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Founder's story
Autumn is a graduate of Eckerd College with a B.S. in Chemistry, certified by the American Chemical Society with an emphasis in Organic Chemistry, and holds a minor in Environmental Geology. While working for other companies and as a consultant, she learned many intricacies of formulating cosmetics using natural ingredients. She was making natural herbal products for other companies until she began working with the little known Neem tree, and in 1998, Autumn incorporated Organix-South. She emphasizes natural ingredients, incorporating her knowledge of Neem and other medicinal plants to create therapeutic skin care and aromatic herbal supplements which she manufactures and distributes globally under the TheraNeem, TheraVeda and other private label brands.
Working with Nisarga Biotech in Satara, India, Autumn helped develop a novel technology to encapsulate broad-spectrum supercritical extracts of Ayurvedic herbs, combined with the original whole herb powder, into vegetarian capsules. After proving the stability of the finished product, Autumn introduced TheraVeda Whole Herb supplements in mid-2005. The technology is currently in 'patent-pending' status.
As an alternative to the cosmetic industry's "cost-consciousness" and lack of environmental concern, Autumn offers the world a vision that embraces organics, product efficacy and company ethics over pure profit. She serves as president of her company, Organix-South, Inc., currently the top manufacturer world-wide of premium Neem products.
Our mission
We create, manufacture and sell neem and other Ayurvedic herbal products. We conduct our work through responsible research, product development and purchasing to create alternative and healthy solutions to many current afflictions and maladies. We strive to treat all those we affect with integrity.
Our philosophy
The types of products we sell
Where the producers live and work
Projects we support
We are a privately held company supporting American jobs while building mutually beneficial partnerships with organic farmers and wild-crafters in India. We buy many of our herbs through a partnership we created with Nisarga Biotech (nisarga means nature) in the organic Umbari Farm, located southeast of Mumbai in India. The farm itself has been certified organic through the internationally recognized ECOCERT® and we have committed to providing financial assistance to help nearby farmers convert to organic growing as well.
Umbari encompasses 10 acres of organic farm land surrounded by 20 acres of national forest areas that also have been certified organic for ethically wild-crafted herbs. We also purchase herbs from Vita Organic Farms which has access to over 300 acres of certified organic farms. Our goal is to have a total of 1500 acres of certified organic lands under our control by 2010.
To ensure that our herbs are fairly traded and sustainably harvested, we pay 10% over market value for herbs harvested by the Umbari and Vita farms. We enrich the health of the earth by supporting organic agriculture, and we nourish the people who grow and collect our organic herbs.
At the same time, we third-party test all of our herbs for botanical identify, purity and strength to ensure that our customers receive therapeutic-grade herbal products that are cruelty-free and made for the whole family (pets too!).
How we select what we sell
What makes us unique
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We are fair, truthful and honest in relations with our customers, co-workers, suppliers and with the public.
We purchase raw materials that do not endanger the future sustainability of the crop, land or water systems.
We purchase raw materials based on the key issues of quality and sustainability. Price is not the most important consideration.
We are aware of, and compassionately responsive to, our changing world.
We are responsible, good citizens, and useful members of our communities.
We strive to constantly improve in our practices, policies and ethics. Our mission and code are dynamic.
We conduct our business in ways which give us pride in our work and in our products and services.
We work to earn the respect and esteem of all concerned.
We empower our employees to uphold our code of ethics.
We comply with the laws, and present full disclosure of all ingredients on our product labels.
We regard as imperative the financial success, stability and growth of our business in accordance with these principles.
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