TOCO Coconut hand and body liquid soap

Koh Samui's coconut groves once defined the island — their canopy visible from the water, their trees planted by farmers who understood its particular soil and light. Tourism changed the calculation. As resort development expanded across the island, the trees began to disappear: not harvested but cleared, because a plot without coconuts is worth more than one with them when the only demand is for accommodation.

Rush Pleansuk developed TOCO as a response to that logic. If the coconut has a market - a product with reach beyond the island, a reason for the trees to remain - the calculation shifts. The oil is cold-pressed from coconuts grown on chemical-free Koh Samui plantations: no heat, no chemical process, the fat separated from the flesh slowly, leaving an oil that is clear, uncoloured, and gentle enough for sensitive skin. Blended with coconut milk and scented only with coconut, it is formulated as a liquid hand and body soap. The main ingredient is the ingredient that needs protecting.

It will not save a forest. But it changes what a tree is worth.

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