{"id":7464,"date":"2011-07-02T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2011-07-02T01:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T08:00:23","slug":"feelgood-quickie-recycled-hotel-soap-helps-children-in-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/feelgood-quickie-recycled-hotel-soap-helps-children-in-developing-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Feelgood Quickie: Recycled Hotel Soap Helps Children in Developing Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/quickie.png\" alt=\"feelgood quickie header logo \" title=\"quickie\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/quickie.png 500w, https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/quickie-300x60.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7465\" title=\"hotel-soap\" src=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/hotel-soap.jpg\" alt=\"recycled hotel soap can improve health for children in developing countries\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/hotel-soap.jpg 500w, https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/hotel-soap-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Who uses a whole bar of soap when they stay at a hotel?<\/h3>\n<p>Some of us don&#8217;t use those little bars at all, opting to bring natural cleansers of our own instead, but it turns out that hotel soap can do a wold of good for children in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>Our sister site, Sustainablog, had a great piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/recycled-hotel-soap\/\" target=\"_blank\">saving up hotel soap to help children in need<\/a>. According to Jeff McIntire-Strasburg, a new group called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleantheworld.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clean the World<\/a> has &#8220;developed  a process to sanitize that used hotel soap (as well as leftover  shampoo), reform it into new bars, and then gets it to parts of the  world that can use it.&#8221; The secret? Steam!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the group&#8217;s video, highlighting how used hotel soap can help improve children&#8217;s health in developing countries:<\/p>\n<div id=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-counter-1\" class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper \" style=\"width:662px;\" data-g1-fluid-width=\"662\" data-g1-fluid-height=\"372\">\n<div class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-inner\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.19335347432%;\">\n\t       <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"662\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eZPno4SEYro?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t       <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Who knew that those little bars of soap and mini bottles of shampoo could do so much good?<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Decorative_Soaps.jpg\">Phanton at Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who uses a whole bar of soap when they stay at a hotel? Some of us don&#8217;t touch those little bars at all, opting to bring natural cleansers of our own instead. It turns out that hotel soap can do a wold of good for children in developing countries. <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/feelgood-quickie-recycled-hotel-soap-helps-children-in-developing-countries\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[5642,345],"tags":[1709,2641,505,5686,4146],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/quickie4.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}