The Social Impact Mission: Meet the Women Behind Your Skincare
We sustainably source our rare botanical ingredients through women's fair-trade cooperatives, enabling our producers to earn at least 3x local wages.
We've built our supply chain via non-profit collectives. We believe that fair-wage, dignified work is essential, and elevates our end product, creating a higher level of meaningful luxury for discerning consumers. Nothing gives a nicer glow than knowing you made a difference for someone else.
Including marginalized women in developing nations is critical when it comes to creating sustainable positive change. Research shows that women tend to reinvest about 90% of their paycheck into the health, education, and well-being of their families and communities. There simply is no better aid program than buying from women.
Rather than trying to solve issues such as childhood malnutrition and human trafficking downstream, giving underprivileged women access to sustainable economic opportunities and financial agency by earning living wages is key to ending some of the world's most serious problems. Enabling our female producers to provide for themselves and their families is at the core of our Beauty with Humanity® social impact mission.
Meet the Producers
Christine Amuge
Judith Atim
Sarah Amolo
Christine Abolo
Caring for Your Skin While Caring for the Planet
Our Beauty with Humanity® impact mission is not only centered around people, but also the planet. By caring for your skin, you can not only give dignified work to marginalized women in emerging markets, but also actively combat climate change.
In many of the regions we work in, deforestation is a massive problem. Biodiversity conservation is a growing concern around the world. As forests, trees, and natural resources are chopped down to make room for agriculture, cattle grazing, mining, logging and natural extraction, there is significant negative impact on the environment. Animals lose their habitat, critical plant species are wiped out and entire ecosystems are disrupted.
Many times it's a matter of survival for local communities. When you have nothing else, leasing the land to a mining company can provide a crucial source of income. For example, before having access to sustainable means to export Nilotica nuts, many of the Nilotica trees in Uganda were chopped down to be sold as firewood for a dollar a day by the roadside.
By giving local communities a financial incentive to preserve natural resources, and showing them they can make more money by sustainably cultivating the rare plants used in our products, together we can halt deforestation and preserve biodiversity — all through the power of dignified work.
We also incorporate this environmental mission directly into our product line, giving modern consumers an innovative way to fight climate change through daily skincare habits. Our LXMI 33 Face Oil, for example, was created in partnership with environmental non-profit Conservation International and the Indigenous Trio tribe of Suriname.
The project enables the protection of a sensitive region of south Suriname, powered by the sustainable, regenerative wild-harvesting of Tuhka nuts, one of the main ingredients in the LXMI 33 Face Oil. With the backing of Conservation International and the blessing of the Surinamese government, the Trio tribe protects 235,000 hectares of pristine Amazon rainforest and its wildlife — while solar panels and ongoing, gender-inclusive education support the village.
To put that in perspective: 235,000 hectares covers approximately 132.7 million trees, which annually absorb 2.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — the equivalent of the annual greenhouse emissions from 628,699 passenger cars. Every bottle of LXMI 33 Face Oil enables the protection of approximately 4.8 football fields of Amazon rainforest, absorbing the carbon dioxide of an average car driven 97,787 miles.