We are PETA certified.
The well-being of animals is important to us and that is why it is important to us that Mother Nature Cosmetics products are developed without animal testing and produced without any animal ingredients. Our products have been certified by PETA with the “beauty without bunnies” logo, which promises that our vegan natural cosmetics are cruelty-free.
PETA – What is that?
PETA was founded in the USA in 1980 and is now the largest animal rights organization in the world. The abbreviation PETA stands for “People for the ethical treatment of animals” . PETA is an international non-profit organization that does not receive any government support, but is supported exclusively by donations. PETA's core idea is that people and animals have a right to their own lives and to a life without suffering.
PETA – Values and Principles
We humans sometimes forget that animals are not our property. They can also feel suffering and pain and have the right to their own life. PETA's five core principles can be derived from these views:
- Animals are not there for us to experiment on.
- Animals are not there for us to eat.
- Animals are not there for us to attract.
- Animals are not there to entertain us.
- Animals are not there for us to exploit or mistreat.
It is the responsibility of people to stop animal cruelty whenever and wherever possible and to advocate for the well-being of all animals. PETA is primarily active in those areas where animals are most frequently tortured and exploited - in various laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing industry and in the entertainment industry.
PETA – Areas of Responsibility and Goals
PETA's mission includes public awareness and education, investigations, detailed investigations, rescuing animals, and organizing demonstrations and protests. The organization's goal is to stop animal cruelty worldwide. They are uncompromisingly committed to the rights of animals (“uncompromising stands on animal rights”) and do not shy away from standing up for their values and honestly stand behind their own opinions.
“Beauty without bunnies” – vegan and cruelty-free cosmetics
This certificate promises that Mother Nature Cosmetics products are vegan, cruelty-free and comply with PETA's core values. “Cruelty free” means that the product was developed without any testing or testing on animals. While the “vegan” logo promises that there are no animal ingredients to be found in the product.
By purchasing cosmetic products with this logo, you can help save the lives of rabbits, mice, rats and guinea pigs. On the PETA homepage there is an online list where you can find all certified companies with their individual products that are produced cruelty-free and vegan. The Mother Nature Cosmetics products can also be found here.
Nowadays there are already good alternatives that are faster, easier and cheaper than traditional animal testing. These are usually so-called in vitro tests, in which the allergic reaction is tested in a test tube.
It is important to us that our products are manufactured without animal testing and without animal ingredients. Above all, we see it as a must to avoid animal cruelty in today's world, which offers countless opportunities. Through thoughtful decisions and purchases, it is in our hands to protect animals and spare them pain. Together we can do it, we just have to want it.
ALARM LEVEL RED – OUR BEES ARE DYING! WHY WE HELP BEE RECOVER ITS HABITAT
Across Europe there is a strong and persistent decline in wild bees, honey bees and other pollinators such as: B. butterflies. Honey bees, as their name suggests, produce honey unlike wild bees. While wild bees live as loners and look after their brood without the help of their fellow bees, honey bees live in a colony that can consist of up to 70,000 bees.
For 1 kilo of honey, honey bees fly a distance of up to 150,000 kilometers (i.e. almost four times around the earth!) and visit up to 15 million flowers. Wild bees do not produce honey, but they are essential for pollinating our fields and work even more efficiently than honey bees: For example, For example, pollination of a hectare of fruit trees can only be done by 500 wild bees instead of 10,000 honey bees.
A third of global food production depends on these hard-working insects. But what if their food supply continues to disappear?
There is no question: our bees are not doing well
Industrial agriculture has turned what were once thriving meadows into barren deserts. A variety of flowers, orchards and wild herbs? None. The result? Bee pastures, important sources of food for bees, have almost disappeared. Many beekeepers even have to feed their bees a sugar solution in order for them to survive. There is no question: our bees are not doing well. And it's not just conventional agriculture with its fixation on monocultures, land consolidation, genetic engineering, pesticides and insecticides that is to blame.
Beekeeping operations that are geared towards maximum honey yield also endanger bees by disregarding the nature of bees, their needs and their natural behavior and forcing the small farm animals into a destructive corset of economically motivated, unnatural and unhealthy practices. This is how e.g. B. the natural behavior of swarming is prevented by trimming the wings or attempts are made to get rid of stubborn mite infestations by using acid. However, this treatment further weakens the bee's immune system and causes further damage in the long term. Humane and mindful beekeeping? This is often not the case, especially in conventional honey production...
But that's not all: the design of private gardens is increasingly becoming anything but bee-friendly: ornamental lawns trimmed to millimeters short or even gravel-covered front gardens are areas that have been tamed by civilization and have been reduced to wasteland and are of no use to the bees.
Bees, which have lived in symbiosis with flourishing agriculture for millions of years, are suddenly deprived of their food source and are exploited to the point of collapse. For a long time, their deaths were accepted as collateral damage when the most violent insecticides and agricultural poisons were used. Admittedly, these poisons do not directly target the small honey suppliers. However, the bees ingest the poison through pollen, nectar and water secretions while searching for food and are either killed immediately or gradually poisoned; cruel side effects such as disorientation, violent shaking and refusal to eat included.
The death and suffering of bees has recently become more and more in focus through media reporting, but also through the efforts of many individual bee protectors. Finally!
We do our part – save the bees!
“When I walk through a flower meadow on a beautiful day and see little bees flying” – who doesn’t know the lyrics to the TV series with the most famous of all honey bees? To ensure that it stays that way, we are a proud sponsor of the “I am a bee protection garden” campaign, a sustainable, multi-year initiative that aims to work together to create a bee-friendly garden network throughout Austria. Of course, this not only benefits the honey bees, but also the wild bees, as they can spread across the networked refuges and exchange genetics.
In a healthy ecosystem, no one can be a loser. If bees disappear completely, this will have an impact on our nature and environment that seems unimaginably drastic. To prevent this from becoming a reality, we must act. Together. Now!
HELP WITHOUT DETRACTIONS – 100% OF OUR DONATIONS FLOWER INTO THE PROJECT WORK ON SITE
100% of our donations go towards project work on site
We support aid projects in disadvantaged regions several times a year. In order to ensure that our support reaches where it is needed, transparency is important to us: Since we work with small NPOs and are in constant communication with them, we can easily track the use of the funds raised at any time. We are currently supporting the planting of banana trees and avocado, mango and papaya trees in the Taita Hills region of Kenya.
The surplus fruit from the planted fruit trees is sold at the nearby market. This proceeds will be used to purchase additional food, e.g. B. oil and rice, bought for meals in kindergarten. Together with the non-profit association Taita Hills e.V. and your help, we are trying to make the world a little better - and we are starting in Mghondinyi.
The approximately 100 men, women and children of Mghondinyi village in the Taita Hills have to fight for their livelihood every day. Up to 10 family members live in mud huts in sometimes very small spaces and have neither access to running water nor electricity. There is only work for the men in Mombasa, Kenya's second largest port city, which is 3.5 hours away by bus. The people of the Taita Hills make a living mainly by growing fruits and vegetables, which are then sold by women in the market. The dry season lies between the “Great Rainy Season”, which lasts from the beginning of March to the end of May, and the “Little Rainy Season”, which extends from the beginning of November to mid-December. Since the rain that is so necessary for the harvest is completely absent in the dry season, there are sometimes dramatic crop failures. The weak infrastructure and difficult weather conditions make life in Taita Hills a constant challenge for all families. The non-profit association Taita Hills Hilfe e.V. has therefore set itself the goal of enabling families to achieve independent and appropriate self-sufficiency in the long term. In the past, among other things, a solar pump will be installed and the construction of a larger cooking area will be completed. The purchase of goats enables the kindergarten children, in addition to their daily milk supply, to also receive a daily supply of filling uji, a porridge made from corn flour and milk.
With your help, we would like to change the living conditions of the people in Taita Hills in the long term. By purchasing our products, you are helping to sustainably improve the living conditions of the people in Mghondinyi in collaboration with the Taita Hills Hilfe e.V. association.