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Buy One.
Give Back.

We didn’t start a business to make personal care products. We started it to make a difference. In 2011, millions of children were dying each year from water-related illnesses that could be prevented with hand washing alone. So we got an idea: what if we could create a soap that could also save lives? With that, our BUY ONE, GIVE BACK program (and company) were born.

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With every purchase, we donate soap and clean water to children in need.

*Totals to-date, since 2011

Working hand in hand to expand our global impact.

When it comes to giving back, we believe more is more. So in addition to our BUY ONE, GIVE BACK program, we also partner with two incredible organizations to deepen our impact at the community level. This includes installing and repairing clean water wells as well as recycling and distributing leftover hotel soap.
ECO SOAP BANK MY NEIGHBOR’S CHILDREN

Committed to being a force for good since day one.

2011

HAND IN HAND IS FOUNDED

Bill Glaab and Courtney Apple begin their mission to make a higher quality soap and help mitigate water-related deaths around the globe with a BUY ONE, GIVE BACK program.

2012

FIRST VISIT TO HAITI

Our first trip to Haiti, where we saw firsthand the effect our give back model could have on people’s lives. If we needed any validation for the mission driving our work, this was it.

2013

CLEAN WATER PROGRAM

Our clean water program and partnership with MY NEIGHBOR’S CHILDREN begin, installing and repairing wells that provide thousands of people with clean water every day.

2018

EXPANSION TO CAMBODIA

Our efforts expand to Cambodia, in partnership with ECO SOAP BANK, saving wasted hotel soaps from landfills for recycling and redistribution to impoverished communities.

2021

MORE WELLS. MORE CLEAN WATER.

We purchase and donate more sophisticated well-digging equipment to our nonprofit partner in Haiti who begin work digging and repairing 80 new fresh water wells.

“It’s important for people to know that they’re having a tangible, measurable impact on the ground in countries like Cambodia.”

Samir Lakhani, founder of Eco-Soap Bank

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Thank you for helping us help others.

We founded Hand in Hand on the simple belief that personal care products, when made the right way, could be a force for good in the world. So by choosing our products, you are also supporting social responsibility, sustainability, and human rights. Thank you for joining us on our mission to sustain people and planet in everything we do.

Soap is power. And we’re just getting started.

The challenges facing the planet are real. And we refuse to look the other way. By making better ingredient, packaging and business decisions, something as small as soaps and lotions can have a major impact around the world.

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