Trusted brands using certified ethical and sustainable business practices.
Helinta Eco produces handmade soap, lotions, scrubs, face masks, and other personal care products from natural ingredients. They provide employment opportunities to women in the Kottawa area and offer above average pay and benefits. Helinta Eco prioritizes packaging that is biodegradable, reusable or recyclable.
Hello Homestay offers vegetarian homestay accommodation near Koggala lake in southern Sri Lanka and is committed to environmental responsibility and animal welfare. Their tiny homes are surrounded by nature, built from reclaimed materials, and outfitted with upcycled furnishings. They segregate and recycle waste, monitor and offset carbon, and plant trees and flowers to provide wildlife habitat. Hello Homestay hires locally and organizes clothing donation drives for the local community. They volunteer at a nearby animal shelter and care for rescue animals on their property.
HelpAge Sri Lanka raises awareness of the contributions older people have made to society, advocates for elders' right to healthcare, social services, and economic and physical security, and provides direct services to disadvantaged senior citizens to improve their quality of life. They offer free mobile medical camps and eye care camps, Ayurveda centers, cataract surgeries, mobility equipment, daycare centers, and home care. They also coordinate senior citizen clubs throughout the country, provide skills enhancement and livelihood support, and train young people in inter-generational empathy and home care services. HelpAge Sri Lanka was established in 1986 based on the recommendations from the first World Assembly on Ageing. They are a founding member of the HelpAge International global network and part of the National Council for Elders in Sri Lanka. HelpAge Sri Lanka is registered as a not-for-profit organization and reinvests all surplus towards their mission.
Help Local with Love was started to support artisans that lost part of their income due to the pandemic or other crises. They purchase handmade housewares, toys, bags, and accessories at fair prices, ship them to the Netherlands, and sell them online. Priority is given to natural, locally sourced, and upcycled materials and traditional techniques. Help Local with Love is known for their green Tamegroute pottery, reed baskets, handwoven cotton rugs, and traditional leather bags from small rural communities in Morocco and their coconut shell spoons and bowls from people with disabilities in Sri Lanka. They donate to charities focused on poverty reduction and social inclusion like Stichting MoralCompassNL and Friendship Foundation.
Henna Booth applies temporary tattoos called mehendi using a natural dye that’s produced from henna leaves. Henna is an antimicrobial medicinal plant with cooling properties. Shaziya, the artist behind Henna Booth, wants to share this traditional art with customers and enable them to be part of the mehendi experience
Henna Goalz educates people about the sacred and cultural practice of using natural plant-based ingredients to create temporary and safe body art. They offer henna and jagua application services and natural mehendi cones. Their henna is made from medicinal henna leaves and essential oils, and the jagua is made from an Amazonian fruit with a blue black dye. No paraphenylenediamine (PPD), synthetic colors, or other harmful additives are used. Henna Goalz aims to provide a therapeutic experience for clients. They train students on the cultural aspects of henna and the role of art in alleviating stress and promoting wellbeing.
Her Active creates activewear in South Africa and empowers women and girls to be active, healthy, and confident changemakers committed to breaking the gendered cycle of poverty through job creation and investment in female health. Their leggings, sports bras, and other products are made from recycled materials by women at The Sewing Cafe in Masiphumelele. Each purchase supports ActivateHer, a sports program for girls in underserved communities that promotes physical health, body positivity, life skills, and female empowerment.
Herali produces jackfruit kottu and other healthy jackfruit dishes from sustainably sourced local ingredients. Jackfruit is highly nutritious, but it often goes to waste in rural areas where production is high and market values are low. Herali sources jackfruit directly from low income families in the Morawaka area and provides fair trade prices.
Heray Spice aims to connect people to the rich culinary heritage of Afghanistan, supply ethically sourced spices to kitchens worldwide, foster sustainable farming, empower farmers, and create positive social impact. They specialize in single-origin saffron threads and saffron powder sourced from the Heray farmer cooperative and processing facility in Herat and shipped from their fulfillment center in Chicago. Heray Spice promotes saffron cultivation as a profitable alternative to poppy farming. They know each farmer in the cooperative by name, provide training and support services, follow fair trade principles, and offer above-market prices, on-time payments, and profit sharing. Heray Spice contributes a portion of their profits to the Heray Education Fund to support the education of Afghan women. They are a member of Chicago Fair Trade.
Herbs & Petals is a woman-headed enterprise that makes fresh food and drinks from local fruit, king coconut, herbs, spices, and other natural ingredients. They source directly from small-scale farmers and home gardeners and encourage them to grow without synthetic agrichemicals. Herbs & Petals tries to minimize production costs and provide nutritious products at rates that would be affordable to workers and suppliers. They use 7.5 percent of profits to maintain a workers' fund for medical needs, pilgrimages, and school supplies for children. They also regularly donate king coconuts and natural drinks to patients in the National Cancer Unit of the Maharagama Apeksha Hospital.
Her Dream Initiative aims to empower girls and women in Nigeria and beyond, curb discriminatory and harmful practices, and create a safe space for women and girls to dream through advocacy, education, and community engagement. They publish articles, organize campaigns, and host events and outreach programs to bring together stakeholders and explore critical issues at the intersection of women's rights, social development, and health equity. Her Dream Initiative provides a sexual violence survivor guide to educate girls on reporting sexual violence, hosts a podcast discussing women's issues within various legal frameworks, and maintains a domestic violence responders directory for individuals experiencing abuse in Nigeria, including toll-free helplines, codes, and apps for callers in rural areas. They are a member of Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO) and UNESCO Global Youth Community. Her Dream Initiative is a not-for-profit organization and reinvests all surplus towards their mission.
Hereditary Herbals was founded by a fourteenth-generation Ayurvedic doctor to provide affordable traditional healthcare. They offer herbal medicines, teas, and personal care products and provide Ayurvedic consultations and treatments from their center in Thalduwa, Sri Lanka. Hereditary Herbals focuses on managing chronic conditions and supporting wellbeing without side effects or invasive procedures. They source medicinal herbs that are harvested locally or imported and certified by the Sri Lankan Department of Ayurveda. Hereditary Herbals is developing a bottle return system to prevent plastic waste pollution.
Here We Flo offers natural period care, bladder care, and sexual wellness products for life's messiest moments. Their FLO line of tampons, pads, liners, and period pants and their glo line of bladder pads and liners are made from sustainably sourced materials including Oeko-Tex certified, edge-grown bamboo, GOTS certified organic cotton, and sustainably sourced BCI cotton. They use compostable plant cellulose for their wrappers, sugarcane biopolymer for their applicators, and FSC certified cardboard for their outer packaging. All products are free from synthetic fibers, pesticide residues, bleach, dyes, fragrances, and other unnecessary additives. Their XO! line of condoms is made from natural latex rubber that is sourced through the Regenerative Rubber Initiative, processed in a solar-powered factory, and certified Climate Neutral through ClimatePartner. Here We Flo has a climate positive work force through Ecologi and donates five percent of profits to charities fighting period poverty and female genital mutilation including Bloody Good Period, AKT, and The Orchid Project. They are an accredited Living Wage Employer and certified PETA Cruelty Free.
Heritage offers organic certified herbal tea, green tea, and Ceylon black tea. They partner with Bio Foods and Ahinsa, ethically source from small-scale farmers, and contribute two percent of all sales to ecological tea garden development programs. The products are under USDA organic certification from Control Union.
Herman Collection aims to reduce resource consumption and waste by promoting reuse. They specialize in antiques and secondhand housewares include brass and bronze pots, lamps, oil lamps, bells, trays, cups, and stone carvings. Herman Collection encourages people to value traditional handmade crafts and maintain them over time.
Hermanos Brothers is a creative platform focused on the design and production of artistic projects for social change. They aim to inspire, raise awareness, and empower people to come together and address the social, environmental, and cultural challenges we face both locally and globally. According to the particular needs of a project, they bring together film, music, visual arts, theater, crafts, creative technologies, and other artistic tools and formats. Hermanos Brothers creates this dynamic interdisciplinarity through a participatory, cocreative process that draws on a network of local, national, and international collaborators. Together, they develop unconventional and memorable experiences that directly reach the senses and the hearts of their audiences. Hermanos Brothers is registered as a not-for-profit organization and offers affordable services to vulnerable and low-income groups. They are part of Next Leaders’ Initiative for Sustainability (NELIS) Global and Socialab.
Good Market is a curated platform that brings together people creating a better world. All of the vendors on the site have been through an application and review process to ensure they meet Good Market standards and are good for people and good for the planet.
Herveda Botanicals natural skincare and aromatherapy wellness products are formulated in Nepal using Himalayan herbs, traditional medicinal knowledge, and the lastest scientific innovations. The founder is an international research scientist who returned to Nepal after the 2015 earthquake and started studying the beneficial properties of local medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs), the unfair distribution of profits in herbal value chains, and issues within the skincare industry including the local dependence on imported products with harmful ingredients and a distorted, unrealistic perception of beauty. Herveda Botanicals sustainably sources raw materials directly from smallholder farmers and farmer cooperatives and uses energy efficient processes to produce extracts, essential oils, serums, creams, moisturizers, and more. They pack their collections in handmade lokta paper boxes and collect back containers for sterilization and reuse. Profits are reinvested in Udeshya to support science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education for underprivileged girls from remote areas of Nepal.
Hey Girls is committed to ending period poverty in the United Kingdom. They believe that access to period products is a right, not a privilege, so for every pack of plastic-free period products that they sell, they give a pack away to a UK girl or young woman in need. Hey Girls works with more than 200 community organizations, home shelters, food banks, charities, and other donation partners to ensure that the donated products reach the people who need them most. Conventional period products contain up to 90 percent plastic and account for 200,000 tons of waste per year. Every Hey Girls product is produced ethically from environmentally responsible materials. They offer options for everyone: biodegradable pads made from bamboo and corn fiber, organic certified tampons, and reusable menstrual cups, pads, and pants. Hey Girls launched the Period Dignity campaign to make free period products in the workplace the norm. Through partnerships with private sector employers, their products are now available in staff toilets throughout the UK. For the public sector, they offer bulk buying rates that make it possible to secure government contracts and supply local councils, libraries, schools, colleges, and other public spaces with plastic-free products. Hey Girls is registered as a community interest company and is a member of Social Enterprise Scotland and Social Enterprise UK.
Hey Good Thing offers a curated range of for-purpose gift boxes and hampers from social enterprises and B Corps. Each gift contributes to positive impact and addresses key social and environmental challenges like disability employment, supporting refugees, providing clean water, planting trees, and addressing ocean pollution. Gifts are sent in environmentally responsible packaging including Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified tissue, biodegradable box fill, and home compostable stickers and shipping mailers. Hey Good Thing donates 10 percent of every sale to support United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) initiatives. They are a member of Queensland Social Enterprise Council (QSEC) and Social Change Central.