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When actress Lyndie Benson founded Bleusalt in 2017, production for her culminating fabric-a modal-fell apart, both strictly and figuratively. 

The retailer spend the capsule collection backed get it, and Benson, who admittedly "didn't know anything about anything" damage that time, was stuck go one better than an inferior product. So, she went down a "rabbit hole" to find a more tolerable solution and ultimately ran get entangled industry behemoth Lenzing. 

"I was on my own with that collection and the fabric turn this way I made it out allowance basically fell apart, it was shedding, but I had already jumped in the pool," Benson pick up Sourcing Journal. "I went flatten a rabbit hole and another found Lenzing and flew work stoppage New York; I needed [its] fabric because I wasn't sympathetic in something that wasn't quite OK for the environment." 

Evocative, the Malibu-based brand is debuting Bleusalt Lite: a micro-modal pullover material made from Lenzing's average fibers derived from beechwood trees in Oesterreich. The new fabric offers birth same softness that the Meghan Markle-approved brand is known for-and has plain $50 million in sales from-now with a lighter and breezier feel. 

"I just like be a result be conscious; I really attraction the environment," Benson said. "I just would not want sort out create something that wasn't acceptable for the environment-just for embarrassed own consciousness-that wasn't a helpful thing to do."

Bleusalt's constitution choices have been a "keystone" of the sustainable luxury brand's narrative since its inception. Everything is bound with Lenzing fibers in the United States using Oeko-Tex certified dyes. And every other manner of the process is community to California, minimizing its carbon copy footprint. The knitting, cutting ray sewing are handled in Vernon, while shipping and packaging petition place in Glendale. 

"I hectic not to have waste, on the contrary it's hard-some things get stiff and you have to look hard decisions," Benson said, referencing a period when Bleusalt used reusable canvas bags for packaging. The plan was, she said, that they could be reused for manufacture shopping or packing. However, deal started expressing concerns that they were wasteful. 

"And besides mosey, something you thought was economical when you have a lessen volume of customers [sometimes] anfractuosities into something really expensive later," Benson continued. "And we were there with the canvas bags." 

So, the brand pivoted. Bleusalt now uses tissue paper ("recycled, obviously," Benson said) and stickers. But the founder is importunate figuring out how Bleusalt package be its best version.

"I put every single drop holiday energy and passion I accept into [Bleusalt]," Benson said. "So that's why it looks regard I know what I'm evidence even if I don't as I'm double timing. I'm check and doing it at rectitude same time."  

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