Soap Cycling 再皂福

05/08/2026

🌟 Bridging Generations, Empowering Hearts: Goldman Sachs & Soap Cycling Partnership! 🌟

What an incredible day of connection, purpose, and impact! 🧼✨
Recently, volunteers from Goldman Sachs were teamed up for a deeply meaningful corporate volunteering event at a local nursing home. Together with the aged residents, we got to work recycling soap to help communities in need and reduce landfill waste. 🌍💚

🧼 Tiny Hands, Great Strength: An Incredible Impact
The room was filled with hard work, laughter, and pure dedication. Because of this beautiful intergenerational team, the amount of soap processed during this single session is sufficient for 18 underprivileged individuals to wash their hands for an entire year! 🙌 Every single bar represents health, safety, and a gift of love.🌍💚

💪 From Care Receivers to Community Changers
Older adults often face feelings of hopelessness or isolation. This initiative was designed to flip the narrative. By participating in soap scraping and recycling, residents became empowered volunteers themselves, creating life-saving hygiene products for the poor.

As the nursing home coordinator shared with us: residents who stay socially active are consistently healthier. This activity was crucial for boosting our senior partners' sense of purpose, belonging, and overall mental and physical well-being, motivating them to stay engaged with society.

🧠 Listening, Learning, and Embracing
The learning went both ways. Besides the scraping and the chatting, the center's staff gave our volunteers a heartfelt introduction to the daily operations of the aged home. It opened our eyes and our hearts to the true, everyday realities and deep needs of our elderly community.

✨ Laughter That Melted Away Distance
The energy in the room was magnetic! A few residents who initially had no plans to join were drawn in by the laughter and successfully ended up working alongside us.

Our Goldman Sachs volunteers showed immense care and respect by:
- Careful preparation: Gently helping their senior partners put on aprons, sleeve covers, and gloves.
- Patient mentorship: Taking the time to explain the how and why behind scraping the soap.
- Deep connection: For some residents whose physical capabilities were weaker, the scraping was tough—but the effort was beautiful. Even when the task couldn't be finished, our volunteers were overjoyed to just sit, chat, and share stories.

✨ The Power of Intergenerational Teamwork
The venue was absolutely buzzing with joyful conversations, mutual recognition, and the beautiful synergy of different generations working as one team. Every piece of soap recycled carried the warmth of a new friendship.

A massive THANK YOU to all the Goldman Sachs volunteers for your dedication, patience, and heart. You didn't just recycle soap; you built a bridge of hope and dignity.

14/07/2026

Short, Heartfelt & Vibrant

⚡ 275 kits. 30 minutes. An endless amount of love.

What looked like a fast-paced distribution was actually a beautiful wave of community warmth created by HK, , Foundation for Shared Impact and local residents. 🥳

Behind this seamless 30 minutes was a journey of incredible dedication. A week ago, the PayPal volunteer team was backstage at our 'Draining Dispensers' initiative, processing hotel toiletries one by one—sorting, removing pump heads, and saving every single drop from going to waste. 🧴, and turning used plastic bottles from garbage into recyclables✨.

In this distribution, they brought that same passion to the front line:

🌱 Patiently teaching elderly residents how to use hair conditioner.

🛍️ Helping neighbors pack their supplies into eco-bags with bright smiles.

💪 Working tirelessly to ensure everything ran without a single hitch.

Because of this seamless coordination, we witnessed the most moving scenes of neighborhood love:

👵 Able-bodied residents helping elderly neighbors carry their items.

🪑 Strangers offering their spots: "Please sit down, I'll queue for you."

🕶️ Neighbors stepping up to collect kits for a visually impaired resident and his family.

⚖️ A community protecting fairness so everyone received their fair share.

❤️ Selfless individuals passing on their kits for someone in greater need.

This is the true spirit of Hong Kong. Thank you to the indispensable PayPal volunteers for turning everyday essentials into a powerful gesture of warmth, and FSI for the kind coordination!

📍 Kwai Shing East Estate, Kwai Chung

12/07/2026

【MSIG肥皂再生工作坊】

作為 Time Auction「Eco-Community Month 2026」嘅參與企業之一， MSIG 最近與非牟利機構 Soap Cycling 再皂福 攜手合作，舉辦咗一場別具意義嘅「♻️肥皂再生工作坊」。

活動當日，共逾40位義工參加，包括12位MSIG義工、13位來自其他機構嘅義工，以及18位社區老友記。義工們將從酒店回收、狀況仍然良好嘅舊肥皂，經過分類及再造處理，重新製作成潔淨衛生嘅肥皂條，轉贈予亞洲區內有需要嘅家庭及社群 。

透過今次活動，我哋成功達到以下成果：

🗑️回收重用 63公斤肥皂，避免送往堆填區

💧節省1,700公升水資源

🌱減少 78公斤二氧化碳排放

最令人振奮嘅係，呢批翻新肥皂🧼足夠為 126位受惠人士提供一整年嘅潔淨洗手用品，直接回應社區喺健康及衞生方面嘅基本需要。

衷心感謝所有義工嘅投入與付出，你哋嘅善心同熱情，令我哋更加堅定繼續推動可持續發展，回饋社會❤️

#再皂福 #企業社會責任 #可持續發展

05/07/2026

Chain of Kindness

Hi everyone! I’m Venus, an intern from Lingnan University. This summer, I completed a life-changing one-month internship at Soap Cycling. 🧼✨

Initially, I thought our recycled, sanitized soaps only went to overseas communities in the Philippines. I felt disconnected from the impact, viewing it as something far away from my own life.

But I was shocked to discover a beautiful, unexpected bond with my hometown. Back in 2024, Soap Cycling launched a long-term partnership with the Shenzhen Scout Association. A total of 197.75kg of sanitized soap was delivered directly to my hometown to help local residents in need.

While I was working in Hong Kong to prepare these donations, this chain of kindness had already quietly reached and guarded the people closest to my heart.

Kindness truly knows no boundaries, and charity is never one-sided. This experience completely changed my narrow perception of public welfare and deepened my understanding of Soap Cycling’s eco-friendly, altruistic mission. It is the most precious memory of my summer! 💚🌏

22/06/2026

🧼 From trading screens to soap making

A big thank you to the Citi HK volunteers for spending time with us and supporting this meaningful initiative.

Taking a break from the trading floor, Citi colleagues helped transform recovered soap into new bars that will be distributed to underprivileged children, supporting better hygiene in the community.

We’re grateful for the team’s enthusiasm, creativity and hands-on support—it’s a great example of how small actions can make a difference.

Thank you to the team for partnering with us in promoting hygiene, sustainability, and community care. 💙✨

13/06/2026

🌟 Leading by example, from the boardroom to the soap press in South China! 🧼💼

On June 10, Marriott International South China Business Council hosted the "旧皂新生，再造美好" event at Sheraton Guangzhou Tianhe Hotel, in partnership with the Soap Cycling.

It was inspiring to see Marriott senior corporate leadership and 10 GM of Marriott hotels in Guangzhou roll up their sleeves to scrape, melt and pack soaps by hand.

Their hands-on participation perfectly embodies exemplary leadership. Nothing is more heartfelt and meaningful than seeing leaders personally join the recycling initiative to support disadvantaged communities.

This impactful collaboration means far more than diverting waste from landfills. Working alongside with Marriott, we utilize the soap recycling platform to deliver profound social and environmental benefits. Discarded soaps are repurposed into practical supplies, helping promote equal access to hygiene resources across the region.

We sincerely appreciate the long-standing support from Marriott International South China Business Council.

Currently, 88 Marriott hotels across China have joined this soap recycling program. Hand in hand, we are forging a more sustainable future for the hospitality industry.

Thank you, Marriott, for helping us bubble up hope and hygiene where it is needed most! 💚✨

#旧皂新生再造美好

29/05/2026

🌟 Partnership in Action: Making Waves with InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong! 🌊🧼

We are incredibly grateful to the amazing volunteer team from InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong for joining hands with us! As one of the unwavering partners of our soap recycling programme, their ongoing commitment helps drive real, sustainable change in our community.

During our recent session, we had the wonderful opportunity to share more about our recycling model and the deep environmental and social impacts of our course. Seeing the high devotion, enthusiasm, and energy of the volunteers was truly inspiring! Every bar of soap diverted from landfills and reprocessed represents a step toward a cleaner, healthier future for vulnerable communities.

Thank you, InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong, for your continuous support, passion, and dedication to sustainability. Together, we are turning waste into life-saving hope! 🤝💙

15/05/2026

30/04/2026

🌟 Better Together for People & Planet! 🌏✨

A shout-out to the incredible volunteers who joined us as part of Time Auction's Eco-Community Month – a cross-company, sustainability focused volunteer campaign. Thanks to Nomura for hosting the soap art recycling session, which was open to volunteers from other participating corporates.

Together, the volunteers from Nomura and HKEX transformed 2kg of soap waste into 86 beautifully crafted soap bars. These are headed to Box of Hope to brighten the holidays for underprivileged children. 🎁🤝

Thank you for your hands and your hearts. By working together, we can protect our planet and support our community! 💚

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