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Gently Used Hotel Toiletries Go To Charity

Your half-used hotel toiletries are getting shipped to charities, so others can use your reject soaps.

You know how after every hotel stay, half your toiletries are still unused? The soaps, shampoos, and conditioners are actually being put to a good use after you check out. A company out of Orlando actually intervenes at some hotels and stops those leftover toiletries from ever reaching the landfill, taking them and recycling them into new toiletries to send to needy areas.

The company is called Clean the World, and hotels give them money to take the pieces of soap and leftover hair products. They get about $.50 per room every month. Clean the World takes the soap and melts it down, then reforms it into new soap bars and ships them off. They also work with cosmetics companies, like Unilever, to collect the rejects. In 2016 alone, according to Fox News, Clean the World created more than 400,000 hygiene kits and more than 7 million soaps.

The company’s founder, Shawn Seipler, decided to found it after having an revelation at a hotel. He called the front desk to ask where all the half-used soaps went, and the staff told him they just get pitched. He researched the topic and learned soap could be recycled.

“Then it was just a matter of figuring out how to get the soap to recycle, and getting into their hands,” he told Travel + Leisure. “It was an aha moment, and I realized this was my calling. I called my Puerto Rican relatives and they said ‘let’s do it.’ Pretty soon we were sitting in my garage on pickle buckets with vegetable peelers, cooking soap.”

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jaimelobo April 13, 2017

Don't think it is any too knew either. There are lots of smaller local charities in many cities that have been doing similar things for years. Although typically, they only take the unused ones to put in hygiene kits for homeless.

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gwhite216 April 12, 2017

Charity? One that is poorly run... They have a habit of not paying their employees and vendors while executives and board members reap the financial benefits of good press like this. When a friends paycheck bounces while extravagant dinners and entertainment in Vegas is occurring priorities are wrong. Research non or not for profits before using resources to support.