Growing up in a household where minimising unnecessary waste and engaging in sustainable practices was the norm, Ahimsa Collective Co-Founder Tessa Carroll's education in and care for the environment started early.
It comes as little surprise then, in the wake of the launch of her sustainable bag line, that making elaborate garden composts and designing handbags out of old denim jeans was commonplace for the creative Tessa.
As you take a seat in your salon chair for an hour (or three) of you time, it’s a fair assumption that the last thing on your mind is, ‘where does all my hair lying helplessly on the floor there go?’ And that’s fair enough, too; when most hairdressers start out in the industry, it’s certainly not at the top of their list of questions, either.
Cocooned by the jungle on a pristine stretch of the Caribbean coast in Mexico’s Tulum, lies Papaya Playa Project; a sustainable, bohemian hotel made up of cabanas and casitas nestled between palm trees and white sands.
When shifting towards a more natural lifestyle, an underlying requirement is effectiveness; if we’re going to swap out a product we love in pursuit of health, sustainability, or ethics, it had better work just as well.
In a career spanning two decades, Lucy Vincent’s fresh, uncontrived approach to hair and beauty has made her an influential and pioneering innovator in her native New Zealand. A former hairstylist and salon owner, Lucy couldn’t find the type of products she wanted to use, so she set out to create her own.