The English Soap Company

There’s a growing awareness that the world is facing a packaging crisis and we believe that urgent action is required from everyone to reduce overall packaging use and to secure a future that’s free from plastic pollution. Everyone involved with The English Soap Company, including staff across all roles, suppliers and distributors, is now working together to find innovative solutions to make our business as sustainable as possible. As a company with sustainability at its heart, every decision is made with environmental responsibility in mind. Since the birth of the company 22 years ago our philosophy has been to drive towards sustainability and strive to improve our products, packaging and working methods to reduce our carbon footprint and make the planet a better place.

The focus is on making sustainable, ethical products that are recyclable and long lasting. Minimal packaging is used, recycled plastics where possible, and recyclable aluminium tubes for products like hand creams. Our Vegetable oils are sourced from RSPO accredited suppliers and fragrances are synthetic which has less impact on the environment than land-intensive production. Local suppliers are used where possible and The English Soap Company’s success has had a knock on, positive effect for these local and small businesses. We reuse as much packaging as possible in our outgoing dispatches. We re-use cardboard boxes, stuffing and even shred unused brochures & damaged wraps to create more padding for our products. We have a cardboard shredder so when we really cannot get any more journeys from our boxes we shred them and they become the packaging.

Our objectives are to recycle and reuse as much as possible and reduce our carbon footprint and impact on the planet year-on-year. Alongside this we are changing our products and packaging so there is as little cardboard or paper use as possible and where these materials are used we have reduced the gsm or paper weight. This also means products are slightly lighter and every gram counts when you are distributing thousands of products.

All our soap bars are plastic free and use as little packaging as possible. Made with high quality and locally sourced ingredients. All soap bars are vegan friendly and cruelty free. All made in East Sussex, England.

We try to use as little plastic as possible here at The English Soap Company. All our Kew Hand Creams use aluminium recyclable tubes and we use PCR recycled plastic where possible. All our plastic bottles are recyclable and we encourage customers to recycle as much as they can.

Our Soy Wax Candles come in plastic free packaging: recyclable glass tumbler and card carton. Hand poured on-site, here in East Sussex, England.