Our Sustainability Efforts
As a business aiming to make a positive sustainable impact on the world, we try to make all of our products and materials as sustainable and eco-friendly as possible. We try to source our materials from local small businesses. As we grow and expand, we aim to be as self-sufficient and self-sustainable as possible, by growing our own botanicals, growing our own organic luffas, and hopefully even having our own apiary to harvest our own organic beeswax. Until then, we are doing our best with what we have access to.
Our soap is made with 100% pure olive oil, sodium hydroxide, plant based colorant powders, and natural botanicals. The plant-based colorant powders we use are natural indigo, madder root, spinach, alkanet root, and charcoal powders. We also use natural clays to add to our soap colors, including rose, grey sea, french green, purple brazilian, and koalin clay. The natural botanicals we use are dried flowers, such as lavender buds and rose petals, epsom and himalayan salts, colloidal oatmeal and oats, walnut shell powder, poppy and cranberry seeds, and coffee grounds.
We use cocoa and shea butters, and various oils, including hemp, grapeseed, avocado, sweet almond, argan, coconut, and vitamin E oils for our leave-on products. We believe that these nourishing oils should be implemented more in our leave-on body products, and that more simple formulations be used for wash off products, like our castile soap and sugar scrubs. That way we aren’t overcharging for materials that would otherwise wash down the drain, and you get quality products for reasonable prices.
We use 100% pure triple filtered beeswax for our wax melts and body products. Beeswax is a renewable resource, and burns cleaner than other traditional waxes, without releasing any toxic fumes. When it burns, it also releases negative ions that bind to dust and particles in the air, making the air you breathe cleaner. We chose beeswax over soy wax for its sustainability, due to land needing to be cleared in order to grow the soy. Bees simply live in apiaries on land, pollinate flowers, and make honey and wax. No land clearing necessary.
Our products are hand-poured into reusable silicone molds, metal tins, and glass jars, and made in small batches.
For our sustainable household alternatives, we use 100% cotton flannel for our reusable towels and use the scraps to make the 2” squares for our reusable makeup remover pads, which are also made with recycled cotton/polyester yarn blends. We hand-crochet our soap savers using 100% hemp yarn, our trivets with 100% recycled cotton/polyester yarns, and our tea towel toppers with 100% recycled polyester yarn!
Our rock pendants are made with upcycled river rocks and river glass from our local rivers and streams and wrapped in hemp cord. We recycle bottle caps to make our bottle cap pendants and use eco-friendly resin to fill them. Our dried flower pendants are made with foraged and hand-pressed spring and summer flowers and cast in eco-friendly resin as well. At the moment we are tossing around ideas to make the necklaces and bezels for our jewelry to be more sustainable, including turning empty soda cans into bezels as well!
We also use EcoEnclose sustainable packaging supplies for our soap wraps, boxes, and even our packaging tape! USPS boxes are affordable and recyclable, as is the brown kraft paper that comes in our pets packages. We try to reuse all packaging that we receive in our own packages, including the boxes themselves. Our business cards are also handmade right in our craft space. We take scrap paper, from junk mail to soap wrap mistakes, and make our own paper pulp. Then we run the pulp through a screen and wait for the new sheets of paper to dry, before stamping our business logo and information on them using reusable stamps and nontoxic water-based ink. This makes almost all of our packaging reusable, recyclable, biodegradable and compostable!
We will continue to keep you update on our progress to self-sustainability and making the world a better place!