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Kor ONE Hydration Vessel is such a neat thing! Not only are they helping the environment by building innovative products that reduce environmental impact, but they also donate 1% of all sales to a select group of non-profits that focus on water-related issues.

So what is Kor ONE Hydration Vessel? It is a water container! Yep, a water container that comes in 4 beautiful colors. How is Kor ONE different from other water bottles? Well, it is made from health-safe materials and designed with intuitive, surprising features...

Kor ONE features a hinged cap and handle that allows for a quick, easy access to drinking, with one hand! And, that cap won't hit you in the face (when I first saw the cap I thought, ouch, that will hit me in the nose, but it does not!). You will never have to look for that water bottle top again! Also, Kor ONE's huge opening provides a wonderful drinking experience. No annoying threads on the spout. I really liked this feature because it felt alot nicer on my lips then the regular threaded spouts. And, the opening is big enough to get some ice cubes into it! Most water bottles don't allow for this little "pleasure" :) Kor ONE is BPA-Free and made from Eastman Tritan. So, why not drink from a reusable container?

Something that I found really neat about this "vessel" was that it comes with "Kor Stones". Designed into the cap is a place for your KOR Stone (a disc shaped token with a message that provides a bit of inspiration each time you take a drink!). Four "Stones" come packaged with the KOR ONE, so you get to choose what you want in your lid! Very cool!

What does my stone say? Take a peek!

A bit about KOR (taken off their site):

Our Mission is Water Advocacy
We're advocates for water, the key to all life. KOR believes passionately in the importance of clean water to human health and to the health of our planet, and in the power of design to inspire and motivate. We celebrate and treasure water through design-driven, sustainable hydration solutions and seek to engage consumers on critical water-related issues of container recycling, ocean and watershed protection, and the global water crisis.

We S.E.T. Our Values
At KOR we hold ourselves to what we call our "S.E.T." standards. That is, we strive to be sustainable, ethical and transparent throughout all our business practices. We're certainly not perfect, but we like to say that "we're on the path" by setting high standards in these areas and measuring ourselves against them.

1.Sustainable - We seek to employ sustainable business practices, such as reducing the energy needed to produce and transport our products, reducing and recycling our waste, and offering products that help reduce the environmental footprint of our customers.
2.Ethical - We strive to deal with each of our stakeholders, including customers, employees, partners and investors in a fair and ethical manner. For example, we try to ensure that our employees - and those of our vendors - are given fair and competitive wages, safe and non-threatening work environments, and are treated with respect. We also strive to support our community and direct some of our resources to improving the lives of our stakeholders.
3.Transparent - We strive to openly communicate on matters of interest to all stakeholders. For example, what materials are used in the creation of our products? Who are the subcontractors involved and what are their scorecards with regard to sustainable, ethical and transparent practices? When we make mistakes do we proactively admit to them and strive to do better?
We pledge to live by our SET standards and work hard to continually improve our performance against these principles.

My overall reaction?

I think this KOR ONE is amazing. I love what it stands for and I love that I have a very cool looking container to carry around and drink my water in. I love that I can add ice to it and not have to cram it into a small hole and I love that it has a carry handle on it. I also love that it is dishwasher safe (on the top rack).

Dislikes?

It is quite big, but I think I can get use to that.

BUY IT!

You can buy any of these great KOR ONE Vessels, by going to their website HERE! And for each color you buy, they each have their own cause the 1% sales goes to! Like if you buy the blue one, then 1% of the sales goes to Ocean Protection, if you buy green it goes to Watershed Protection and so on! How neat is that?!

WIN IT!

Kor ONE is generously offering one lucky Shop with Me Mama the chance to win one of their own!! ARV $29.95!

HOW?

Easy. Just go to Kor ONE's website and browse around a bit, then come back here and tell me what feature you like best about this vessel and what color you would choose if you won it!

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"Thank you, KOR ONE, for allowing me to review your product and for hosting this giveaway!"

Disclosure:

I was sent a KOR ONE Water vessel to review and keep. These are my own honest opinions about this product, yours may be different. Thanks!