Getting Clean is a non-profit company that manufactures and sells soap.
They started as a volunteer project formed by recovering addicts helping each other and the local community to get clean and stay clean. The company gives people in drug and alcohol recovery a purpose and an opportunity to help others and the world, enabling them to support each other peer-to-peer.
All packaging is ethical and recycled. The mission of Getting Clean is to encourage and inform everyone in the community to live more sustainably and healthily.
Chris Sylvester, the founder of Getting Clean, said: “We make soap with hope in a very therapeutic setting by addicts in recovery that are tackling addiction to come together, supporting each other.
“The workshop means everything. I spent my life in and out of prison from my years of 15 to 26. I did not believe I could achieve anything at all. Then I found recovery, found a purpose and a way to use all of the experience in the past and came out of the concepts of Getting Clean.”
A volunteer and worker of the company, Jamie Wheeler, has been working on the projects of the company for two months. He said: “This activity means that we can get more stock to sell in our store so we can future projects for the community. This is a support group so all the volunteers that come in, if someone is struggling and having a bad day, we can support them as well.”
Martin Laidlaw was among the attendees at the workshop. He talked about his experience: “I come down here and help Getting Clean because I’m in full term of recovering myself. I am an ex-user but I’m 56 days off my medications today so this all helps, coming into a community, helping the community and doing what we need to do.”
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