We are living in a very exciting time of change and environmental awareness. All around us we see signs of these changes. People are demanding products and services with reduced impacts on the environment. We also see products and advertisements rushing to brand themselves “GREEN”, “ECO-FRIEDNLY” and “ORGANIC” with little or no verifiable proof. As a manufacturer this is a dangerous minefield to negotiate. It is very easy to come off as jumping on the Green band wagon and milking it for a profit on the other hand it is important to share the changes you’ve made and are continuing to make with your customers. We are doing our best to make a superior product, make important changes in our product and manufacturing processes to reduce our impact on the environment and maintain a high level of integrity and honesty.

Here are some of the things we are doing and the reason we are doing them:

Our first big decision was choosing to pour our wax into RPET (recycled and recyclable containers) containers instead of hand wrapping in paper. There are several important reasons for this. One reason is that pouring into a container removes the need for refrigeration thus reducing our energy and floor space consumption and thereby reducing our carbon footprint. We chose the use of recycled material instead of other options such as biopolymers (organic plastics) for two important reasons: 1. There is an abundance of plastic waste in the US that is destined for landfills, rivers, beach and roadsides and recycling as much of our waste is very important of the near term solution. 2. While biopolymers are the future of plastics currently the manufacturing processes of the materials cause their own environmental problems. We look forward to working with these materials in the future as they improve.

Another step in our approach has been the addition of natural ingredient into the formulation of our wax. Every brand of wax is made up of many different ingredients. In the past and today in many cases paraffin has been the predominant ingredient. Paraffin in and of its self in not harmful or evil. In fact the paraffin used in most surf wax is “food grade”, meaning if is very refined, nontoxic and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in food, cosmetics, and medical applications. The main assumed problem with paraffin in that it is petroleum based which maintains our reliance on the petroleum producers and all of the associated problem therein.

We have chosen to begin replacing much of our paraffin with 100% organic U.S. soy. Soy has proven to be a great substitute and has actually brought unforeseen traction characteristics that have proven beneficial to the MAGMA formula. By buying from U.S. farmers we are also reducing the transportation time and distance of our raw materials thus reducing over all fuel consumption.

The real secret to the leading waxes dominating surfing today are the additives. While these represent a small percent of the wax itself they are what make the wax sticky, tacky and bumpy. We are finding natural, nontoxic and biodegradable alternatives to the common wax additives of the past and in doing so improving the performance.

You don’t have to sacrifice performance to save the Earth. You just have to try a little harder. We are confident that is just what we're doing.

Thanks for your time, The MAGMA Team