50+ Ethical & Eco Woman Owned Businesses to Shop
In honor of Women’s History Month I wanted to highlight some wonderful female founded businesses and why we should be supporting female entrepreneurs. Shop small and support woman owned businesses that share positive values.
Why supporting woman owned businesses matters?
According to The Guardian and State of Women Owned Business Report, women-owned businesses now represent 42% of all businesses – nearly 13 million – employ 9.4 million workers and generate revenue of $1.9tn. Women, on average, started 1,817 new businesses a day in the US between 2018 and 2019.
The growth of women owned businesses is inspiring, but women still struggle to compete with financing and resources for their small businesses.
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Capital with Strategy reports that while the growth of women-owned small businesses is rising, that number is still noticeably behind the growth rate of small businesses owned and operated by men.
One study shows that 71% of women-led small businesses are profitable while 80% of small businesses owned by men are profitable.
How women run businesses positively impact the community
Women owned businesses need your support as Capital with Strategy reported that these small businesses are essential for keeping local economies growing and brining new jobs into the communities.
With the rapid growth of these businesses, women in cities across the United States are helping to build vibrant and thriving communities.
As an article from the Houston Chronicle points out, patronizing a small business means putting money back into a local economy.
Local business taxes benefit everything from schools to fire departments to parks that make communities stronger, safer, and more fun places to live and raise families.
List of 50 Women Owned Small Businesses to Support
This list of woman owned small businesses is a great way to support female entrepreneurs that value ethics and sustainability.
Healthier Homes non-toxic furniture, paint, & decor
Healthier Homes is a one stop shop for creating a non-toxic home. This family owned company offers natural furnishings, organic décor, nontoxic paint, & all things healthier home.
Use the discount code HONEST for 10% off your Healthier Homes order!
Soulflower Print Co.’s Repurposed Tees
Soulflower Print Co. is a woman owned small business giving secondhand clothing a fresh look. Each thrifted clothing piece is carefully selected for quality and screenprinted with a vibrant design using water-based inks.
Each piece is one of a kind & tells a story!
BLK+GRN’s Eco-friendly Woman Owned Marketplace
BLK+GRN is an eco-friendly marketplace featuring all Black artisans and connecting people with natural lifestyles by featuring high quality, toxic-free brands. Use the discount code HONEST10 for 10% off your purchase.
Carry Courage Vegan Bags
Carry Courage is committed to creating eco-conscious bags with a purpose. All items are hand made to order in Portland, OR using cork.
Carry Courage bags are focused on providing organizing solutions for intentional women. Be sure to read my Carry Courage cork accessories review.
Ash & Rose Woman Owned Boutique
Ash & Rose is a woman owned ethical fashion boutique that believes in shopping thoughtfully. Ash & Rose carries a wide range of local and global brands that care about other people and the planet. Ash & Rose’s accessory selection features playful scarves, fair trade handbags, handmade necklaces, & more.
Uproot Design Eco-friendly Gifts & goods
UpRoot Design Studio is an independent small business owned by artist Julia Barry. UpRoot Design Studio offers sustainable products featuring vibrant hand-drawn designs. This small business prioritizes organic materials & fair trade practices.
UpRoot Design Studio plants a tree for every order and gives back 10% of profits to local farms, wildlife, & environmental justice orgs. Use the discount code HONESTCONSUMER for 10% off.
Whispering Winds Shop
Whispering Winds Shop is an Indigenous owned brand crafting soaps, handmade bracelets, smudge kits, and more. These makers grow and harvest herbs in their own Wisconsin Farms with traditional methods of offerings. All the products available at their shop are handmade in small batches. I personally LOVE their Rose soap.
Malia Designs Fair Trade Handbags & Accessories
Malia Designs is a socially responsible brand that sells fair trade handbags and accessories. Malia Designs products are handcrafted in Cambodia and every purchase helps to fight human trafficking.
As members of the Fair Trade Federation artisans are provided a safe work environment, fair wage, and positive community. Bags are crafted using responsible materials such as recycled cement bags, up-cycled cotton, & more.
The Good Tee’s Organic Cotton Clothing
The Good Tee is a sustainable clothing brand focusing on high quality Fairtrade Certified organic cotton t-shirts. This socially responsible brand allows ethical shoppers to easily learn about the transparent supply chain and trace the manufacturing process through videos and resources highlighting The Good Tee’s partner suppliers and the materials used.
Astor & Orion’s Low Waste Jewelry
Astor & Orion is on a mission to create modern, ethical jewelry that helps build a beautiful & fair future for us all. Astor & Orion jewelry is thoughtfully designed in Seattle & ethically made in Thailand.
This low waste jewelry brand uses recycled materials & designs accessories that can be endlessly recycled or composted to regenerate the earth.
Passion Lilie Fair Trade Clothing
Passion Lilie is a fair trade and eco-friendly apparel brand partnering with artisans in India to create sustainable employment opportunities.
Darzah’s Fair Trade Accessories
Darzah is a non-profit that is part of a project of Child's Cup Full, a non-profit women's economic empowerment initiative. Darzah’s work is focused in Palestine working to provide training and job opportunities for some of the most marginalized individuals in the northern region.
Darazah is a Fair Trade Federation member ensuring they treat their employees well, pay them fairly, and provide a safe working environment. Darzah’s products encompass beautiful stitching techniques combined with long lasting leather.
Malaika New York Women’s Fashion
Malaika New York is an ethical fashion brand that focuses on zero waste design and seasonless style. Their eco-friendly clothing is ethically made in partnership with a Turkish factory focused on sustainable production, fair wages, and safe working conditions.
Malaika New York uses sustainable materials such as GOTS or OEKO certificated cottons, deadstock fabric, ECONYL, and RWS certified wool.
Sustain by Kat’s Natural Clothing
Sustain by Kat creates high-quality, timeless basics made from 100% natural materials including organic cotton and linen. They source and craft all of their products ethically and with care, ensuring that each naturally-dyed piece contributes to helping both our planet and the people in it.
Kind Karma Jewelry
Kind Karma Co. is a meaningful, minimalist, social impact jewelry line empowering at-risk and transitioning homeless youth in Toronto.
Their unique jewelry is great for adding a touch of shine to any outfit while adding a bit of social impact to your accessory collection. Use the discount code THEHONESTCONSUMER for 15% off your purchase.
Paneros Slow Fashion
Paneros creates high quality, slow fashion styles in small quantity runs that are designed and crafted to last for years to come. This ethical brand uses dead stock fabrics and eco-friendly fibers to create their unique clothing and features beautiful, bold patterns in timeless designs.
Two Howling Labs Upcycled Clothes & Accessories
This Etsy shop was started by my own friend from college, Sofi!
Named after two Labradors, Two Howling Labs uses reclaimed materials, as well as thrifted or vintage clothes to make unique clothing and accessories like denim overalls with flower quilt blocks or bucket hats and bags made out of quilt remnants.
Jackalo Woman Owned Children’s Clothing Brand
Jackalo is a sustainable brand of children’s clothing that is ethically made and crafted to last. This kid’s clothing brand encourages parents to invest in high quality products for their children & take part in circular fashion.
POLITE'S CBD PRODUCTS
Polite is a woman and minority owned CBD brand founded on a mission to serve people by making cutting-edge cannabinoid products more accessible.
Polite uses clean and simple ingredients and all products are tested by third-party labs for your safety and wellness.
Fite Fashion Formal Wear
Fite Fashion is a woman owned formal wear brand that prioritizes ethics and sustainability. Fite Fashion creates gowns, dresses and separates that are made to order. This slow fashion brand uses natural eco-friendly materials such as silk and cupro. Fite Fashion’s high end formal wear is handmade in Philadelphia using fair labor practices.
Retrospecced Eyewear
Retrospecced is a mom and daughter owned social enterprise that recycles and refurbishes retro and designer spectacle frames.
Retrospecced donate 20% of their profits to Vision Aid Overseas, a nonprofit providing vision care for people in need in Africa. Use HONEST for 5% off.
Seyyah Jewelry Empowering Women
Seyyah creates detailed statement necklaces that empower women in Turkey. The limited edition necklaces are crafted with love and serve as a great conversation starter.
The Chayah Movement
The Chayah Movement sells, upcycles, and donate clothes with a focus on benefiting local non-profits who support foster youth and adults transitioning into the workforce.
Trade Street Jam Co.
Trade St. Jam Co. is a chef, woman and minority-owned and certified business that started in a tiny apartment in North Carolina on Trade Street.
Their vegan jams feature unique flavors. My personal favorite is the Blackberry Mulled Merlot.
The Arise Box
The Arise Box is a woman owned seasonal subscription box featuring ethical, sustainable, and fair trade goods while also giving back to survivors of human trafficking. The Arise Box uses 10% of profits to create care packages for survivors.
This give back box partners with safe homes around the USA to send the care packages to survivors while they are healing.
Hummingbird Candle Co.
Hummingbird Candle Co. prides itself on being a Black Woman Owned company that creates jobs for women (black women, white women, latina women, LGBTQ, women in their community. All candles are vegan, cruelty free and made in the USA with 98% coconut wax and 2% soy wax.
All Hummingbird Candles are hand-poured in recycled glass vessels and feature FSC Certified crackling wooden wicks. The candles feature essential oils that are paraben and phthalate free.
Sun Sprinkles Handmade Earrings
Sun Sprinkles is a woman-owned jewelry brand celebrating zero waste design. Each piece is one of a kind & handmade in Michigan. All excess materials are used and incorporated into other designs, not wasting any materials.
Twinkle Apothecary Vegan Beauty Products
Twinkle Apothecary is run by a incredible mom entrepreneur. This eco-friendly beauty brand focuses on sustainable packaging and mindful materials. All Twinkle Apothecary products are made with natural ingredients, PETA approved vegan, and eco-friendly. Products are ethically, handmade in Oklahoma City.
Slow Made Eco-friendly Candles
Slow Made renewable, vegan coconut wax candles are crafted for mindful, sustainable, slow living. The eco-luxe candles are handcrafted with a base blend of renewable, vegan coconut wax, a lead, and zinc free cotton wick, and phthalate-free fragrance infused with pure essential oils hand-poured in small batches in their Chicago studio.
My personal favorites are Ember and Serene. Use the discount code HONESTCONSUMER for 10% off your first order.
The Checkroom American Made Wool Coats
The Checkroom creates timeless & functional coats for women. This socially responsible brand partners with American Woolen, one of the few remaining wool mills in the United States to bring consumers USA-Made, wool/cashmere blend coats crafted to last. The coats are ethically made in Chicago & feature size inclusive options.
Seattle Candle Co. Soy Wax Candles
Seattle Candle Co. candles are hand-poured in small batches in a Seattle, WA studio. To create high-quality candles, this brand uses 100% soy wax, coconut oil and cotton and paper wicks, and skips the dyes, parabens and phthalates.
Seattle Candle Co. believes customers deserve long-lasting, clean-burning candles that fill their life with delightful scents.
Virechic Accessories
Virechic is working with artisans in Brazil to keep cultural and handicraft traditions alive by making handmade pieces using of recycled materials or natural fibers.
Flood Clothing
Flood Clothing works with recycled materials to create one of a kind zero waste style.
All clothes are ethically made in the USA!
Global Mama’s Artisan made Clothing
Global Mamas: As part of the Fair Trade Federation the Global Mamas community works together to create a life of prosperity for African women and their families through empowerment and employment. Global Mamas crafts their clothing with fair trade organic cotton to ensure high quality apparel.
Good Beads Jewelry That Gives Back
Good Beads jewelry is carefully crafted with a love for nature and sustainable materials. For each piece of jewelry sold, GoodBeads donates $5 to a partnering nonprofit focusing on wildlife & conserving the environment.
CocoaX’s Woman Owned Cocoa & Cold Brew Brand
CocoaX offers organic cocoa powder with the addition of espresso for an incredible flavor. This woman owned cocoa brand is certified organic, Kosher, and gluten free. CocoaX sources their ingredients from farms with ethical standards. Along with their cocoa powder CocoaX also offers cold brew.
Laughing Frog Studio Upcycled Accessories
Laughing Frog Studio is a husband & wife duo that up-cycles vintage silverware into fun accessories. This Texas based brand is turning trash into treasure.
Do Good Shop
Do Good Shop is a woman owned 501 (c)(3) nonprofit shop on a mission to connect compassionate shoppers with an easy way to shop ethically.
Fair Anita Jewelry
Fair Anita in the future of women around the world through artisan empowerment. Fair Anita currently works with 8,000 artisans in 16 different countries creating fair trade goods and paying artisans three times the minimum wage.
Acacia Creations Fair Trade Jewelry
Acacia Creations creates sustainable employment opportunities in developing communities through empowerment and the creation of fair trade jewelry.
Sharehope Leggings
Sharehope is a people oriented activewear brand empowering garment workers in Haiti. Profits from their ethically made leggings are reinvested into educational and health focused social programs, furthering the growth of garment workers and creating bright futures for Haitian workers.
Thistle Farms Bath & Body Products
Thistle Farms provides healing, empowering, job training, and employment to women survivors of trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. Their ethically made bath, body, home products are handcrafted by survivors in the USA.
Zungleboo’s Corn & Bamboo Plates & Bowls
Zungleboo is a family owned plant-based dinnerware brand. This eco-friendly dinnerware is created to be versatile and feature modern design.
Zungleboo products contains no oil-based petrochemicals, no melamine binders, no BPA, and no toxins (Lead, Cadmium, Phthalates). All their dinnerware products are tested to meet FDA CFR21 and California Proposition 65 standards.
Dynamikos Sunglasses
Dynamikos creates bold, thoughtfully designed eyewear and uses 20% of net profits to invest in humanitarian and environmental conservation efforts through their non-profit partnerships.
How can you help support woman owned businesses?
While purchasing products or services is a great way to support female owned businesses, there are many free ways you can support women entrepreneurs. Spreading the word is a free way to help and incredibly valuable for small business owners.
Show your support on social media by liking, sharing, and commenting their business posts. This helps more people learn about woman run businesses.
Write a positive review for your favorite woman owned businesses as this helps potential customers see they are a trustworthy business with high quality goods or services. AND it makes the small business owner smile!
Hopefully this guide helped you learn a bit about the importance of supporting small woman owned businesses!
Meet the Author
Emily Waddell is the founder of The Honest Consumer. She has a Bachelor of Science in Social Entrepreneurship. She currently lives in Seattle where she practices imperfect sustainability & mindful living. Emily is passionate about supporting small businesses, clean eating, ethical fashion, and practicing yoga.
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