Industry: Cosmetics

Headquarters: New York, NY

Founder: Jody Weiss

Founded: 2002

Markets: Nationwide

Interviewed: Jody Weiss, President

Peacekeeper Cause-Metics is a cosmetics company that donates its after-tax profits to urgent human rights issues and women’s health advocacy issues. Peacekeeper has given one half of one percent of its gross revenues to domestic violence issues each year and will continue to do so until profitable, when all profits after costs and reasonable retained earnings will be given to charity. The firm’s first donation was given to UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) for its work on behalf of women and girls worldwide. In addition, Peacekeeper has given over $25,000 in retail merchandise to women’s focused non-profit organizations for their silent auctions or VIP programming. Peacekeeper produces a mineral-based cosmetics line without harsh chemicals or synthetic preservatives. Even as of 2005, the company’s products were already acceptable under the European cosmetic directive of 2007, which holds cosmetics companies selling in Europe to higher standards in terms of the ingredients utilized in their products.

Peacekeeper’s community involvement philosophy is based on the idea that women of privilege and of status who have the privilege to afford lipstick and other luxuries should be able to help women with less privilege that maybe have never held a lipstick in their life. The slogan is “look good, feel good, do good,” whereby the firm helps women both in the United States and overseas who are disadvantaged.

Peacekeeper Cause-Metics

50 Lexington Ave #22G

New York, New York 10010

www.iamapeacekeeper.com  

Advocacy Issues: http://www.iamapeacekeeper.com/advocacy/advocacy.html  

Industry: Personal hygiene/grooming products

Headquarters: Port Washington, NY

Founder: Dal LaMagna

Founded: 1980

Markets: Nationwide

Interviewed: Lisa Bowen, President

Jeannie Barnet, Director of Corporate Communications

Tweezerman is a supplier of premium grade precision grooming implements for men and women. Tweezerman International (TMI) has long been recognized in the beauty industry for setting the highest standards of quality, reliability and service with every product it offers. The firm provides its customers with tools that are built to last, with a lifetime guarantee and a free sharpening policy on all its implements. Tweezerman is a subsidiary of Zwilling J.A. Henckels group which is based in Solingen, Germany. The company was founded by Dal LaMagna who started with a simple precision tweezers that did not yet exist in the marketplace, from which he launched a revolution in personal grooming products. Tweezerman International features five product lines, including its latest, His Tweezerman, introduced in 2004 to meet the special grooming needs of men. Customers can purchase the full array of Tweezerman products through professional beauty suppliers as well as top cosmetic and department stores, chain drug stores,
and specialty shops.

TMI operates a second bottom line, allocating 5% of profits to charitable organizations, while actively supporting the communities in which it operates. From the start, Tweezerman’s founder was passionate about giving back to the community. For the first ten years of business profits were minimal, and so was the amount of monetary give-back the company could afford. However, as the company has grown, so have the efforts to get involved in the communities in which the firm does business. What started out small is now a committee-run allocation of funds to causes that are decided on a yearly basis, including women’s issues, local organizations, and children’s causes.

Tweezerman International
2 Tri Harbor Court,
Port Washington, NY 11050
www.tweezerman.com
Social Responsibility: http://www.tweezerman.com/index.cfm?page=page&pageid=16