“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” with Further Soap

 
picture-215 Photo by Villi.Ingi, licensed under Creative Commons. Friends describe Marshall Dostal as the kind of guy who'll eat his pizza and wash his hands with it too. Mr. Dostal comes from Connecticut do-it-yourselfers, but instead of spending summers laying patterns for seersucker, he raised his own chickens and learned to live a conservation minded life.  He now drives a 1984 Mercedes 300D which is powered by the clean burning biofuel he taught himself to make. mmw"Marshall loved that car as a teenager," his mother has been heard to have said. In 1997, he met Megan, an event planner at Vogue magazine, who longed to reduce the "stuff" in her life.  On their first date, he cycled across Manhattan like a young eco-conscious Lance Armstrong, and convinced Megan to chuck her Choos, so they could walk to dinner.  The spark between them was just as sustainable as the life they were going to live. But one day, Megan walked into Marshall's makeshift biofuel lab and noticed her husband was covered in grease! "Honey, I think you may need to clean up your act." "You're right, my love," he replied, "let's reuse one step FURTHER." And right there, in the garage of their turn of the century Pasadena craftsman, their love-soap was born. The happily marrieds used Marshall's drums filled with glycerin (the by-product of biofuel distillation) to create a luxury hand soap.  Scented with bergamot, olive and exotic grasses FURTHER is as aromatic as it is environmentally conscious and fits in perfectly with their cloth towels, recycled market bags and laundry drying on the clothesline.  So although the Dostals can be discovered sorting through what was wiped from Spago's plates, rest assured they are both very clean and green.  Because when life gives you leftovers... further_bottle_email *** For more info on the product, visit:  furthersoap.com
via Liza Kaplan, 31 January 2009 6:00am |