Awash with wellbeing: Dear Heart
Eco-conscious choices are at the forefront of beauty, and one Dunedin company is crafting the highest quality vegan-friendly beauty products.
Karen Haig, founder of Dear Heart Vegan Beauty, began making soap as a side hustle to her corporate role while living in Australia.
A move home, a desire to create, coupled with noticing a gap in the market for luxury vegan beauty brands led to Dear Heart. “I prioritise luxury ingredients in eco-friendly yet elegant packaging,” says Karen. “Customers are adept at reading labels and my formulations speak for themselves.”
Added to handmade soap are shampoo and conditioner bars which deliver the same result as salon-quality shampoo, minus the water and plastic. “One bar is equivalent to three bottles, so you’re achieving cleansed and shiny hair while helping the planet,” says Karen. Sensitive scalps are catered to with the Sensitive Soul shampoo and conditioner bars, which are gluten, fragrance, and coconut oil free, and contain the mildest ingredients Karen could source.
Ideal as gifts, each soap contains an embedded soap heart that gradually appears, plus an inspirational quote tucked into each box. The scents are divine, “Chai Latte is good enough to eat, and Turkish Delight is utterly feminine.” Use code Metropol in October to receive 20% off site-wide.
