Toiletries Amnesty actively achieves 9 of the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
The UN SDGs are an urgent call for action to end poverty and other deprivations while improving health, education, and inequality – while tackling climate change and working to preserve our environment. Find out more here.
There are over 14 million people in the UK living in poverty and regularly struggling to afford hygiene essentials, so at Toiletries Amnesty we make tackling this poverty and hygiene inequality the heart of what we do. We work to create easy access to hygiene essentials for those in need all around the world by directly connecting them with those who can help, ensuring that hygiene essentials get where they’re needed as soon as possible through our complex directory of organisations.
Hygiene products are an essential part of maintaining good mental and physical health. Lack of access to hygiene items can lead to serious medical concerns (for example, lack of dental care can lead to gum disease) in the long run, as well as a strong negative decline in self-esteem and mental wellbeing. By providing access to vital products such as toothpaste and brushes, soap, and sanitary products, we ensure that people have what they need, when they need it.
Period poverty can limit access to opportunities for women and girls in many ways, forcing girls to miss school and fall behind in their education, women to miss work, and affecting socialisation and mental health too. By providing access to free period products via our online directory, we’re helping reduce gender inequality in access to equal education and work opportunities for those who cannot afford the prohibitive cost of sanitary products.
At Toiletries Amnesty, we work with companies around the world to help them innovate and update the way they deal with their excess products. Not only providing a more sustainable and ethical solution for the beauty industry to redistribute usable products (rather than sending them to landfill or incineration) but also to do good for communities, both on a local and global scale.
Toiletries Amnesty works with homeless shelters and hostels, women’s refuges, mental health services, end of life care hospices, food banks, NHS Trust services, refugee services, LGBTQ+ groups, prison services, children’s centres, young people’s services, schools, colleges, community groups, and other organisations that need our support to help reduce the level of inequality experienced.
We advocate for conscious consumption and consideration for people and planet through our work – building narrative around beauty industry waste, encouraging donating products over throwing them away, and educating individuals on the circular economy. We’re working to enable communities to support those in need in their local areas, whilst making their towns and cities more sustainable places to live by reducing the amount of unnecessary waste they produce.
Our mission is to alleviate hygiene poverty while reducing waste. We believe in considerate consumption and production and promote waste minimisation through redistribution of excess stocks of toiletries to people who do not have the means to access these basic products. We enable international brands and individual members of the public to give new life to existing items, accepting donations of part-used products that are no longer wanted, and providing them to organisations that need as much help as possible as demand on their services rises.
We aim to tackle climate change through waste reduction, diverting plastic and products from landfill and incineration, and into the hands of people who will use them, and recycle the packaging. Over the past decade we’ve saved thousands of tonnes of plastic from going to landfill and incineration. Through our Donation Station, companies with excess stock can easily donate items to organisations around the world, reducing the amount of waste they produce and supporting communities in need.
We work with companies all over the world to create positive and practical solutions for the problems they face around waste and sustainability, all whilst connecting them with communities and consumers who want to see a change for good. We encourage our partners to consider how they can become more sustainable and environmentally conscious in their practices, while supporting their local communities through donations of hygiene essentials and toiletries to organisations in need.