Gear: Zeal Tofino Sport Sunglasses for Women
ZEAL Optics’ Tofino sunglasses have a secret. Beyond their sports performance credibility and highly wearable hipster styling, these sport sunglasses for women (and men) just happen to be made from renewable, bio-based materials. Unlike many other sunglasses that are manufactured today in a process that uses crude oil, the Tofino ($139) is crafted of ZEAL’s Z-Resin material, which is made from renewable castor beans. The same goes for all of the frames in ZEAL Optic’s performance-oriented, sport sunglasses collection.
ZEAL also took its eco-consciousness beyond the frame with the newly release Tofino sport sunglasses—it developed and launched the market’s very first bio-based sunglass lens, dubbed the e-llume lens. Does the e-llume perform, delivering optical clarity? We were curious, so we took this new lens for a test run.
Over the course of a month, we put this women’s sport sunglass through the paces—trail running, road biking, mountain biking, and hiking. We found that the e-llume delivered the goods on optical performance—the sun protection was solid and the optical clarity was excellent—far better than we anticipated for a first-generation, bio-based lens. The lens’ polarization also worked well to cut glare, as it’s designed to do.
The Tofino also slid easily under our bike helmet—spring hinges provide some flex and the Z-Resin material is also nicely bendable (just enough to provide comfort and some shock absorption on the trail). This women’s sports sunglass also stayed put during higher-impact activities like trail running; gripping rubber lines the inside of the temple ends and the nosepads. The Tofino also blocked wind relatively well while on the road bike, but its good-looking design is only slightly wrapped (a design feature that naturally delivers limited wind resistance). Our only suggestion: We’d love to see some venting in this performance sunglass to minimize overheating and fogging.
But, really, the ZEAL Tofino sunglasses had us at “plant-based.”
Did You Know? Boulder, Colorado-based ZEAL Optics announced last week that it would extend its eco reach with its Project 5480 (the elevation of its home office)—a commitment to plant 5,480 trees each year in the National Forest in areas of need in partnership with American Forests, the oldest nonprofit conservation organization in the country. A ZEAL forest in the making.
Photo: Susie Floros, Snowboard Magazine
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About Erinn Morgan
After a 10-year career as an award-winning New York City-based editor launching and redesigning urban, style-driven magazines, Erinn Morgan left her downtown Manhattan digs after September 11th, 2001, in search of a less encumbered, freelance lifestyle. A life-changing, two-year-long trek around the country in a motorhome eventually landed her in Durango, Colo., which she now calls home. Her writing has appeared in numerous— More about this author →
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