How dry is your skin right now? Sahara Desert kind of dry? Cracked and crying out kind of dry?

Winter weather conditions for many parts of the world right now are at their peak and with the severe cold and dehumidified air, your skin puts up with a lot of damage. What if your soap was just contributing to the problem?

The truth is, it probably is. According to Haskell and Melanie Martin, the owners and founders of Moksa Organics, which specialize in hand made organic soap, most soap makers use palm oil – one of the world’s leading contributors of environmental destruction and found in thousands of our everyday products and foods – as their primary ingredient “because it’s cheap and readily available.” Unfortunately it’s readily available at the cost of more and more rainforest deforestation and loss of habitat for endangered animals (check out The Pitfalls of Palm Oil).

These companies also use thousands of pounds of packaging materials and exhaustive lists of ingredients that make little sense to the eco-conscious consumers on the rise today. And even though it pays to consider what we put in and on our bodies, shouldn’t we also be able to trust in these companies to provide ethical products, and if we’re really lucky, products that actually benefit the environment rather than take away its resources?

If you said yes, that’s where Moksa Organics shines. Haskell and Melanie were tired of boring soap and products doing more harm than good. Their ingredients? Simple. “Certified organic. Fair-Trade whenever possible. No chemicals.” They support organizations that provide fair and just wages, that endorse environmental and women’s empowerment initiatives, as well as non-profit and local sectors.

They are federally recognized as a carbon neutral company, which includes reducing waste production and water use, avoiding non-renewable resources, and working with businesses and buyers who have a similar approach to preserving and supporting the environment.
Moksa also stands by its products by reassuring consumers in bold print and honest articles that they do whatever they can to reduce the refining process of their soap oils by purchasing USDA certified organic ingredients.  They also keep their products pure from synthetics, artificial fragrances and chemical colorants (other companies often inject whatever they darn well feel like into the soap, reducing its ‘organic’ content immensely). Now that’s the kind of honesty and integrity in a company I can respect and get behind!

So what else should you know? Well, short of encouraging you to mosey on over to their site to have a look at their articles and cruelty free and vegan endorsements, feel free to check out their selection of soaps, body oils, body butters and bath salts and let us know which ones sound good to you!

Here at Rain Tees we love the Amazon Lemon Exfoliating Bar, which was inspired by the work of the Rainforest Action Network! A portion of the proceeds from this product go to RAN and, like the rest of the soaps and oils, the ingredients are pure and together smell heavenly!!

Check out Moksa Organic’s official website for more information: http://moksaorganics.com/

By
Erin McLaughlin
Associate Editor

Photo credits: Moksa Organics