Mother's Day

MOTHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE

To our mothers out there. We see you. Though every day should be Mother’s Day, this year in particular feels like you all deserve some extra love and celebration.

For our US launchers who are trying to pick out something special for their momma, we wanted to spotlight a few women we consider to be superheroes from the LWL community who create products we love.

Take a read and please share with your networks and let’s keep the list going. We also want to know who your favorite women-run businesses are, so tag LWLGlobal and use the hashtag #LWLmommas so we can spotlight them as well!

Meg Shackleton, truly handling it all with her two children.

Margaret Elizabeth

Meg Shackleton launched Margaret Elizabeth while a student at Boston College, hosting her first trunk show in her dorm room. Upon graduating, Meg dipped her toes in the corporate world and took a job working in advertising at Google - all the while maintaining her jewelry business on the side. It was after prominent retailers expressed interest that Meg decided to pursue her passion project full-time and bid her corporate career adieu.

Today Margaret Elizabeth can be found at retailers such as Bloomingdales and Anthropologie, in the brand's brick & mortar shop in San Francisco, and on the pages of Vogue, InStyle, Refinery29 and more.

Want to learn more behind the scenes on how Meg designs her beautiful jewelry? Check this out.

Founder La'Crassia with her mother

Butter Love by LC

La'Crassia is the creator and owner of Butter Love By L.C, which she started in 2014. She took her love for mixing products and nature and created a brand that is truly organic.

From a young age she found herself mixing things in secret and that love has carried her to new heights. She believes that the earth provides everything you need to be healthy. Most of her work is created with ingredients that are grown and not processed. Working with her hands has always been her preference, focusing on the alchemy of healing from within.

The most rewarding part of her work is helping clients discover the endless potential for beauty and harmony in the relationship between skin, spirit, and the natural world. She strives to share this connection through the conscious choices in education, ingredients and packaging that bring Butter Love to life. 

Co-Founder Susan Griffin-Black with her two children

EO Products

Susan Griffin-Black is the Founder and Co-CEO of EO Products, makers of EO and Everyone. As one of the early pioneers in the clean beauty and personal care movement and a leader in the naturals space, Susan has been a champion for conscious, purpose-led businesses around the world.

In the 25 years since she founded EO Products, Susan has continued to embody the very values of the industry she helped create. Susan’s passion for elevated personal care was awakened while on a business trip in London by the lavender essential oils she discovered in a Covent Garden apothecary shop. In 1995, Susan and her then-husband, Brad, started blending pure essential oils for friends and family in their San Francisco garage. Rapidly developing a cult following, Bloomingdale's reached out and asked Susan and Brad to create aromatherapy blends for their holiday gift guide. As they continued to experiment, they were able to formulate the very first foaming shower gel free of sodium lauryl sulfate, a widely used, potentially-harmful lathering agent.

Today the two brands provide EWG certified, natural, healthful and accessible products for everyone.

Founder Joanna Griffiths with her son

Knix

Joanna Griffiths is the Founder and CEO of Knix and Knixteen, the direct-to-consumer intimate apparel brands that are reinventing intimates for real life. 

Through a focus on product innovation and the brand’s mission to empower women to be unapologetically free, Knix products combine fashion, function and fit.  They are driven by the belief that listening to what their customers want, instead of telling them what they need is the key to success.

“We believe it’s time that all women lived totally, unapologetically free. Free from judgement. Free from self-doubt. And free to be yourself”.

That’s why Knix designs intimates for every life stage with one goal in mind: “to make you feel more comfortable in your own skin.”

And as for Joanna’s life in quarantine with a one year old while running a business? Check it out here.

Founder Hilary Saporta sharing her fudge samples

A Flair For Fudge

Over twenty-five years ago, Hilary Saporta discovered that she really had a flair for making fudge. It’s something she started doing over the holidays and it was extremely flattering to see how much her friends and family enjoyed the White Oreo Cookie, Peppermint, and Peanut Butter fudge treats she cooked up for them.

The response has been so overwhelmingly positive over the years that she decided to turn her labor of love into an adventure she enjoys living every day.

As an advertising and marketing executive since 1987, one of the things she learned very early on is that “we owe it to our clients to help them make their product as unique as possible so it can stand out miles ahead of the competition”. Fudge is no different.

So, she started thinking outside the box and began experimenting with ingredients such as Cuban coffee, wasabi and ginger, guava and cream cheese, and, believe it or not, black beans (drawing on her mother-in-law’s Cuban roots for that one).

A Flair for Fudge uses only the finest ingredients to achieve some of the most original combinations and delicious tastes you will ever experience.

Mariska Nicholson with her two boys, Desmond and Sebastian

Olive + M

Olive + M was created from the belief that what you put on your body is just as important as what you put in your body.

As a single mother of two, Olive + M Founder Mariska Nicholson’s main goal was to create clean and effective products that a single mom could plug into her budget. Mariska started with a culinary background, so she went to the kitchen and began blending formulas of her own. Four years later, Olive + M was born.

Olive + M is passionate about active plant ingredients and their benefits. "Plant-based oils are packed with nutrients that restore your face and body to their naturally-radiant state. And, contrary to popular belief, oil-based products do not make your skin oily. The plant-based oils in our formulas actually work to balance out oil production, without stripping your skin of its natural oils or protective barrier—resulting in a refreshed, healthy glow.”

Mariska believes that quality skincare should be inclusive and accessible to all. Gone are the days of effective skincare being reserved for those who can afford to spend hundreds of dollars on a single product. They consciously partner with suppliers and manufacturers that will help keep the quality of their products high while keeping prices modest, allowing you to love the skin you’re in without a massive financial investment.

Founder Marja Germans Gard

MGG Studio

MGG Studio was founded in 2014 by Marja Germans Gard (a proud momma of two) after she transitioned away from her academic career to follow her passion for well-crafted, minimal adornment. Marja completed her Ph.D in clinical psychology and was pursuing neuroimaging research on the cognitive and emotional features of schizophrenia. Once she got her hands on a jeweler's torch, however, the rest was history and now she spends her hours in the jewelry studio rather than the lab.

MGG Studio creates distinctive, sculptural jewelry to embolden women to express their true selves. Inspired by the strong shapes, fluid forms, and clean lines of modernist art and architecture, they help women cultivate an armory of accessories that communicates their striking individuality while being deliciously comfortable to wear. Their sleek, modern jewelry is designed to be aesthetically compelling, and is engineered to feel as good as it looks. They take the extra time to polish interiors of their rings until they're smooth as silk, offer a range of lightweight earrings, and tailor our cuffs to fit the curve of the wrist. These steps take a bit of extra time and attention, but they know their customer wants jewelry that both makes a statement and fits seamlessly into her everyday life.

They also believe that good design and sustainability go hand in hand. Each of their jewelry pieces is handcrafted using recycled metals and ethically sourced stones. “We take great care to reduce waste in the studio and choose the most minimal impact practices we can when fabricating, packaging, and shipping our jewelry” says founder Marja and they also support local businesses by partnering with a Bay Area- based caster and local stonesetters.