With the launch of our Desert Romance Collection, a brand new line of fragrances and colorants that captures the ever-changing beauty of the desert, we thought about ways that we could give back.
We chose two different organizations to support with this product launch; Charity: Water and the Center for Natural Lands Management.
Support for Charity: Water
We’ve supported this organization before, because we believe their work is so important. Since we provide the ingredients and tools needed for crafters to create soap and other bath and beauty products, our work is intimately connected with water.
Good hygiene is necessary for limiting the spread of disease and improving health, wellness, and even lifespan. Soap is only part of that; people need clean, safe water, too.
771 million people lack access to clean, safe drinking water across the world. Charity: water is on a mission to change that. They’re achieving that with an unconventional approach.
Charity: water works with local communities and local partners to establish safe drinking water systems, including water, sanitation, and hygiene programs.
Local partnerships mean that this organization works with people who understand the local ecology, geography, and the socioeconomic landscape for the given area. Understanding those things means that Charity: water can help create water and sanitation systems that are efficient, effective, and most importantly, sustainable in the long term.
So far, Charity: water has funded 121,314 water projects that will serve 16,993,794 people in 29 countries with access to clean water and sanitation. Those numbers speak for themselves, and we’re proud to be helping this organization continue their life saving work.
Support for the Center for Natural Lands Management
We couldn’t release a collection inspired by the desert without giving to an organization that helps protect it.
The Center for Natural Lands Management preserves native species and their habitats in the western US; specifically in California and our own home of Washington. They manage lands in ecosystems from the sand dune deserts to freshwater wetlands.
The desert is one of the most unforgiving and fragile ecosystems we have, and sand dunes habitats even more so. The sand dunes on the Coachella Valley floor are home to species of plants and animals found nowhere else on earth. You might not think of water as being vital to this ecosystem, but it is. As the water table falls and the rains become less dependable, native species are suffering.
The Center for Natural Lands Management owns and manages preserves in sensitive ecosystems to ensure that these spaces are safe from development and enjoy enduring legal protection. Most of these preserves are too sensitive to allow access to the public, but many have public trails that allow folks to experience the ecosystem for themselves and come to understand the value in preserving it.
They employ experts in these species, monitoring, wildfire prevention, weed management, and the propagation of native plants. They also work to restore salmon habitat in Washington State.
The CNLM performs and supports ecological research and strives to instill conservation values in the public through education and direct access. We’re excited to be able to support this organization in their mission to protect unique western ecosystems.
We’re giving $1 from each and every purchase from our Desert Romance Collection to these organizations. We hope you’ll check out our Desert Romance Collection and join us in working toward clean water for all and the preservation of rare and precious habitats.
