Making socially responsible soaps.
SapoCycle is a non-profit organisation that collects discarded soaps in hotels and turns them into life-saving products. The soaps are recycled by people with disabilities and then distributed to improve sanitary conditions of families in need.
participating hotels
kilos of soaps collected
soaps redistributed
kg CO2 saved
So, how does it work?
It’s simple… Environmentally conscious hotels join us and collect the discarded soaps. In our recycling workshops the soaps are reprocessed and turned into new hygienic soap bars by people with disabilities under a strict bacteriological control. Our distribution partners give out the recycled soaps to families in need.
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Bubbles saving lives.
More than 1.5 million children under the age of 5 die around the world each year due to two diseases (diarrheal diseases and respiratory tract infection) which could have been prevented by hand washing.
What’s new?
Dorothée’s heartwarming interview on Euronews Living
In a heartwarming reportage made by Euronews Living, Dorothée gives a few key significant figures of SapoCycle' s important impact. We invite to read the article and watch the video here . In less than 3 minute, journalist Doloresz Katanich tells our story with great...
1’700 soaps went to the Greek Island of Samos
Thanks to the organization Volunteers for Humanity , our soaps were distributed among population in precarity in the Greek Islands of Samos. They went to improve the hygiene conditions of unaccompanied minors, people with preserved refugee status, others with medical...
If you put the women at the center…
"So if you put women at the center, that means you make smart policies that benefit women, and that means you make investments that benefit women. And why would you do that? Because if you put a woman at the center of policy and investment, we know that she's looking...
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