{"id":3233,"date":"2022-08-17T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vulvani.com\/luftig-leicht-und-recycelt-nachhaltige-unterwaesche-von-tukea\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T17:08:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T17:08:22","slug":"airy-light-and-recycled-tukeas-sustainable-underwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vulvani.com\/en\/airy-light-and-recycled-tukeas-sustainable-underwear\/","title":{"rendered":"Airy, light, and recycled – TUKEA’s sustainable underwear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever wanted to know how to find the right bra for you? No problem, Juliane and Louise from TUKEA will tell you! In an interview, they tell us about their start-up TUKEA for sustainable underwear, why fair products are so important to them, and what body diversity and body literacy mean to them.<\/p>

Can you please briefly introduce yourselves and your start-up?<\/h3>\n\n

We are Juliane Bock and Louise Unger, the co-founders of TUKEA<\/a>. At TUKEA we make environmentally friendly and fair underwear for women* by women*. The underwear is wire-free, yet supportive, and without the granny look. We currently specialise in large sizes and therefore offer our bra up to cup size 95J.<\/p>\n\n

What exactly does TUKEA mean and how did you come up with the idea for sustainable underwear?<\/h3>\n\n


We had the problem of finding sustainable underwear that fit our size. Not wanting to miss out on either aspect and very dissatisfied with what was available on the market, we decided to found TUKEA<\/a>. We want to produce in a fair and environmentally friendly way and at the same time create underwear that supports. It should also be able to support large sizes and be sexy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

That\u2019s why we decided on the name TUKEA. TUKEA<\/a> is Finnish and means something like \u201csupport, sustain\u201d. And that\u2019s exactly what we want to do, we want to support and sustain \u2013 starting with well-fitting underwear in which everyone can feel comfortable and sexy.<\/p><\/div>\n\n

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Photo Credits: Valeska Achenbach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

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Sustainability at TUKEA \u2013 Where do your products come from and how are they produced?<\/h3>

Our underwear is faily produced in a small family business in Bulgaria. We have already been able to see the working conditions for ourselves and are looking forward to the next visit, which we are planning during our production period.<\/p>

We try to source our fabrics from Europe. It doesn\u2019t work yet with all materials (metal sliders and rings) but we manage it with our fabrics, rubbers, and labels. The choice of our materials depends very much on the characteristics it has to have to guarantee quality. However, we mainly look at environmentally friendly materials. Only if we absolutely can\u2019t find anything we can use, we resort to conventional materials for the time being. However, we continue to look for alternatives to use in the next collection. We want to become even more sustainable with each collection.<\/p>

Unfortunately, the choice of sustainable materials is still limited at most retailers and often only available in very large quantities. This makes the search for materials very time-consuming. We expect this to improve as the demand for sustainable alternatives<\/a> increases.<\/p>

Airy, light, and made from recycled fabrics \u2013 what makes your sustainable underwear so special?<\/h3>

Several aspects come together for us. We don\u2019t want to use underwires, and we won\u2019t in the future. This also applies to preformed cups. There are many reasons for this, but the most important one is that breasts are allowed to be what they are.<\/p>

What we want to offer instead is:<\/p>