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Taking soap one step further
by Mandy FriedmanHere’s a suggestion: Try washing your face with the same stuff you use to fuel your car.
For years, a guy named Marshall drove around a bio-diesel-fueled truck picking up waste grease from some of Los Angeles’ finest restaurants.
Through the distillation of the grease, Marshall made bio-fuel but was left with gob smacking barrels of glycerin, much to his wife Martha’s dismay. That’s when Marshall decided to take things one step further.
They developed a signature fragrance from the essential oils of bergamot, olive, and exotic grasses to create a scent that is at once clean, fresh and sweetly aromatic and combined it with the excess glycerin to create FURTHER: a soap born of bio-fuel.
Today, Marshall still picks up waste grease from local restaurants and refines it in his garage. The best part is that the soap made from Marshall’s glycerin is returned to the bathrooms of the very restaurants from which it originated, creating a perfect, sustainable circle.
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Photo by Mark Klotz.
May 21st, 2009 at 9:48 am
This is must be tremendous for the art of recycling. It takes reusing of materials to a new level
May 21st, 2009 at 10:18 am
Sure does! We’re actually interviewing Marshall today… should be pretty interesting… stay tuned and thanks for tuning in!