Easy Peasy

The shoes are desi­gned in Cho­let, France. This regi­on is known as one of the bak­ing mats of French shoe­ma­king, whe­re craft­sman­ship is kept ali­ve. The lea­ther from which the shoes are made is tan­ned near Tou­lou­se, France. This is very nice sin­ce here we can assu­me that safe and ethi­cal working con­di­ti­ons are main­tai­ned, which is not a given at tan­ne­ries. Then the shoes are assem­bled in a fami­ly work­shop (86 employees) near Tunis in Tuni­sia.

Easy Peasy cho­se Tuni­sia becau­se the­re is a lot of know­ledge about lea­ther goods here. The brand says they would have lik­ed to pro­du­ce in France but they wan­ted to sell their pro­ducts at a reasonable pri­ce and it was not pos­si­ble this way. Moreo­ver, the work­shop has the same values for peo­p­le, cli­ma­te and qua­li­ty as Easy Peasy, accor­ding to them. Moreo­ver, the work­shop is imple­men­ting the ISO 9001 stan­dard, which cer­ti­fies that workers are mana­ged with respect and qua­li­ty. They recent­ly recei­ved Social Audit cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on from an inde­pen­dent audi­ting company.

The shoes are made of vege­ta­ble tan­ned lea­ther. That is, natu­ral sub­s­tances such as lea­ves and bark have been used in the lea­ther pro­ces­sing so that the hide stays beau­tiful for a long time and does not rot. So they do not use harmful chro­mi­um, but mimo­sa (a French tree with yel­low flowers) quebra­cho (bark of a South Ame­ri­can tree spe­ci­es, used for tan­ning the lining) ins­tead. Each of the­se mate­ri­als has spe­cial properties.

The exact com­po­si­ti­on of the shoes varies from model to model. One con­sists of 100% lea­ther, some have a rub­ber sole and others are like this. The inso­le is made of natu­ral rub­ber wood for com­fort and insu­la­ti­on, enca­sed in lea­ther. It is remo­va­ble so you can easi­ly clean the shoes. The out­so­le is made of suede lea­ther with natu­ral cre­pe pad­ding. The lining of the slip­per is unpain­ted and anti-all­er­gic lea­ther, safe for bare feet! The sole is glued into the shoe with water-based glue so it is not a dan­ger for your litt­le one. The rub­ber that some shoes con­tain is 100% vege­ta­ble rub­ber, made from vir­gin rape­seed and soy­be­an oil.

All slip­pers and shoes are sold in a recy­clable card­board box and come with an orga­nic cot­ton tote bag. This cot­ton has been veri­fied by Eco­cert but exact­ly what cer­ti­fi­ca­te is atta­ched is not specified. 

Easy Peasy’s shoes made of 100% lea­ther are basi­cal­ly recy­clable. With tho­se made of com­po­si­te mate­ri­als, this is more dif­fi­cult. Curr­ent­ly, Easy Peasy does not use recy­cled mate­ri­als in the shoes themselves.

The pack­a­ging in which the pro­ducts are sold con­sists (in part) of recy­cled mate­ri­als and is also recy­clable again. Some gift boxes have a pla­s­tic win­dow, this part you can throw away in the pla­s­tic waste.

The design pro­cess and lea­ther tan­ning, both hap­pen in France, pro­duc­tion then takes place in Tuni­sia and then the finis­hed shoes go to the logi­stics cen­ter in Lyon (France).

The­re is only 1,400 km of distance bet­ween the design office and the work­shop in Tuni­sia. This distance is cover­ed by sea and land, never by pla­ne. They use the ​“grou­pa­ge” method to effi­ci­ent­ly ship the orders bet­ween fac­to­ry and logi­stics cen­ter and also bet­ween the stores whe­re they sell to redu­ce their car­bon footprint. 

Easy Peasy loves ani­mals and honors them in almost all of its coll­ec­tions, whe­ther pets or end­an­ge­red spe­ci­es. With this, the brand wants to teach child­ren some­thing about dif­fe­rent ani­mal spe­ci­es and make them awa­re of the importance of pro­tec­ting ani­mals and nature.

1% of annu­al sales is dona­ted to an orga­niza­ti­on that pro­tects bio­di­ver­si­ty, to con­tri­bu­te to pro­tec­ting and res­to­ring natu­ral habi­tats of end­an­ge­red spe­ci­es. This is how they work­ed with the glo­bal non­pro­fit IFAW in 2022.

Howe­ver, all of Easy Peasy’s shoes are made of lea­ther, a mate­ri­al for which ani­mals must be kil­led. Which ani­mals this lea­ther comes from is usual­ly not men­tio­ned, except for a few sheeps­kin shoes, and what kind of life they had is unknown. Becau­se of this, the brand is not vegan.

Easy Peasy’s ado­rable designs will always be a fun addi­ti­on to your litt­le one’s out­fit. The brand makes shoes in sizes 17 to 33, making them sui­ta­ble for todd­lers and pre­schoo­lers. Becau­se child­ren grow out of their clo­thes and shoes quick­ly, it is important for sus­taina­bi­li­ty that the shoes get a second life through a second-hand store or pass them on to ano­ther child.

The shoes are stur­dy and spe­ci­al­ly desi­gned so your baby can use them to learn to stand and walk around the house. They are non-slip, sui­ta­ble for all types of flo­ors and, of cour­se, offer com­fort.

Easy Peasy con­veys its sto­ry trans­par­ent­ly. They cle­ar­ly explain why they make cer­tain choices around sus­taina­bi­li­ty and pro­duc­tion. They even invi­te you to stop by the head­quar­ters if you visit the Maine-et-Loire regi­on! Howe­ver, whe­re the lea­ther comes from, and in which exact fac­to­ries the tan­ning and pro­duc­tion is done, is not known. So in terms of trans­pa­ren­cy, Easy Peasy can still improve.