Unilever Company

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UNILEVER

‘2 Billion times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.’

History

• Founded on 1st January, 1930• By Antonius Johannes Jurgens, Samuel Van den

Bergh, and William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme

• was a result of the merger between British soap maker Lever Brothers and The Dutch company called Margarine Unie

• The business grew rapidly in the 1930s in places like Latin America and Africa

•  Palm Oil was a major raw material for both margarines and soaps

•The company’s products well-known brands in the area of nutrition, hygiene and personal care.

•Unilever is organised into 4 main divisons.▫ Personal Care▫ Foods▫ Refreshment▫ Home Care

Vision• We work to create a better future every day.• We help people feel good, look good and get

more out of life with brands and services that are good for them and good for others.

• We will inspire people to take small everyday actions that can add up to a big difference for the world.

• We will develop new ways of doing business with the aim of doubling the size of our company while reducing our environmental impact.

Unilever’s Logo

The Ugly Side of Cosmetics

•<<Natural İngredients>> and <<purity>> lies

•Causing cancer and toxication effect•Even they are not healthy ther are being

allowed by authorities

Regulated or Not ?

•Not requiring health studies or pre-market testing

•‘’89 percent of 10,500 ingredients used in personal care products have not been evaluated for safety by the CIR, the FDA, nor any other publicly accountable institution’’

•‘‘ one of every 13 women and one of every 23 men are exposed to ingredients that are known or probable human carcinogens every day through their use of personal care products’’

•Phthalates are not listed as ingredients on product labels; they can only be detected through laboratory analysis. Two of the most toxic phthalates, DBP and DEHP, have been banned from cosmetic products sold in the European Union (EU) but remain unregulated in the US.

•Recent studies have implicated parabens as being associated with breast cancer.

Signs of Hope

1. Major Companies Phase Out Phthalates

2. FDA Gets Tough3. The EU Gets Tougher

What is the animal testing?

•the term 'animal testing' refers to procedures performed on living animals for purposes of research into basic biology and diseases,assessing the effectiveness of the new medicinal products and testing the human healt and/or enviromental safety of consumer and industry products

11 facts about anımal testing

• 1. Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned and abused in U.S. labs every year.

• 2. 92% of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they are too dangerous or don’t work.

• 3. Labs that use mice, rats, birds, reptiles and amphibians are exempted from the minimal protections under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).

• 4. Up to 90% of animals used in U.S. labs are not counted in the official statistics of animals tested.

• 5. It’s mandatory for all products to be tested on animals in China. Meanwhile, the European Union issued a ban on the sale of new cosmetics that are tested on animals. 

• 6. Even animals that are protected under the AWA can be abused and tortured. And the law doesn’t require the use of valid alternatives to animals, even if they are available. 

• 7. According to the Humane Society, registration of a single pesticide requires more than 50 experiments and the use of as many as 12,000 animals. 

• 8. Several cosmetic tests commonly performed on mice, rats, rabbits, and guinea pigs include: skin and eye irritation tests where chemicals are rubbed on shaved skin or dripped into the eyes without any pain relief.

• 9. In tests of potential carcinogens, subjects are given a substance every day for 2 years. Others tests involve killing pregnant animals and testing their fetuses.

• 10. The real life applications for some of the tested substances are as trivial as an “improved” laundry detergent, new eye shadow, or copycat drug to replace a profitable pharmaceutical whose patent expired.

• 11. “Alternative” tests achieve one or more of the “3 R’s:” replaces a procedure that uses animals with a procedure that doesn’t, reduces the number of animals used in a procedure, refines a procedure to alleviate or minimize potential animal pain.

Using animal testing (reserch area )

Cosmetics

Drugs

Food additives

Supplements

Household products

Pesticides

Industrial chemicals

Where they are make animal testing ?

•Universities

•Medical schools

•Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies

•Military defence establishments

Social Contribution of Unilever• In African countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, and

Benin, Unilever participates in a public-private partnership coordinated by the World Bank to promote handwashing, particularly after going to the toilet and before handling food. 

• Volleyball Sponsorship, 12th Uappy Cup- Volleyball Tournament and Rio de Janeiro VC