Arsayo (luxury vegan handbags to help animal welfare)

Arsayo vegan handbags is a quality family-run brand based in Portugal and poland, items are made ethically in China, where factories are visited multiple times to ensure ethical practices.

This is a luxury brand so expensive. But it’s important to offer such brands, for rivalling designer brands that many women buy worldwide, often from cruel practices. 

This brand specilaises in vegan apple skin leather (which uses up fruit waste in the Italian industries) and cork (from a tree in Spain and Portugal where the bark is stripped every nine years – no trees are cut down). This helps to preserve the industry in a world of plastic wine corks, to keep forests safe.

Their iconic backpack (with a secure closure) has received gold medals and recognition from the French Ministery of Interior.

Founded by a family that is passionate about animal welfare, one founder runs an animal sanctuary in Paris. Another writes about animal welfare.