"If everyone moved just one foot, we would circle the world 57 times!"

That's what it takes to help the world, everyone moving just one foot. It's how we got here. It's how we'll get back. Not major lifestyle changes. Not grand individual sacrifices. Just everyone moving one foot... together!

I present to you, my foot!

La Press (global patent pending) is a brand new way of easily making a custom bar of soap exactly the way YOU want it, that anyone can do regardless of age or ability at home in 2 minutes with La Press.

No chemicals! No heat! No electricity! No skill required!

Take back control of YOUR health, YOUR environment and YOUR world from some multinational chemical company and some CEO somewhere, some place. History has proven that they don't care about it as much as you do.

Problem #1

Ever wanted to make your own custom bars of soap because you worry about all the petrochemical detergents in most commercial soaps (most commercial soaps are not soap at all but petrochemical detergents which is why they are hard on your skin) that are being absorbed by our skin and going down our drains into the rivers and oceans and into our food chain but thought it was risky and complicated? Ideally it would be great if you could make your own custom organic bar of soap exactly the way YOU want it without having to worry about chemicals or boiling anything. You can do that for about $1 (CDN) per 100g bar with La Press. You can make any shape you like, with any added smells or oils, oatmeal, coffee, even with personal imprinted messages. Even Soap-on-a-Rope! I can show you how in the videos.

Youtube channel...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM8sQCBeFy5mzC....

Problem #2

Don't know what to do with the left over slivers from a bar of soap? Throw it away? "10 Billion pounds of soap are produced each year" http://www.globalsoap.org/our-work/soap-facts/ If everyone throws away 5% (or let's disintegrate down the drain), that's 500 million pounds of wasted soap entering our environment needlessly every year. That's like throwing out 20.5 BILLION Oreo cookies every year! Who would do that? That's bad for the environment and some of these soap bars are $5 to $10 a bar, why waste your hard earned money? Ideally, it would be great to save all the bits of soap and make a new full sized bar of soap that will stay together and be usable. You can do that for free with La Press. Again, in any shape with any added scents or oils! You (and your family) decide.

Problem #3:

"2.6 million bars of soap are discarded daily by the hotel industry in the U.S. alone."

http://www.globalsoap.org/our-work/soap-facts/

Wouldn't it be great if they could be reprocessed into brand new usable bars of soap? You can do that with La Press for free, in any shape you like! Any extras! Any imprint! You decide!

Problem #4

Shower gels cause 20 times more damage to the environment in packaging and chemicals when compared to bar soaps. And because they are mostly water (Aqua) and water is heavy and unnecessary in soap, shower gels consume a lot more fossil fuels to transport around the country. What's more, because shower gels take up more volume in the truck, it means more delivery trips than bar soap. La Press gives you the power to make your own bar soap at home in 2 minutes. No chemicals. No heat. No electricity. No skill required.

La Press (Soapy McSoap Face) can solve all these problems easily. The idea is simple. Available on the market today through www.well.ca or www.amazon.ca are organic biodegradable pure soap flakes for $1.00 (CDN) per 100 gram (3.5 oz). This soap is pure, no preservatives or additives, two ingredients Lye and vegetable oil are heated which produces Glycerol and soap which then hardens. The same way they have been making soap for around 6000 years. After it hardens it is ground into flakes (https://well.ca/products/simply-clean-pure-soap... ). Using these flakes you can make your own organic full size bar of soap in about 2 minutes using La Press. (see the latest design below)

1 - Collect the solids in a container (i.e. soap flakes and/or soap slivers), oatmeal, coffee grounds, inorganic objects, etc... Whatever you choose to add.

2 - Collect the liquids in a container (i.e. water, tea, coffee liquid, essential oils, oils, colors). Again, whatever you choose to add.

3 - Shake both containers.

4 - Add solids to La Press.

5 - Add liquids to La Press.

6 - Let soak. Soaking time depends on the size and type of soap pieces. For the all natural pure soap flakes (i.e. Simply Clean), soak for 30-45 seconds. For larger soap slivers let soak for at least 1/2 hour.

7 - Insert plunger and apply pressure (i.e. press) to fuse the solids together.

8 - Remove the bottom cap from La Press and push the new custom bar of soap out and let dry.

5 - It's Personal and It's Fun

Imagine if you could easily make custom soap gifts at home without having to boil anything or worry about chemicals or the acidity? Would Mom like to make soap with her kids? Grandparents with their grand-kids? Daycare's making soap-on-a-rope for Father's Day? Hotel's making their own monogrammed soap or recycling some of the 2.6 million bars of soap they discard daily in the US alone? Easy for young and old regardless of ability. La Press can do all of these things, easily.

I have a youtube channel dedicated to La Press

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM8sQCBeFy5mzC...

Make Oatmeal soap, olive oil soap, essential oil soap, coffee soap, exfoliating soap with coffee grounds or chia seeds, cinnamon soap, oregano soap, tea infused soap, Fruit Loop soap. All of the above. Emboss a message in your soap like "Best Dad" or something naughty? Add food dye to the mix. Soak.Press.Dry. Multi-colored soap. Want to encourage your kids to use soap in the shower... for real? Add a prize or money to the middle of the soap mix. SPD. Now they actually have to use the soap to get to the reward. You can encase anything in the soap. Engagement ring? Car keys? Credit cards? Want to make Soap-on-a-Rope? Encase the end of a rope or ribbon in the soap. SPD. Instant 40 year flashback! The applications for La Press are only limited by your imagination. As Einstein said "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

This product also addresses some environmental issues the multinational chemical companies created and don't want you to know about (or clean up for that matter)! La Press takes control of Bar soap production out of the the control of multinational chemical companies who's sole motive is profit and gives it to you who's main motive is health and wellness. Below are some recent examples of the ways commercial soap comapnies are harming you and the world.

1 - Micro-Beads

"...some areas of Lake Ontario had as many as 1.1 million beads per square kilometer."

(http://www.iflscience.com/environment/microbead... )

The chemical companies started using plastic micro beads, didn't tell anyone but started saying it was exfoliating. Why? It was cheap. Years later the world discovered an environmental catastrophe. Micro-beads banned. Great. I have two question... Would they have stopped on their own and what will the multi-national chemical companies put in commercial soap next that the world will have to ban in the future because of an environmental catastrophe? Are they paying for the clean-up?

Anyone ever heard of used coffee grounds or oatmeal posing a danger to the ocean or environment? I haven't seen coffee ground Dial? I produce pounds of used ground coffee exfolliator every week and I have the sleepless nights to prove it. I can RE-USE that ground coffee. The beauty of La Press is YOU get to CHOOSE what YOU put in YOUR soap and goes down the drain into our waterways and enters our food chain. Not some CEO somewhere who has proven they do not care as much as you do.

The US FDA has stated that...

"... the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it was reconsidering the safety of antibacterial soaps and other antibacterial personal care products because of concerns the chemicals may disrupt human hormones and contribute to the development of antibiotic resistance."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ban-antibacte...

"Triclosan is found in 97% of breast milk samples and US streams have a 60 to 100% likelihood of containing detectable quantities of both these chemicals."

https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/anti-bact...

"The FDA claims there's no evidence that triclosan soap is any more effective at washing away germs than non-antibacterial soap and water."

http://gizmodo.com/minnesota-just-became-the-fi...

So not only is this chemical not doing you any real good, it could actually be harming you. Furthermore, there is evidence Triclosan and Triclocarban (which I found listed in Dial) is accumulating in the Great Lakes. The multi-national chemical/cosmetics companies want you to believe these chemicals make you safer so you buy their product, however evidence is mounting that the exact opposite is true, these chemicals are harmful to both you, other species and the environment. These chemicals are entering the food chain. La Press gives YOU the POWER to decide what goes on YOUR skin, into the sewer, waterways, rivers and oceans. Why do the multinational chemical companies have that power? Take control. Be an informed consumer because everything you buy and goes down the drain ends up in the waterways for fish to eat and people to drink.

3 - Shower Gels

Almost half of the soap sold is liquid "soap"/body wash. Why? Research studies have proven that there is no benefit to using liquid "soap" over bar soap, especially at home. Research has also shown that liquid "soap" is more damaging to the environment because you use 6 times more (on average) then you need to, has more packaging. Also it is costly to transport because it is mostly water (the chemical companies call it aqua), takes up more volume in the truck than an equivalent amount of bar soap.

"A recent study on the environmental impacts of soaps and their associated packaging found that bar soaps have a lower environmental impact than liquid soaps ...(1) This is due largely to the higher energy requirements of producing the raw materials and packaging for liquid soaps. From cradle to gate, liquid soaps require five times more energy for raw material production and nearly 20 times more energy for packaging production than bar soaps do. What’s more, the authors note, on a per-wash basis consumers use more than six times the amount of liquid soap (by weight) than bar soap."

http://conservationmagazine.org/2013/05/bar-soa...

So why has liquid soap (shower gels) become so popular? In a word... marketing. The chemical companies love to sell mostly water/aqua (the main ingredient) that make you use 6 times more of their product than you need to.

Have scientists studied the increased carbon emissions as a direct result of transporting around the world mostly water shower gels that you consume 6 times more of than you need to? What about the increased body wash production because you are using 6 times more than you need to?

4 - Reduce waste

La Press allows you to use ALL the soap you bought by reforming small useless pieces of soap into larger useful soap. Get the most out of your money. Commercial soap companies would love it if it all went to waste because then you'd have to buy more soap sooner.

5 - Multinational Chemical Companies Can't Call Their Products SOAP