Skandinavisk

Natural ingredients

Skan­di­na­visk does not use palm oil, soy, kero­se­ne, bees­wax, plas­tic drums or cellopha­ne pac­ka­ging in their new collec­tion. In addi­tion, the pro­ducts also con­tain no para­bens, phtha­la­tes or sili­co­nes and con­sist of more than 90% natu­ral ingre­dients. For exam­ple, the natu­ral body wash and lotion are made in Den­mark with 91% natu­ral ingre­dients, inclu­ding 43% orga­ni­cally cer­ti­fied pro­ducts. The brand also adds local spring water to their body wash, con­di­tio­ners, soap and hand cream.

Sustainable candles

For their cand­le wax, the brand uses ​‘rape­seed wax’. This pro­duct is pro­du­ced on a lar­ge sca­le in the UK and partly also in other Euro­pean coun­tries. As a result, the wax has to tra­vel a shor­ter dis­tan­ce than eco­lo­gi­cal soy wax that is often pro­du­ced in North Ame­ri­ca. A more sus­tai­na­ble option for the Danish com­pany Skandinavisk. 

Rape­seed wax comes from the oil har­ves­ted from the plant. The pro­per­ties of the rape­seed wax allow for the easy addi­tion of color. This elimi­na­tes the need to use harm­ful dyes to color the candles.

Vegan

The cand­les, body wash, body lotion and hand cream from the New Gene­ra­tion collec­tion are inde­pen­dently vegan cer­ti­fied so you can be sure that the­re are no ani­mal ingre­dients in the pro­ducts. Simi­larly, the bees­wax in their ori­gi­nal hand creams has now been repla­ced with a plant-based alter­na­ti­ve, making the new collec­tion com­ple­tely vegan. 

Howe­ver, the pro­ducts do not have a Lea­ping Bunny Cruelty Free cer­ti­fi­ca­te or PETA label so we at COSH! can­not be sure that the pro­ducts or raw mate­rials have not been tes­ted on animals. 

Materials

The pac­ka­ging is FSC-cer­ti­fied, sour­ced from mana­ged Swe­dish forests and colo­red with natu­ral dyes. The cand­le pac­ka­ging is made of par­tially recy­cled and dish­wa­sher safe glass pro­du­ced in Euro­pe. You can the­re­fo­re reuse the glass to insert a new candle.

The pac­ka­ging of per­so­nal care pro­ducts con­tain recy­cled bio­plas­tic from sus­tai­nably mana­ged sugar­ca­ne plan­ta­tions. Skan­di­na­visk also thinks about the details: the black cap is made from recy­cled poly­propy­le­ne in EU. 

Skan­di­na­visk con­ti­nues the trend in the sto­re as well. The shel­ves on which the pro­ducts are pla­ced in the sto­re are made from FSC-cer­ti­fied wood. The ins­ta­lla­tions are modu­lar so they can be reused. 

Curious whe­re you can buy Skan­di­na­visk pro­ducts? Take a look at the map below!

Entreprise éco-responsable

Skan­di­na­visk est cer­ti­fiée B Cor­po­ra­tion (Bene­fit Cor­po­ra­tion), c’est une orga­ni­sa­tion mon­dia­le qui encou­ra­ge les entre­pri­ses à fai­re le bien pour les êtres humains et l’en­vi­ron­ne­ment. Les mar­ques qui pos­sè­dent le cer­ti­fi­cat B corp sont léga­le­ment tenues de pren­dre en comp­te leur impact sur l’hu­ma­ni­té, l’en­vi­ron­ne­ment et la planète.

Pour cal­cu­ler l’im­pact car­bo­ne de sa pro­chai­ne collec­tion de pro­duits, Skan­di­na­visk tra­vai­lle avec la ville de Copenha­gue et son pro­gram­me ​“Sus­tai­na­ble Base­li­ne” afin de trou­ver des moyens pour rédui­re ou com­pen­ser son empreinte.