We are genuinely interested in all the people we meet around the world. As a Foundation-owned company, we don’t answer to shareholders. We don’t pay dividends. What we earn goes back into the work, including interest-free loans to farming partners around the world who grow their ingredients in your products.
Many of the plants we use in our formulations grow in our company’s own biodynamic herb garden or in the fields of our Demeter-certified biodynamic farm, the Sonnenhof. But some of the botanicals we rely on don’t grow in our climate. For those, we seek out partners who share our standards and then we invest in them for the long term. Our organic macadamia nut, for example, comes from Kenya. Our shea butter partnership has been running for over 20 years.
These aren’t vendor relationships. They’re collaborations.
The conviction that investing in the people who grow things changes everything — that belief doesn’t stop at our farming partnerships overseas. In North America, it takes the form of The Giving Garden®: a program addressing food security nationwide, rooted in the same ethos as every partnership we build.
What we put back into the earth is as important as what we take from it.
At the foot of Mount Kenya, something remarkable grows — and has for over a decade. This is where we source two of our most treasured ingredients: organic macadamia nut oil and organic avocado oil, both from our partner LIMBUA and the network of 5,000 independent smallholder farmers they work with.
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Some of our most important ingredients weren't available in certified organic quality when we went looking for them. Rather than settle for conventional sourcing, our team traveled, researched, and built the partnerships needed to bring them to life. In India, that work yielded two global firsts: the world's first certified organic castor oil, and the world's first certified organic mango butter — both sourced through our long-standing partner, the Castor Products Company, led by Nanalal Satra. This partnership began in 2005. It continues today.
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Shea butter is women’s work in Burkina Faso. We have helped develop a certified fair trade and an certified organic project that now supports more than 4,000 women in this African country.
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The rose has been central to Dr. Hauschka since 1967. We use it in six different forms — because each preparation unlocks different properties, and the skin benefits from all of them. Essential rose oil, rose water, rose wax, oil extracts from dried petals, rhythmically processed fresh petal extracts, and rose hip extracts. Six expressions of one plant. Each chosen for what it alone can do.
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<p>Afghanistan is a stronghold of the opium trade. To offer people a sustainable alternative in order to protect their livelihood, Afghan farmers grow the Damask rose at the initiative of the German World Hunger Organisation. We support this project. Find out more</p>
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In Iran, fragrant roses grow at an altitude of over 2,000 meters. The Zahra Rosewater Company biodynamically cultivates them there with our help. Profits go to orphans via a foundation. Find out more
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The heat-resistant ice plant, a key ingredient of Dr. Hauschka Clinical Skin Care products, comes from South Africa. We visit Ulrich Feiter, who grows the ice plant and goes back a long way with WALA.
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