Biodegradable Oven Mitts | Oven Gloves
Handmade Biodegradable Oven Mitts
This beautiful pair of 100% natural biodegradable Oven Mitts not only looks decorative in your kitchen but is also very practical. They are made of 100% virgin cotton, which is thick enough to resist the heat when taking a dish out of the oven or simply handling a pot on the stove. As natural fibre is fire-resistant, they will not burn to hard plastic like synthetic fibers. The gloves are not only eco-friendly, but also totally compostable.
When you buy a pair of these mittens, you are also supporting and uplifting a woman from our vulnerably community with an income.
Colours: natural, taupe, blue
Care instructions: wash on the cotton cycle at 40° and hang to dry.
- 100% cotton
- 100% biodegradable
- Handmade in Cape Town, South Africa
Nadja Ernst
FOUNDER: Nadja Ernst
Hi, I’m Nadja Ernst. Founder of Pure Touch, wife and mom of two children. Although my roots are German, I grew up in this beautiful country and am always still in awe of the nature around us and the beauty of the creation.
I have always been passionate about creating beautiful things, but have an even stronger passion for helping and supporting people in need. These two passions motivated me to start a second career as a social worker.
In September 2019, after reading an article about kitchen scrubs containing microplastics that eventually disintegrate and end up in our ocean, I decided to use my knitting and crocheting skills to make my own, eco-friendly and biodegradable kitchen scrubs and dish cloths. What started off in my home kitchen as a passion for environmentally friendly products and sustainable resources soon developed into a small business. The name pure touch was born and I started selling products in a small local shop.
The name pure touch was inspired by the purity of nature and of the one who created it plus the almost silky, soft feel of our products. The cedar tree in the logo symbolizes the natural, strong and long-lasting yarns we use and the vision we have for the women and their families of our community – a beacon of hope and resilience.
My two hands quickly needed more hands to knit and crochet. Being a social worker, I felt the need to provide women in our vulnerable community of Ocean View with the opportunity to earn an income and thereby support themselves and their families.
In February 2020, this dream became a reality when Marie Mueller, who was already working in Ocean View, joined me. What started off as a small business now became much more than just that: a social enterprise selling beautifully handmade, eco-friendly products but with the focus on building relationships and a community of women that support each other, learn new skills and generate income for themselves within a business structure.
To know that pure touch products not only support the production and use of more sustainable resources like hemp and organic cotton, but that their production and sale also support and make a differene to the lives of other moms and women facing difficult circumstances really excites me. An added bonus: our products are reusable, washable and naturally decompose – adding value and beauty to any home!
An so started the journey with the women in the community of Ocean View …
Meet Our Community
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Pure Touch enables women to support their families in a sustainable and life-giving way. We journey and partner with women of the Ocean View community, Cape Town.
Ocean View is located approximately 45 minutes outside Cape Town, close to the little village of Kommetjie on the hillside with a beautiful view of the ocean. It was formed in the late 1960’s during the Apartheid regime, when all colored people were forcefully removed from their homes in the ‘white communities’ of Simon’s Town, Fish Hoek, and Noordhoek to live in this settlement.
Today some 40’000 people live in Ocean View, many of whom face the challenges of unemployment, widespread drug and alcohol abuse, gang-related crime and violence as well as prostitution.
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31 Rameron Avenue, Imhoff's Gift, Kommetjie, 7975 Cape Town, South Africa
Hours: 9 am to 6 pm
Monday to Friday