Cork is an impermeable, elastic, bouyant material, harvested primarily from the Cork Oak - an evergreen tree which grows in South West Europe and North West Africa. It is used in a huge variety of products - probably the most widely known being the stopper in a wine bottle. Over the centuries, cork has been used in flooring, footwear, floats and cricket ball cores amongst other things! It is also the material used as the top or surface layer for many Yoga Mats and it is wel