Where Nature And Culture Meet

Bali Soap is a proud natural soap and skincare brand from Bali, Indonesia. Our paradise island is home to abundant natural resources and fresh ingredients. Influenced by Balinese holistic culture and natural way of living, we’ve been making planet-friendly soaps and body care products by hand since 2005, using plant-based materials that are locally and ethically sourced from the Indonesian archipelago.

Bali Soap was born out of mutual respect and a shared commitment to creating an honest, ethical and authentic skincare brand that’s great for both our skin and our planet. We want people to feel comfortable and beautiful in their skin—naturally, conscientiously, and mindfully.

From Nature And For Nature

For centuries, Indonesians have been using herbal remedies to treat skin and health issues as they believe in the healing power of nature. Inspired by this tradition, we use only natural ingredients in every single bar of our soap. We source all the materials thoughtfully and ethically, ensuring that we support local communities, small businesses and perform environmentally responsible practices. All Bali Soap products contain zero toxic chemicals making them safe when rinsed down the drain and water systems.

A Very Happy Workplace

We believe in treating people the way we want to be treated; with kindness, compassion, and respect. We strive to provide a fair, safe, positive, and highly ethical work environment for our amazing Indonesian team because we know that a happy, motivated, and empowered workforce will take good care of our business and our customers.

Our Bali Soap Employees Benefit From:

• Equal pay for men and women
• Equal gender representation in managerial and supervisory positions
• Strict sexual harassment policies
• Health insurance
• Retirement pensions
• Three-month paid maternity leave
• Fair salary with progressive pay raises based on tenure and increased responsibility
• Five-day work week (less than the standard Indonesian manufacturers’ regulations)

SUSTAINABLE PALM OIL
IS AN OPTION

Responsible palm oil protects, restores and connects landscapes; and benefits both people and nature. In short, the cold process method refers to a soap-making process that combines oils and lye (sodium hydroxide) using no heat. Yes, that’s right, there is no cooking process, heat chambers, or fire required. Why oil and lye? Well, oil contains fatty acid, which is a natural moisturizer. When mixed with lye, a chemical reaction happens and forms soap! After mixing the two, we pour the mixture into molds to cure – it takes around 14 days to become solid soap bars.

It may sound like a very time-consuming process, and there are many ways to create soaps, but this method, in our opinion, produces the best quality (great things take time!). Nature has so much to offer, and it has lots of great benefits for our skin that, unfortunately, they can be lost through the heating process in the hot-process method

Palm oil is the world’s most produced, consumed and traded vegetable oil because it is a very efficient crop and used in everything from margarine to lipsticks, biscuits to candles, chocolate to soap. It uses minimal resources to grow, grows quickly therefore has a quick production time, and is relatively easy to harvest.

In many places in the world the irresponsible chain of palm oil production, trade and consumption, and use leads to the destruction of local rainforests, wildlife loss and impacts the rights of local communities. And increasing global demand threatens more of the same.

Bali Soap and Palm Oil

We know that palm oil does not have to be destructive, and in fact by ensuring consistent ethics are enforced through the supply chain, the manufacturing of palm oil is actually better for the environment and the social needs it fulfills, than exchanging it with other oils.

For one, oil palm is by far the highest yielding oil crop. Substitution of palm oil with other oils — such as soybean, rapeseed and sunflower — can therefore require significantly more land to produce the same volume. This could potentially cause greater harm to wildlife, habitats and the environment.

Secondly, switching from palm to alternative oils is also likely to simply shift demand elsewhere, meaning that overall demand for palm oil does not decrease.

Finally, future demand for palm oil can be met without further forest and ecosystem conversion, notably by sustainably increasing productivity on existing plantations and expanding plantations to degraded land.

Bali Soap uses only CSPO (Certified Sustainable Palm Oil) in our products which has been thoroughly evaluated by the RSPO (the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil), an international organisation that sets rigorous environmental and social criteria to rank the sustainability of palm oil production.

In Borneo, the equivalent of Indonesia’s Amazon rainforest, where Bali Soap gets its RSPO palm oil, nearly 4.5 million farmers work in the palm oil sector supporting their families. Palm oil plays an important role in the reduction of poverty in these areas and helps the local community to have a healthy respect for the biodiversity being preserved as well. Borneo is home to several endangered animals including orangutans, pygmy elephants and tigers as well as thousands of species of birds. Stopping the production of palm oil altogether would create significant problems for these complete ecosystems.

Our Commitment

We participate in action-oriented initiatives and advocacy, and invest in projects on-the-ground which support a sustainable palm oil industry and include the conservation and restoration of biodiversity at risk from, or impacted by, unsustainable palm oil, and actions that support smallholder farmer sustainability.

We believe that this is the least we can do to contribute to positive sustainable development now only in a community that supports our product and business, but businesses around the world.