Origins of Our Palo Santo Wood

Large corporations move into small, rural areas, buy out or take over land from the indigenous people with the promise of making life better for them. Often times that translates into endless work hours for merely dollars a day for the native worker. Plenty of times, it also means environmental devastation and cultural ruin. Those practices just don’t jive with us. There is a collective oneness on the planet whether we acknowledge or deny it. What happens over there, happens over here. It’s the butterfly effect, right? Read: Is Palo Santo Endangered?

At Third Eye Wood, we have a serious regard for our Peruvian partners. We have a vested interest in helping them sustain a viable living for themselves and future generations, from their own country’s natural resource. We work with native families in small villages who make a better living from partnering with us. We have extended our reach beyond the incense sticks to offer them more opportunities to grow their businesses as we grow ours. We allow them to make the connections for sourcing material so they can involve more artisans and crafters in their own villages who can benefit as well. It is a growing community of local, native people bettering their livelihood through partnering together. We love this! Don’t you? So, while Third Eye Wood has a national reach, when you buy from us you really are buying local!