With Love From New York
December 10, 2020
12 Gift Ideas from B Corps Based in New York
This holiday season shop for your friends and family from local B Corps based in New York. In this gift guide, you’ll find a mix of food and beverages, clothing, reusable items, and more. Not only does this list highlight some wonderful B Corps, we’ve also indicated which are small businesses, womxn-owned, which focus on best worker practices, have committed to NetZero by 2030, and operate with a giving model.
Lavender Dream Plant Based Hand Soap
Price: $12.99
This soap gently cleanses, moisturizes and protects your hands and skin. It contains anti-bacterial Manuka essential oil harvested from a family-owned farm and soothing organic Argan oil, shea butter, olive oil, and aloe vera. Babo’s plant-based natural products for skin and hair are popular with Earth-minded customers of all ages.
Snowflake Calf Sock Gift Box
By Bombas
Price: $65
Bombas’s mission since day one has been to help those experiencing homelessness. That’s why for every item you purchase, Bombas donates an item on your behalf. Available in men’s and women’s sizes and colors, these Bombas Snowflake Calf Sock Gift Box is the perfect gift for providing comfort and warmth especially during the holiday season; and for every item purchased, a specially-designed item is donated to someone in need.
Kind Collection Apron
Price: $24.99
Add some kindness in the kitchen with these quick-drying linens made from 100% organic cotton and natural plant dyes. The apron and other products in the line are gentle on your skin, the planet, and your eyes — so you can treat the Earth and yourself with kindness. Full Circle creates home care products that promote health and order for people and the planet.
Indulgent Eight World-Changing Brownies
Price: $28
How can brownies be world-changing? When they’re the product of a business that pioneered Open Hiring — no background checks, no resumes, no interviews — to reduce barriers to employment. With that focus on future potential and opportunity, Greyston Bakery invests in its people and community, and makes some tasty brownies in the process. This assortment of eight brownies and blondies is delivered in a classic gift box.
Lactation Cookies and Free Happy Baby Expert Chat
Price: $14.99
As a tasty dairy-free snack, these cookies are made with oats, flax, brewer’s yeast, and a unique nutrient boost blend developed by an in-house team of lactation consultants. Happy Family also provides new parents with access to free live online support from lactation consultants and registered dietitians seven days a week.
Diaper Subscription
By healthynest
Price: $130
This subscription provides one month of EWG Verified, ultra soft diapers and wipes, paired with stage-based development activities and expert support, so parents can focus on connecting with their baby. With a mission to protect and enrich the full potential of every child, healthynest offers diapers, skin care, and cleaning products, plus an online resource library filled with information for parents and other caregivers.
Candle Getaway Set
By Keap Candles
Price: $94
Enjoy the scent of a change of scenery and with a choice of destination: summer sun or winter refuge? Keap designs candleholders so they can be repurposed, with plastic-free packaging and adhesive-free labels and wicks, and uses sustainable coconut wax for a clean and complete burn.
Solar Luci Color String Light
By MPOWERD
Price: $44.95
MPOWERD is on a mission to empower the 3 billion people around the world living without access to clean, reliable, and affordable energy. This mission is based in the company’s belief that everyone deserves access to clean, reliable, and affordable energy, no matter how or where they live, and that the Earth deserves a little more love, too. MPOWERD’s solar light sales fund solar lights in communities without access to the electric grid. This gift guide option is the Luci Color String Light, which is solar-powered, colorful, and always ready to hang. These string lights provide 6 colors of ambiance across an 18-foot cord. Powered by the sun, and with mobile charging, these lights are perfect for illuminating your space.
Holiday Hot Sauce 3-Pack
Price: $18.99
From its base in the Bronx, Small Axe Peppers purchases peppers from community gardens all over the United States. Your purchase directly supports these gardens and their many positive endeavors. With this limited-time offer, you can try all three of the Small Axe Peppers Hot Sauces featured on “Hot Ones” The Bronx Hot Sauce, Habanero Mango, and The Chicago Hot Sauce.
Cocktail Inspired Soap
Price: $16
Add the scent of spirits to your bath with these soaps made with olive oil that’s mild on skin, plus natural glycerin that pulls in moisture in and calms the senses. (It’s still BYOB as none of the soaps actually contain alcohol.) This set of two is made by Danielle Martin, who leads a Black-owned, woman-owned “soap distillery” on the northwest side of Chicago.
Zero Waste Kitchen Kit
By ZeroWaste.com (Recycle Track Systems)
Price: $80
This Zero Waste Kitchen Kit was curated with products designed to help you reduce your waste consumption within your kitchen and created by small business and women owned brands that have made sustainability a key part of their business practices.
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