Skincare and makeup obsession aside, we like to give credit where it’s due. In today’s time, when the world could use a little extra love and care, the beauty industry seems to understand its responsibility towards society. Therefore, today we are going to highlight 5 beauty brands that donate to a humanitarian cause for every product you buy from them.
Shop For A Cause
Keep these 5 brands bookmarked for the next time you are on the lookout for some new skincare or makeup. It will be your good deed of the day!
Can You Buy A Lipstick For Charity?
L’Oréal India has been running a scholarship program for young women since 2003. For Young Women in Science (FYWIS) Scholarship programme supports and encourages young women from all over the country to pursue careers in the field of Science. Specially designed for women from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, this scholarship program grants each student a sum of INR 2,50,000 for their college education.
A Helping Hand
L’Occitane India’s initiative to fight childhood blindness, A Vision For Children has been in action since the year 2000. The brand has since then collaborated with many organizations worldwide to establish easy access to eye and vision care for blind children. Recently, in 2017, L’Occitane internationally partnered with UNICEF and continues to provide eye screening, glasses, and required medical treatments to needy, visually impaired children.
Buy A Product, And Pay In Hope
The Body Shop, India has partnered up with Plastics For Change Organization for a way to thank the ‘invisible frontline workers’ – as they call them. Give Hope – Project Nari is a donation program where the brand shows support to Indian female waste pickers. For every amount you choose to donate, The Body Shop will match it, and the summed amount will go to changing these women’s lives for the better.
Saving Childhood, One Shopping Cart At A Time
Oriflame is a beauty brand all of our mothers used to be obsessed with at one point. The brand has co-founded The World Childhood Foundation, which helps save vulnerable children from the streets, sexually abuse children, institutionalized children, and marginalized children who are devoid of the basic fundamental rights.
Society Essentials: Taking Responsibility
Your favourite Indian luxury brand, Forest Essentials partnered up with an NGO, Simple Education Foundation to work towards the development of child education. Their initiative Paathshala has founded its roots in rural Uttrakhand, where they focus on delivering Hindi medium education to underprivileged kids devoid of access to schools.
Which brand will you be supporting?
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