This is a vegetable gycerin base soap with a goats milk based  green sea turtle soap inside of it. There is no plastic, kids love it! A friend said her daughter runs to thebathroom just to get to wash her hands . She can't wait to get down to the sea turtle soap inside. These soaps are also Palm oil free.Part of the proceeds will go to saving sea turtles. So wonderful you get your kids to love to wash their hands and save a sea turtle at the same time.