{"id":99630,"date":"2019-12-11T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T20:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/two-mexican-entrepreneurs-just-created-leather-out-of-cactus-leaves"},"modified":"2019-12-11T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T20:04:02","slug":"two-mexican-entrepreneurs-just-created-leather-out-of-cactus-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/two-mexican-entrepreneurs-just-created-leather-out-of-cactus-leaves","title":{"rendered":"Two Mexican Entrepreneurs Just Created Leather Out of Cactus Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-mexican-entrepreneurs-just-created-leather-out-of-cactus-leaves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two entrepreneurs from Mexico have created vegan leather out of cactus leaves. The cruelty-free leather is called Desserto.<\/p>\n<p>Adri\u00e1n L\u00f3pez Velarde and Marte C\u00e1zarez are said to be the first to create organic leather out of only nopal (prickly-pear) cactus. They don\u2019t use toxic chemicals, phthalates, or PVC in their design.<\/p>\n<p>The vegan leather is partially biodegradable. It\u2019s flexible, breathable, and lasts for at least 10 years. The material feels like animal-based leather. Companies can use it in furniture, cars, leather accessories, and clothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two entrepreneurs from Mexico have created vegan leather out of cactus leaves. The cruelty-free leather is called Desserto. Adri\u00e1n L\u00f3pez Velarde and Marte C\u00e1zarez are said to be the first to create organic leather out of only nopal (prickly-pear) cactus. They don\u2019t use toxic chemicals, phthalates, or PVC in their design. The vegan leather is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}