PZ Cussons are a major toiletries brand but also have a partnership with Chinese white goods company Haier to make domestic appliances in Nigeria where they also have a palm oil plantation and refinery joint venture with the notorious Indonesian palm oil trader Wilmar. A Greenpeace report criticised PZ Cussons in 2018 for not giving any details about its palm oil supply chain despite having “no deforestation, no peat, no exploitation” (NDPE) policies. It targetted the Carex brand and told the company to “come clean”. Not exactly. Pears is not very harsh. Glycerin-based soaps are also rather safe and useful for animals. But Pears has a high alkaline pH which is unsuitable for animals. Pets have different body pH. For liquid handwash, we recommend ALTER/NATIVE, Ecoleaf (from Suma), Faith in Nature or Bio D which are refillable. You will be able to get these in a wholefood or health food shop or from the companies’ online shops.

Pears Glycerin soap is a British brand of soap first produced and sold in 1807 by Andrew Pears, at a factory just off Oxford Street in London. It was the world's first mass-market translucent soap. Under the stewardship of advertising pioneer Thomas J. Barratt, A. & F. Pears initiated a number of innovations in sales and marketing. English actress and socialite Lillie Langtry was recruited to become the poster-girl for Pears in 1882, and in doing so she became the first celebrity to endorse a commercial product. [3] [4]So Pears is middling in terms of quality, texture, and effectiveness. TFM is usually higher for ‘toilet soaps’. These are luxury, high-end, beneficial soaps. Pears is not a toilet soap, but a ‘bathing bar’. It is a regular cleaning soap, which isn’t meant specifically for grooming or cosmetic purposes.

This compound helps the soap to be molded and hardened. This gives the soap its shape and consistency. It keeps the soap chemically stable, without using artificial preservatives. Yes, it should be okay to use Pears soap on your new tattoo. The glycerin traps moisture and prevents peeling. This is great for the healing of the tattoo. Dryness can make you scratch, spoiling the tattoo shape.

In this guide we investigate, score and rank the ethical and environmental record of 58 brands of soap bars, liquid soaps and handwash. 

Jones, Geoffrey (2010). Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry. Oxford University Press. p.81. If you are vegan you may also wish to buy soap from a totally vegan company: Bio-D, Caurnie, Friendly Soap, Honesty, Little Soap Company, Lucy Bee and Faith in Nature.