Trillium Organics Biography-Karen Ciesar

The long version...

An entrepreneur, attorney, and new mother, our founder found herself dreaming of a better way to do business. "I
had an urge to do something personally to make things better, not just tell others how they should do it, but try to
do things greener, cleaner, better, myself. Our founder comes from a long line of artists, activists and
entrepreneurs. As an attorney, she was an advocate for social justice and environmental stewardship. The
original mission: to make healthy products that even the most finicky Organic Mother can trust, in a way that
respects the generations to come. We recognise and accept our obligation to operate our business in a way that
improves and gives back to the Earth that sustains us all.

Trillium Herbal Company, and Trillium Organics have been on the leading edge of the organic skin care revolution
since 1994.   In 1998, after four years of ground level product formulation and person to person product testing,
Organic Body Polish became the first salt scrub to be formulated and packaged for home use. The "Body Polish
Sensation" captured the imagination of bathers everywhere. Today, Trillium Organics products can be found in
Finer Health Food Stores, Wellness Centers, Detox Studios and therapeutic Health Spas, across America and
around the world. Check out our store finder feature to find a store near you!

The process is the purpose. . .

We believe that the process is the most influential contribution to the therapeutic value of any natural substance.
In our quest to find the most therapeutic and impeccable ingredients, we have discovered that the process by
which each ingredient is created leaves it's mark .   We work exclusively with the best quality, certified organic cold
pressed oils, therapeutic grade essential oils and certified organic botanicals.   It is our chosen mission to devise
effective ways to get authentically organic, therapeutically potent ingredients onto the skin and into body without
adding anything synthetic, standardized or otherwise compromised. We put each new formulation through rigorous
challenge testing with real human testers. Our testers are those lucky staffers, friends and family who are honest
enough to give us real in depth feedback. We emerge with innovative products that are green, healthy and
effective.

Our Ode to the Wise Women, to the Midwives. . .

Trillium Herbal Company was named as a tribute to the Midwives who taught me the womanly art of Midwifery, and
attended the underwater home birth of my first child, Zephyr Elizabeth.   These were Wise Women as I had only
imagined in another era long passed. These women wove the magical and therapeutic stories of herbs, and
powerful mothering options and choices. As they always attended birth with an apprentice, they always numbered
three. They called their practice, Trillium Birthing Care, named for the "birthroot", these women were some of the
first to open my eyes to a world of herbal medicine, where caring for our children starts with caring for our
Mother Earth. From Gaia, the Goddess of the Earth, flows the milk that sustains us throughout our entire lives.
It was for the midwives, that I named the company Trillium Herbal Company.

The Triskellion, and the circle of Life. . .

The Trillium Symbol came through our creative process about one year after the company was created. I saw the
spirals first in a photo of a temple to Brigid from Druidic Ireland. The Triple spiral is sacred within Goddess lore. It
represents the three aspects of feminine life. The spirals show our movement through time, as maiden, mother,
and crone. I added the outer circle to represent the eternal circle of life.
At Trillium we are dedicated equally to both the timely and the timeless   We are eternally focused on enhancing
the experience of being in your own skin whether your find yourself a maiden, mother or crone; boy, man or elder.
We are also dedicated to the eternal circle of life. We consider it our sacred privilege and duty to operate our
enterprise in a beneficial, green, sustainable, Health affirming manner. We want our footprint on the earth to
be light, and the mark we leave to be beautiful and positive. To that end, we model our company structures and
systems on the Natural Step. We are certified Organic by the Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA), and
we are an active member of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, the Organic Consumers Association.

We are signers, supporters and zealots for the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.

The principals we have been guided by from our inception, Purity Wholeness and Balance, are mirrored in the
Campaign’s approach by putting Health First on the triple bottom line; Health for the People, Health for the Planet
and Health for our Sustainable Endeavors.   We have our products listed on the Skin Deep website, which rates
toxicity in cosmetics. Trillium regularly shows up as the TOP RATED and one of the safest products in any of the
categories.

BE well……………Polished!

Karen Ciesar
Founder ~ Formulator

INNOVATION DRIVEN by INTEGRITY

Trillium Herbal Company, started in 1994,with a dream of a better way... Today, it is an
ethic shared by millions, call it Green, Organic, Sustainable, or Triple Bottom line.

Trillium Organics empowers people to care for their skin and body with Organic Ingredients
without synthetics and petrochemicals without compromising performance or efficacy!