We offer items that make the world a better place.

When you choose to purchase products with handcrafted ingredients from the developing world, you are making a statement that the poor should get to participate fully and benefit from global trade. But more than that, you are giving a mother a dignifying work option that enables her to support her family. You are empowering an orphan to rebuild the economy of a country ravaged by genocide and disease. In short, you are helping the world become what it ought to be, an interconnected global family. That's our dream and that's what it means "to buy with a purpose."

Is there a better way?

Organic has become even more confusing in our industry. That is why we take a better approach. Over 70 percent of farms that were inspected to become certified organic growers have never been re-inspected! Your clients want Natural!

To create our amazing line of skincare we have had to look to the global community for some of the active ingredients. Because we are located in New Mexico we can source many ingredients from Los Pablanos Organic Farm or through their Co-Op network. They deliver up to 12 boxes to our lab every Monday.

We source as much locally to reduce our carbon footprint, but some things have to be sourced through our global network. We reach out to a lot of suppliers through micro-finance projects created by CARE and others. The projects are Fairtrade and specifically are created to support woman and girls in developing villages.

Our store is now a member of the Natural Products Association!

• 78% of those surveyed said there should be regulations/standards for natural homecare products
• 72% believe it's important that ingredients in homecare products are natural
• 73% are more likely to purchase a homecare product if they knew it was certified as natural.

Our Carbon Neutral Process leaves no footprint and our ingredients are the highest quality you can buy from local sources. We work with Los Poblanos Organic Farm to source lavender and other botanicals. We are the only private label company that has created a three-part certification process for our ingredients through eco~sacred organic certification™.

A to Z Sustainable Process
Our Social performance indicators cover 35 items to report on for workplace, human rights, suppliers, products and services. We are part of an international undertaking whose mission is to develop and disseminate globally applicable sustainability guidelines for voluntary use by organizations reporting on the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of their activities, products and services. The social dimension of sustainable products captures the impact of a manufacturer’s activity on society, including on employees, customers, community, supply chain, and business partners.

Organic Ingredients
Organic certification is a certification process for producers of organic food and other organic agricultural products. In general, any business directly involved in food production can be certified, including seed suppliers, farmers, food processors, retailers and restaurants. Requirements vary from country to country, and generally involve a set of production standards for growing, storage, processing, packaging and shipping. We use botanical ingredients certified by at least one of the organizations and the added step of visiting most our suppliers to personally oversee the process.

Zero Landfill Waste
We have taken steps to eliminate our waste as well as have no negative impact on the environment. Just like Subaru in Indiana we have adopted a Zero-Landfill Waste standard and recycle or reuse everything that comes through our lab.

We are Wind Energy Powered with 90 percent of our electricity coming from  PNM Sky Blue®

The New Mexico Wind Energy Center, the state's most ambitious renewable energy project, officially went online Oct. 1, 2003. The center is the seventh-largest wind generation project in the United States.

Located 170 miles southeast of Albuquerque and 20 miles northeast of Fort Sumner, the wind center is perfectly suited for eastern New Mexico's windy landscape. Power production does not require water, produce emissions or generate solid waste.

The wind center consists of 136 turbines, each standing 210 feet high. The facility can produce up to 200 megawatts of power, or enough electricity to power 94,000 average-sized New Mexico homes. Florida-based FPL Energy owns and manages the facility, while PNM purchases all of its output.

In May 2003, PNM was awarded the 2003 Utility Leadership Award from the American Wind Energy Association. The award recognized PNM's commitment to renewable energy and its contribution to the advancement of wind energy.

Our Organic Farm

We get natural and organic ingredients delivered to our lab weekly from the best sources in the South West. LPO farms 40 acres along the beautiful Rio Grande River Valley. Our original farm land is located on the historic Los Poblanos Ranch in Los Ranchos. In 2008, we added 30 acres in the Los Padillas area of ABQ's South Valley. Most recently, we started a farm in the Mesilla/Las Cruces area. With three farms along the Rio Grande valley, LPO takes advantage of distinct microclimates and grows/harvests 12 months a year for our members.

In addition to the wide variety of crops that we grow, we also work within a network of other sustainable farmers/ranchers from our region to help distribute their products. This ensures our customers will receive the widest selection of fruits and vegetables while gaining access to local meats, eggs, dairy, and other tasty staples year round.

We are working with several Micro Finance projects around the globe with CARE and other organizations.

Global Projects

Project Name:    Sustainable Farming Systems Extension (FASE)
Sustainable Farming Systems Extension (FASE) increases poor rural farmers' access to extension services on appropriate, viable and sustainable farming systems. Project interventions include a study to analyze the context, design and implementation of action research on community based extension systems and sustainable farming methods, and close collaboration with other NGOs to influence the implementation of new support mechanisms and extension policy. The current government policy does not sufficiently address farming systems support to small scale farmers, farmers' participation in decisions at district level, or support to community-based service delivery mechanisms including farmer to farmer extension. FASE builds capacity for NGO support mechanisms to sustainable farming systems development, and advocates to improve linkages and coordination between Ministry and NGOs at district and national levels.

Project Name:    Appropriate Technology Transfer for Bio-intensive Agriculture
Bio-farm proposes the promotion of environmentally friendly appropriate technology transfer in peri urban poor communities in Addis Ababa through a community based integrated approach. The intervention include capacity building through training and development of curriculum and instruction materials, strengthening of school committees, women groups and local level capacities, designing information and extension materials for farmers training. The partnership of CARE and Biofarm will also focus on strengthening the capacity of Biofarm in Addis Ababa through the provision of inputs for the center, the development of education materials and curriculum for peri urban and urban settings, and the education of peri urban and urban groups in appropriate technologies. Direct participants in the realization of the project will be 80 high school teachers, 10 kebele development agents and 90 women in three Kebeles/neighborhoods in Addis Ababa. The project will be run by Biofarm using its existing office and infrastructure.

Project Name:    Rural Microfinance Project
The Rural Microfinance project will develop the rural financial market and create and strengthen local financial structures, such as savings and loan. This project will improve agricultural, livestock and fishery production in rural communities. Helping communities learn to use local resources to help finance their productive activities, and providing them with training, technical assistance and other necessary services will lead to greater sustainability of improvements to the rural economy.

Southwest Ingredients

Although New Mexico is usually thought of as a state with very few flowers because of the arid conditions there are really many flowers that bloom in certain environments or under special conditions. Nearly all of these flowers are also very very drought tolerant. People who live in climates that have much more rainfall may find that some of these flowers will do well in their gardens especially in years when drought conditions prevail.

New Mexico is steeped in herbal history. No other region in all of North America can compare with its rich combination of ecology and cultures. Herbal healing has benefited the multicultural population of this region, where, over the centuries, Native American, Spanish and Anglo healers have combined their traditions of natural medicine. And still today the varied peoples of the northern New Mexico Mountains, around the Santa Fe National Forest, the lore of these plants survives, but oral tradition is fragile and much is in danger of being lost in the transfer of generations. And the interest in herbal remedies in today's health-conscious society has caused much overharvesting of these wild herbs and has put their survival and use by future generations in jeopardy.

In order to insure that these plants and the folk knowledge of their use survive, it is vital that we educate ourselves, learn to use them responsibly and preserve them for the future.