Journal
Every little bit about our soaps and shampoo bars.
Up and running for a few years now, Terra Viva is a Portuguese cosmetics brand founded by Teresa and Mário. They are based and work in Mafra, in a beautiful warehouse. Their business started from the passion for making innovative and natural bath, aromatherapy and skincare products.
Their brand is committed to creating high-quality products, having spent 4 years to get a more ethical production process. However, this is a never-ending journey, aiming to always search for premium ingredients to improve their offer.
Terra Viva’s products are not tested on animals, being cruelty-free. Some of them may contain these animal products: honey, goat milk, beeswax, and eggs. Nevertheless, there’s also a range suited for vegetarians and that doesn’t feature palm oil.
Teresa and Mário’s main priority with their business is to produce the best product possible without jeopardizing or costing nature’s wellbeing. In this way, all the ingredients used are biodegradable.
These also have a zero-waste production process where, for example, the production remnants from the soaps are used for decorating and coloring other soaps.
All their products are handmade, and its production requires little electricity and water. Its products are curated to protect and preserve both our skin, our body’s largest organ, and the planet.
Our partnership with them started when we were both participating in Princípe Real’s market. Their products really caught our eye, so we decided to try them and we were instantly blown away. Its quality was so outstanding that we partnered up and continued promoting their wonderful products until this day.
We began from selling their natural soaps to now having 5 new shampoo bars available. These combine our favorite scents with Teresa’s mastery skills.
Solid shampoo is an alternative way of washing your hair that doesn’t require a single-use plastic bottle. Thus, very aligned with our zero-waste and sustainability ethos.
Balancing form and function, each shampoo bar was curated for a specific hair type: oily hair, combination hair, sensitive scalp, regular & dry hair, straight, thin & damaged hair.
