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Old Sep 20, 2011, 7:08 pm
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nerd
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I don't get the economics of this project. Soap is cheap to produce by hand and requires no modern ingredients (fat + lye).

How much does it cost to collect, recycle and ship used soap thousands of miles, versus taking that money and training/paying someone to make it locally in a developing country?
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