Health & Wellness: The Makers and Retailers Shaping a Cleaner Canada
Discover versatile eco-cleaning, personal care, and supplements alongside the specialty manufacturers of medical packaging and critical care devices—all made right here at home.
Pretty Clean Shop
A marketplace for naturally effective, sustainable cleaning, beauty, personal care and home products.
The shop showcases local products, advises customers, and advocates for low-waste packaging. Care and cleaning products are made in Canada using ethically sourced practices.
With a philosophy of sustainable living, Miriam founded this Junction neighbourhood one-stop shop for products made with safe, toxin-free ingredients. Find Health & Beauty, functional Home Accessories, Games & Puzzles, a Vegan collection and gifts. The broad selection of refillable products in pre-filled jars can be returned and traded for a full one, avoiding unnecessary packaging. Workshops and DIY parties are available for school-aged kids and adults.
Kalaya
Developed for a wide range of skin and body care issues, these therapies are extensively researched, tested and manufactured in Cambridge, Ontario.
From topical pain relief to anti-aging therapies, products are paraben- and sulphate-free and never tested on animals.
Led by Dr. Keith Burk, M.D. and Phil Hudson, BPharm, who strive to innovate and improve its formulations constantly. Shop in-store or online for pain management, health & hygiene, cold & flu, skin care, cannabis sativa seed oil, and hair care.
Plant Vital
A line of complete additive-free nutrition supplements & plant-based protein for both preventative support and nutrient-dense healing.
Plant-based proteins + greens, Pure Collagen Peptides, Multivitamins, Omega-3 fish oil, Mega B-Complex, Berberine, Ashwagandha, Resveratrol, Tumeric, Gentle sleep, Vitamin C, Magnesium supplements.
In search of the perfect diet, the founder of this Canadian-based company, Mike W, creates these products with protein from peas, whole grain organic brown rice, pumpkin seed, chia seed, organic fruits and vegetables. Products are FDA-Certified, free of soy, eggs, dairy and nuts, gluten-free with no sugar & low carb.
Empack Spraytech inc.
Innovative, customized and specialized solutions for highly diversified aerosols, liquids, lotions, wipes, related products and packaging.
An ISO 9001:2008 and GMP Certified privately-owned family-operated Canadian manufacturer of Aerosol Packaging, Liquid Filling, Personal Care, Automotive, Shoe & Leather Care, Sun Care, Industrial, Household Products, Insecticides, Computer & Electronics, Outdoor, and Specialty Products.
Nutralab Canada Corp.
Private Label Vitamin & Supplement Manufacturer of Custom formula natural health and vitamin supplement products.
Health Canada-approved, fully licensed facilities for bulk supplement manufacturing and packaging of nutraceuticals and dietary supplement products.
Products can be Organic, Halal, Vegan, Herbal or Gluten-Free. The Liquid sachet packaging is used for convenient on-the-go servings and better absorption of daily vitamin supplements, sports energy or nutrition drinks.
Pilot and large-scale production of Hard Capsules Filling, Softgels Encapsulation, Softgel Enteric Coating, Tablets & Coating.
Powder technology for sport proteins, plant-based greens and vegan supplements. Clients include Shoppers Drug Mart, Walmart, Metro, Loblaws and Longo’s.
Green Circle Salons
A sustainable program for salons and spas to recycle, recover and repurpose beauty waste.
Created by beauty industry leaders, this award-winning solution empowers salons to recover up to 95% of their beauty waste, including previously unrecoverable materials and hard-to-recycle items like hair clippings, foils, excess hair colour, aerosol cans, colour tubes and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
Get your beauty salon to join the program. They collect beauty waste and work with local partners to turn it into new products or clean energy. Find out where the beauty waste goes. Partners are recycling facilities, chemical waste facilities, clean energy producers and bio-composite plastic producers.
Thornhill Medical
Medical Technology Manufacturer of innovative acute critical care devices specifically designed for military, field hospital, transport medical and first responder teams.
Recognized as a leader in the precise control and management of arterial blood gases, breathing sciences and emergency mobile diagnostic and therapeutic patient care:
The RespirAct ™ RA-MR is a computer-controlled gas blender used to provide accurate, repeatable, non-invasive control of blood gases and to stimulate vascular reactivity, monitoring blood flow responses in conjunction with diagnostic imaging techniques.
Founder, Dr. Joseph Fisher, is a world-renowned research scientist in the field of anesthesiology and cardiovascular intensive care. Emergency mobile medical devices include:
MOVES® SLC™ is a completely integrated, rugged, portable life support system with ICU capabilities designed to provide control in challenging environments.
The MADM™ device is portable, adaptable and can be easily connected to any ventilator device to safely and accurately enable gas anesthesia.
ClearMate™ is portable, compact and allows emergency professionals to treat CO victims as effectively as hyperbaric oxygen, at the point of care, without delay.