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All natural ingredients · Glass jars · Made by students

Lotion and soap that break the cycle.

When you buy our body lotion and goat milk soap, your skin thanks you, the planet thanks you — and you pull a lever that opens a lab to a student. Handmade by META24 students, all over the country.

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Lotion 8oz $50 · 4oz $35 · goat milk soap $8 a bar, 3 for $20
Every jar pulls a lever — see what your order sets in motion.
YOUR SKIN THANKS YOU
All natural ingredients.
Hand packed and sold fresh. A little goes a long way.
THE PLANET THANKS YOU
Glass jars, not plastic.
Keep the jar, reuse it or recycle it.
A STUDENT THANKS YOU
Every jar pulls a lever.
It opens a lab, grows a student’s business and leads to a career. See the lever ↓
MZUZI body lotion, 8oz jars
The one everyone asks for

All Natural Body Lotion

A little goes a long way. Each jar is mixed and hand packed by students in the META24 Personal Care Lab. Twelve to choose from, the same in the lotion and the soap: half scented with essential oils, half with fragrance, and one with no scent at all. The full ingredient list is on every label.

Tap a scent to add a 8oz jar · $50 each
$8 a bar · 3 for $20

All Natural Body Soap

Handcrafted goat milk soap in a kraft box, in the same twelve scents as the lotion. Mix any three for $20 — the price drops by itself in the bag.

Tap a scent to add a bar · $8 each
MZUZI all natural body soap in kraft boxes, each scent a different colour
Bundles · the easy gift

Lotion and soap, already paired.

One tap puts the whole set in your bag. Swap a scent or take one out in the bag if you like.

The Citrus Set
$70
Bright and clean: a jar of Lemon lotion with Lemon, Blood Orange and Japanese Citron soap.
The Calm Set
$70
For the end of the day: Lavender Vanilla lotion with Lavender Vanilla, Vanilla and Night Time soap.
The Sweet Set
$70
The crowd-pleaser: Strawberry lotion with Strawberry, Piña Colada and Baby Powder soap.
The Classic Set
$70
Rose lotion with Rose, Wintergreen and Unscented soap — something for everyone in the house.
The Starter
$55
A first taste: a 4oz jar of Vanilla lotion with Vanilla, Lemon and Rose soap.
The Soap Dozen
$80
One bar of every scent — all twelve.
Round jar = lotion · square = a bar of soap. Sets are priced at what their pieces cost: the jar, and soap at three for $20.
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Tap a scent above to add a jar or a bar. Start with the lotion →

MADE BY THE STUDENTS IT SUPPORTS

Every jar pulls a lever.

Your skin thanks you. The planet thanks you. And a student gets a lab, a business and a way forward. Pull it and see.

1234THE JAR
A META24 student holding two jars of the lotion she helped make
1 OF 4 · THE JAR
It starts with a jar.

You buy a jar of body lotion or a bar of goat milk soap. Your skin gets all natural ingredients. The planet gets a glass jar instead of a plastic one. And a lever moves.

Our story

MZUZI — “innovate” in Swahili — products are handcrafted and sold by META24 students. Our personal care products are made with all natural ingredients and essential oils in the META24 Personal Care Laboratories. Each one is hand packed to be sold fresh to our customers.

Students write the formula card, mix the batch, design the label, shoot the photograph and run the sale. The first jars were sold from the Mzuzi Community Store in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago; today they’re made in META24 labs across the country.

15,000+
students reached since 2012
150+
career placements
20+
labs — trades, tech, creative
11
sites across the country
Where it goes

Supporting special needs, urban and creative initiatives for META24.

SPECIAL NEEDS
Therapeutic and special-needs programs
Labs built for students who learn best with their hands — a real product to make, and a reason to come back tomorrow.
URBAN
Urban schools and neighborhoods
From the Austin neighborhood in Chicago outward: labs where there were none, and work that pays.
CREATIVE
Creative initiatives
Students design the label, mix the batch, shoot the photograph and run the sale. The whole business is the classroom.
A student-built display, laser-cut and engraved
On the counterA student-built display, laser-cut and engraved
MZUZI soap at Sugar Beet Food Co-op
On the shelfMZUZI soap at Sugar Beet Food Co-op
Goat milk soap, each scent in its own label colour
In the boxGoat milk soap, each scent in its own label colour
1Pick your scentsTap a label to add a jar or a bar. Mix any three soaps for $20.
2Pay right hereCard, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Your receipt comes by email.
3Shipped to your doorOr pick it up free if you’re near a META24 site.
A MZUZI corporate gift box: lotion, soap, a candle, coffee and a Break the Cycle shirt
For companies · Healing through doing
Corporate gift boxes — made and managed by students.

Personal care, sportswear, home decor, baby gifts and more, from $105 a box — or bring your team in for a Make-a-thon. Watch the film and order here.

See the corporate boxes →