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Multi-award winning, waterless personal care products, with proven skincare benefits & planet friendly.

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Funded 18 Apr 2024
£150,001 target
£273,500 from 192 investors
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Business overview

Location London, United Kingdom
Social media
Website ethosa.co.uk
Sectors Home & Personal Non-Digital Mixed B2B/B2C
Company number 13410711
Incorporation date 20 May 2021
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Investment summary

Type Equity
Valuation (pre-money) £2.3M
Equity offered 9.78%
Tax relief

SEIS

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Business highlights

  • 4.7 star rating + over 70% returning customer rate
  • Tapping into a £40b market opportunity
  • Listings with Canopey, Amazon, Etsy, Econess
  • Featured in national press & family office backed
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Key features

  • Secondary Market
  • Nominee investment min. £20.79 +
  • Direct investment min. £20,000.00 +

Idea

Introduction

Our mission is to revolutionise personal care by creating products that promote mindful consumption and leave a lasting impact on both skin and the environment. We aim to challenge outdated production methods and democratise waterless personal care tailored to individual skin needs.

ETHOSA emerged from our Founder's first-hand experience working with some of the biggest Beauty & Personal Care players and witnessing the significant negative impact of the industry.


After successfully testing the UK market with a product prototype, we launched our first range of refillable waterless shower gels for different skin types in April 2023.


This is just the beginning of our journey, and we invite you to join us in reshaping the way people approach personal care.

Substantial accomplishments to date

• Created by a team of two ex-Mintel & THG executives – Gaëlle Chatelard, who was recently awarded Female Founder 30 under 30 (Natural Products) and Oliver Ludwig.

• Achieved a customer return rate of 70%+ in Dec 23.

• Rated excellent on Trustpilot and acclaimed by green beauty bloggers.

• Grew an online community of 17K+ incl. email, and social channels.

• 100% naturally derived ingredients and housed in compostable sachets.


• Collected more than 12,000 skincare data points through our free skin test which help us create the products of tomorrow.

• Won multiple awards including Most Eco-Friendly Body Wash Set in the Perfect Gift Awards 2023, and Most Innovative Personal Care Company in the World Finance Innovation Awards 2022.


• Featured in National Press incl. The Guardian, Stylist Magazine, Cosmetics Business. Recognised by global skincare brand, Clarins, as one of the companies leading the way in making water-free products.


• Our significant positive impact on 5 UN Sustainable Development Goals has also been certified by Vested Impact. Planting 1 tree for every order above £25, through our partnership with Evertreen. We also support several charities and have one partnership.

• Listings with Canopey, Amazon, Etsy, Eco Homemaker, Econess Store & Jjungl.

• Took part in renowned accelerators incl. ALSA 2022 by Amazon & Climate Kic, Natwest 23, Greentech Europe 23.

Monetisation strategy


ETHOSA currently sells refillable, natural body washes via 3 core channels:

•D2C: Most of our revenue is from our ecommerce store where our products are available for convenient delivery through the letterbox on a one-off basis and via automated subscriptions online. This enables us to connect directly with customers, nurture relationships and maximise margins.

•Online marketplaces: incl. Amazon, Canopey, Econess Store, Eco-Homemaker: this enables us to get additional visibility by being promoted alongside like-minded sustainable brands.

•B2B: currently selling to B&Bs, and small boutique hotels throughout Europe, as well as corporate clients for gifting.

Use of proceeds


•(50%) E-commerce: we will continue to scale our e-commerce business by investing in paid advertising, digital PR and partnerships.

•(50%) NPD: we will start developing our powder-form shampoo range that shares the same ethos as our body wash range. We believe this will help increase our AOV, LTV and brand loyalty — but moreover will continue to reduce plastics in the bathroom and improve daily shower routines.

A portion of the investment reflected in this campaign was received by the Company in the 6 months prior to the launch of the investment round on Seedrs and the Company has started putting this to use.

Key Information

Material Debt

The Company has the following outstanding loans:

A founder's loan with £65.000 outstanding at no interest rate per annum. The loan is not repaid and there is no due date.

A founder's loan with £20.000 outstanding at no interest rate per annum. The loan is not repaid and there is no due date.

The funds raised from this investment round will not be used to repay these loans.

SEIS Tax Relief

Please note that the Company has £63,000 left of their SEIS allocation. £100,000 of the investment reflected in the campaign is eligible for SEIS, so investments up to £163,000 in this round are expected to be eligible for SEIS tax relief on a first-come, first-serve basis. The investments made after £163,000 has been reached are expected to be EIS eligible.

Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and is subject to change in the future.

Director Disclosure

Director, Oliver Ludwig is a full time employee at another company, committing 8 hours a week for ETHOSA during weekends and outside of his working hours. There is no relationship between ETHOSA and his alternate role. They do not compete or provide services between them in any kind of form.

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Tax Relief (SEIS)

This business is eligible for SEIS relief - providing qualifying investors with income tax relief of 50% of their investment and certain other tax reliefs. Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and is subject to change in future. Click to learn more.

Tax Relief (EIS)

This business is eligible for EIS relief - providing qualifying investors with income tax relief of 30% of their investment and certain other tax reliefs. Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and is subject to change in future. Click to learn more.

Valuation (pre-money)

Valuation rounded from £2,263,709

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