One question, four answers

Whether you make something yourself, take a finished product off the shelf or swap a
plastic board for a wooden one, the same question sits underneath. Can this be
better, with materials I can name and fewer of the chemicals and microplastics
I can’t see? That question is what the whole of Homemade Haven grew from.

Homemade Haven  · make it yourself

The DIY foundation and the home of the recipe bank. Every ingredient in the recipes
is here in household sizes, with plain descriptions of what each one does. The
signature essential oil blends live here too. Making it yourself gives you the
most: the lowest cost, full control over every ingredient and the freedom to
scale up or down.

Havenmade  ·  have it made

Not a separate brand, a service. The same recipes, made by hand to order, for
people who want the result without the work. Every Havenmade product uses the
same ingredients as the DIY range, exactly what you’d have used yourself.

The ranges  · choose a finished product

My own ready-made products, a separate side of the business, three ranges each for a different part of the home. Each keeps its own look and links to its own
collection.

SafeHaven, cleaning.

A clean home without the synthetic smell, powered by the Lift, Clarity and Bloom blends, where every oil does real work in the formula.

TerraPure, skin.

Personal care and skincare, home of
the Botanic family: Ember, Light and Soothe, all safe on leave-on skin.

Cradle & Collar, nursery and pets.

The gentlest end of the range. Where scent is involved it is made for the air,
never the skin. Home of Hush.

eco-swaps  · change the materials  (comingsoon)

The next step: everyday alternatives to the plastic most households use without
thinking. Organic cotton produce bags, glass food storage, wood and bamboo
kitchen tools. None of it asks for a lifestyle overhaul. The full story is on Our Journey.

A note on packaging

You might have caught a contradiction. I make the case for less plastic, and some
of my own products still come in it. When I started I wanted everything in
glass; it felt like the honest choice and I held to it as a rule. Reality taught me something more useful. Glass is heavy to post and it breaks, and it breaks where we use it most: a spray bottle gripped with wet hands, a cleaner
that shatters on a hard floor. So I let the rule go and kept the principle
underneath it. Use the right material for the job, make it to be refilled and
never make it to be thrown away.

The oils and blends stay in amber glass, always. Citrus and alcohol break plastic
down, so there it isn’t a preference, it is chemistry. Anything that sits on a
shelf or a vanity stays in glass too, where the weight and the light protection
both earn their place. The spray bottles and bathroom products live with wet
hands and hard floors, so there I use amber rPET, recycled plastic that blocks
light the way glass does and won’t shatter where shattering matters. It is
recycled before it reaches you, kept off the oils and actives where leaching
would matter, and built to be refilled. A container refilled is always better
than a container replaced, whatever it is made of.