Help Save the AMAZON and Look AMAZING
EACH PURCHASE OF AMAZOURCE® ALLOWS NATIVE COMMUNITIES TO PRESERVE AT LEAST 2,000 SQUARE FEET OF RAINFOREST
There are countless skincare products on the market, but few not only work, are affordable to most women, as well as helping the planet.
One company is doing all the above, introducing Amazource® Skincare products.
Amazource® are made with premium components and offered to the consumer at very reasonable prices. The Amazource team are on the ground, learning from communities firsthand about the specific properties of unique trusted ingredients that deliver a higher nourishing effect on the skin. Acai, coffee, passion fruit, cocoa, honey, rainforest atmospheric water and countless other native resources were used for centuries by original inhabitants of the rainforest. Now, this ancestral knowledge is available to everyone! Amazource products are cruelty-free (not tested on animals) and paraben free
While working on several development projects in South America, Founder and CEO Sergio Calderon Rossi observed that Amazon’s indigenous communities are under immense pressure. In fact, extractive activities such as illegal logging, oil, and illegal mining are trying to move away lawful owners and indigenous communities from their ancestral lands to deforest them to continue this savage exploitation. Many native leaders have even been murdered just because they lived on a valuable land. According to Global Witness, in 2017 four people were killed every week on average.
Despite this situation, they don´t receive any government support and the restricted private funds were available only for individual projects with limited impact.
It was ironic for them to live and be responsible for protecting the richest natural sanctuary on the planet and don´t receive any mean to do it. In fact, Amazonia is the source 60% of the fresh water on earth; produces 20% of the oxygen of the planet; 25% of Western pharmaceuticals derived from rainforest ingredients and 25% of the active ingredients in cancer-fighting drugs come from organisms found only in the rainforest.
So, the founders of Amazource ® decided to launch a purpose company to be able to steadily finance the protection of the biggest rainforest on earth. They forged alliances with native communities and landowners who have huge estates but little resources to manage and protect them from the deforestation caused by extractive mega industries.
Those partnerships granted the company a privileged access to the almost limitless biological resources in the 1´000,000 acres they currently cover and allow the company to research and develop their superior skin care products.
In the middle term, the company plans to reach more native communities to finance the surveillance and protection of 500 million acres of forests which equals 4.5 times the area of the State of California.
“We represent a unique eco-business partnership with Amazon rainforest landowners to keep their territories untouched. If we consider that Amazonia is the lung of the planet, less rainforest means less oxygen to breathe and live, not only for us but for future generations.”
“We give skincare a sense beyond any mainstream “green” product because each unit acquired has a concrete impact,” stated founder Sergio Calderon Rossi.
The editors at Women Daily Magazine had the pleasure of doing an interview with Sergio Calderon Rossi.
Can you share an overview of Amazource skincare lines?
Our line contains natural and unique ingredients such as acaí, passion fruit, honey or atmospheric water directly sourced from the Amazon rainforest. They don´t induce any artificial effect but they gently restore the balance of the skin cell natural processes.
Which are your best sellers and explain why they are effective for the skin?
Our best seller is Amazon Mist facial water. This is the same water that has sustained the Amazonia for thousands of years. In fact, it is sourced from the tiny water droplets suspended in the air and mist in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. It refreshes, cleanses, and moisturizes any type of skin; and it also works as a natural makeup remover. It is 100% natural, contains no chemicals, paraben free and cruelty-free.
It is important to say that the atmospheric water in Amazonia has been studied by scientists of the Max Planck Institute in Germany who concluded that potassium-rich particles emitted by the pristine rainforest ecosystem have a key role in the condensation process of the jungle mist droplets. Since potassium plays a very relevant part in skin care by maintaining electrolyte stability and internal fluids; it keeps cells hydrated and our skin internally moisturized. Besides that, this is the only facial water originated from a renewable source because we don´t drain aquifers as mineral waters do!
How did you conceive the company?
I witnessed the huge gap between the richness and majesty of this natural sanctuary and the scarce resources to protect it. Rainforest original inhabitants that have protected it for centuries are being killed at an average rate of 4 people each week just to be expelled from their ancestral lands. It is incredibly disappointing and sad to see that governments and organizations see this situation as a charity thing instead of as a global survival matter. No one tackles this issue with a comprehensive solution. This is a problem that is relevant to all of us and for the generations to come. I hope we realized that before it is too late.
Why is it important to save the Rainforest
In the last 150 years, humans were releasing huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the air by burning fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas and this is a major cause for global climate change. As the biggest forest in the world, Amazonia trees have been massively absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere. Therefore, this rainforest has at some point mitigated the greenhouse effect which would have been even worse without it. It is also the single biggest source of water and oxygen on the planet. In times when the Paris Climate Agreement and even the existence of the Global Warmth is under question, it becomes more relevant to take action from our side, from the people´s side.
How much of the rainforest is saved through Amazource?
Currently, our field partners possess a combined 1 million acres of protected land. They are qualified landowners and indigenous communities whose members have lived in the Amazon rainforest for generations and have an official conservation status.
What are your future goals for Amazource?
With our revenue we want more and more landowners and communities to join us and be capable of empowering them for the first time against the extractive industries that are deforesting this sanctuary. With the proper resources, we see no problem to reach 500 million acres under protection. That equals 4.5 times the territory of the State of California. Imagine the effect on the global climate in the coming years of such a thing!
Where can your products be purchased?
You can visit our site amazource.com