My love of all things Pangea began a few months ago. I was browsing the body care section of a Whole Foods when an end aisle display caught my eye. The display was full of these brown bottles, an array of such unique packaging design that I had to stop and look. I’d never heard of Pangea, so I filed the name away in my brain for later research. When I finally looked into the company last week, I was so impressed with them that I got really excited. I’m talking about the kind of excitement you feel when you’re playing Oregon Trail, and you go out to hunt, and you shoot a ton of buffalo, and you can’t carry it all back to your wagon, but you don’t care because that was AWESOME!
It all started as a simple quest to find a new face wash. I’m not smitten with my current one, so I looked on the Pangea website to see if I could find out more about their products. They make one face wash, their Egyptian Calendula and Blood Orange cleanser, and the name alone intrigued me. So I looked at the full list of ingredients, which they had provided on the site, and saw that the product was really clean. I had one question, about the soy lecithin, and so I sent them an email. I was answered that very day, by two separate people at the company, and I learned that this ingredient is an emulsifier and a preservative. While it’s true that it comes from soy, a notoriously genetically modified crop, Pangea uses only certified organic soy, and the farmers who produce it re-plant their crops every year from organic seed, keeping cross-pollination to a minimum.
Yeah, that’s a lot of science. So let me tell you more about the packaging! In addition to looking cool, it’s also very responsible. Their facial care is in pharmaceutical glass, which can be recycled essentially forever. Where they’ve used plastic, the company’s esthetician says that “the plastic bottles are made of HDPE 2 plastic for best plastic recycling (these can be recycled more times than any other type)”. And the sweetest thing I’ve heard all year is that the packaging for their bar soaps, made from 100% post-consumer recycled newspaper, will soon be embedded with seeds, so you can actually plant them. Are you hearing me? YOUR SOAP CONTAINER WILL GROW STUFF. How cool is that?
I have more to say about Pangea and its practices, so I’ll write more about them next week. Also, keep an eye out for this company in my product reviews, their products are even cooler than their practices. Stay tuned!
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