Authentic Roots designs and produces eco and animal friendly bespoke gifts as well as plantable children’s story books.
Our products range from stylish iPad/tablet sleeves, eco-design journals and customised accessories – all created using new-age pineapple leather (Pinatex) or recycled plastic PET bottles, as well as earth-friendly cotton totes and eye pillows. Plantable childrens story books, are educational and are handmade using recycled and lettuce seeded paper. All our products are produced locally, providing an income to local artisans and unemployed community members.
Authentic Roots Founder, Tanya van Rees, is a passionate humanitarian who cares for the earth and all sentient beings. She believes that good business supports local communities and lifts local talent, while also committing to sustainable solutions for the good of the environment.
​We take inspiration from nature and from a philosophy that we should live more consciously, together.
Pineapple leather is created by felting the long fibres from pineapple leaves together to create a non-woven substrate. The substrate is made of natural fibres and polylactic acid fibres (PLA) which is 100% biodegradable.
This is not only eco-friendly but it is animal friendly and used as an alternative to leather. Also known as Vegan leather.
PET plastic is 100% recyclable, but bottles made with Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) will never biodegrade. The plastic is collected crushed and then shredded into small flakes which are then reprocessed and spun into polyester fiber. Our products support this process and thereby saving our land and oceans from plastic waste.
100% Cotton is sustainable, renewable, and biodegradable, making it an excellent choice as an environmentally-friendly fibre throughout its entire product life cycle.
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August 26,2019
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