Our Story

‘At Love Tea, we skillfully craft, blend and pack each of our products in Australia. We collaborate with growers and small scale cooperatives around the world to fairly source organic ingredients. We thoughtfully design each of our unique products, to ensure optimum therapeutic benefit, exceptional flavour and minimal impact on the environment.’

About us

Love Tea was founded in Melbourne in 2006, by Naturopathy students Emma Watson and Damien Amos. Emma wanted to create beautiful products that were beneficial for customer’s health and promoted wellbeing. Damien was passionate about organics, working with growing communities directly and looking after our planet.

After experimenting with organic teas, aromatic spices and therapeutic herbs for a number of years, Emma and Damien decided to make their tea obsession a full-time project. By 2012, the range included more than 20 different blends, and the business name was changed from Love Chai to Love Tea, to reflect the wide range of products on offer.

At Love Tea, we currently skilfully craft, blend and pack each of our products in Australia. We collaborate with growers and small scale cooperatives around the world to fairly source organic ingredients. We thoughtfully design each of our unique products, to ensure optimum therapeutic benefit, exceptional flavour and minimal impact on the environment. We hope our tea inspires you to appreciate the quiet moments, take care of your health and share great tea with people you love.

Organic

Coming from a naturopathy background we are focused on creating a range of products that enhance wellbeing. From research and our own personal experience, it was imperative that we made products that didn’t contain any flavours, additives and pesticides.

Fairly Traded

Looking at our social impact, it made sense to us that we would acknowledge all people involved in the process of bringing our products to life. Implementing a Fair Trade Concept into the business helped us strengthen our business as a force for good model.

1% For The Planet

We wanted a way to communicate our commitment to caring for our Mother Earth. 1% For The Planet was a perfect fit for us, as it allowed us to support some of the not for profit organisations who are working towards improving our planet for future generations.

Naturopathically Designed

All of our organic and fairly traded teas are thoughtfully designed by our in-house naturopath and Love Tea founder Emma. Each blend is carefully designed to offer an array of therapeutic benefits that are beneficial for our customer’s health and wellbeing.

The Love Tea story – Part one

We recently travelled with our family of five to the hill country in Sri Lanka, to visit the local tea plantations. These plantations are where we source the fairly traded organic ingredients we use in our blends. We were fortunate enough to spend time with some of the growers and their local communities. This trip, more than ever, emphasised the importance of the fairly traded concept and the positive impact it can have on the local community.

We were joined by local photographer Nic Stephens who captured moments of this journey and then created a short film. We wanted to share this with you, so you can see where our ingredients come from and some of the beautiful people and communities who are responsible for growing them. This is the first film we’ve made like this and we are excited to bring you part two next year.