Eco Art and Craft

Naomi Parsons, the woman behind the Eco Crayons brand, is a teacher, a business owner and a creative soul. Her vision for 100% plant based and truly non-toxic crayons and art mediums was born whilst watching her daughter, Arleena, and her students chew on crayons and other drawing tools from a young age, often with synthetic colours leeching, staining their skin and causing irritation. This was the birth of eco crayons.

She began researching what was in commercial non-toxic art products. The use of pigments containing heavy metals, paraffin (from petroleum), synthetic oxides and micas, plastics and asbestos particles alarmed her. As a parent and a teacher she wants to know that the children in her circles are using safe art mediums to draw, paint, and explore.

Here is when the endless nights of reading and experimenting began. She can now, because of her passion for the experimentation process and ‘perfecting’ formulas and belief in herself, offer an eco-friendly alternative. One that she is happy to let her daughter chew!