A glimpse of the rich New Zealand bird life embedded within these beautiful soaps. They are an ideal gift for that special person. The beautiful paintings within the soaps are the creation of Desiree McLaggan, who lives in rural Gordonton, in the North Waikato Region of New Zealand. All these soaps contain Moringa Oil, a valuable additive for your skin.\u00a0 Moringa is well known for its soothing and healing properties for the skin. The fragrance is the delightful scent of an Old English Garden and is infused into the whole soap.<\/p>\n
The magic of these soaps is that the picture stays in the soap for the lifetime of the soap. If they get a little dull when the soap is dry, rinse under water and the picture pops back as clear and bright as the day you unwrapped it.<\/p>\n
These soaps make a wonderful gift for friends overseas, Mother\u2019s Day, Birthdays, and Christmas.<\/p>\n
These soaps are made in New Zealand using local and imported Ingredients and crafted by Moringa Meadows Homestead based in Pukekawa, New Zealand.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Huia\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
This is an extinct\u00a0species\u00a0of\u00a0the New Zealand wattlebird,\u00a0endemic\u00a0to the\u00a0North Island\u00a0of New Zealand. The last confirmed sighting of a Huia was in 1907, and a possible sighting in 1924.<\/p>\n
By the time the Europeans arrived, this bird was already very low in numbers. The most striking difference in the features of the male and female bird was the bills:\u00a0males had shorter, stout, straighter bills for chiselling wood, while females’ bills were long, thin and curved downwards for probing into crevices.\u00a0The male was also significantly larger than the female.<\/p>\n
The Huia was a quiet, social bird. It was\u00a0monogamous and pairs probably paired for life. They were usually found in breeding pairs, although groups of four or more were also sighted.<\/p>\n
The birds moved between the forests in both the upper and lower regions, depending on the time of year. Huia ate adult insects, grubs and spiders, as well as the fruits of a small number of\u00a0native plants.<\/p>\n
Not much is actually known about the Huia as they were almost extinct when first sighted by the Europeans. What is known is that the Maori regarded the Huia as tapu (sacred), and the wearing of its skin or feathers was reserved for people of high status.<\/p>\n
Many well-known Maori paintings depict Maori chiefs with the distinctive Huia tail feathers decorating the back of the head.<\/p>\n
Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Elaeis Guineensis (Palm) Oil, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Glycerine, Aqua, Sodium Hydroxide, Sorbitol, Cocoamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine, Propylene Glycol (Vegetable Derived), Sorbitan Oleate, Hydrolysed Oat Protein, Moringa Oil, Fragrance (English Garden), Water-soluble Paper<\/p>\n Palm Oil: No \u2013 RSPO Palm<\/p>\n Vegan:\u00a0 Yes<\/p>\n Tested on animals:\u00a0 No<\/p>\n Contains GMO:\u00a0\u00a0 No<\/p>\n Country of origin:\u00a0 USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A glimpse of the rich New Zealand bird life embedded within these beautiful soaps. They are an ideal gift for that special person. The beautiful paintings within the soaps are the creation of Desiree McLaggan, who lives in rural Gordonton, in the North Waikato Region of New Zealand. All these soaps contain Moringa Oil, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[23],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-271","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-crafted-for-new-zealand-bird-lovers","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"taxable","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moringameadows.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moringameadows.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moringameadows.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moringameadows.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moringameadows.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moringameadows.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moringameadows.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moringameadows.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moringameadows.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}