Founded in 2017 by Shoaib Kabani and Michael Rothkopf, Buffy is a bedding company with a mission to provide customers with eco-friendly, skin-friendly, and cruelty-free bedding options that are also comfy and super-soft.
Currently, Buffy offers a small number of entirely vegan products and is working on more varied home goods for their customers. What really sets their products apart is the materials that they use in production.
Buffy’s signature fabric is made from eucalyptus. Eucalyptus lyocell is just as durable as cotton, but uses 10x less water when grown. Their eucalyptus is harvested from Austria and the Czech Republic’s regenerative forests. This means that the mill partner plants four trees for every tree harvested.
Additionally, no toxic pesticides are used in the harvesting process. The wood pulp extracted from renewable eucalyptus trees is eventually processed into fibre. During this process, the essential oils in eucalyptus are removed making the fibres safe for households with pets, children, or people who have sensitive skin.
The Buffy Breeze temperature-regulating comforter is made from this eucalyptus fabric and sewn with 100% recycled polyester thread. This product is especially useful for warmer sleepers or for people living in warmer environments. Eucalyptus is a naturally breathable fabric and is cool-to-the-touch.
Buffy’s most popular product by far is the Buffy Cloud Comforter. Also made from eucalyptus fabric, this vegan comforter uses recycled fill instead of down. This fill “keeps 50 plastic bottles out of landfills and protects 12 geese from live-plucking” per comforter, according to Buffy.
Instead of flax linen, Buffy uses soft hemp fibres which “absorbs 5x more CO2 from the air than trees, is naturally resistant to pests, promotes biodiversity, and actually improves the soil it’s grown in.” Through all of this, Buffy uses FSC-certified wood-pulp-based fibres and cardboard, OEKO-Tex certified eucalyptus fibre, and GRS (Global Recycling Standard) certified polyester.
Buffy is clearly a company that is squarely on nature’s team, but they aren’t ready to pat themselves on the back just yet. They have a 10-year plan to achieve Closed Loop Comfort, “where everything we take from our planet, we’ll replenish, and nothing harmful will go back in.”
Their focus is on how their products are made, their longevity, their distribution, and their disposal. Buffy’s website details its goals for 2021, 2025, and 2030. These goals include, but are not limited to, localizing manufacturing, removing and replacing plastic at their headquarters, expanding the lifecycle of their products, and using alternative energy sources for at least 20% of their manufacturing.
But for now, they’re working on making compostable poly bags for shipping, machine-washable comforters, consolidating shipments from multiple packages to single ones, and vacuum seal alternatives.
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