Community & Local Charities

We love being a part of this special community and here at Mull Soap we love to get involved. From donating a raffle prize for the Tobermory High School Parent Council or doing a soap and bath bomb making demo for the dervaig WRI ladies, we're happy to help!

Every June we welcome a work experience pupil from Tobermory High School. They come and work alongside us for the week and learn all the tricks of the trade! Product photography, website inventory, window displays.... They always finish their placement haven't learnt lots of new skills and very efficient at packing Mull Soaps into boxes! 

Here's the girls from the last two years, Kelsey and Sasha. 

In summer 2024 my niece Emma came over from Thailand to work with us for a month. She attends an International School in Bangkok and was very keen to get work experience with us. She was a very fast learner and we were sad to see her go back home! 

During lockdown soap wasn't easy to get and we wanted to play our part, so we donated 1000 bars to the local community. Here's Martin, the manager of the Tobermory Co-op, presenting the BIG cheque. We raised over £600 in total with other donations for our soaps from Salen and Bunessan stores. All the money raised went towards the Mull and Iona Hospital's Emergency Covid Fund.

We also sent parcels of soaps to various hospitals further afield in England. So many doctors and nurses suffered terribly with sore, dry hands from all the harsh hand sanitiser they were using. We were only to happy to send them some Mull Soaps to help moisturise and heal their broken skin. 

Here's the team at the Lancaster suite of the Royal Lancaster Infirmary showing their appreciation. What a grand job they all did throughout the pandemic. 

We have collected pennies for the Royal Alexander Hospital Neonatal Unit since we opened. We have a jar at the till and we now also donate the 10p from every paper bag we sell. 

We have collected many many hundreds over the years!

Follow this link if you'd like to make a donation to the Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity.

The Mull and Iona Community Trust (MICT) recently got funding and built a helipad at the local hospital at Craignure. We wanted to help with its upkeep, which is solely the responsibility of the community. We have a donation tin on the counter which raised nearly £200 at the last count. This will be put towards insurance, maintenance and buying the specialist chemicals required for de-icing the helipad in winter. 

Having used the Scottish Charities Helicopter Ambulance ourselves with a young child, as many local families here have, we know the difference that being transferred directly from the hospital will make. 

Rugby is big on the island and the local teams have a great reputation for being awesome players. Every May the Mull Rugby Club host the Mull Rugby 7s at Garmony. It is well known as 'The World's most sociable 7s'. Here's a pic of the year we sponsored the Mull Ladies Rugby team.

A few years back now we were asked along to the dervaig village hall for the Women's Institute meeting. They wanted us to show them how we make our traditional soap bars and other smellies. We weren't sure what to expect, but they loved getting stuck in making bath bombs and smelling all the different scents. 

Word then spread and we were asked to do the same not long after, for the residents of Glen Iosal in Tobermory!

With our own kids at the local Tobermory school we're always happy to help when teachers approach us for soap workshops.

We've had Primary and High school pupils up to the factory and in the shop doing workshops over the years. 

We know from experience that it's these guys who ask the tough questions! 

A fun afternoon for High School Chemistry students. Did you know soap molecules actually look like tadpoles? It's 'head'  is hydrophilic, or attracted to water. The other end of the molecule, its 'tail' is a nonpolar chain of fatty acids or hydrocarbons, which is hydrophobic—meaning that it's repelled by water but attracted to grease and other oily substances. Clever stuff! 

Last year the three youngest years of Primary took their knowledge from their visit and made soaps themselves in their classroom. They designed their own Christmas wrapping paper and sold them through our shop back to their parents!