Message from the President
Dear Friends,
How time flies! We're now on the last few months of 2011 and Christmas is just around the corner.
There have been several milestones this year -- exciting new products such as our groundbreaking line of natural shampoos with CreamFoam® technology, the opening of 4 new branches and our dealer base nearing the 20,000 mark! We've also received recognition from local and international groups such as the PETA certification for being animal-cruelty free, official nomination to the APEC Women and the Economy Summit for innovations in entrepreneurship and finally the Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2011. Human Nature has also been at the cutting edge of technology using it to advance our advocacies with the launch of the "Read the Label" app (Apple and Android) and education campaign.
We believe that these achievements are signs of the times that the Filipino consumer is now purchasing products based on values and love for country. We no longer just buy our favorite brands because of loyalty or price but because of integrity and social responsibility. We encourage everyone to attend our 2011 Human Nature Dealer Summit at the GK Enchanted Farm on November 19, Saturday. This year's theme is Humanity Fair: Hearts of Change and in it we hope to share with everyone our vision of a prosperous Philippines through the blossoming of thousands of patriotic businesses. We hope that you will continue to support all patriotic businesses, not just Human Nature, who are working towards providing quality of life to every Filipino.
We encourage you all to read and share this month's newsletter for more exciting updates and upcoming products that can help you have achieve a Pro-Philippines, Pro-Poor and Pro-Environment lifestyle.
Wishing you all the best of health in mind, body and spirit,
Anna Meloto-Wilk
President
Gandang Kalikasan Inc.
New Products
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Strengthening Shampoo & Conditioner |
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Battling with damaged, brittle, fragile hair? Well, battle no more because your knight in shining armor has finally arrived! Human Nature's Natural Strengthening Shampoo with CREAMFoam® gives you 80% less hair fall*, 90% thicker hair* in a 100% toxin-free formula in an all-new olive & aloe refreshing scent! It has a potent combination of our revolutionary CREAMFoam® Technology, Philippine coco nectar and the infusion of hydrolyzed protein to give your hair the ultimate strength from root to tip!
You can then pair it up with our new Natural Strengthening Conditioner to complete the move for hair that's smoother, shinier and stronger! The conditioner is the same effective formula that many of you already love, in a fresh new scent to match the new shampoo. *30 day clinical trial; continued use of shampoo containing SLS/SLES & other sulfates vs our new Strengthening Shampoo |
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Strengthening Shampoo | 96.4% Natural
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050ml - Php 044.75 200ml - Php 139.75 (Intro Price at P 134.75) 500ml - Php 289.75 |
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Strengthening Conditioner | 100% Natural
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050ml - Php 049.75 200ml - Php 144.75 500ml - Php 289.75 |
| Note:We will continue to sell the original shampoo & conditioner formulation until supplies last for those who are loyal to the peppermint and Rosemary scents! | |
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Mineral Lip Gloss | 100% Natural |
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Looking to add a little bit of that natural shine to your lips? Buy the all-new Mineral Lip Gloss! It's 100% natural and contains passion fruit seed oil to moisturize and nourish your lips leaving them soft and gorgeous with a non-sticky shine. Available in 2 shades: Island Berry (red) and Pink Hibiscus (pink).
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Php 225.00 each (Intro Price at Php 195.75)
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Tinted Lip Balm | 100% Natural |
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Going for the "just bitten" look for your lips? Try Human Nature's 2 new shades of the all-natural Tinted Lip Balms to get a hint of color and nourishment in one soothing swipe! It's packed with a feel-good blend of cocoa butter, to add even more moisturization to your lips, beeswax and all-natural plant oils to keep your lips soft and kissable all day and comes in 3 different shades: New! Flame Tree (red), New! Pink Orchid (pink), and Island Kiss (coral).
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Php 79.75 each (Intro Price at Php 74.75)
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Mineral Powders & Blush (New & Improved Formulas!) |
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Human Nature's Mineral Powder and Blush are back with an extra bit of 'oomph'! Their pure and natural ingredients have undergone reformulation to give you an even better beauty experience in a variety of shades that suit Filipina skin tones without clogging pores. They also come in new, revamped purple packaging adding a hint of 'royalty' to make you feel like the princess you really are! Buy some now and don't forget to try our ew blush shade - Rosy Cheeks - to give you that natural flushed look! |
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Mineral Powder
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Php 425.00 each (Offer Price at Php 325.00) |
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Mineral Blush
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Php 225.00 each
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Hydrating Mineral Lipstick (Improved Formula) |
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Human Nature's Hydrating Mineral Lipstick is back with major improvements! It now has cocoa butter added into its formulation to give a better glide and more moisture for your lips. Give it a try! For those of you who'd like to exchange your gold edition lipsticks, kindly send them back to the head office and we'll replace them with these great new hydrating, moisture-packed lipsticks.
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Php 225.00 each
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| Note of CommPassion®: Remember, 100% of the profits from every lipstick sold will fund the development of a processing facility for passion fruit seed oil that will give sustainable livelihood to the passion fruit farming community in Gawad Kalinga Catigan, Davao. | |
Updates
Read the Label® Mobile App & Contest - over 1000 prizes to be won!
Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to present to you... READ THE LABEL® Free Mobile App - a first from Human Nature and available for iPhone, iPad, iTouch, Android devices. There's an online PC version too! It's a handy dictionary-type tool of 26,000 ingredients developed to educate everyone about greener and safer options while shopping for your favorite cosmetics and personal care products. It instantly shows how safe or toxic each ingredient you search for may be (safe, low risk, medium risk, high risk), and gives you links to more information on the ingredient, courtesy of the Environmental Working Group's cosmetic ingredient database (www.ewg.org/skindeep). It's an app everyone is sure to find helpful and will refer back to many times to make sure that what they're getting is Only the Good.
But that's not all! What's an app without any fun and games, right? By downloading this app, not only will you be helping yourself and your family by becoming more informed about the ingredients that you use, but you'll also have not 1 but 2 chances of winning prizes:
- Download the app on your smartphone, accept the Read the Label Challenge and take the pledge, and you get a chance to win a 3D/2N Eco-Adventure Trip for 2 to Caramoan or a year's supply of Human Nature products or be one of over 1000 winners of Human Nature gift packs!
- Share the app! Get as many of your friends to download the app, accept the Read the Label Challenge and take the pledge. The person with the most shares wins a 3D/2N Eco-Trip for 2 to El Nido, Palawan PLUS an Eco-Party (eat-all-you-can organic buffet) for you and 100 of your friends! You can share through Facebook, Twitter or email - download the app now or go to www.readthelabel.ph.
| Want to learn more about our Read the Label campaign and how to use the mobile app? It'll be a highlight of the Human Nature Webinar on October 22, 10 am, Saturday. Simply log in to http://tiny.cc/hn-webinar. |
Humanity Fair: Hearts of Change - November 19
We hope you've marked this date on your calendars because on November 19, Saturday, your hearts will definitely be changed. Human Nature's 2nd summit, with the theme Humanity Fair: Hearts of Change will be held at the GK Enchanted Farm at Angat, Bulacan. Be inspired with talks by our President, Ms. Anna Meloto-Wilk and Tony Meloto, the father and founder of Gawad Kalinga. Be exhilarated with wonder and excitement as the you explore all the new facilities at the GK Enchanted Farm and interact with a variety of various social enterprises such as Gawad Kambingan for Gourmet Keso, Golden Eggs, Blue Bamboo, Rattan Man, Enchantea, etc.
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Itching to shop for the best of what the Philippines has to offer? Go wild at the Weekend Market! Feast your eyes on fresh fruits and veggies from all over the country -- the sweetest pineapples from Daet, the juiciest mangoes from Guimaras, the bursting goodness of pomelos from Davao, coffee from Sulu for only the brave *wink*, and more! You also get to sample and shop from a variety of social enterprises like Theo & Philo (the only chocolate that's 100% Philippine-made from the bean to the bar), Golden Eggs (all-natural fresh & salted duck eggs), Gourmet Keso (heavenly-tasting goat's & cow's cheese), Sili Express, Bagoong ni Juan, Enchantea and more. Take your pick of a wide variety of plants & seedlings for sale that you can take home and plant in your own backyard! Yearning to savor the taste of Chicharon Mushroom? You can sample and purchase them (plus more!) at the Pasalubong Center featuring Bulacan treats! Kids and moms alike will enjoy the Good Karma Nail Art delightfully located up in a treehouse! Wade in the Human Nature dipping pool, catch dragonflies in the field, learn to weave rattan baskets, color your own Golden Eggs, etc. It will definitely be a fun-filled afternoon that you and your family will surely enjoy. So come on over and don't forget to bring your family and friends!
REGISTRATION IS FREE! For more details, click here.
Human Nature Awarded Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2011
We here at the Human Nature head office are so excited with the win of our founders, Anna Meloto-Wilk and Camille Meloto. Last October 12, they were awarded the Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur Award for 2011 for building an organization that champions social transformation for the marginalized and the poor. While the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Awards are the most prestigious business awards in the world, the award is all the more important to us because it shows the rest of the Filipinos and the world that it IS possible to be commercially successful in a business while still making a positive, direct and significant impact to poor communities, our environment and our country. The blessings just keep multiplying and this is all thanks to everyone's hard work -from the farmers, to the dealers and to everyone involved with Human Nature. CONGRATULATIONS!
Dangerous Chemicals 101
Read the Label!
Think about it, what are some things that you would avoid yourself and also have your kids avoid? An obvious one that comes to mind is cigarettes. See, cigarettes contain nicotine and when smoked on a prolonged basis, may lead to lung cancer. But would you ever imagine that hand sanitizers and other everyday products could contain chemicals which are almost as harmful? You wouldn't let your children smoke, but you might be giving them products which are almost as harmful every day! Puzzled? Well, let us enlighten you.
Nicotine is a high risk ingredient. On EWG's Skin Deep website (www.ewg.org/skindeep) it has a hazard rating of 8 out of 10. EWG is the largest and most comprehensive database on personal care ingredients in the world. It backs up all its ratings with the names of the scientific studies which led to those ratings. All the studies are put together by independent scientists, and are culled from more than 50 standard toxicity and regulatory databases. There is no vested interest in it.
So nicotine is an 8. Now let's move on to Triclosan. Triclosan can be found in many hand sanitizers and hand soap and is also considered a high risk ingredient. It's only one notch lower than nicotine - 7 out of 10. But do we see warnings about this before buying those products off the shelf? No.
The FDA does not ban all harmful ingredients or products (like cigarettes). The way the government and FDA protect us is by making sure that all the ingredients are listed on the label. As consumers, we need to know what those ingredients are in order to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe. Well, thanks to our Read The Label app and www.readthelabel.ph website (with content courtesy of EWG), now there's a way for you to do it!
Simply go to the dictionary on the app or on the website, type in the ingredient and hey presto! It tells you instantly whether it's safe or may not be.
So don't forget to read the label and be wary of what you use on yourself. You never know, that mineral oil filled lotion that you're lathering on could be clogging your pores and speeding up ageing (it almost certainly is!). Go ahead, download, search and seek the answers to your questions and remember, before buying, READ THE LABEL.
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Eco-Lifestyle: How-to Home Remedies
Did you know that you can build a bomb by mixing together chemicals found in your regular chemical home cleaning products? Chemical cleaning products are some of the most toxic substances that can also seep into our soil and water. Why not start using an eco-friendly way to unclog your drains and keep them spick and span? Follow these simple steps and you'll soon have a clean, green, eco-friendly home.
| 1. | Put the DRY baking soda down the drain. Use about 3/4 cup. |
| 2. | Pour 1/2 cup of vinegar down the drain after the baking soda and make sure to cover the drain immediately afterwards with a rag or plug, filling the hole completely so nothing can escape. This is because the interaction of the two will cause a "mini volcano" that will want to come up and out of the drain. You don't want that. You want to keep it down there. |
| 3. | Leave this concoction in the drain for about 30 minutes. While you are waiting, boil a tea kettle full of water. |
| 4. | After 30 minutes, remove the plug and slowly pour the HOT water down the drain. |
Ta-da! Clean, green clog-free drains! Pretty simple, isn't it?
Featured Personality of the Month - Anna Oposa
Anna Oposa is one of Human Nature's Goodness Ambassadors. She embodies everything that we stand for -Pro Philippines, Pro-Poor and Pro-Environment. She's an active member of the Save Philippine Seas (SPS) Movement and cares strongly for Mother Earth, just like we do here at Human Nature. To know more about this wonderful, inspiring lady click on the button below.
Gandang Kalikasan Inc.
463 Commonwealth Avenue
Quezon City 1119
Philippines
Business hours:
Monday - Saturday
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Contact Details:
Tel. No. (02) 931-5787 or
(02) 433-1202
Fax. (02) 951-3627
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