Eco-Friendly Gift Ideas for the Whole Family
Photo via The Citizenry
Shopping for gifts for the whole family? Look no farther than Jejune’s list of eco-friendly holiday gifts! Within this feature you can find the perfect gifts for mom, pop, grandma, and your crazy aunts and uncles. For your stocking stuffers make sure to check out the Conscious Step sock collection and Nailtopia, which sells environmentally responsible nail polish. Looking to profess your undying love this holiday season? We have collected a few responsible jewelry brands that are using recycled materials or finding new innovative ways to leave the world better than they found it. For instance, Nikki Reed’s Bayou With Love has the perfect collection of rings for a holiday proposal. Then, make sure to wrap up your each gifts in recycled wrapping paper from Wrappily! Under each brand is a specific gift idea, but feel free to shop around each website to find the perfect gift for you and your family. From our team here at Jejune, we want to wish you all a happy, safe, and ethical holiday season!
Gift Idea: Shop Luna & Rose’s Motherhood Collection for the perfect holiday gifts for Mom.
Price Range: $$$
About the Brand: Luna & Rose is a sustainable jewelry and apparel brand based in Bali. They use recycled silver and implement a golden giveback program where customers can send in their old jewelry from any brand to be repurposed. A list of factories and jewelry makers can be found on their website.
Gift Idea: Bubble Tea Kit
Price Range: $
About the Brand: Flavor Purveyor’s Bubble Tea Kit is Gluten Free and Vegan, perfect for your eco-friendly Bubble Tea enthusiast. Flavor Purveyor was founded by Dustin and Katie Watts, who discovered their mutual love of tea on their first date. Their crew is based in Atlanta, GA and working towards bringing botanicals back in the tea making industry.
Gift Idea: Protect the Planet Gift Box
Price Range: $
About the Brand: Conscious Step is One Percent for the Planet business. Each pair of socks supports a certain charitable initiative, with the purchase of a pair the brand donates to that charity. The socks are made from Fair Trade, GOTS, and Vegan Certified materials and created in ethical workplaces that empower the surrounding community.
Gift Idea: The Pakt One Travel Bag
Price Range: $$$
About the Brand: The Pakt One Travel Bag is created in a minimalist and versatile design, so customers can maximize its usage. As travel restrictions begin to ease, this gift will be perfect for the jetsetter in your life. Pakt’s products are made in fair working conditions, with eco-friendly materials. The brand utilizes plastic free packaging in collaboration with SeaHive.
Gift Idea: Jake’s House Eau De Parfum, described on the Henry Rose website as, “Watery clean freshness encounters honeyed neroli for a light and clean musky finish.”
Price Range: $$$
About the Brand: Henry Rose is an Cruelty Free, EWG Verified, and Cradle to Cradle Certified company, ultimately meaning the brand stands for health, transparency, and good manufacturing practices. Their bottles are made from 90% recycled glass, and are 100% recyclable. Their caps are made from sustainably sourced and compostable soy. Finally, their boxes are made from recycled corrugated paper and are recyclable.
Gift Idea: Seasonal Box Membership
Price Range: $$
About the Brand: Boxes are filled with sustainable products that support women and promote community engagement. Categories that are included within the box include accessories and jewelry, clean skincare, homewares, and more! Every seasonal box includes 6-8 eco-friendly products that meet strict environmental guidelines. For each box that is shipped, a tree is planted by Grow Ahead, an agroforestry project.
Gift Idea: Shop the Holiday Collection or Nikki’s Gift Guide.
Price Range: $$$
About the Brand: Bayou With Love was founded and still run by designer, actress and environmentalist Nikki Reed. The brand makes jewelry using recycled gold, including gold recovered from discarded technology through their partnership with Dell technology. Bayou with love sells rings that are perfect for a holiday proposal.
Gift Idea: Nailtopia Two Bottles Three Looks Kit
Price Range: $
About the Brand: Nailtopia creates nail polish that is 100% vegan, non-toxic, and made from superfood ingredients. Customers also have the option to buy blueberry, orange, raspberry, and spinach nail polish where the ingredient reflects the color of the polish. Nailtopia is certified Cruelty Free by Leaping Bunny Program and their bottles and packaging are fully recyclable.
Gift Idea: Shop the brand’s Alpaca Throw Collection.
Price Range: $$$
About the Brand: The Citizenry blankets are made from natural fabrics and artisanal made. The brand’s production is Fair Trade Certified, meaning the artisans earn a fair wage and 10% of proceeds are invested back into the artisan community under Fair Trade standards. The Citizenry employs artisans from Ghana, Guatemala, Turkey, Colombia and more. A full list of artisans can be found on the brand’s website.
Gift Idea: Wireless Charger
Price Range: $$
About the Brand: Terracycle’s wireless charger is made from 100% recycled content, including materials collected through TerraCycle recycling programs. Terracycle is a national organization that collects post-consumer recycled materials from big brands and repurposes them into pellets to be added into other materials.
Gift Idea: Shop Ten Thousand Villages Holiday collection. We particularly love their assortment of musical instruments.
Price Range: $$
About the Brand: At Ten Thousand Villages, each of their products are Fair Trade Certified. Their Holiday Collection includes a variety of musical instruments, such as a wood spinning tops, red madal drum, tanuni seed rattle, joyful tambourine, flower flute, andean panflute, ocean sounds drum, happy rhythm hand drum, and summer groove hand piano. Great for children and adults alike.
Gift Idea: Holiday Recycled Wrapping Paper
Price Range: $
About the Brand: Wrappily’s holiday prints are printed on recycled newspapers in a variety of double sided, fun, and customizable designs. The materials are 100% compostable and recyclable. Invest in some wrapping paper that your friends and family won’t want to tear apart.
We hope you were able to find some beautiful and eco-friendly gifts for your family and friends. Once again, we wish you all a happy and safe holiday season!
