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Chagrin Valley Milk and Honey Baby Soap

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Chagrin Valley Soap and Salve

Chagrin Valley Soap and Salve

Milk and Honey Baby Soap

All-natural saponified oils in a recycled-paper box shipped with paper tape. As close to zero plastic as bath products get.

1 / 10 Low plastic footprint $

A cold-process bar from a small Ohio maker: organic oils, goat milk, honey, and oat flour, with no added fragrance and plastic-free shipping.

How this score breaks down

Plastic in the product and its packaging Plastic-free
Recycled-paper cardboard box; plastic-free shipping with paper tape
Microplastic shedding and leaching Doesn't shed
None; all-natural cold-process formulation
End of life: persistence and recovery Mostly recovers
Recyclable, repairable, or genuinely recovered; low persistence.
Plastic-derived chemicals of concern No concerns
No phthalates, bisphenols, or PFAS.
Transparency and disclosure Mostly disclosed
Full ingredient list, named certifier, and a dedicated packaging disclosure page

Strengths

  • Leaping Bunny certified, verified in the registry since 2013
  • Dedicated plastic-free packaging program down to paper tape
  • Certified through OEFFA, a USDA-accredited certifier

Trade-offs

  • Not vegan: contains goat milk and honey
  • Palm oil is called certified sustainable but the scheme is not named
  • Grove lists this bar as Unscented; it is the same Milk and Honey formula

What's inside

Cold-process soap, 3.5 oz: organic coconut, palm, sunflower, canola, olive and castor oils, goat milk, oat flour, shea and cocoa butters, honey, cornstarch, rosemary extract.

PartMaterial
BarSaponified organic oils, goat milk, honey, oat flour
BoxRecycled-paper cardboard (brand-disclosed)

Free of Synthetic ingredients, fragrance, microplastics

Packaging
Recycled-paper cardboard box; plastic-free shipping with paper tape
Microplastics
None; all-natural cold-process formulation

Attributes

What this product is, at a glance.

Made in USANo added fragrance

Certifications

Independent, third-party certifications only. Tap any badge to see what it verifies.

About Chagrin Valley Soap and Salve

Chagrin Valley Soap and Salve began as a kitchen hobby in 2000 for Ida, a middle school science teacher and registered nurse, whose first eight bars of goat milk and oatmeal soap came out of the mold in spring 2001; when the soap helped improve her husband Howard's eczema, a family business was born. The Ohio company handmakes soap bars, shampoo bars, salves, and baby care, nearly all of it in plastic-free bar form. It has been a certified organic manufacturer since 2010, certified annually by OEFFA, a USDA-accredited organic certifier, and it is Leaping Bunny certified, an independent verification that no animal testing happens anywhere in its supply chain. It is also a the company states it is women-owned. Prices stay genuinely affordable for handmade organic soap, and the tradeoff of small-batch production is that popular bars sometimes sell out.

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Melissa Walker, founder of Thriving Sustainably

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Melissa Walker is the founder of Thriving Sustainably. A mom who started reading the labels after learning how much microplastic ends up in our bodies, she co-leads the environmental pillar of a Fortune 500 company’s employee sustainability program and rates brands against public certification databases so families can lower their microplastic exposure without the guesswork.