We believe in a new era of sustainability focused on lower personal energy usage.
We believe in a new era of sustainability focused on lower personal energy usage.
Our Commitment to Sustainability Practices
Less Impact
Our goal with everything we make is to reduce our impact on the Earth. We stripped away the excess and created textiles that require less to manufacture and distribute. LifeLabs is PFC free, and our materials have a lower environmental impact than traditional materials.
Less Materials
Our high-performing garments use less materials and fewer resources to reduce our environmental impact by 25%.
Less Waste
Smarter materials mean efficient manufacturing and shipping. Our dying techniques use less water. Our products are distributed in bio-based packaging that is recyclable or compostable.
Introducing a new Idea in Sustainability
Current sustainability uses recycled or organic fabrics, less harmful dyes, manages chemicals more responsibly and creates less waste.
New Sustainability
Using recycled materials and natural fibers is a start, but to make a difference in the battle against climate change, we need a new level of sustainability—a holistic approach to help people reduce their energy use.
Less Energy
Humans spend more than 90% of their time indoors. To maintain a comfortable body temperature, we consume considerable energy heating and cooling ambient air. In fact, indoor temperature control accounts for 12% of total U.S. energy consumption. Our high-performance textiles are the most efficient and simplest way to control body temperature indoors or out. By controlling the temperature of your skin, they help to reduce wasteful ambient heating and cooling. Our technology heats or cools your skin with less materials than other garments on the market, while utilizing more efficient manufacturing and supply chain systems.
A More Sustainable Life
By using disruptive technology to increase energy efficiency among individuals, LifeLabs will decrease global greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution over time. By adjusting our thermostat by +2 degrees C in the summer and -2 degrees C in the winter, we have the potential to reduce our total carbon emissions by 153 lbs of CO2 per person annually.
Here’s How We Make the Most
Sustainable Apparel Ever
Here’s How We Make the Most Sustainable Apparel Ever
Climate Change Potential
By adjusting our thermostats by +2 degrees C in the summer and -2 degrees C in the winter, we have the potential to reduce our total carbon emissions by 153 lbs of CO2 per person annually.
Chemical Impact
We are committed to using only PFC-free durable water-repellent finishes on our performance fabrics, eliminating our use of perfluorinated chemicals.
With our initial product offering, our polyethylene fabrics average a 49% reduction in chemical impact compared to conventional alternatives. *Based on Higg MSI 3.2 data at Higg.org. Percentage reductions pertain to the finished material phase.
Sustainable Packaging
We use less packaging overall to decrease our overall waste in the landfill. We eliminated conventional polybags, hangers, silica gel packs and hang tags attached with plastic swift tacks. Every LifeLabs Design product is marked with a unique QR code main label that accesses a webpage providing product features, intended use, care instructions and an environmental impact report.
When a product does require packaging, we employ reusable fabric garment bags and environmentally friendly packaging materials.
Water Pollution
We partner with fabric mills equipped with state-of-the-art equipment to improve processing efficiencies and significantly reduce water usage by 70% and steam consumption by 33%.
Earth-friendly Materials
Our materials are sourced from Bluesign certified mills that share the world’s most transparent production processes. Additionally, our initial product line is 74% recycled content by fabric weight.
Responsible Practices
Our garment factories are ISO 14001 certified, an international standard for designing and implementing a responsible environmental management system. Our garment factories are also WRAP certified. WRAP certification is governed by 12 principles to promote responsible business practices and sustainability in supply chain management.
We are founded and led by textile pioneers and material scientists. Our scientists have developed innovative solutions to pressing issues like clean energy storage, water purification and thermoregulation. They consistently seek and develop the world’s newest technology to make our products even more sustainable and make you a better energy steward.
Higg MSI
We are currently utilizing the Materials Sustainability Index (MSI) module within the Higg Index platform, which allows us to measure the impacts of our material choices across the following impacts:
- Global warming potential
- Water pollution
- Water consumption
- Fossil fuel depletion
- Chemical impact
By measuring these environmental impacts of materials production in a common way, the Higg MSI allows us to compare materials and make more informed choices that are more sustainable for the planet.
For upcoming innovations, we will begin utilizing the Product Module within the Higg Index platform to assess the overall environmental impact of our product collections, including raw materials extraction/processing, product manufacturing, consumer use phase, and end-of-life on a product level.
Materials Innovation
We are currently exploring recycled and renewable feedstocks for our polyethylene, such as:
- Utilizing the PE waste stream within our own supply chain
Ocean-bound plastic waste as a recycled feedstock for our materials
Mono-material products to enable circular end-of-life solutions
Supply Chain Energy Index
We are actively working to collect data from our supply chain partners across each step of the manufacturing process in an attempt to understand our energy footprint and areas for improvement among current power sources.
Manufacturing Sustainability Index (MSI)
Everything we do is driven by science and research.
Founded by Professor Yi Cui, director of Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy and a 15-year veteran of Stanford’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Meng Sui, CEO of clean-energy foundry EEnotech and 4C Air, Inc. and a chemist and patent agent, LifeLabs™ bridges the gap between academia and scientific research and commercially-viable textiles that create a more sustainable world. With EEnotech’s history of developing innovative solutions to society’s most pressing issues—clean energy storage, water purification, thermoregulation—and Professor Cui’s background in energy and environmental technologies (everything from electric car batteries to wind and solar energy storage to soil filtration), LifeLabs™ promises a new sustainability unprecedented within the industry. Backed by Stanford research and science, the process streamlines the supply chain, uses less energy, fewer materials and pollutes zero toxic chemicals.
Research Papers
What We're Hearing
Minimal-yet-technically sound apparel that would
introduce a new era of sustainability.
This Apparel Company Wants to Have a Profound
Effect on Your Energy Use.
LifeLabs’ new textiles aim to revolutionize
sustainability for clothing.
LifeLabs is on to something big here.
Wearing a WarmLife Vest and my body felt like it was wrapped in a thin veil of subtly radiant heat. The thermostat in my home was set at about 4° lower than I normally had it and I felt totally comfortable.
LifeLabs is pioneering
temperature-regulating fabric.
