Repair Café Algarve
Repair Café Algarve is a project created and organized by Associação Benfazer. Its team of repairers participate in events throughout the Al…
Eco-friendly Products
Things made to last and made with care: cork accessories from Corkor, natural soaps from Hippocampus in Tavira, and eco-textiles from ECOVEST. Buying better, one object at a time.
Projects in this focus
Hippocampus Sabão
Hippocampus Sabão makes natural soap by hand in Tavira, Algarve, inspired by the seahorses of the Ria Formosa lagoon. It is working towards …
Bialógica – Mercearia a Granel
A bulk grocery in São Brás de Alportel, Algarve, selling organic, natural and ecological products and run on zero-waste lines.
Leafclean
LeafClean, in Faro, sells EU Ecolabel certified, cruelty-free cleaning products and runs a refill system to cut plastic waste. Its range inc…
Terra Lab
Terra Lab is a Portuguese online shop specialising in air plants (tillandsias), kokedamas and other plant-based products for sustainable hom…
Eco-friendly products from Portugal
Portugal makes a lot of things well and quietly: cork, textiles, ceramics, soap, olive oil. The producers here start from that industrial base rather than from an imported green concept, Some are old factories doing something new.
Sugo handweaves rugs from cork in Santa Maria da Feira. ECOVEST manufactures eco-textiles in Vila do Conde. Leafclean makes Ecolabel-certified cleaning products in Faro, Hippocampus makes soap in Tavira, and Mind the Trash and Maria Granel sell the results without packaging in Lisbon.
Certification is the one thing worth checking; the words on the label are unregulated, the marks on it are not. Related focuses: zero waste living, natural personal care and sustainable fashion. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.