We strongly support the principles of equity, fairness and sustainable trade throughout the supply chain and choose suppliers who try to follow the same ideals.
We also encourage small business suppliers and recognise that they may not have received the Fairtrade certification, but do follow the Fair Trade principles in their dealings with producers and manufacturers.
Africology
Part of the magic of the Africology range is the ethics of its founder, Renchia Droganis.
One of her strong motivations for the company is to use it to promote South Africa and to help develop poor communities and their income potential.
The company is working hard on building up long term, sustainable and fair relationships with their suppliers.
Marula oil is one of the raw materials they currently source from a rural community project which gives an ongoing income to the women of the community, helping to empower them.
Gossypium
Ethical trading is an integral part of Gossypium's business. They take responsibility for the way their products are made and the impact this has, both socially and environmentally.
All their cotton comes from their partner company Agrocel, which is a farmer's co-operative in India, formed to service the needs of the cotton farmer.
Agrocel ensures the following:
Guaranteed purchase, training and education, fair remuneration, health and safety for growers and improved animal welfare.
In addition, Gossypium encourages ethical best practices along every part of their supply chain.
This includes building long term supplier relationships, respecting local customs and traditions, offering a fair price to all workers, gender equality and ensuring no forced child labour is used.
Pukka
Fair trade is at the heart of the company which is why they source their herbs directly from the farming co-operatives they have helped to set up in India and Sri Lanka. Having a direct link with the farmers allows them to pay 50-200% above market rates for raw materials.
They visit the farmers every year and have built up great relationships with them.
Simply Gentle Organic
Ensure that a fair deal is given to the farmers growing the cotton, that the human rights of the workers are protected and that they have decent working conditions. This is verified by the independent accreditations SA8000 for ethical trading and ISO 14001 for international environmental standards.
Urtekram
In 1986, Urtekram founded the Good Food Foundation in Turkey together with other European partners.
From the beginning, the purpose has been to educate and motivate Turkish farmers to change to organic farming on fair terms.
Furthermore, they have chosen to work closely together with the Max Havelaar organisation, a well-known and trustworthy Fair Trade brand.
Today, they focus on doing everything they can to support the development of Fair Trade Certified products.
Weleda
Many of the ingredients in Weleda's products are grown biodynamically in their own gardens or wild-harvested.
Where they use external suppliers, Weleda work hard to build up sustainable, enduring relationships that benefit all involved.
Through these fair trade agreements, Weleda offers economic and social support to these communities.
People are just as important to Weleda quality as the use of healthy organic plants and it is a vital part of the Weleda ethos to take responsibility both for the environment and their co-workers in this way.
There are ten standards of Fair Trade, as stated by
WFTO, the global network of Fair Trade Organisations.
For more information about each of these standards, visit the
WFTO website.
* Creating opportunities for economically disadvantaged producers
* Transparency and accountability
* Capacity building
* Promoting fair trade
* Payment of a fair price
* Gender equity
* Working conditions
* Child labour
* The environment
* Trade relations
Any of our products that are certified by the
Fairtrade foundation or other independent Fair Trade certifiers will be clearly shown in their ‘more info’ section.