Single Use Plastics : Our Plastic Promise

It is the view of both myself personally, and our company, that plastics (and in particular, single use plastics) are the single worst thing for the environment and our world that the human race has ever created.

Plastic is having a horrible effect on marine animals, ecosystems, and it's hazardous to human health. Every piece of plastic that has ever been created will remain in the environment in one form or another, but once we conveniently throw out our trash at home, wind and runoff carry our waste from landfills and streets down the sewer and directly to the ocean.

We are passionate about not only our aggressive plastic reduction, but hopefully everyone else’s too. We are only a small company, but if every small company made changes, customers would come to expect it and that is when real change happens. We are overtly aware of the impact plastics have on our entire environment, and every animal that lives in it. We are very proud of the achievements we have made in our own personal plastic reduction, and have so far removed 90% of all our single use plastics in 2020. We have successfully made the following changes to our plastic usage:

·         We have stopped using plastic bags as a container for our bath bomb packs. We have moved to a fully biodegradable grip-seal bag, which still provides an airtight seal without forever damaging the planet.

·         All the mixing cups for our soap production now uses paper cups, and wooden spoons

·         Our shampoo bars have never been developed to require plastic wrapping or shrink-wrapping. The formulation we have used is suitable to be wax paper wrapped.

·         We have moved away from any form of bubble-wrap, or plastic based packaging filling and now exclusively use a pea starch based eco-foam filler

·         We no longer use any plastic or fossil fuel based tape products. All of our tapes are paper based.

·         We have moved completely away from shrink-wrapping all of our standard bath bombs, and all of our bath bomb products are provided to you in organza bags, with a paper based label for the name and ingredients list. Unfortunately, there are some of our bath bombs that we do still need to shrink-wrap (such as snowman / snowlady and Rudolph). We are currently working with our biodegradable plastic provider to find a biodegradable shrink wrap solution.

Our glycerine based soaps do unfortunately still need to be shrink-wrapped. Glycerine based soap attracts moisture from the air, and creates ‘glycerine sweat’, which although not in any way bad for either the user or the soap, it does have an unsightly finish to the soap. We have been working, over the past 12 months, with our chemists and safety assessors to develop a glycerine base that is sweat-free.

 

We have an aim to be entirely single use plastic free by 2022. Our Plastic Promise: At our company, no products that are developed by us from 2020 and onwards will be designed to be reliant upon single use plastics either in their design, manufacture, storage or packaging.