Health Beauty & Wellness Awards 2023 | 7 herbal contents. Furthermore, the solid shampoos are all manufactured using water-free technology. This means that no water is added in the entire production process. This not only protects the environment, it also completely dispenses with harmful preservatives. The cold-pressing process completely preserves all the valuable ingredients of the highquality raw materials used, such as the natural organic raw materials which are obtained directly from small cooperations in Ghana and South America. The additional proceeds from this fair trade directly benefit the local families and improve their working and living conditions. “With our work, we support the environmental organisation Ozeankind e.V., which campaigns against the increasing pollution of the world's oceans,” continues Christian. “Duschkind Naturkosmetik stands for sustainable and environmentally conscious living, whereby profit is not the main focus. No preservatives, palm oil, silicones or sulphates are used in our products. All products are vegan, animal testing free, handmade and fully biodegradable. In addition, we do not use any plastic at all, be it for our packaging or for shipping.” Sustainability is one of the company’s most important focuses and forms the key element of its entire ethos. Refraining from creating a mountain of plastic waste, something that applies to both sales and the manufacturing process, Duschkind utilises natural materials for its packaging such as sisal bags and wooden boxes. Economical packaging, such as wooden packaging, is well suited for household use. Smaller things such as hair ties or the like can be accommodated into it, and the firm creates incentives to avoid plastic packaging for a cleaner environment. “For a long time, we thought about more sustainability together with friends, relatives and acquaintances,” Christian elaborates. “Our families today live without plastic products. In our own household we use wood and glass as storage containers. The economical wooden packaging fits harmoniously into our ambience. This means we lead a life where we can do without plastic packaging. Our opinion is very clear: It can also be done without plastic!” Within the cosmetics industry, there is a huge trend towards becoming more ecologically sustainable, which will become more and more important in the coming years. Christian believes that Duschkind is already several steps ahead of the game with its water-free production and the fact that it attaches great importance to sustainability. As well as this, the fair trade of raw materials, also promoted at Duschkind, will also become more and more important. One of the biggest challenges for Christian and the Duschkind team recently, in the last 12 months in fact, was to find a cosmetic jar that is 100% biodegradable and does not produce microplastics. “We have been working on this topic for a very long time and have just the umpteenth jar worldwide in our shop that can really be completely biodegraded,” he states excitedly. “We are very proud of this and want to offer many more products here now. Above all, it is important to us that we manage without plastic packaging in distribution and without the use of plastic in production.” Within the Duschkind culture, each and every team member has a vision to leave their children with a planet worth living on, something that is echoed from management all the way down. “Profit is not our first priority!” enthuses Christian. “We want to leave our children a clean environment and a planet worth living on. We want this planet to be a place where later life is still possible!” Recently, in recognition of the good work, dedication and commitment of Christian and all the team at Duschkind, the firm was rewarded with not one, but two, prestigious accolades in the Health Beauty and Wellness Awards, these being: Best Sustainable Shampoo & Cosmetics Brand 2023 – Germany, and Best Sustainable Cosmetic Products Manufacturer 2023 – Germany. Its strong sense of sustainability and love for the environment has not simply won awards for the company, it has also won it the loyalty of its customers and fans the world over. Of late, Duschkind has been getting a lot of customers through word-of-mouth recommendations from other customers, due to its offering of allergy-free products which marks it out once again as having yet another unique selling point in the natural cosmetics sector. Now, as the future looks set to become more and more environmentally aware, with sustainability at the core of more and more companies’ business models, it seems that Duschkind really is one giant leap for mankind ahead of the game. Currently expanding into the European market, with both France and Italy now under its belt, it is only a matter of time before Duschkind sees its vision of a greener place to live coming to fruition. “Finally, we can realise our dream of offering natural products that are free from harmful substances and biodegradable.” Contact: Christian Vogt Company: Duschkind GmbH Web Address: www.Duschkind.de
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