Information about Certificates

Information about Certificates

We produce our acupressure mats in collaboration with our partner, Kishor Exports, which manufactures them in India for ShaktiMat. You can find more information about our production process here

Kishor holds Fairtrade, GOTS Version 7.0, and OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 certifications for the product, material, and process areas specified in each certificate. In the production of the ShaktiMat, Kishor uses exclusively Fairtrade (Certificate FLO ID 48046) certified cotton as well as raw fabrics and dyed fabrics produced in accordance with GOTS (Scope Certificate Number SC-024785-0). The textile materials used by Kishor in the production of the ShaktiMat are also tested and certified according to OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 (Certificate No. 24.HIN.71627, testing institute: Hohenstein Laboratories GmbH & Co. KG, 74357 Bönnigheim, Germany), Product Class I. 

We use hang tags and/or adhesive labels supplied by Byways India Private Limited for the packaging of our products. This company holds FSC certification (Certificate No. NC-COC-007852) for these packaging components

Certificates and evaluation criteria:

Fairtrade Certificate:

View Kishor Exports' Fairtrade certificate here

Fairtrade/FLOCERT Certification Criteria: Certification is based on the Fairtrade Standards, specifically the Fairtrade Trader Standard and the Fairtrade Standard for Fibre Crops/Cotton. The auditable criteria are published in the FLOCERT Public Compliance Criteria.

https://www.fairtrade.net/content/dam/fairtrade/fairtrade-international/standards/trader-standards/TS_EN.pdf

https://www.fairtrade.net/content/dam/fairtrade/fairtrade-switzerland/produte/FibreCrops_SPO_EN.pdf

https://www.flocert.net/app/uploads/2025/07/TC-PublicComplianceCriteria-ED-9.1-en.pdf

GOTS certification:

View Kishor Export's GOTS certificate here

GOTS Version 7.0 Certification Criteria: https://global-standard.org/images/resource-library/documents/standard-and-manual/GOTS_7.0__DE_signed.pdf

OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 Certificate for Kishor Export:

View the OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 Certificate for Kishor Export here

OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 testing criteria:

https://www.oeko-tex.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Marketing_Materialien/STANDARD_100/Standard/OEKO-TEX_STANDARD_100_Standard_DE.pdf

https://www.oeko-tex.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Marketing_Materialien/STANDARD_100/Standard/OEKO-TEX_Testing_Methods_STANDARD_100.pdf

https://www.oeko-tex.com/importedmedia/downloadfiles/OEKO-TEX_STANDARD100_Testing_Methods_EN_ZH-HANS.pdf


FSC Certificate:

View the FSC certificate for Byways India Private Limited here:

FSC certification criteria:

https://connect.fsc.org/document-centre/documents/retrieve/0229b10e-ebf8-4df1-b184-c0121051ad0c?mode=view#viewer.action=download

https://connect.fsc.org/document-centre/documents/retrieve/91dcb478-3115-4b3d-9541-c24154e79ced?mode=view#viewer.action=download