Cleanup Soap Helps Clean Up Land Mines

One cause the late Princess Diana of Wales was very passionate aboutm was land mines. She was one of the most prominent proponents of a global ban on anti-personnel mines, which kill or cripple someone every 20 minutes (mostly women and children).

Cleanup Soap is also passionate about eliminating land mines. The company's products raises funds for de-mining organizations to remove landmines and provide survivor assistance.

Their key product is a soap in two different formulas that started as an award-winning project developed by students at The New School and is now being developed further. $2.00 from each $8.00 bar of soap is donated to The Cambodian Landmine Museum, located outside of Siem Reap, Cambodia.

There's Coconut Rice (white soap) and Rosemary Mint (green soap), each of which is designed to look like a land mine,. The design reminds the user of the landmine problem, and further directs him or her to de-mining activities throughout the world. As far as the soap, it's more than just a clever and informative design. The Cleanup soap formulas contain only natural ingredients, and each has a lovely scent. There's an invigorating, uplifting, Rosemary Mint (Ingredients: Sodium Palmate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Water, Glycerin, Peppermint Fragrance, Nettle Leaf Powder, Sodium Chloride, Rosemary Leaf, Tetrasodium EDTA) and a soothing, creamy, Coconut Rice (Ingredients: Sodium Palmate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Water, Coconut Fragrance, Shea Butter, Titanium Dioxide, Sodium Chloride, Glycerin, Rich Starch, Tetrasodium EDTA).

The soap is an unusual shape and a good quality product. With use, Cleanup soap will become smaller and finally, we disappear: a metaphor the creators feel help reinforce the idea that if people support this cause, they will contribute to cleansing the earth of the landmines (making the problem, disappear, of course). I think the soaps are a unique stocking stuffer as well as a pleasure to use. And, it's always nice to contribute to a worthy cause while shopping for the holidays.

You don't have to be a Princess to make a difference. Cleanup is available this holiday season at selected retailers and http://www.cleanupsoap.com/ (visit the web site for more information on land mines, too).