We strive for best practices in materials including: utilizing scrap fabric previously incinerated for power generation, recycled films for locating contents at a glance, and recycled yarns treated with reduced impact anti-bacterial treatments.

Clean designs, with sensible features that reveal themselves through daily use is the mark of a superior product. Our goal is that you will experience lasting satisfaction from our products and recommend them to your friends. Here are a few examples of our modest contributions that we developed to answer what we perceived to be a practical need in certain products.

Choosing materials and how they are assembled into Innate products can be viewed as a balancing act. A clean design made with materials that meet environmental health criteria is critical. Equally important is the responsibility for ensuring that the materials selected are durable, perform well, and factor in end of useful life disassembly and recycling. At Innate we view the art of choosing materials and construction processes for our products as evolutionary. We will continue our quest to offer superior products with a reduced ecological footprint, combined with sensible features that reveal themselves through daily use. Our goal is that you will experience lasting satisfaction from our products and recommend them to your friends; to us that is success. We select materials that meet the above criteria and have been independently tested to the appropriate international standards and back this up with our chain of custody materials tracking processes. For example, our food and drink containers are subject to a raw materials internal testing and tracking process, backed up by testing from an independent company, SGS, to: US CPSIA, FDA , California Prop 65, European Norm and Canada CCPSA for food and drink container standards.

We will continue to expand on our current raw materials chain of custody testing program through the introduction of a “best in class” three sigma rating system. Three sigma gives a clear and accurate representation of data by removing any room for selective interpretation; here’s how it works. Quality Assurance staff test a random sample of the raw materials used in Innate containers to international standards using machines such as a spectrometer. The data from these tests are analyzed to determine the average or mean numbers from each test batch. Then the average deviation from the average test results, also known as the standard deviation, which represents the variation of test results within a different group of samples is calculated. A rating of three standard deviations or three sigma, the greek symbol used in formulas, means that 99.7% of our products will have results better than noted. Moving to the three sigma system is part of our ongoing commitment at to earn your trust through “best in class” processes so you can make responsible product choices.

Innate water and vacuum bottles listed with the Modular Design icon indicate that they have our proprietary collar system. Products with the modular collar allow Innate single wall and vacuum lids to be mixed and matched depending on activity or season, a great example of clean design. We have designed a flow controller that fits all our single wall water bottles plus accessories for specific Innate models such as the removable handle for our Kaze modular Vacuum bottle and the Me-Me ABC system.

The Innate Modular Collar accepts any lid from our V2 collection:

The Innate Flow Controller press fits into the mouth of any Innate V2 collar water bottles for a drip proof drink.	The Modular Collar is made from tested #5 food grade polypropylene for easy drinking and use in cool conditions; no more frozen lips on cold days!

The Innate Kaze vacuum bottle, showing modular collar with thermal stopper and removable handle:	The thread pattern of the V2 Collar allows for easy lid attachment, and fits screw-on adaptors of most backcountry water filters.

Customize your child’s Me-Me to match their developing motor skills!