Our values

Yes commitments

• Ensure human rights standards are respected throughout our supply chain as well as at Yes HQ
• Listen to our customers and make products that will make a positive difference and further wellbeing
• Communicate / market Yes products without causing fear or leveraging insecurities.
• Involve our employees’ hearts and minds by values initiation, honouring diversity, and supporting working flexibility and personal development.
• Become more radical, communicate and educate about chemical body burden and Transdermal uptake

How we deliver on our commitments

• Supply chain questionnaires / data gathering started in 2008. We aim for all our suppliers to demonstrate compliance with the Ethical Trading Initiative Base Code.
• Customer feedback continuously requested and acted on. We request feedback on products, performance and our customers’ needs
• Our marketing messages sell benefits and facts, not fear
• Feedback from the people who work in Yes confirms all five values live and work for them too
• We are setting up a program to set targets, monitor performance to ensure we live our values as our business grows
• We are increasing the volume of our campaigning voice, via our website, about the implications of chemical body burden / dermal uptake / mucosa uptake

• No to animal testing
• No to animal body parts

Yes commitments

• We use certified organic plant-based ingredients wherever available 
• We never purchase wild crafted plants or plant extracts 
• We never use genetically modified ingredients 
• To look for Fair Trade sourcing alternatives to reinforce local investment and sustainability in the plants we love 
• To sing about the miraculous plants we use in our products, and to tell their stories 
• To shout about bogus or misleading plant and/or “natural” ingredients

How we are delivering on our commitments 

• In 2008 we started an investigation to determine how many of our ingredients can be sourced as Fair Trade, this continues
• We have never used wild crafted or endangered species
• Our sourcing policy confirms all the above commitments and our continued organic certification by the Soil Association demonstrates our adherence to it
• We already sing about flax on our website, more to follow
• We are outraged by the continued use of Grapefruit seed extract as a natural preservative – it is not – it is adulterated with parabens and other synthetic chemicals.

Yes commits to making a difference 

• We want to screech about why certified organic is COMPLETELY different to saying organic ingredient(s).  But we commit to educating everybody we can about this difference. 
• Our products are created from a strict ingredients policy combined with requests from our customers (and a goodly piece of our formulation brilliance). 
• We never use bad science to prove a point and we can decide never to use an ingredient based on our customers concerns even if it has not been conclusively proved to be detrimental, such as parabens.  
• We create products that delight our customers and exceed their expectations 
• We will continue to launch new products that meet our high standards and answer a demonstrated need

How we are delivering on our commitments

• We have published our ingredients policy on our website from the day we launched – Aug 1st 2006, www.yesyesyes.org/ingredients
• We are euphoric to make the first Certified Organic range of intimacy products, certified by the Soil Association (UK)  
• We use packaging that minimises preservation requirements
• We publish our customer feedback www.yesyesyes.org/testimonials
• Profoundly pure products can begin to change your world from the inside   
• Yes is a signatory to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

 Yes commits to making a difference 

• In all aspects of our operations we Reduce - Reuse - Recycle
• Reduce waste, reduce packaging and reduce our energy use
• If we cannot reduce it to nothing, we reuse what we can and recycle what is left. 
• Ensure we adhere to our sustainable wood policy
• Ensure some of our donations support a climate change initiative.
  

How we are delivering on our commitments

• All office paper waste is reused if possible and then recycled
• We use recycled paper and card whenever possible
• All our packaging, plastics, paper or card can be recycled
• We have formalised some of our random donations by linking with the Woodland Trusts' Climate Change project