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A selection of three beautifully hand crafted soaps with ingredients from legendary fruits of Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Each soap comes wrapped in a piece of recycled fabric, then wrapped in Afghan printed newspaper.

Desert Fields; (with palm and coconut oils, cold pressed wild pistachio, pomegranate and castor oils, steeped Artemisia persica leaves and walnut hulls). Irregular shaped with a tawny-green color. Perhaps one of the best cleanser soaps.

Kandahar Rose (with palm and coconut oils, cold pressed sweet almond and pomegranate seed oils, and essential oil of Rosa damascena). So ancient is the tradition of distilling the essence of the "Kandahar Rose" (Rosa damascena) in Kandahar, that the very word for rose is "flower-water flower." Egg-shaped, white with a swirl of pink.

Pomegranate (with palm and coconut oils, cold pressed sweet almond and pomegranate oils, pomegranate concentrate). This soap, fragrance-free and rich in pomegranate seed oil, is especially suited to sensitive skin. Round, deep red. Pomegranate has anti-oxydant and cancer-fighting properties, as well as being proven to regenerate skin cells.

 
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These products were brought to Global Exchange by the Arghand co-operative. Arghand was founded in May 2005, by Sarah Chayes, a former National Public Radio reporter who stayed behind in Afghanistan to help rebuild the war-torn country. She and a handful of loyal and daring Kandaharis decided to explore a notion for how to add value to celebrated local fruit crops. Given the explosion in international demand for fine natural skin-care products, and the abundance of their raw materials in the orchards of southern Afghanistan - almonds, apricots, pomegranates, the precious blossoms of Rosa Damascena.

The Kandahar region in Afghanistan has suffered hugely with almost non-stop fighting since 1980. On top of the trials of war came a seven-year drought, lasting till 2003. The region's once fabled orchards have mostly been decimated. The income generated help farmers replant their orchards and stop diversification into poppy farming.


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