After prayers at the Chantelle Abbey in Allier, central France, a marketing meeting between the abbey´s nuns and their employees discusses the latest orders for its on-site soap and cosmetics products, the delivery destination: Germany. The community of Benedictine sisters has been manufacturing cosmetics since 1954, after two sisters, a chemist and a mathematician, began the practice. Body lotions, shower gels and moisturisers are among the products made in the abbey´s own laboratory, where the nuns acknowledge they must now make time for prayer and business. `A company, must develop or it dies,` said Mother Pascale, dressed in a veil and scapular while supervising production....
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