Our Mission

Our Mission is to provide rural Kenyans with a source of income generation, a marketable skill, and basic business principles, while producing an inexpensive, reliable bar of soap for hand-washing, in order to promote good hygiene practices in the rural communities of Nyanza Province, Kenya.

The Soap-Making Process

There are two types of soap that Furaha soap makers produce and sell: bar soap and liquid soap. Bar soap is sold in Kenya and the US. Liquid soap is sold only in Lwala. Bar soap is made of all locally available resources, and liquid soap is made of a precise mixture of chemicals that are bought in Kisumu. Bar soap is molded to be sold in small, individual amounts, and liquid soap is made in jerricans so that it can be transported around Lwala, and surrounding communities. It can be sold in bulk or in individual, used water bottles.