Naturally Gentle Moisturizing Exfoliant Made With Fair Trade Shea Butter Leaping Bunny Certified Cruelty Free 100% Vegan & Gluten Free Paraben and Phthalate Free Lauryl /Laureth Sulfate Free No Petroleum Derivatives Dr. Woods Raw Black Soap Our Castle and Black Soaps are safe and effective for hundreds of household uses but specially formulated for gentle skin care. Dr. Woods Coconut Papaya Black Soap s aromatic fragrance sends your senses to a tropical paradise while leaving your skin smooth hydrated and healthy. Our unique formula is a gentle exfoliant and a powerful deep cleanser that rejuvenates the skin without any need for harsh detergents or toxic additives. West African women using recipes over 100 years old produce black soap using plantain skins and other local plant materials. Black soap is an abundant source of skin-nourishing nutrients A E and iron in a unique formulation that provides a luxuriously rich and gentle all-purpose cleanser for your face and body. We offer our Fair Trade Organic Shea Butter one of Nature s most effective and versatile Health & Beauty resources across all Dr. Woods Black and Castile Soaps. Sustainably harvested from the nut of the Karite Shea Tree indigenous to Ghana our Shea Butter is a bountiful source of Vitamins A and E as well as essential fatty acids to soothe and balance your skin. We use Shea Butter in its purest form - Raw and Organic - in order to retain its highest level of therapeutic and healing properties. All Things Good For Our Family... And Yours Dr. Woods is a family business born from our own passionate quest to produce the finest and most effective Health & Beauty products in the world. Our family is wonderfully diverse with different ages skin types hair textures and styling needs so creating truly healthy highly effective products that work for all of us was an inspiring challenge... and with diligence creativity and lots of love we created the most beneficial and environmentally sustainable products available. Dr. Woods draws on the very best time-tested healing traditions together with modern formulation processes. We choose to keep our products as natural as possible without compromising effectiveness using the best pure ingredients from around the world and never containing dangerous chemical additives or harsh detergents that strip away your skin s natural elasticity. We ve also worked incredibly hard to make our products truly affordable so good health and exceptional quality are accessible to everyone. Our family is deeply proud of the products we make and it is a great honor to share them with yours.