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Bundle Up in Style With These Cozy Eco-Friendly Winter Accessories

November 23, 2020
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The temperatures are dropping, which means it’s time to pile on the layers — so, here’s your guide to ethical and sustainable winter gloves, hats, and scarves for staying cozy through even the chilliest days.

This roundup features plenty of winter accessories for any cold-weather activity, whether you’re going on a hike in the mountains or just running to your car to get some errands done.

Note that this guide includes affiliate links. As always, all featured brands meet high standards for sustainability and are brands we stand behind!

1. Patagonia

With sustainably and ethically-made hats, headbands, gloves, mittens, and scarves, Patagonia really has it all. Their collection of sustainable winter accessories is mostly made with recycled materials and to ensure maximum life of their products, Patagonia offers repairs and has a buy-back program where you can get store credit for trading in your used pieces.

Conscious Qualities: Eco Fibers and Production, Circular Model, Some Fair Trade Production

Price Range: $$

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Sustainable Winter Hats, Scarves and Gloves from Pataonia

2. Organic Basics

Eco underwear label Organic Basics has sustainable winter accessories for staying ultra cozy in good conscience. Their eco-friendly gloves, scarves, and winter hats are made from GRS-certified recycled cashmere (from well-worn cashmere garments) or from 100% recycled merino wool.

Price Range: $$$

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Sustainable gloves, scarves and winter hats from Organic Basics

3. Eileen Fisher

Leading sustainable fashion brand Eileen Fisher has soft, cozy, eco-friendly scarves, gloves, and hats. Their winter accessories are made from fabrics like organic cotton and recycled cashmere. And completing the circular loop, Eileen Fisher also has a take-back program where they renew and resell used clothing.

Conscious Qualities: Eco Fibers, Circular Model, Ethical Production

Price Range: $$$

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Ethical and sustainable winter scarves from Eileen Fisher

4. Coyuchi

While originally an organic bedding and lifestyle brand, Coycuhi has expanded into other categories, like winter accessories! Their regenerative scarf is made from Climate Beneficial wool and their eco-friendly beanie is made with GOTS-certified organic cotton in fair trade conditions.

Conscious Qualities: Eco Fibers, Ethical Production

Price Range: $ – $$

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Sustainable Scarves and Hats from Coyuchi

5. Tentree

Tentree will be your go-to for sustainable winter hats and beanies. The brand has plenty of cute (and also cool, if that’s more your style) beanies made from 100% organic cotton or a 50/50 merino wool and recycled polyester blend. As the name suggests, Tentree also plants 10 trees with each purchase.

Price Range: $

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Sustainable Winter Hats and Scarves from Tentree

6. Ten Thousand Villages

For unique ethical winter accessories made by artisans and weavers, look no further than Ten Thousand Villages. The Fair Trade pioneer has plenty of hand-knit and handmade fair trade gloves, scarves, hats, and more for staying warm in style.

Conscious Qualities: Ethical Production, Some Natural Fibers

Price Range: $$

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Ethical winter gloves, hats, and scarves from Ten Thousand Villages

7. Makwa Studio

Instead of purchasing accessories with designs “inspired” (and probably appropriated) from Native Peoples, buy authentic Native-designed pieces created by Indigenous artists. And you can do just that with Makwa Studio, a label founded by artist Maggie Thompson of the Fond du Lac Ojibwe Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

Conscious Qualities: BIPOC-Owned, Natural Fibers

Price Range: $$

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Sustainable winter scarves from Indigenous brand Makwa Studio

8. Shupaca

Shupaca’s ethical scarves, hats, and gloves are hand-woven from locally and responsibly-sourced alpaca wool using centuries-old traditional techniques. Partnering directly with South American artisan groups, Shupaca ensures that artisans are paid fairly (and directly).

Conscious Qualities: Ethical Production, Slow Made

Price Range: $$

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Ethical scarves, hats, and gloves

9. Fibershed Marketplace

Fibershed Marketplace curates brands and makers using regenerative and localized practices for their online shop. The site has plenty of regenerative sustainable winter hats, mittens, gloves, and scarves made from climate beneficial wool and natural, locally-harvested dyes.

Conscious Qualities: Eco Fibers, Local Sourcing, Slow Made

Price: $$

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Regenerative Organic Winter Accessories from Fibershed Marketplace

10. The North Face Regenerative

The North Face has ventured into regenerative materials! Sourcing Climate Beneficial wool from Bare Ranch in California, the brand calls their collection “Cali Wool”.

Conscious Qualities: Eco Climate Beneficial Fibers

Price Range: $$

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Regenerative organic scarves, hats, and more from The North Face

11. Hemptique

Made from 100% hemp — an eco wonder fiber — these are among the most sustainable winter hats you’ll find anywhere. Hemp is a temperature and moisture regulating fiber, meaning these hats will keep you warm without making you feel sweaty.

Price Range: $

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Sustainable Winter Hats from Hemptique

12. Krochet Kids

On a mission to provide maximum transparency and celebrate the makers behind the items they sell, each Krochet Kids’ product has the name of the maker who made it. You can then look up the name on Known Supply to “meet your maker”. A great destination for fair trade gloves, winter hats, and scarves.

Conscious Qualities: Ethical Production, Some Eco Fibers

Price Range: $

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Ethical Winter Hats and Scarves from Krochet Kids

13. Minna

Minna’s elegant scarves are made by artisan weaving co-ops who set their own wages for their work. Slowly woven with heritage techniques, Minna’s scarves are pieces you’ll treasure for a lifetime.

Conscious Qualities: Ethical Production, Slow Made

Price Range: $$$

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Ethical and Fair Trade Scarves

14. Naadam

Naadam believes in doing cashmere better — they can trace 100% of the supply chain of their cashmere products, have high standards for the farms they source from, and have taken measures to protect against desertification. The company also donates unsellable returned and damaged products (instead of destroying it, which is quite common), uses carbon-offset shipping, and their dyeing facilities have closed-loop water filtration systems. Read more in Naadam’s Impact Report.

Price Range: $$$

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Ethical Winter Hats and Scarves from Naadam

Knit Your Own Sustainable Winter Accessories

15. We Are Knitters

We Are Knitters has beginner, intermediate, and advanced kits for making cozy essentials like sustainable winter scarves and beanies. Their yarns are made of only natural fibers that are ethically sourced from Peru.

Conscious Qualities: Ethical Sourcing, Natural Fibers

Price Range: $$

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Sustainable Winter Accessories from We Are Knitters

16. Wool and The Gang

Another great resource for knitting and crochet kits is Wool and The Gang. The UK-based business has kits to make Hats & Beanies and Scarves & Snoods! Not all of their fibers are eco-friendly, but about 1/3 are recycled and 2/3 are natural.

Conscious Qualities: Many Eco Fibers, Safe Dyes

Price: $$

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Sustainable hats and scarves from Wool and the Gang

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