For this reason we have decided to invest in Social Responsibility, in the hope of generating a growing awareness on issues such as social justice, respect for the environment and sustainability, so that we can all “meet the company’s needs without compromising the ability to meet our own needs and those of future generations”.
The Customer comes before profit, and this is why we only select high quality raw materials, which undergo strict laboratory tests. We work in compliance with strict regulations of good manufacturing in order to guarantee the highest quality, efficiency and safety standards.
A few weeks after the pandemic started, with the precautionary closure of all of our business activities, we decided to re-start the packaging department for the production of a hand Sanitising Gel to donate to health care facilities and others. We were able to provide more than 40 thousand bottles to the Red Cross, to various hospitals in Italy, to Lodi’s Provincial Order of Doctors-Surgeons and Dentists, to Doctors Without Borders, to retirement homes, to volunteer associations, to penitentiaries and to the armed forces working to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus.
Our Shea butter, the heart of the Shea treatment line, comes from sustainable procurement and is produced by local communities in Burkina Faso. Specifically it is Burkinabé women who harvest and process the nuts of this sacred plant. What is more, thanks to this occupation, they can actively contribute to supporting their families. Therefore, for us at L’Erbolario, supporting their precious work not only means promoting the knowledge and spread of raw materials from fair trade, but also ensuring these economically fragile communities with a better future.
We are proud supporters of ‘La forza e il sorriso’ (Strength and Smile) since 2014. This Non-Profit organisation promotes free beauty workshops for women fighting cancer, across the nation. The initiative, endorsed by Cosmetica Italia – national cosmetics businesses association – is dedicated to the female population going though cancer treatment who wishes to win back some of their beauty and femininity also during treatment. Since 2017 we have also been supporting Beauty Gives Back with our face and body products, an annual fund raising event to support the charity.
In 2013, in collaboration with NGO Green Cross Italia, we launched a humanitarian project called “Hibiscus, a flower for Africa”: by purchasing products from the perfumed line bearing its name, our customers contributed to making 600,000 m² of land fertile in the villages of Gourikii Samba Diom and Bokhol in Senegal!
In 2016, with the food aid programme, we promoted the initiative “Buoni un milioni di volte (Good, a million times over)”, thus committing to donate a meal to Italian families in need with every two products purchased by our Customers.
L’Erbolario promotes participation in Local and National Organisations
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