Plastic-Free soap Bars for Festivals: Good Energy. Good Karma.
Photo by Benjamin Farren
Your tent’s a vibe, but your skin? Not so much. Here’s how to stay fresh at festivals—with plastic-free soap that respects your body, the land and your natural glow.
Why Go Plastic-Free at Festivals?
Plastic bottles add up. 185,000 lb of plastic was captured for recycling/composting at Coachella in 2024. And while Coachella does recover a significant chunk of plastic—tens of thousands of pounds every April—it’s still less than half of what comes onto the grounds. The single biggest driver of plastic recovery is attendee behavior. A solid, plastic package-free soap means your hygiene doesn’t trash the planet.
How to Keep Clean When Camping
Choose a compact, biodegradable bar. Research shows bar soaps use up to ten times less packaging than liquid soaps. They’re lighter to pack, won’t leak, and last for the whole festival; and then some. Bonus: Black Altar bars are vegan, cruelty-free, and made with sustainable palm done right, so you’re not just clean—you’re making a statement. Lather up with a water bottle and leave no microplastics behind.
Every swipe with a plastic-free soap is a little magic: you get clean, the earth stays cleaner.
Check out our antioxidant bar. For those who don’t know, antioxidant soaps help protect your skin from damage caused by free radicals, which are unstable molecules that can lead to premature aging, wrinkles, and other skin issues. By neutralizing these free radicals, antioxidant soaps can help maintain skin health and prevent damage from environmental stressors like pollution and UV exposure.
The ritual ember is festival-tested, ultra-portable, zero guilt. So you can sacrifice your grime, and keep the shine.
