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IMERYS Group is the world leader in mineral-based industrial solutions, offering specialized solutions necessary for its customers. IMERYS INDUSTRIAL MINERALS GREECE SINGLE MEMBER SOCIETE ANONYME mines and processes industrial minerals, mainly bentonite and perlite.
We want both the local community of Milos and the tourists who visit it to know that Imerys uses products from the land of Milos responsibly and that it respects the environment. This aims to make Milos land known to a wider public that will use the soap not only in Milos but also in the rest of Greece and all over the world. Indirectly, the community enjoys the benefits of restoration and its contribution to the conservation and management of biodiversity, as well as to the promotion of tourism.
Milos is a small island at the western edge of the Aegean archipelago and was created as a result of volcanic activity in the Aegean. It is rich in a variety of aromatic herbs. Among them are sage, juniper and wormwood used in all rehabilitation projects of Imerys mines. Their essential oils have important medicinal and cosmetic properties.
For the purposes of the program a small experimental distiller was acquired and the amazing world of essential oils began to unfold. Olive oil from the olive trees growing in the Imerys rehabilitated areas, mixed with essential oils from the specific plants from Imerys rehabilitated mines and bentonite - the company's main export product - created a natural product. Sage soap, juniper soap and wormwood soap. Placed in a gift set with three soaps, they are available to the visitors of the Mining Museum of Milos. Thus, we made one of the best representative products of Milos, which can be easily transported around the world.
This initiative could also be adopted and developed as a commercial activity by any resident of Milos, because it concerns a product that can be widely used by locals and visitors to the island. It can be sold in the hotels and gift shops of the island as well as in the Mining Museum of Milos, as a souvenir or as a corporate gift, along with many other uses.
The action starts at the premises of Imerys Greece in Milos and more specifically in the rehabilitated mines of the company, and ends from the store of Mining Museum of Milos in the homes of their buyers all over the world!
The gift sets with the soaps are available from the Mining Museum of Milos.
The Imerys Mine Restoration Department in Milos is a specialized Department with specialized equipment, stable funding and continuous Research and Development. Through extensive studies and research collaborations we design and develop innovative ideas and create the know-how for the construction of a new product based on the raw materials coming from Milos and the activities of the Company.
