Making positive choices... There is no reason why the items we wear every day should be the most disposable. Everything at ONE Essentials is designed with the end in mind and manufactured for maximum utility, minimal waste and the least possible harm.

The brand has developed a circular business model, directly addressing the environmental cost of the fashion industry. Biodegradable, natural
and non-toxic fabrics and materials (even the stretchy bits) are used throughout the collection. Every piece is designed to last, but the brand will collect and recycle your garments if you decide you are done with them. For those that feel uncomfortable returning underwear (we get it!), there is another eco-solution for the most ‘disposable’ item in our wardrobe. ONE

Essentials underwear has replaced convention elastane, which goes nowhere, with an innovative biodegradable alternative. Tracking positive impact... Each item has its LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) data beside it in the Shop section. This follows through the customer journey into the cart and shows information such as liters of water saved, grams of fertiliser avoided, CO2e emissions avoided and kWh of energy saved - all provided in actuals and more tangible equivalents. For example, just one of the ONE Essentials t-shirts saves 0.3kg of CO2e, or 1.3km of driving emissions. There is even a calculator available which shows the total ecological impact of the brand, continually updated with each sale taken on the website.

Each of the pieces has a supply chain transparency score; you can read all about where each piece comes from, including a list of working hours, average employee salary per month, last audit dates, and percentages of female managers, on the ONE Essentials website.

All LCA data is all verified via a third party called Green Story.