2021 Year in Review

Year in review ahead.

We don't need to get too sentimental, but the end of the year is always a good time to reflect on what you've achieved and where things should head next. So, here it comes:

196 286 m² of wildflower meadow is what we've already managed to create with our cosmetics. That's a whole lot of flowers and huge areas for bees and insects to find food, shelter and a habitat.

More numbers? Our tins were refilled 16 705 times. Thanks to the refills, not only could 534,5kg of tinplate be saved, but also loads of plastic compared to conventional, non-refillable cream.

While our firstborn, the Daumenschmaus with beeswax, is still your favourite, the vegan counterpart keeps catching up more and more. Even though the vegan Daumenschmaus only joined later, 29% of the Daumenschmaus you bought are already vegan. There's been plenty going on in the team too.

Things are moving in our supply chains as well. As you know, we're working step by step on sourcing our ingredients directly. So far that was only the case with the beeswax, but good news: we've now managed it with our olive oil and the cocoa butter too. We now get our organic olive oil from Greece, from olive oil farmer Chrys. The cocoa butter from Peru we now source from the cocoa cooperative of our friends at Elimba. All organic and all direct. We've got plenty more in the pipeline for the new year, but that's a slow process, of course.

Besides our founders, this year we brought on our first 2 permanent employees (Nini and Lukas). But to keep producing enough, we needed plenty more helping hands. Our team is now 13 people strong.

You'll hear something very soon about our goals, especially when it comes to our products. You can always find the latest news on that here.

Until then, see the year out well and look forward to 2022.