WE TAKE OUR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY SERIOUSLY
Beauty Society loves the environment, and our planet, and we vow to do all we can to be as eco-friendly as possible. We have gone above and beyond to ensure that while making people look and feel more beautiful that we do everything necessary to leave the whole world a more beautiful and safe place.
TREASURE NOT TRASH
Reducing landfill waste and reversing deforestation of the planet through our ‘Plant a Tree’ with every refill purchased program. Save money on the products you love, while helping preserve our precious earth.
We plant a tree with every refill purchased.
By purchasing a Beauty Society refill, you are helping to replenish native trees and help alleviate extreme poverty through our ‘employ to plant’ environmental partnership with Eden: People+Planet. Our goal is to plant hundreds of thousands of native trees nine countries around the world. These specific regions have been ravaged by illegal logging and clear cutting that have destroyed the natural ecosystem.
The deforestation resulting from illegal logging and clear cutting reduces the environment for animals and the reduction of rain-forests has been shown to have a direct connection to global warming. In addition to the impact trees and rain-forests have on the environment, they also have a direct impact on the people that rely on them.
The wages that are earned empower men and women who have been exposed to human trafficking, extreme poverty, or lived as refugees. They are able to support their families and work on small plot farms. Their job is very specific – reforest their nation. For every Beauty Society refill purchased a donation is made, a donation that results in the planting of another tree.
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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE REGIONS WHERE YOU ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Amélia’s Story
Leaving a Legacy Through Reforestation
Amélia Alberto Chilengue was a young mother with two small children living in Mozambique when her husband was murdered in January 2021, leaving her with no source of income to raise her family.
She started cleaning homes but the money she earned was not enough to feed and educate her daughters or pay for their water and electricity. Fortunately, Amélia had a neighbor who monitors mangroves at our Chilhale site and helped Amélia secure a job as a planter.
Amélia now wakes at 5:00 AM every workday to make breakfast and care for her family, then around 7:00 AM begins her work carefully planting propagules one meter apart in the thick mud of a mangrove planting site. When she completes her planting for the day, she collects more propagules from mature mangroves, sorts them by species, and prepares for the next round of planting. With your support, Amélia can care for her daughters and ensure they are educated.
“It makes me proud to leave a legacy for my children,” says Amélia. “As they grow up, they will know that their mother contributed to planting trees to restore the environment.”
– Amélia Alberto Chilengue
George's Story
Promoting Food Security Through Agroforestry
Through our agroforestry program, our employees grow an assortment of trees and crops that, in turn, produce direct economic benefits, such as food and medicine, in addition to environmental benefits.
In Kenya, this program would not be possible without our Agroforestry Manager, George Were. Before joining our Kenya team, George was teaching his community how to farm and support their forests. As our Agroforestry Manager, George identifies indigenous species to plant, and works with local farmers to provide agricultural training. He now plans to enroll farmers in a vegetable program, in which we will grow vegetable seedlings at the nursery and distribute them to farmers to harvest on their land.
Without your help, we could not empower people like George to help improve local communities’ livelihoods while restoring degraded land.
Nima's Story
Overcoming Nepal’s Lockdown
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Nima Dolma Lama lost her hotel business and found herself not knowing how she would survive. All she had left to rely on was her family’s small farm, which did not yield a sufficient amount of crops year-round, to support her husband, two sons, two daughters-in-law, grandson, and herself. With no formal education and gender inequality prevalent in Nepal, on top of many businesses closed due to the pandemic lockdown, there were very limited employment opportunities available for Nima. However, this did not stop her. She continued to face these obstacles head-on, leading her to connect with our Nepal team.
Now, Nema has a full-time position at our Mude nursery. With the consistent income she earns, she can afford her family’s daily household expenses.
With your suport, Nima can provide for her family, save for the future, and is restoring her local environment.
“I am grateful to make a living restoring the environment,“ says Nima. “I see our reforestation work in Nepal improving the livelihoods in my community.”
– Nima Dolma Lama