To change the world from the inside
Be kind to humans
Yes commitments
- Ensure human rights standards are respected throughout our supply chain as well as at Yes HQ
- Listen to our customers and make products that will make a positive difference and further wellbeing
- Communicate / market Yes products without causing fear or leveraging insecurities.
- Involve our employees’ hearts and minds by values initiation, honouring diversity, and supporting working flexibility and personal development.
- Become more radical, communicate and educate about chemical body burden and Transdermal uptake
How we deliver on our commitments
- Supply chain questionnaires / data gathering started in 2008. We aim for all our suppliers to demonstrate compliance with the Ethical Trading Initiative Base Code.
- Customer feedback continuously requested and acted on. We request feedback on products, performance and our customers’ needs
- Our marketing messages sell benefits and facts, not fear
- Feedback from the people who work in Yes confirms all five values live and work for them too
- We are setting up a program to set targets, monitor performance to ensure we live our values as our business grows
- We are increasing the volume of our campaigning voice, via our website, about the implications of chemical body burden / dermal uptake / mucosa uptake
Care for animals
- No to animal testing
- No to animal body parts
Nurture nature
Yes commitments
- We use certified organic plant-based ingredients wherever available
- We never purchase wild crafted plants or plant extracts
- We never use genetically modified ingredients
- To look for Fair Trade sourcing alternatives to reinforce local investment and sustainability in the plants we love
- To sing about the miraculous plants we use in our products, and to tell their stories
- To shout about bogus or misleading plant and/or “natural” ingredients
How we are delivering on our commitments
- In 2008 we started an investigation to determine how many of our ingredients can be sourced as Fair Trade, this continues
- We have never used wild crafted or endangered species
- Our sourcing policy confirms all the above commitments and our continued organic certification by the Soil Association demonstrates our adherence to it
- We already sing about flax on our website, more to follow
- We are outraged by the continued use of Grapefruit seed extract as a natural preservative – it is not – it is adulterated with parabens and other synthetic chemicals please read www.yesyesyes.org/gse
Profound purity
Yes commits to making a difference
- We want to screech about why certified organic is COMPLETELY different to saying organic ingredient(s). But we commit to educating everybody we can about this difference.
- Our products are created from a strict ingredients policy combined with requests from our customers (and a goodly piece of our formulation brilliance).
- We never use bad science to prove a point and we can decide never to use an ingredient based on our customers concerns even if it has not been conclusively proved to be detrimental, such as parabens.
- We create products that delight our customers and exceed their expectations
- We will continue to launch new products that meet our high standards and answer a demonstrated need
How we are delivering on our commitments
- We have published our ingredients policy on our website from the day we launched – Aug 1st 2006, www.yesyesyes.org/ingredients
- We are euphoric to make the first Certified Organic range of intimacy products, certified by the Soil Association (UK)
- We use packaging that minimises preservation requirements
- We publish our customer feedback www.yesyesyes.org/testimonials
- Profoundly pure products can begin to change your world from the inside
- Yes is a signatory to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
Revere the planet
Yes commits to making a difference
- In all aspects of our operations we Reduce - Reuse - Recycle
- Reduce waste, reduce packaging and reduce our energy use
- If we cannot reduce it to nothing, we reuse what we can and recycle what is left.
- Ensure we adhere to our sustainable wood policy
- Ensure some of our donations support a climate change initiative.
How we are delivering on our commitments
- All office paper waste is reused if possible and then recycled
- We use recycled paper and card whenever possible
- All our packaging, plastics, paper or card can be recycled
- We have formalised some of our random donations by linking with the Woodland Trusts' Climate Change project