Please Donate Soap to Haitian Relief Effort
I've been getting a great response to my request for soap donations, but many soap makers still have not been reached. Saponifier Magazine and the Handcrafted Soap Makers Guild are both getting involved by reaching out to their subscribers/members as well. Yea!
Although non-profit organization Clean the World does not mention accepting homemade soap donations on their website, Co-Founder Paul Till told me this:
"This is absolutely wonderful Staci...Thank you for contacting our organization and expressing interest in helping our cause. Yes, we would be extremely grateful if you could mobilize a movement within the soap makers here in the US. This would be awesome! If they want to simply send their soap to us when they are ready that would be great...Again, I can't thank you enough!"
Clean The World has a new address to send soap donations as of Friday, 1/15/10. All soap is rebatched by Clean the World before distribution, so you can send cold process, hot process, handmilled, melt-and-pour, even half-used bars as well as shampoo (opened or unopened) to:
Clean the World
8026 Sunport Dr. #306
Orlando FL 32809
Please help mobilize this soap donation effort by sending the e-mail below to your soap making friends and by posting this image on your soap websites and/or blog:
The html code to add to your site is (or copy the above image and link it to this web address):
<a href="http://thesoapblog.com/2010/01/14/please-donate-soap-to-haitian-relief-effort.aspx"><img originalAttribute="href" originalPath=""http://thesoapblog.com/2010/01/14/please-donate-soap-to-haitian-relief-effort.aspx"><img" originalAttribute="href" originalPath=""http://thesoapblog.com/2010/01/14/please-donate-soap-to-haitian-relief-effort.aspx"><img" src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t268/cowgirrrlpunk/DonateSoapHTML.jpg" width="148" height="150" border="0" alt="Donate Soap to the Relief Effort in Haiti" title="Donate Soap to the Relief Effort in Haiti"/></a>
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Here is the e-mail you can send out to your soap making friends:
Clean the World
8026 Sunport Dr. #306
Orlando FL 32809
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To view a press release regarding this issue (feel free to pass it along):
http://www.prlog.org/10489059-muchneeded-soap-donations-for-haiti.html
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To view the Handcrafted Soap Makers Guild's blog page about this campaign, go to:
http://www.soapguild.org/blog/2010/01/hsmg-partners-with-clean-the-world
By: Staci Marquez-Nichols, The Soap Blog (c)
Although non-profit organization Clean the World does not mention accepting homemade soap donations on their website, Co-Founder Paul Till told me this:
"This is absolutely wonderful Staci...Thank you for contacting our organization and expressing interest in helping our cause. Yes, we would be extremely grateful if you could mobilize a movement within the soap makers here in the US. This would be awesome! If they want to simply send their soap to us when they are ready that would be great...Again, I can't thank you enough!"
Clean The World has a new address to send soap donations as of Friday, 1/15/10. All soap is rebatched by Clean the World before distribution, so you can send cold process, hot process, handmilled, melt-and-pour, even half-used bars as well as shampoo (opened or unopened) to:
Clean the World
8026 Sunport Dr. #306
Orlando FL 32809
Please help mobilize this soap donation effort by sending the e-mail below to your soap making friends and by posting this image on your soap websites and/or blog:
The html code to add to your site is (or copy the above image and link it to this web address):
<a href="http://thesoapblog.com/2010/01/14/please-donate-soap-to-haitian-relief-effort.aspx"><img originalAttribute="href" originalPath=""http://thesoapblog.com/2010/01/14/please-donate-soap-to-haitian-relief-effort.aspx"><img" originalAttribute="href" originalPath=""http://thesoapblog.com/2010/01/14/please-donate-soap-to-haitian-relief-effort.aspx"><img" src="http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t268/cowgirrrlpunk/DonateSoapHTML.jpg" width="148" height="150" border="0" alt="Donate Soap to the Relief Effort in Haiti" title="Donate Soap to the Relief Effort in Haiti"/></a>
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Here is the e-mail you can send out to your soap making friends:
Dear soap maker,
A 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides much-needed soap to the third world, "Clean the World," has asked me to mobilize the handmade soap community. The need for soap in Haiti is great.
Without hand washing, the broken sewers, plumbing, and toilets in Haiti will lead to diarrhea-related bacterial infections, which sadly effect children the most and lead to 5 million deaths annually. You can help!
Send your cold process, hot process, hand-milled, or melt-and-pour soap to:
8026 Sunport Dr. #306
Orlando FL 32809
The soaps do not need to be labeled in any kind of way (ingredients, type of soap, etc.). Please include a brief note with your contact information explaining that you've donated handmade soap and whether you'd like a receipt for your taxes.
Our contact at Clean the World is co-founder and managing director Paul Till. He can be contacted at info@cleantheworld.org (although he is very swamped at the moment!)
or from Clean the World's website:
PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO OTHER SOAP MAKERS! Thank you.
For more information (including a "Donate Soap to Haiti/Clean the World" web badge for your blog or website), please visit:
http://thesoapblog.com/2010/01/14/please-donate-soap-to-haitian-relief-effort.aspx
For more information (including a "Donate Soap to Haiti/Clean the World" web badge for your blog or website), please visit:
http://thesoapblog.com/2010/01/14/please-donate-soap-to-haitian-relief-effort.aspx
To view a press release regarding this issue (feel free to pass it along):
http://www.prlog.org/10489059-muchneeded-soap-donations-for-haiti.html
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To view the Handcrafted Soap Makers Guild's blog page about this campaign, go to:
http://www.soapguild.org/blog/2010/01/hsmg-partners-with-clean-the-world
By: Staci Marquez-Nichols, The Soap Blog (c)
Posted by cowgirrrlpunk at 1/14/2010 11:35 AM 
Categories: What's New in the Soap Making World
Tags: homemade soap Clean the World relief effort Haiti donate soap
Categories: What's New in the Soap Making World
Tags: homemade soap Clean the World relief effort Haiti donate soap
Thank you for spreading the word!! I just packed up 3 large flat rate boxes to send out tomorrow. So glad my extra soaps can go to such a worthy and lifesaving cause.
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It does feel good to help, doesn't it! Thanks for donating.
-Staci
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Thank you, Staci! I, too, have boxed up a large flat rate box which will go out Monday and hopefully will have several more next week. Glad we are able to do our part in such a small way for such a large cause.
-Sharon
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Hey Staci,
We donated several boxes!
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