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Ritual

Ritual is a vitamin subscription service for women that promises quality ingredients and only the ones necessary to their body. You can customize from the standard one for older women and women wantin

Sagely Pill Organizer

Sagely has created this new form of pill organizer where each day can be taken out for daily use or for short trips. It has a magnet on the bottom of the pill containers that attach to the base which

SSENSE

SSENSE is a Canadian-founded online shopping site that has since expanded to physical stores. It makes accessing Designer brands more accessible to everyday consumers because they are all on one site

Headspace

Headspace is a really great meditation app that allows people to even take short one-minute meditations. According to the Fogg model, this makes mediations more accessible to consumers because of how

Method Laundry Detergent Pump

Method created a laundry detergent pump to fight back against the awkward jugs that most detergents come in that result in plenty of spills and messy dried up detergent all over the cap. I still have

MinimaList

MinimaList is an app that allows you to write very simple to-do lists that can be timed. I most appreciate this timed element because it allows you to set background noise so for 25 minutes or however

Bath & Body Works Candles

Bath & Body Works has developed a pretty much cult-following with their candles. They are able to achieve this in part by continually redesigning the packaging of the candles and making them look cont

Calm

Calm is an app that has mediations as well as sleep stories. It has physio-pleasure because of the straightforward, calming and beautiful interface. It is also behavioral because it improves emotional

Lush Bath Bombs

Lush bath bombs are really popular because of the physio-pleasure associated with using them. They’re pretty expensive, so buying them feels like purchasing an experience. There is also stimulation fr

Milk Makeup

Milk Makeup is a vegan makeup company (cruelty-free and plant-based) that uses super clean and modern packaging that creates physio-pleasure. There is also stimulation from the excitement of seeing al

Happy Cafe

Happy Cafe: the future of the Harvard Square Kiosk Harvard Square has witnessed the departure of many businesses. One example is the closure of Black Ink, a stationery store, which announced that it

VAUTE

Vaute was the world’s first vegan fashion house and primarily focussed on winter coats. I first found them when I became vegan and wanted to find a coat that was cruelty-free and warm. They are focuss

Brandless

Brandless is a brand that offers a large variety of products for a discounted price because, like their name, they are brandless. They are also cruelty-free and sustainable. I ordered from them before

Matt & Nat

Matt & Nat is a vegan luxury bag and shoe brand. I’ve been a big fan of them since 2017 when I bought one of their bags and brought them to the Harvard IDENTITIES Fashion Show in 2018 as a result. The

Nolii Tech

Nolii Tech is a brand in the works that creates a more streamlined experience with technology. They want to rid us all of the messy cables and clunky phone cases that can’t adapt. Instead, they have c

Creality

Creality has created a more comfortable buckle or strap for the masks used by healthcare workers. They saw the need for this because of how uncomfortable the current straps were making workers and how

MOT’A

Background: We interviewed Salwa! Salwa is an Egyptian teacher, a mother of three, a lover of creative activities (even if she does not pursue as much as she’d like). In normal times, she teaches, s

Youth to the People

Youth to the People is a skincare brand that uses high quality sustainably sourced vegan ingredients. But they are also a community that supports youth activism. I feel like this brand embodies my des

Moody

Moody is a simple yet effective mood logging app. It is so easy to track your mood because all you have to do is click on different buttons, such as rating your mood on a scale of 1-5 and selecting th

Tide

Tide is an app that plays beautiful music and sounds inspired by or from nature that helps with focus, meditation, sleep, and relaxation among other things. It is really easy to use, and the backgroun

Smart Sweets

I am obsessed with Smart Sweets, but mostly their “Sweet Fish” product. It tastes so good and is plant-based made with high-quality ingredients. They were also selling them at Costco which was incredi

Aritzia

Aritzia is a Canadian fashion brand that has since expanded to certain areas of the United States. I really admire how they are donating care packages to front-line health workers right now. They cond

Ripple

Ripple is a plant-based milk brand made by extracting protein from peas without taking any of the flavor components from the peas. Their drinks are consequently delicious and don’t taste like vegetabl

Wayward Brewery Hand Sanitizer

Wayward Brewery is a brewery in Vancouver B.C. have started to make hand sanitizer using the equipment previously reserved for beer! It’s a wonderful idea that many breweries are starting to follow as

Fresh on UberEats

Fresh is a vegan restaurant that has several locations in Toronto and I think might have expanded to the USA. A few days ago I was looking at UberEats and I noticed that Fresh offered a “Grocery” sect

Canva’s Response to COVID-19

Canva has done such a great job responding to COVID-19! They are a site that makes basic graphic design accessible and easier and they have used this to help out during the crisis. They have continual

Apple News

The news app by Apple used to be pretty frustrating because a lot of the magazines and Newspapers they included required subscriptions to read, but because of COVID-19, newspapers have been making the