Living sustainability

In today’s fast-changing world, we are confronted with the topic of sustainability every day. Innovative companies in particular want to show their customers that they act responsibly and with ecological concerns in mind. This often leads to competition, giving an advantage to the company that can point to the greatest number of sustainability improvements.

For AyurVeda AG, however, sustainability encompasses much more than giving up plastic or promoting ecological installations.

Ayurveda comes from the learned Vedic culture, and sages recognised its perfection thousands of years ago. This ancient knowledge of longevity and health (ayus = life; veda = knowledge) forms the basis of a deep understanding of sustainability. Our company offers authentic Ayurvedic products, made according to traditional recipes and meeting modern standards. Each of these Ayurvedic products combines cosmic knowledge with carefully combined plant and mineral components. That is why our preparations are still effective today and just as useful to modern people as they were to people living five thousand years ago.

Through regular financial support, AyurVeda AG also supports the revival of Vedic culture in its country of origin: India.

This holistic view of the context of Ayurveda does not, of course, exempt us from taking practical measures to manage valuable resources within our company. For example, to ship orders we generally use cardboard boxes whose volume is best suited to the contents. This allows us to reduce the use of padding material, which benefits us, you and the environment. And since we receive a large quantity of cardboard boxes and other packaging materials (paper, bubble wrap, packing chips, etc.), we constantly try to reuse them for shipping parcels to customers, for ecological reasons – of course only if the materials meet our quality requirements.

Our wide range of Ayurvedic products includes very diverse items with specific constraints that must be taken into account to ensure safe shipping (among others, products packed in glass, tins, boxes and bags). This sometimes represents a challenge for our shipping team, which must ensure shipments that are both safe and environmentally friendly. That is why, at present, we cannot completely do without plastic to protect products. The «flo-pak natural» loose fill, on the other hand, is green, biodegradable and made from plant starch, and therefore ideal. It fills the smallest gaps in parcels, is quick and easy to use, and can then be reused, composted or safely dissolved in water by our customers. It is also useful material for craft activities.

AyurVeda AG’s quality standards and our deep respect for the oldest and most comprehensive natural health system in the world shape our daily work.

Even in their free time, our employees are connected with Ayurveda, as they apply its principles in their personal lives in order to stay healthy in the long term.

The fact that our company building was constructed according to Ayurvedic architectural principles (vastu or sthapatya veda), that we have geothermal probe heating, and that a concrete additive and photovoltaic panels for electricity production were installed seems obvious to us today. In addition, we support the diversity of fauna and flora with the very lively natural garden surrounding our company building.

For us, «sustainability» is the principle by which we commit to constantly behaving in accordance with the precepts of Ayurveda, which apply at all times. Our fascination with the oldest and most comprehensive health system in the world guides us and gives us confidence that knowledge of the laws of nature, valid for five thousand years, can help modern people stay healthy in a sustainable way.