What are Biodegradable Urns made out of?

When choosing a burial urn for your dearly departed, especially when picking a biodegradable urn, you may ask yourself: what are the urns made out of?

Most of our burial urns are handmade, out of raw vegetable extracts and fibres, ensuring that the urn melds with the soil. Each of these urns comes with a biodegradable bag to store the ashes inside of, while ashes can be harmful to soil, the eco friendly makeup of our burial urns balances out the pH of the earth to allow plants to grow.

Here, we will go into more detail about other materials that we use for our biodegradable urns and help you to choose the right urn for your loved one’s ashes.

Mulberry Tree

Our majority of biodegradable urns are made out of Mulberry tree bark. Mulberry tree bark is obtained through an ancient harvesting technique. The tree continues to grow unharmed due to the method leaving no damage. This makes the paper completely biodegradable, soft to the touch and natural. 

All of our Mulberry Tree variety urns come in distinctive designs and shapes. Such as the Journey Biodegradable Water Urn. Its convenient slim envelope type of shape allows you to travel with and it can be taken on most commercial airlines as hand luggage. 

Our Journey Biodegradable Water Urn has beautifully drawn graphic flowers such as dogwood shale or lily blue. You can also choose a simpler, just as elegant cremation urn design such as embossed pearl or, aqua blossom blue.

You can also choose our Heart Shaped Biodegradable Urn for Ashes  for eco-friendly land burial. There are three different variations of this urn. Our pastel heart-shaped urn  is hand-painted with flowing bright colours and golden floral ornaments.

Floral white has dainty flower petals embedded throughout. The final design has a warm, woodgrain finish that seems almost golden.

Natural minerals 

These types of burial urns are handcrafted using a blend of natural organic materials, which includes raw vegetable minerals and sand. When the urn is buried in the ground, the urn will slowly begin to meld with the soil, naturally releasing the nitrogen from the vegetable minerals, fertilising the soil. As it continues to dissolve and mix with the earth, your loved one’s ashes will be slowly dispersed throughout the soil.

If the urn is placed within water it will begin to dissolve over a few minutes, eventually releasing the ashes into the water. Within dry environments, these urns for ashes are robust and resistant which makes them secure when travelling.

Our SandSphere Biodegradable Urn can be used for either water or land burial. The shape of the burial urn symbolises the cyclical aspects of life. As one ends, it becomes the literal foundation of new life, taking shape and flourishing again.

Arenae Biodegradable Water Urn is almost cylindrical, with small ornamentation embellishing the centre. It is composed of smaller circles, representing the cyclical structure of life. This urn for ashes is ideal for water or land burial.

Olive stones and plant extracts

The Eden urn is handcrafted using olive stones and bound together with plant extracts. These extracts contain phosphorus, nitrogen, and other nutrients necessary for plant growth.

This urn for ashes has a natural, olive coloured outer shell with a smooth texture and firm exterior. The aesthetic of the shell completes the Eden look, making it the perfect urn to place in a garden or wooded area.

Non-toxic biodegradable paper

We use exclusively water-soluble, non-toxic, and biodegradable paper for the crafting of the Memento Urn, making it the ideal water burial urn. This urn comes in three different colours with water-based paint and blends naturally with the water. This beautifully shaped urn won the Reddot Design Award in 2011.

This oval urn comes with twenty note cards for family and friends to write heartfelt messages. This water burial urn comes with a discreet carrying case. Notes can then be posted through the slot on the top of the urn to accompany your loved ones on their final journey.