Mongolian entrepreneurs exploit cheap wool for new products

Sheep fleece turned into fertilizer and soap for export

20220421 Helen sheep wool soap

Helen Botanical Beauty has been exporting its organic exfoliating soap -- which has a wool felt wrapper enclosing a ball of soap made from sheep tail fat and other natural ingredients -- to Europe. (Photo by Uugansukh Byamba)

KHALIUN BAYARTSOGT, Contributing writer

ULAANBAATAR -- Mongolia is a leading player in the global market for wool -- for cashmere from goats that is.

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