The Philippines is our home and as a 'developing country', it needs our help! We strive to formulate products using ingredients that can be grown in the Philippines and only include other ingredients if there are no local alternatives. We prioritize Filipino suppliers whenever possible to help make our local economy stronger. The Philippines is so rich in natural resources and talent... with a little more love of country from the business world, we can pave our way towards becoming a first-world nation.
MADE IN THE PHILIPPINES CAN MEAN WORLD-CLASS
Many countries have reached prosperity by buying cheap raw materials from poor countries and turning them into expensive finished goods. Take Belgium, for example. They produce some of the finest chocolate in the world, but did you know that not a single cocoa bean grows naturally in Belgium? They buy cocoa from around the world, turn it into chocolate and sell it back to the country that grew it for many times the price! The way we see it, one great way for the Philippines to become prosperous is for us to produce not just raw materials, but quality finished goods, and for Filipinos to buy Filipino-made products to support our local economy. This is how we aim to help raise our country from poverty — by sourcing locally at fair trade prices, producing world-class finished goods and exporting them around the world.
PRO-POOR
The Philippines is rich in agricultural products, yet many of its farmers are poor, with an average daily wage of Php156.80, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board. As long as our small farmers mostly grow rice, they will always be poor. Human Nature aims to help change this by creating demand for high-value essential oils instead, as well as programs that invest in skills training, sustainable technology, infrastructure, and values formation to improve the farmers' output and quality of life.
As firm believers in fair trade principles, we offer to buy at just and fair prices from our community-based suppliers, sometimes even above market prices if the market price is not enough to provide a good quality of life for the farmers.
Through our partnerships with Gawad Kalinga and other organizations that share the same vision, we aim to develop globally-certified organic farms in the countryside that can produce excellent raw materials for Human Nature products, as well as community-based enterprises that will multiply the income of poor communities.
THE BEST FOR THE LEAST
Human Nature employs Gawad Kalinga residents from nearby communities in Quezon City and Laguna and provides fair living wages, around 70% more than the minimum wage required by law. We also make sure to provide our warehouse staff, merchandisers, and manufacturing plant personnel with regularized employment with full benefits instead of the usual 5-month contracts (without any benefits) which millions of Filipinos suffer through nationwide. Lastly, we also advocate a no firing policy. We know that many of our people from poor backgrounds who have not had the benefit of good education will make mistakes, but those mistakes will not make us give up on them. As employers, our role is to be good stewards of our employees and help them become the best that they can be.
PRO-ENVIRONMENT
Human Nature is about loving the Philippines, loving the environment and loving our families by providing safe, effective, genuinely natural and affordable products that feel as good on your skin as they do in your heart - and on the earth.
Here at Human Nature, we take our responsibility of being nature's stewards very seriously. We carefully deliberate the impact of all our business decisions on the environment. For example, our Natural Care Labs thoroughly research all our raw materials to ensure that they are naturally derived, biodegradable, are not processed using environmentally toxic processes, and are not harmful to our ecosystems when released into the environment after you're finished with the product or wash it off.
What happens to that chemical shampoo you're using when you rinse it off your hair in the shower? That's right, it goes straight into the waterways and damages our beautiful country. With Human Nature, you can be sure that what you're using has been carefully formulated to be safe for our planet. As a member of the Natural Products Association (NPA), the world's largest nonprofit dedicated to natural manufacturing, we adhere strictly to its environmental and safety principles.
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Several of our products have been certified with the NPA Natural Seal which demonstrates compliance with the NPA Standard for Personal Care Products on natural ingredients, safety, responsibility, and sustainability. For more information, visit their website at www.npainfo.org.
NATURAL PRODUCTS
Human Nature is the first range of highly affordable and genuinely natural products in the Philippines.
All Human Nature products come from the earth's own laboratory of rich soil, abundant sunshine, and fresh dew. Our ingredients are more than just nature-inspired; they are from nature itself, carefully selected, deftly distilled, and perfectly blended. Each product is formulated by Filipino scientists in our Natural Care Labs using the latest technology in green chemistry and natural manufacturing.
Human Nature is the first cosmetics and personal care company in the Philippines to be awarded the distinction of being truly cruelty-free by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the world’s largest animal welfare organization. Many of our products contain no animal-derived products and are vegan-friendly.
