“We appreciate your concern about oils and where they come from VERY MUCH!

These days the cost of oils is skyrocketing, and it’s getting harder and harder to nail down where ingredients ACTUALLY originate. We do our best to source our ingredients from conscientious suppliers, as much of it as possible comes from local growers here in hawaii. But we are quite skeptical about the “fair trade” and “sustainably harvested” seals that companies throw around nowadays. When you delve deeper and press them for answers, more often than not, the trail get’s fuzzy before you get to the actual source of the product! Because of this frustrating situation, we’ve recently hatched a long term scheme to import OUR OWN sustainably harvested coconut and palm oil DIRECTLY from the south pacific to our hawaii workshop via (get this)…sailboats! This is largely the brainchild of our neighbor here in hawaii (a butterfly farmer), who also works with a sailboat freight company and has discovered a manufacturer of coconut presses which run on burning coconut husks in India. (The indian government has actually formed a coconut ministry, so they ahead of the game!) So…while we recognize the palm oil crisis, we don’t think that boycotting it (and nothing else) is the solution…at least not yet. We feel strongly that providing people an all affordable natural product that is completely unrelated to the chemical cosmetic industry is the first step to a happier cleaner planet.”

Cheers,
Gretchen Wetzel
co-Founder
Filthy Farmgirl Soap Co.
http://www.filthyfarmgirl.com