We believe in compassion and sustainability, so vegan and cruelty-free was a logical choice! The Impact Botanicals’ founder is vegan, and many of our staff are vegan or plant-based. Our vegan products are often made by vegan humans! 

Our ingredients are USDA certified organic because – let’s be honest – there’s nothing eco-friendly, sustainable, or healthy about poisoning the soil with pesticides.

Occasionally, an ingredient that is difficult to certify is included in a product. These are almost always made from a tree or resin, and thus tricky for the USDA to certify as organic. But this is noted in the description and on the labels, and we are still quite selective in choosing a high grade from a trusted company.

Part of the Impact Botanicals business philosophy is to invest in the community. This means that we have stakeholders instead of shareholders. Whereas a shareholder’s first priority is economic gain, stakeholders have a vested interest in community betterment and growth.

Stakeholders are employees, neighbors, teachers, customers, city councilors, and so on. As much as we function as a retail store and a provider of herbal body care products, we strive to be a resource for our stakeholders. Whether a person buys our products, works for us, has a family member employed by us, or just engages in conversation for education’s sake, as a community, we have a vested interest in our mutual success.

Falling in line with the communal philosophy, Impact Botanicals puts people over profits. This means that we, as a business, don’t believe in paying someone minimum wage.  We find that the concept of “minimum” wage to be inherently devaluing. so we pay living wages. If profits go up, everyone, top to bottom, shares in the bonus. The tide raises all boats!

Land Acknowledgement 

Impact Botanicals operates on land that belongs to the Wampanoag nation, commonly known as the Greater Boston area. Our founder grew up and began her Ayurvedic practice on land taken by the Treaty of St. Louis (1804) from the Chippewa, Ottawa, Potawatomi and the Ho-Chunk nation, still known by its indigenous name: Milwaukee. These nations not only had their land stolen, but also their medicines, traditions, and cultures. It is a privilege to live on this land; to practice medicine traditions when so many others could not historically, and are still denied access to their traditional medicines today.

We recognize that like many in our contemporary context, Impact Botanicals continues to benefit from the use and occupation of the land known as Turtle Island, colonially known at North America. Most of the herbs used in our products are grown in North America. Impact Botanicals is located near the North Atlantic ocean, an area rich in commerce and trade, with some of the best educational institutions in the United States. We directly benefit from the privilege of living in an area with ample social services, natural resources, economic opportunity, and great natural beauty; access to which native peoples are denied through intentional, multi-faceted, systemic obstacles.

Cultural Acknowledgement

This company is founded on principals and knowledge from Vedic culture. Under British colonial rule Ayurveda, yoga, and other Vedic teachings were formally and purposefully suppressed. Our ability to learn and practice Ayurveda is made possible by those who kept the traditions alive, saving texts from book burnings and practicing in secret, under the threat of punishment from the British Raj. We'd like to express our deep gratitude and appreciation for all the teachers who kept the traditions alive and for those who brought the medicine to the United States, enabling and empowering others with through the medicine, providing access to knowledge that was kept from so many others. Our founder is one of many who have benefited from the fortitude, perseverance, and generosity of these teachers. Her understanding of the medicine is through the lens of a North American white woman and does not equate to the wisdom or traditions practiced in their original South Asian, or diasporic, cultural context.