Seeing the obvious parallels between her work and that of the Ban Talae Nok women's soap group, Mamta Chandarat, one of the partners in the Himalayan Oregano Oil and Sustainable Livelihoods against MRSA initiative (SEED Winner 2008), visited Andaman Discoveries (SEED Winner 2008), in November 2009. Mamta Chandarat brought her expertise about natural soap making to the village soap cooperative that Andaman Discoveries has been working with since the tsunami of 2005. Previously, they had been making the soap using soap fat that was purchased from Bangkok, which was considerably costly. Now the villagers make higher quality and lower cost soap with the method taught by Mamta. Read more in Andaman Discovery Blog here.