Making Cosmetics
A leading supplier of cosmetic ingredients and containers for making your own personal care products and decorative cosmetics. They sell both chemical and natural ingredients and have a whole section of free recipes, so you can “have it your way” and make your own formulations.
Solvent Free Paint
50 year paint made with the pressed linseed oil from organic flax seeds. This is what was used 100 years ago before chemical paint. Paint does not crack or peel protects wood from rotting, and comes in colors! Easy to maintain by applying the purified boiled linseed oil every 5-10 years. Also purified linseed oil, Linseed oil wax, linseed oil varnish, linseed oil glazing putty and linseed oil soap.
SolarRoofs.com
Solar water heaters for tropical, temperate, and even hard-freeze climates. Solar water heating “has always been the most cost effective renewable energy technology.”
Sodasan Cleaning Products
A full line of certified organic cleaning products made from fruits, vegetables & plants. Organically grown vegetable raw materials and comply with the strict organic certification standards set down by the European Union. The products also bear the Ecogarantie label, which attests to their compliance with international ecological standards. All products that come into contact with the skin have been dermatologically tested. No enzymes, chlorine-based ingredients or synthetic perfumes. 100% clean energy is used and carbon production is offset by funding reforestation projects worldwide. Vegan and not tested on animals. The line includes laundry soap, dish soap, soap bars, heavy duty scrub, general cleaning soap and bathroom cleaners.
Soaring Heart
Affordable, “quality, handmade natural beds and futons using all natural materials.” Choose from cotton (standard, green and organic) untreated wool and two kinds of 100% latex foam rubber (100% natural and an inert 70/30 blend of synthetic foam rubber and 100% natural foam rubber). Futons and innerspring mattresses come in all standard sizes (including Crib). They an also make custom sizes and help you choose materials to increase comfort for various body ailments. Also 100% cotton mattress pads, wool toppers, pillows, sheets, and handcrafted maple bedframes and furniture (can purchase unfinished). “We build our beds with laughter and love to give laughter and love. Try sleeping on that.”
Sinan Company
Importers of Auro brand paints and finishes, made in Germany from 100% natural ingredients. These paints and finishes are uniquely beautiful as they are made with plant oils and resins and colored with earth pigments.
Simmons Natural Bodycare
"Products for a natural and no-toxic lifestyle–soaps to shampoos, bodycare tools to natural fragrances, products for every season… We're part of a self-sustaining, single-family homestead in the rural mountains of North California. We raise fruit, vegetables, chickens, ducks, cats, and two dogs. Our organic gardens include the dried flowers and som of the herbs we use in our products. Come fall we harvest and preserve a large proportion of our food for the year. Our home and business are powered by renewable energy resources (Solar PV panels and a micro-hydro system for the wet winters)… We began crafting soaps to insure the mildness our family needed with our allergies and sensitivites. We soon discovered that other shared these needs. Since then we have been striving to make quality soaps and other natural personal care products avaiable for everyone." Soaps are wrapped in ecologically harvested papers and labeled with recycled paper that has been printed with vegetable-based inks.
The Silent Paint Remover
A paint remover system that utilizes infrared heat for removing multiple layers of paint, varnish, silicone, mastic glue etc. No toxic chemicals.
Shelburne Farms
“Since 1980, we have made a fine ‘farmhouse’ cheddar according to traditional methods, using only the raw milk from our purebred herd of Brown Swiss cows. The cheese is rGBH- and rBST-free and contains no artificial flavors, colorings, or preservatives. The American Cheese Society has consistently honored our cheddar with awards for excellence since 1990.” The farm also serves as an educational demonstration center that practices environmentally, economically and culturally sustainable rural land use. Their dairy cows are grass-fed on a pasture rotation, and their acreage of sustainably managed woodlands received Green Certification from the Forest Stewardship Council in 1998. The very interesting website has lots of information and pictures that explain their dairy and cheesemaking procedures.
Select Seeds
"A fabulous selection of unique, high-quality flower seeds and plants, specializing in old-fashioned fragrant varieties, flowering vines, and rare annuals. Many are hard-to-find heirloom flowers, passed from one generation to another." Website has inspiring full color photos of each variety.
