Sustainability

REFILLABLE PACKAGING

Recycling is great, but creating less packaging to start is even better.

Our Deodorant Refills use less than one-third the amount of plastic as a standard container.

Meanwhile, our Solid Fragrance Refills cut down on 80% of the packaging needed for a brand new square.

OUR INGREDIENTS

At Fulton & Roark, we seek out the best ingredients available in the world, and we take care to source them safely and responsibly.

Some of Our Sustainable Ingredients

 




Origin: Guatemala

Naturals Together Sustainable Practices

Cardamom is purchased in Guatemala from joint venture and partners who purchase and distill entire crops, including high-grade quality seeds normally reserved for the spice market. Our partners are dedicated to sustainable production, offering 100% traceable products, while supporting communities at source and actively tackling environment challenges.

Upcycling

We use “rejected” cardamom pods that are deemed unusable for culinary purposes in the spice industry, distilling for its essential oil.



Origin: Haiti

Naturals Together Sustainable Practices

Our suppliers work with local communities to improve resident’s access to health care and education, including the construction and sustainability management of a school built in 2012.



Origin: Virginia, USA

Upcycling

Cedarwood Virginia is one of the main woods used for closet manufacturing, as the wood serves as a natural pest repellent. Firmenich uses the left-over sawdust and wood chips, too small to use for carpentry, for distillation to obtain the essential oil.




Origin: Philippines

Path 2 Farm

Cultivated by small, independent farmers. This program allows for digital first-mile traceability of the resin through a proprietary profiling tool for measured impact.

Extraction Innovation

Supercritical CO2 Extraction is a technology in which carbon dioxide is put beyond its critical point, becoming a supercritical fluid with special properties. The extraction carried out at a low temperature preserves the natural profile identity of the raw material.



Origin: Honduras

Naturals Together Sustainable Practices

In El Paraíso region, farmers, grouped in a cooperative, mainly harvested pine and coffee until a disease stroke pine and decreased their income. As Styrax is already
planted to provide shade for coffee, our partners initiated a program on Styrax to guarantee market security and fair price, while ensuring quality and sustainable practices through training.


Origin: Indonesia

Naturals Together Sustainable Practices

Our partners work directly with cooperatives and distillers of patchouli. The program offers them an alternative inclusive business model with agricultural training, a floor and fair price mechanism with guarantee of purchase to ensure continuous interest for them to grow Patchouli. The project also focused on social actions like the funding of a kindergarten in Kotayasa, Central Java.




Origin: Spain

Naturals Together Sustainable Practices

The harvest of wild cistus follows a sustainable cycle. 

Wheat fields are left fallow for two to three years between crops, during which they are naturally repopulated by wild cistus. Pickers collect the plants by hand during the summer and early autumn, after which the cycle begins again. The leaves are then bundled for delivery and extraction. Our local supplier has been producing a range cistus derivates for over 30 years at their state-of-the-art factory in the village of Puebla de Guzman.



Origin: Brazil, USA, Mexico

Upcylcing

The fruit's peel is used to create this fragrance ingredient. A special distillation process is used to decrease the amount of Limonene. The different fractions obtained are re-assembled by specialists to offer a unique profile.



Origin: Brazil

White Biotechnology

To offer alternatives to natural wood resources, Firmenich scientists developed a range of more sustainable offerings, such as Clearwood.

Clearwood is an ingredient created from white biotechnology to produce a soft and clean version of a patchouli profile.



Origin: Sri Lanka

Upcycling

The barks of cinnamon trees are peeled and air-dried for 24 hours before taking the form of hollow sticks. The most beautiful sticks are sold to the spice market while the less uniform sticks, or the chips, that are not considered “valuable” enough for the spice market, are valorized and distilled to create cinnamon essential oil.

Moreover, while the branches are cut to extract the valuable bark on them, the leaves can also be extracted as a by-product to create cinnamon leaf essential oil, rich in Eugenol.


Origin: Russia

Upcycling:

In Siberia, mobile distillation units are setup close to the area where trees are harvested to avoid long distance transport of 'tree-material' through Siberia.

Thanks to a high demand for timber products, many leftover twigs and needles remain after collection, and we are able to valorize this through distillation to produce this unique essential oil.

Responsibility

Naturals Together Program

Naturals Together Program is an initiative led by Firmenich that brings together many of the world's best natural ingredients suppliers to shape the future of Naturals. This program is a sustainability-driven partnership with the people and regions from whom and from which we source our ingredients.

Path 2 Farm

Path 2 Farm provides full transparency in ingredients traceability. It also provides farming practices and farming community insights that allow our partners to ensure sustainable and fair practices.

Made in USA

All our products and formulated and filled in the USA.

Small Batch

All our products are poured and assembled by hand.