Nature's beauty treatment

Utilizing yak milk and other local elements, Tibetan soap-maker builds a brand, empowers women, and vitalizes rural economy, Yang Feiyue reports.

In the vast, open grasslands of Tianzhu Tibetan autonomous county, where the air is crisp and the horizon stretches endlessly, white yaks roam like billowing clouds across the plateau.

For Danmaji Niu, born and raised in the area, these majestic creatures, unique to this region, are not just a symbol of her hometown but a source of inspiration and the foundation of her natural soap enterprise Yakma Body Care.

In a small workshop nestled in the county, Northwest China's Gansu province, several Tibetan women have been transforming raw natural ingredients into exquisite bars of yak milk soap for the past nine years.