The Cork company that features butterfly benches, sustainable art — and vaginal steaming

Dr Alexis Amaye, (centre) business owner with Yasmin Facao, sustainable fashion; Denrol Charles, woodwork; Christopher Louis, creative manufacturing and Roisin Kelly, sustainable art of Ebony Seed. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

“Waste is a first world problem,” says Alexis Amaye, CEO of Ebony Seed, a Cork-based company that offers a sustainable lifestyle, promoting ethical plant-based toxin-free products and services in beauty and fashion. It also exhibits art and crafts created sustainably. And it provides vaginal steaming, a cultural practice in many countries, for women’s well-being, particularly after child-birth.

Ebony Seed recently opened on Patrick’s Quay having been without a premise for about six months since launching on Shandon Street. It now occupies 280 square metres in what was previously a vintage market. Overlooking the river, ‘butterfly benches’ will be installed on the footpath opposite Ebony Seed with flowers planted in them which will attract butterflies and hummingbirds.