O Granel da Sofia
O Granel da Sofia is a Lisbon-based bulk grocery and eco shop selling packaging-free food, natural personal care items and sustainable toys.…
Natural Personal Care
What you put on your skin, made honestly: natural soaps from Hippocampus in Tavira, botanical care from Green Embassy, and the bulk shop Bialógica in the Algarve. Simple ingredients, no greenwash.
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Mind the Trash
Mind the Trash is Portugal's first zero-waste online store, founded in Lisbon in 2017, and sells sustainable, organic and plastic-free produ…
Green Embassy
Green Embassy is a Lisbon-based botanical company that designs, installs and maintains indoor plant environments for offices, hotels and hom…
Natural personal care in Portugal
Soap, oil and honey are things this country already produces well, so the personal care shelf is one of the easier ones to fill locally. The harder part is the vocabulary: natural, botanical and clean mean nothing legally, while the ingredient list means everything.
Hippocampus makes handmade soap in Tavira. Beesweet produces hive products in the north and Quinta Vale do Tourão works from an organic farm near Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo. Bialógica, Green2You and Mind the Trash sell refills, and Green Embassy works the botanical side from Lisbon.
Buying refillable and buying local solve most of the packaging problem at once. See also plastic-free alternatives, herbalism and eco-friendly products. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.