Herb Garden Naturals

Sustainable Small Business is the Future

I've been making soap professionally since 2008.

As an artist and chef, I have always considered it a creative endeavour.

As an herbalist, I celebrated finding a new way to work with my plant-friends.

As an illustrator and photographer, I found a new purpose for my design work.

And as an environmentalist turned 100% tree-hugger, bug-lover, organic total ecosystem nature freak, I found something everybody needed that produced little pollution and waste.

We are solar-powered, sustainably plant-based, organic and "small batch" hand-crafted.

There are countless companies today, large and small, claiming to be handcrafted, green, plant-based, sustainable and organic. For too many, these words are just marketing gimmicks. Many use third world extruded soap products permeated with petrochemical fragrances and dyes, in facilities that are hardly "green". Lots of chemical preservatives are added because the soaps and creams, lip balms and make-up have to survive hot trucks and storage facilities for months or years. It's the only way a big business can survive. Because is bigger is better. That's what we've always been told.

I'm here to tell you that small is best, and we truly small businesses are the sustainable ones. We are the future for the planet, humanity, and all of the animal, plant and insect species who make this planet a living, truly green paradise.

I thank you for buying my soaps, creams, lip balms and oils. The planet thanks you, too.