers, to make informed decisions as to what does and doesn’t go on our skin.
Improve your overall health by choosing high-quality soap and body wash free of these four hormone-disrupting toxic additives. Make the switch and both your skin and your body will be thanking you.
The SoapStandle innovation lets that happen. No goo... on the countertop. No goo... on the shower shelf. No goo in the soap dish in the guest bath, kitchen sink… anywhere.
(Is it a soap miracle? Not a miracle… but it’s pretty cool.) And it makes a lot of sense. It even saves you money.
The SoapStandle innovation... U.S. Patent No. 9,307,870.