Welcome Summer and Embrace Sustainability
It is everyone’s favorite and most popular season of the year — Summer! Enjoying the warm sunlight with an airy breeze grazing your skin softly or chilling in the outdoors with friends and lemonade in hand is most definitely something everyone has missed after almost two years of being homebound. As the environment is recovering after two years of stillness, why not continue this trend to make our Earth better by supporting some socially aware businesses? Jejune is more than excited to share with everyone a list of some lovely and stylish sustainable brands that we have put together to get you ready for the delightful warm season. Check them out below!
Who are they: Blue Heron Botanicals is a woman-owned, plastic-free, and natural skincare brand. The products are formulated to encourage the skin’s natural ability to heal with the use of a wide range of local, organic, and sustainably harvested botanicals.
Price range: $
Fun fact: For every product sold, Blue Heron Botanicals will donate a portion of the fund towards SEE Turtles and the Billion Baby Turtles initiative. This means for every product you purchase, a baby sea turtle is protected!
Ética
Who are they: Ética’s transitional denim is perfect for any season or activity. The brand practices fair labor, environmentally conscious manufacturing, and social responsibility. For example, they recycle their water for local farmland and compresses used wash stones into bricks for low-income housing.
Price range: $$$
Fun fact: As a huge environment supporter, they have dramatically reduced water usage by 90%, energy consumption by 63%, and chemical usage by 70% compared to industry standards through industry-leading equipment, advanced wash techniques, and sustainable sourcing,
Darzah
Who are they: Darzah is unique as it is a non-profit that is part of a project of Child’s Cup Full that aims to empower women in Palestine by creating job opportunities for women. Each creation is 100% handmade by talented artisans in the West Bank. What’s more, is that they are all embroidered with a unique pattern.
Price range: $$
Fun fact: For every dollar made, 80% will go to providing for the artisans that dedicated 17,000 hours to create these high-quality products and support their families.
Noah
Who are they: Noah creates cruelty-free 100% vegan shoes and accessories. They are PETA-approved.
Price range: €€
Fun fact: Their vegan shoes are hand-crafted in Italy to reduce their carbon footprint.
Collina Strada
Who are they: Collina Strada creates trippy tie-dye prints and vibrant pieces made of dead-stock fabrics. This unique brand uses its platform for social issues and awareness.
Price range: $$$$
Fun fact: They partners with the OR foundation to catalyze a justice-led circular textiles economy.
Paravel
Who are they: Paravel crafts eco-friendly luggage, bags, and organizers made from upcycling and sustainable materials. They have upcycled over two million plastic water bottles to date, offset 8,150 tonnes of C02, and planted over 35,000 trees through Eden Reforestation Projects.
Price range: $$$
Fun fact: All their fabrics are certified by the OEKO-Tex Standard 100. All upcycle materials are tracked by global recycling standards to ensure accountability and practice ethical manufacturing.
EcoRoots
Who are they: The eco-conscious and minimalist brand is a mission-driven personal care product. Eco Roots is a member of 1% for the Planet. This means they donate 1% of their sales annually to sustainable initiatives and organizations that focus on giving back to the planet.
Price range: $
Fun fact: All products are cruelty-free and plastic-free.
Sézane
Who are they: Their collection is vintage and vibrant. The clothing apparel uses 75+ percent eco-friendly materials to create colorful pieces perfect for the summer season.
Price range: $$$
Fun fact: The vintage brand founded DEMAIN, a philanthropic program that supports charities and projects in favor of equal access to education, culture, and opportunities for children and young adults around the world. As of today, they have raised over 4 million euros!
Faith In Nature
Who are they: This beauty brand uses organic ingredients wherever possible and smells divine as the products are all 100% natural fragrances. In order to reduce plastic wastage, they have a nationwide refill system allowing you to refill everything within their 5 Litre range.
Price range: £
Fun fact: Faith in Nature is vegan and Leaping Bunny certified.
Cadence
Who are they: Cadence makes refillable magnetic containers made from recycled ocean-bound plastic. They partner with Envision Plastics to collects plastic from beaches around the world by employing local communities. The containers come with custom labels that can store toiletries, jewelry, vitamins, and more to ease your travel.
Price range: $$
Fun fact: With enough containers, you can form it into a honeycomb shape!
Christy Dawn
Who are they: Christy Dawn uses fabrics left behind by other fashion companies, organic cotton, and colored with natural or organic dyes to create their collection.
Price range: $$$
Fun fact: They have a Farm-to-Closet initiative. They leased 24 acres of depleted land in India and working directly with the farmers and artisans to replenish the soil through ancient practices of regeneration and traditional wisdom.
Zeal Optics
Who are they: Zeal Optics designs stylish sunglasses and uses plant-based materials in all sunglass frames and lenses.
Price range: $$$
Fun fact: Same as Eco Roots, they are also a member of 1% for the Planet and donate to non-profits that work to protect the wild places.
Ocean Bottles
Who are they: Ocean Bottles designs water bottles that are made from part stainless steel and part ocean-bound recycled plastic. 1.9m kgs of ocean-bound plastics were collected to create these sustainable water bottles.
Price range: £
Fun fact: They are B-Corp certified.
Pact
Who are they: This minimalistic clothing company uses organic cotton and contains no toxic chemicals. As protecting the environment and ethical labor practices are their core values, Pact only works with certified Fair Trade factories only. Pact also has a clothing donation program that allows customers to recycle used clothing and deliver them to local charities.
Price range: $
Fun fact: All their pieces are Certified Organic by the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS).
Who are they: Rothy’s is known for its comfortable knit flats but has also recently expanded into handbags and sandals. Their shoes’ outsoles are made with 35% natural and renewable materials whilst insoles contain 30% plant-based oil and recycled rubber.
Price range: $$$
Fun fact: They have kept 100 tons of ocean-bound marine plastic out of waterways. These plastic bottles are transformed to thread for knitting.
Welcome summer while saving Planet Earth! Head over to their website and show your support.
