Klei

ABOUT

Hi 👋 I'm Val!
I'm the founder (and sole employee) of Klei.
I started Klei back in 2017 while working full-time as a buyer & planner in the fashion industry in NYC.

As a kid, I enjoyed making DIY beauty concoctions, things like avocado face masks, and drain-clogging oatmeal hair treatments. I rediscovered my childhood joy of creating natural products as a way to escape the stress of my fashion career, making clay masks after work and on the weekends on my dining room table. I found that creating self-care products was my own form of self-care.

Klei had since grown, and all products are now made and shipped by my amazing manufacturing partners in the tri-state area. Despite being stocked in major retailers like Nordstrom, Crate & Barrel, and Anthropologie, Klei is still a small business.

I'm a mom to an amazing little girl and live in Brooklyn with my insanely supportive husband and our very cute dog.

I love creating these products and seeing the joy that they bring others. I hope my products bring you a moment of peace and calm.

As a part of our sustainability mission,
Klei donates a portion of each online sale to two causes that are important to us – the environment and supporting our Brooklyn community.

Brooklyn Community Foundation
“Brooklyn Community Foundation is the first and only public foundation solely dedicated to Brooklyn’s charitable community, working in partnership with generous donors and community leaders to invest in racial justice and community-led change.

Since our founding in 2009, the Foundation has provided over $75 million in grants to nonprofits through our Community Fund and Donor Advised Fund programs.”

Environmental Defense Fund
“Environmental Defense Fund's mission is to preserve the natural systems on which all life depends.

Guided by science and economics, we find practical and lasting solutions to the most serious environmental problems.

We work to solve the most critical environmental problems facing the planet. This has drawn us to areas that span the biosphere: climate, oceans, ecosystems and health. Since these topics are intertwined, our solutions take a multidisciplinary approach. We work in concert with other organizations — as well as with business, government and communities — and avoid duplicating work already being done effectively by others.”