At L’OCCITANE, they want to live in a world where everyone can see and experience the true beauty that nature has to offer.
Caring for Sight is one of L’OCCITANE’s six commitments to people and the planet, that plays a central role in all of our activities. A Few facts for you:
- In 1997, L'Occitane began using Braille on their products where possible, and continue to do so today.
- Thanks to The L’OCCITANE Foundation and partners such as UNICEF, in 2020 they met their 10by20 goal. To have helped 10 million beneficiaries of eye care by 2020.
- L'Occitane being L'Occitane, they have now set an even more ambitious target: to have 15 million beneficiaries gain access to eye care by 2025.
To help achieve this goal, L'Occitane has created three Caring for Sight Collections to celebrate World Sight Day on the 14th October 2021, in previous years the gift has been a candle with a poignant reminder of just how lucky we are. Collaborating with illustrator Ruby Taylor, not only do these bespoke designs have a unique story to tell but Ruby also explores the eternal beauty of nature, the treasure-trove of Provençal ingredients at the heart of L’OCCITANE, and most importantly their commitment to preventing avoidable blindness. Each one of these Caring for Sight Gift Sets features an array of products that you will be familiar from the line-up of L'Occitane products - Delicious Almond, Nourishing Shea Butter, Invigorating Verbena and Rose amongst others.
Botanical Scents (£29)
Explore the gardens of Provence with the Botanical
Scents Collection, capturing the invigorating
olfactory properties of zesty verbena and floral
HERBAE par L’OCCITANE.
Collection contains:
Verbena Shower Gel 70ml
Verbena Eau de Toilette 10ml
Verbena Soap 75g
HERBAE par L’OCCITANE Hand Cream 30ml
HERBAE par L’OCCITANE Beauty Milk 50ml. On sale here.
Cocooning Comforts (£29)
A fusion of the enveloping warmth of almond and
nourishing properties of Shea butter, the Cocooning
Comforts Collection is the ultimate pamper treat.
Collection contains:
Almond Shower Oil 75ml
Almond Milk Concentrate 20ml
Almond Delicious Soap 50g
Shea Butter Foot Cream 30ml
Shea Butter Hand Cream 30ml. You can never have too many L'Occitane Almond products! You can find this collection right here.
Delicate Petals (£29)
Revel in the finest floral scents of Provence with
classic Rose and elegant Néroli & Orchidée.
Collection contains:
Rose Shower Gel 75ml
Rose Perfumed Soap 50g
Néroli & Orchidée Eau de Toilette 7.5ml
Néroli & Orchidée Hand Cream 30ml
Néroli & Orchidée Body Milk 50ml
The Caring for Sight collections have been created to celebrate World Sight Day on the 14th October 2021 and increase the number of beneficiaries we are able to reach in order to prevent avoidable blindness; £5 from the sale of every collection will be donated to UNICEF to help fund vitamin A supplementation programs worldwide.
Why Vitamin A?
285 million people in the world suffer from visual impairment, and in 80% of these cases, subsequent blindness would have been preventable if treated appropriately. Vitamin A deficiency represents one of the leading causes of infantile blindness, which is why L’OCCITANE continues to partner with UNICEF to help fund the development of these programs.
Between 2017 to 2019, L’OCCITANE committed to donating a minimum of 1 million euros per year to UNICEF, and at the end of these years, more than four million children from Myanmar, Bolivia, Papua New Guinea and Niger received the treatments. The eyesight of 2.3 million additional children was protected than initially projected.
We are proud to have committed to a further three years of the partnership between the L’OCCITANE Foundation and UNICEF, with the hope of preventing infantile blindness in more than 3 million children by 2022. This will total 7 million children whose eyesight has been protected since the partnership began in 2017.
So to continue in their efforts, L'Occitane have created these beautiful Caring For Sight gift Collections and £5 from the sale of every collection will be donated to UNICEF to help fund vitamin A supplementation programs worldwide.