Responsible sourcing
Certified-organic botanicals from named farms, bought whole-plant and traced from field to bottle.
Our responsibility
Good for you. Honest with the planet.
Sustainability claims are cheap, so we deal in specifics. Here is exactly what we do, what it measures up to, and the things we have not solved yet.
- 100%
- Glass and recycled-board packaging
- 0g
- Single-use plastic in the bottle
- Reusable
- Glass jar made to be kept, not binned
We will not call ourselves carbon neutral by buying offsets and moving on. We would rather design the impact out — plastic-free, reusable, refillable — cut what we can at the source, and show our working, even when the work is not finished.
— The founding team
Plastic-free packaging
Amber glass jar, aluminium cap, paper label — plastic-free by design and built to be reused. No shrink-wrap, no foam, no mixed materials.
Cut by design, not offset
We design emissions out — plastic-free, reusable packaging and lighter refills — rather than buying offsets. We estimate what each order saves versus a plastic jar; we don't claim a footprint we haven't fully measured.
Fair partnerships
Long-term contracts and fair prices with the growers who supply us, not anonymous spot-buying.
Grown well, traced fully.
Glass, aluminium, paper — by design.
Designed to be kept
Keep the jar. Refill the rest.
We build the jar to outlast its first fill. Refills are coming as lighter, smaller pouches in recyclable metalized paper — less glass to make, less weight to ship, tighter to pack — so most of your orders move a fraction of the material. Over a typical year that is one glass jar and eleven recyclable pouches, not twelve plastic jars.
Launching soon
Coming soonA typical one-year supply
12 plastic jarsThe usual way — a new plastic jar with every order.
1 glass jar + 11 refill pouchesOur way — keep the jar, top it up with a recyclable pouch.
Registered members earn rewards in The SoulBotanic Circle for every refill — points on your account for choosing the lighter option, like credit for the carbon you save. Launching alongside refills.
Join the CircleOur own estimate of packaging and shipping CO₂ versus a plastic jar over a typical year — not a full product footprint.
Where we are, honestly
Done, in progress, and not yet.
A sustainability page that only lists wins is marketing. This is the real state of things, updated as we go.
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Named, organic-certified growers
Launched the full range on certified-organic raw material from farms we can name.
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Plastic out of the box
Switched all packaging to amber glass and recycled board printed with vegetable inks.
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Refill pouches
Lighter, smaller refill pouches in recyclable metalized paper — keep the jar, top it up. Launching soon.
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CO₂ saved, estimated per order
Publishing an estimate of the CO₂ each order avoids versus a plastic jar — a like-for-like saving, not a full footprint.
Standards and certifications
- EU OrganicRaw botanical material certified to EU organic standards.
- FSC RecycledCartons made from responsibly recovered fibre.
- Batch COAThird-party certificate of analysis published for every batch.
- Vegan & cruelty-freeNo animal-derived ingredients, never tested on animals.
The build, in the open.
Formulation updates, sourcing changes, and the reasoning behind them — as they happen, not after. Infrequent by design.
