Take a look at the range of Ladies Shoes and Mens Shoes available in South Africa. Buy online or visit on of our Think! shops in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

OUR PROMISE TO YOU

For us, environmental protection is neither a marketing tool nor a temporary fashion topic, but the pure conviction and a solid part of our company philosophy.

Think! Designed in Austria, produced in Europe. 

OUR SOLES

Apart from leather and recyclable PU use d in our soles, we also utilise natural latex, a renewable raw materialobtained from the "hevea tree". By carving the bark, the latex seeps out, is collected in reservoirs and will be further processed.

After approx. 25 years , when the tree cannot supply anymore sap, it will continue its growth naturally. Natural latex is characterised by excellent insulation as well as high abrasion resistance and is skid-proof.

Our insoles are made of 99% pure cork, adjusting to the shape of the foot i n a natural and healthy way. 

Apart from our respect of raw materials, we attach great importance to environmental friendliness and all our packaging in made of recyclable paper and cardboard.

OUR MATERIALS 

Nature is as nature does!

Wherever your foot comes in contact with your shoe, we only use vegetable-tanned leather, 100% of the time in most models.

We obtain the natural tannins from ground bark extracts of plantation-planted trees. Although vegetable-tanned leather is more costly to produce and more difficult to process, its benefits speak for themselves:

• Porous, allowing your feet to breathe,

• hypoallergenic,

• moisture-absorbing

• and toxin-free (no risk of heavy metal allergies!).

OUR LEATHER

We buy our leathers mostly from certified tanneries in central Europe, which we have proofed in detail regarding the prevailing environmental and social situation. No cow, which has been grazing peacefully on a pasture in Tuscany has to fade away through the production of our shoes. Our leather is only a bi-product of food processing. We don’t conserve our raw hides using chemical additives, to create transport shortcuts. Special salts and a faultless cold chain are enough to ensure the healthy transport of our hides. 

Wherever possible, we use vegetable tanned leather and always where the foot is in direct contact with the material, thereby using only vegetable tanned leather for the linings. The bark for our tanning agent is extracted from profit - tree plantations, an intelligent re-use of waste products. No tree from the primeval forest or tropical rain forest has to be cut down for the production of tanning agents.

Vegetable tanning benefits humans as well as nature in that the leather helps the foot to breathe and absorb humidity very well. Our leather remains in its natural state and we don’t treat it with aluminium, chrome, quicksilver or other poisonous substances. Furthermore, we only use colours free of any heavy metal and we abstain from carcinogenic AZO colours. Factors like child labour, exploitation of employees, inhumane working conditions, unprotected handling of tannic acid and unstrained emissions of tannic acid into rivers are not part of our production process.