A Sustainable & Healthy Lifestyle

We’re on a mission to inspire sustainable and healthy living, because we want to encourage lifestyle choices that benefit your health and our planet.

Our vision is to help others live a sustainable and healthy lifestyle that is accessible and affordable.

This vision underpins where we place our values:

~ Toxin Free

~ Minimal Waste

~ Ethical

~ Palm Oil Free

We believe people, planet and profit should be equally important for businesses, so we only partner with Australian independent brands whose values align with ours. Together we bring you a collection of quality lifestyle products that are safe for you, safe for the workers, and have a positive impact on our planet.

Each product on our platform meets our strict criteria:

Ingredients derived from plants and minerals only:

• No nano particles

Materials sourced from nature:

• Renewable: sustainable wood, bamboo, sugarcane, cork, rubber
• Infinitely Recyclable: glass, stainless steel, cast iron
• Strong and Durable: stoneware & ceramic
• Products made without toxic ink, paint or glue

Fabrics created from 95%+ renewable fibres and processed without harmful chemicals:

• Recycled Cotton
• Organic Cotton (GOTS certified)
• Hemp
• Linen
• Bamboo Linen (mechanically processed)
• Tencel Lyocell
• Mirum
• Jute
• Only plant based or low impact fibre reactive dyes

To minimise landfill waste, products must either be:

• Refillable: plastic free vessel & refill*
• Infinitely Recyclable: glass, aluminium*
• Compostable: at end of life
• All delivery packaging must be compostable

 * excludes caps and pumps

We and our brand partners operate with transparency, integrity and honesty.

Each brand on our platform provides assurance that their products are ethically made, either through regular audits or certifications including GOTS, Sedex, Fair Trade:

• Workers are of legal working age
• Workers are provided a safe working environment
• Workers have a legal labour contract and are paid a living wage

Products must be free from palm oil and palm derivatives.

As an ingredient found in around 50% of products on supermarket shelves, palm oil has developed a negative reputation due to the unsustainable way it’s being produced. To make way for palm oil plantations, huge areas of rainforest are destroyed which has implications on climate change, biodiversity and indigenous people. The palm oil industry has also long been associated with exploitative labour practices. Because of these issues there is a growing demand for more sustainable alternatives.

The Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was established in 2004 with the key mandate to “promote the production of sustainable oil palm through credible and enforceable standards” yet past violations by RSPO members suggest there is still a way to go in ensuring our planet is prioritised over profit.

For this reason, we don’t believe RSPO approved palm oil is a truly sustainable product, so Shop Small Collective only partners with brands that are palm oil free.