About Aphora
Aphora is all about wellness rituals created to immerse our senses and help us lead a spirit -centered lifestyle. We value safe, clean, natural, plant-based products while appreciating the gifts mother nature delivers us. Steeped in tradition, crafted with purity, and ignited through ritual.
Established in 2016, Aphora Botanicals is a luxury handcrafted soapery and wellness advocacy brand based in Marin, California. We produce aromatherapy clay soaps, bath and body products, and soy candles handcrafted the way nature intended. Our products contain no synthetic fragrance oils or other harmful chemicals, and we pride ourselves on conscientiously selecting organic and sustainable ingredients from reputable sources, that are safe, vegan and cruelty free.
As a woman-owned family run multi-generational company we strive to support and make a difference in part through our ongoing contribution to the lives and communities of the BARAKA women who are active in sustaining and contributing... More
The Refill Mercantile Journey
Welcome to Refill Mercantile!! So happy you are here on this low waste journey with us!
Remember the days when our parents reused everything until it wasn't reusable anymore? My mom would reuse plastic sandwich bags, containers food came in, I wore hand-me-down clothes from cousins and she made a lot of my clothes until I...um... got curves. This was also about the time when she went back to work.
Enter TV dinners with all kinds of waste and nothing reusable. This was the late 1980's early 1990's. The age of my friends moms and mine going to work and us kids getting take out or prepared meals. This was also about the time when plastic bottles became a real thing. And we just tossed them! I cringe thinking back to the change but if we knew then what we know now, would things be different? Convenience took over so we could have that short amount of family time that was leftover from working and commuting.
Convenience is key! Being a single mom then living... More