Moo & Yoo is a family-run salon brand from Edinburgh, inspired by the strength and beauty of Scottish Highland Cattle. Founded by Suzie Gillespie and her daughter Olivia, the company is dedicated to creating natural, ethical haircare products that are as gentle on the environment as they are on your hair. With ingredients like Icelandic moss, Fairtrade marula oil, and sea salt — all sustainably sourced — their range reflects a deep commitment to purity, sustainability, and performance.
The Story
A hairdresser by trade, Suzie has had a salon in Edinburgh for over 13 years. When adapting her business four years ago to make it environmentally friendly, she realised that all the best sustainable products were coming from Australasia and set out to produce her own.
The Moo product range has been formulated and developed with hairdressers and chemists who specialise in working with natural products, using only high-quality ingredients with nothing watered down. There are no aggressive ingredients and product performance is balanced equally with the brand’s ethical commitment.
What's Special about Your Products?
All products are vegan and cruelty-free in that neither the products nor the ingredients are tested on animals. There are no aerosols, all sprays are supplied in environmentally friendly and recyclable spritz/atomiser dispensers.
Moo & Yoo works closely with their suppliers and only with partners who share similar values. There are no parabens or sulphates in the products. No harsh chemicals, SLS or synthetic detergents are used and all are free from artificial colourings and over 96% biodegradable. Moo & Yoo also encourage salons to refill customer-purchased bottles from their own one litre stock bottles.
The product
It has taken a lot of researching but I feel we have come up with a range of products that allows hair salons to meet their own environmental goals and more, whilst still giving their customers an amazing treatment experience,” states Suzie. “The Highland cattle have the most beautiful coats, this inspired us to source ingredients that would allow human hair to look just as good!”
Material
Our commitment to the environment also covers our packaging decisions”, continues Suzie. “We only use glass bottles and jars for all our products, a naturally derived material that is 100% recyclable and the jar lids are made of 100% recyclable aluminium. Our labels are printed on recycled paper using vegetable-based inks and we transport our products in recyclable cardboard, with minimal packaging.
Good to know
Where you have a number of different label designs (flavours, product variations etc) we can print them all in the same print run. Important: For us to be able to print different label designs in the same run, your labels all need to be the same shape, size and on the same material.
‘The labels had to meet our sustainable policy and label.co.uk were able to do this and still offer a very good price.’
label.co.uk as Printing Partner
Suzie chose label.co.uk to provide her labels. “The labels had to meet our sustainable policy and label.co.uk were able to do this and still offer a very good price. By digitally printing the labels we can produce them all on one print run which saves on wastage. Despite the fact that the paper label will eventually deteriorate due to the water contact, we didn’t want to go for a plastic-coated option and our customers are fully understanding of this.”
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