TOP 5 ECO-LOVING VALENTINE GIFTS
Show your adoration with eco-loving Valentine gifts that care for your loved ones AND the planet! Here are our Top 5 favorite, earth-friendly gifts from around the globe:
Mindo Chocolate
Mindo’s goal is to make environmentally friendly, bean to bar craft chocolate that is more pure, more nutritious, and more delicious by using the finest ingredients.
We love the Mindo Founders (husband and wife) back story explaining the “accidental” creation of the company–beginning as an internet cafe and now spanning international waters from Michigan to Ecuador!
The primary ingredient is the pure nacional cacao from Heirloom designated farms in the neighboring Los Rios Province. Nacional cacao is known not only for its complex flavor profile but its cohabitation with other plants and trees that promote habitats for midge pollinators, birds, and other animals.
One of their more unique offerings is the The Tropical Fruit Bar dark 77% chocolate is spiked with bits of mango, pineapple, ginger, macadamia nuts and a bit of orange peel. Vegan, gluten and soy free, made with heirloom cacao. ($7.50-1.76oz/50g)
And, perfect for Valentine’s Day, The Himalayan Heart Breaker is a 67% Dark Chocolate shell filled with golden caramel, topped with pink Himalayan sea salt. ($5.50-1oz/28g) www.mindochocolate.com
PURPOSE Jewelry
PURPOSE Jewelry creates hand-crafted jewelry to empower girls and young women escaping human trafficking to embrace their true identity and worth.
They formed International Sanctuary (IS) to provide holistic care and ensure that every woman gains hope, dignity and freedom for the future. 100% of proceeds go to IS to provide each artisan with fair wages, education & holistic care. ($24-$36)
Pacifica Perfume
Pacifica offers a line of over twenty fragrances that can be found in candle form, perfume solid, body creams, soaps and sprays. Scents range from fruit, floral, spice and wood fragrances from the essence of the air, sea, soil and leaves. Each element brings life to Pacifica’s distinctive blends.
Pacifica is based in Portland, Oregon and practices carbon neutrality and cruelty-free production. The products are vegan and do not contain any animal ingredients, including beeswax.
Plantable Flowers
Who doesn’t love a Valentine’s Day classic? — a dozen red roses! Beautiful and romantic but when they only last days or weeks, the sentiment and nature’s beauty are quickly lost and resources wasted!
This year try a potted plant or flower bulb so your love can “grow” in the coming months. What’s more romantic than that?!
Repurpose/Upcycle
We absolutely LOVE the idea of repurposing and upcycling items for gifts. My recycling bin is overrun with glass jars so here are just a couple ideas to reuse:
1.) Make an easy sugar body scrub. Decorate an old jar with ribbon and hand crafted gift tag to personalize. (Check out the recipe from The Gunny Sack here.)
2.) Another clever idea from thegunnysack.com is to reuse a jar and fill with items that your Valentine would like (i.e. lip balm, body scrub, chocolates, perfume, etc.).
All of these eco-loving Valentine gifts are sure to show your passion for people and planet.
Spread the eco love to those you love!!
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