Citizenship

The Estée Lauder Companies recognizes our responsibility to the contributing members of the communities in which we work and live. We continually demonstrate this citizenship in many ways and on many levels: as a Company, through our brands, in our affiliate offices around the world, at our local facilities, as corporate departments and as individuals.
Our corporate positions on environmental affairs and safety are founded on an ethical bedrock and built on pragmatic business decisions. The former underlies our decisions and actions; the latter provides the resources to make our efforts meaningful on a global level.

As we see it, our responsibilities to a sustainable world are twofold:
  • Maintaining our own “house” in a way that reduces negative impact on the environment;
  • Extending our influence as active members of the sustainability movement to people, projects and causes outside our own Company.
The Estée Lauder Companies realizes that to ensure the long-term success of our Company, our financial goals need to be integrated with the human and ecological impacts of our business.

The goal of corporate citizenship is to increase both shareholder and community value. The progress of our environmental and safety programs, coupled with our philanthropic initiatives, helps to make certain that Estée Lauder Companies will be able to continue to “Bring the Best to Everyone We Touch”.

 
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Lead in Lipstick
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. manufactures and markets high-quality products that are safe. You can be certain that all of our products undergo extensive safety evaluation and testing before being marketed. There is a rumor circulating via the Internet which states that lipsticks are unsafe. This story is not true. Lead is not part of the formula for any of our lipsticks. However, since lead is a naturally occurring element in air, water, and soil, there can be trace amounts of elements such as lead in cosmetics, just as there are in food, water and air. The trace amount of lead that may be present in a lipstick is hundreds of times less than the amount people are exposed to when breathing, eating, and drinking water.