Prayers and soap production: French nuns sell cleaning products to pay abbey bills

Sisters of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges started enterprise to cover soaring electricity costs

The sisters of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges in south-east France are prepared to move more than heaven and earth to save their mountain abbey and pay soaring electricity bills.

A dozen Cistercian order nuns are making ends meet by selling cleaning products made from their own spring water and essential oils on the internet and in local shops.