Meraki

Natural ingredients in the care products

The Mera­ki body scrub, sham­poo, con­di­ti­oner, body loti­on hand soap are all cer­ti­fi­ed with eco­cert gre­enli­fe – COSMOS orga­nic. So you can be sure that the per­so­nal care pro­duc­ts con­ta­in 100% natu­ral ingre­di­ents and betwe­en 10 – 95% orga­ni­cal­ly grown ingre­di­ents. The ingre­di­ents are also all appro­ved accor­ding to the stan­dar­ds for orga­nic cosme­tic pro­duc­ts. Howe­ver, Mera­ki has 3 excep­ti­ons to the rule: the cand­les, aloe vera make­up remo­vers and wipes do not con­ta­in natu­ral ingre­di­ents. The rest of the ran­ge does.

Depen­ding on the pro­duct, the per­cen­ta­ge of orga­nic ingre­di­ents will vary. For exam­ple, the body scrub con­ta­ins 87%, the sham­poo 15%, body wash 15% and the hand cre­am and hand soap 10% of orga­nic ingre­di­ents. The essen­ti­al oils for the bath are also deri­ved from orga­nic ingre­di­ents. In addi­ti­on to Eco­cert, the sham­poo is also cer­ti­fi­ed with Nor­dic Swan Eco­la­bel, which aims to redu­ce the envi­ron­men­tal impact of products.

The brand does not use GMOs (Gene­ti­cal­ly Modi­fi­ed Orga­ni­sms), nor har­m­ful ingre­di­ents such as para­bens and micro­plas­tics. For the body scrub, gro­oming brand Mera­ki adds sugar. In other body scrubs, micro­plas­tics are often added for the exfo­li­ating effect, this is for­tu­na­tely not the case with Meraki.

Mera­ki also takes into acco­unt sen­si­ti­ve skin types. The Mera­ki Body Loti­on con­ta­ins vita­min E, which is espe­ci­al­ly impor­tant for sen­si­ti­ve skin. It sti­mu­la­tes the natu­ral rege­ne­ra­ti­on of the skin and pro­vi­des mois­tu­re. Not only the loti­on has a skin and aller­gy fri­end­ly com­po­si­ti­on. For exam­ple, the sham­poo and con­di­ti­oner car­ry the Ast­h­ma Aller­gy Den­mark label.

Working conditions

Most per­so­nal care pro­duc­ts are made in Den­mark. We see a few excep­ti­ons: the cand­les and make­up cle­an­sing wipes are made in Chi­na and the man­gos­to­ne in Taiwan.

In addi­ti­on, it is also dif­fi­cult to find out whe­re all the exact ingre­di­ents at Mera­ki come from. Accor­ding to Mera­ki, the pro­duc­ti­on of palm oil and palm ker­nel oil is sus­ta­ina­ble. Howe­ver, we did not find any cer­ti­fi­ca­tes of sus­ta­ina­ble forest mana­ge­ment. We’ll find out more for you!

Natural Candles

Mera­ki has scen­ted cand­les made from soy oil, but unfor­tu­na­tely this does not come from non-orga­nic agri­cul­tu­re. Thus, har­m­ful che­mi­cals have been used in the pro­duc­ti­on of soy. The cand­les are made in Chi­na. Howe­ver, at COSH! we pre­fer cand­les made from sus­ta­ina­ble mate­ri­als from orga­nic far­ming, which do not have to tra­vel all over the world.

Curi­ous abo­ut sus­ta­ina­ble opti­ons cand­les? Read all abo­ut it on our blog.

Organic cotton towels

The towels are made of orga­nic cot­ton in neutral colors. Mera­ki also sel­ls toilet bags made of cot­ton and polyes­ter. The cot­ton for the toilet bags is not orga­nic, a minor drawback. Also, the com­bi­na­ti­on of dif­fe­rent mate­ri­als makes the toilet bag har­der to recy­cle after use.

Animal Friendly

Mera­ki does not have a vegan label, so we can­not be sure that the pro­duc­ts do not con­ta­in ani­mal ingre­di­ents. Howe­ver, all the toile­tri­es, sham­po­os, body loti­ons and hand soaps car­ry the Eco­cert cer­ti­fi­ca­te which pro­hi­bits the use of ingre­di­ents deri­ved from dead ani­mals, so the­se pro­duc­ts can be con­si­de­red ​‘vege­ta­ri­an’ rat­her than vegan.

Mera­ki also sel­ls its scen­ted cand­les, face care and cosme­tics in Chi­na and Taiwan. Chi­na has per­mi­ssi­on to have the cosme­tics tes­ted if the brand also exports to Chi­na. So COSH! does con­si­der bran­ds that have a headqu­ar­ters, address or point of sale in Chi­na as ​‘tes­ted on ani­mals’ as we can­not say with 100% cer­ta­in­ty that Mera­ki’s cosme­tics and per­so­nal care pro­duc­ts have not been tes­ted on animals. 

Recyclable material

The plas­tic pac­ka­ging is made of recy­cla­ble plas­tic. The hand soap comes in paper boxes that are also recy­cla­ble. All the scen­ted cand­les do come in a beauti­ful metal box, which is too good to throw away! Even the glass of the cand­les can be reused afterwar­ds as a flower pot or decoration. 

Transparency

It is dif­fi­cult to find out under what wor­king con­di­ti­ons the ingre­di­ents are har­ves­ted. For the man­gos­te­en and make­up remo­ver made in Taiwan and Chi­na, we are also curi­ous abo­ut the pro­duc­ti­on pro­cess and sup­pli­ers. We rema­in a bit hungry.

Mera­ki does offer you and wide ran­ge of natu­ral care pro­duc­ts from sham­poo, con­di­ti­oners, soaps, all made from natu­ral ingre­di­ents. Curi­ous? Take a look at the map below.