Worldwide consumption of paper has risen by 400% in the past 40 years, with 35% of harvested trees being used for paper manufacture. Pulp and paper generates the 6th largest amount of industrial air, water, and land emissions in the United States. In 2018, the amount of paper and paperboard going to landfills stood at 52.7 million metric tons. To put that into perspective, that’s equivalent to 125,000 jumbo jets.

As a company, we oppose waste and therefore do not utilize paper folding cartons in our packaging. Extraneous paper packaging may look pretty and impressive, but if it goes straight into the trash can upon receipt, we find that to be wasteful and unnecessary.

To save paper, we also choose to forgo including packing slips with all of our Consumer orders. The order confirmation sent via email serves at the receipt, listing the items purchased and what we will ship.

One of our supplier partners has decades of history sourcing shea kernels from West Africa. Shea is a very sustainable crop, since the wild trees on which the shea kernels grow require no use of fertilizers or pesticides. The trees grow in the crop fields in a farming system called agroforestry. This farming system has existed for centuries and has proven to be very sustainable. Working in collaboration with shea traders and the workers - predominantly women - in the five key West African countries where the shea is sourced and processed, they have created and increased job & income opportunities for many thousands of people. Shea, a renewable raw material, is also edible and provides an essential nutrition source for those in the region. Talk about life changing!