It all started on the walls of the Nova University of Lisbon, as a project of the Social Entrepreneurship course. During the Christmas break, Benedita met a family of Syrians that arrived a couple of months before to Lisbon. The legal situation and all the bureaucracies around the issue intrigued her. Once back at university and with the challenge to change something that was concerning her, she joined the forces of two more souls, Michele and Laurenne, and together, they started their research on Syrian culture. With shared ambitions and passion for change, they decided to create Amal, which means hope in Arabic, carrying the weight of that word on their back. So, this project was created b
After finding out the final recipe, after a hard-working summer and many tests and "re-tests" we were able to have the " Eureka" moment! None of it would have been possible without the effort of our soap mixologists, the help of Dulce Mourato, from in love 4 soaps and a chemistry teacher - Ana Paula Soares dias.All the grams, percentages and drops felt perfectly in place. And so, it was time for the recipe to be shared and for all the team to learn from it. As good entrepreneurs and trying as hard as we could to do great things with little resources, we started to train in Duarte's garage :) . We had a lot of fun during this learning days, bounding and connecting with all the team. We can't
It was in the end of the afternoon of 25th April when the first batch of Amal Soap came to the world! We were preparing it as a prototype for the BET24 finals. Also, during this contest, we added to new members to our team, Duarte and Pedro, which are our current soap mixologists as they are studying engineering and they love to try out new things in the lab and have fun around the numbers and ingredients. We gathered at Michele's cool place to make our first pilot. What an experience! From theory to practice. We were anxious to see the result which only came the next day when we cutted the big soap into smaller soaps. The soaps smelled heavenly and we felt so excited to start testing, imp
