What it is: A detoxifying bar soap handmade in northern Ghana using natural, skin-healing ingredients.What it does: This black soap or 'Alata Samina,' as it's called in the Ghanaian Twi language, is made with 100 percent natural ingredients such as plantain skins, coconut oil, cocoa pods and shea butter, which are sun-dried, roasted, mixed and then cured. Used throughout West Africa for centuries to maintain skin's youth and luster, black soap deeply cleanses and helps remove harmful bacteria and toxins from skin and hair. 4.3 oz. Natural Beauty & Wellness products are free of sulfates, phthalates, parabens, petrochemicals, mineral oil, silicone and talc; also free of synthetic fragrance Vegan ingredients are USDA Certified Organic, and are traceable/origins are publicly available Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC) certified, ensuring forest management that preserves biological diversity and benefits the lives of local people and workers Black Owned and Founded