This coming Saturday, April 29th and Sunday, April 30th, the country’s largest sustainable beauty event returns to the Estación Mapocho Cultural Center, with around 100 exhibitors, workshops, talks, vegan food, and cruelty-free beauty space.
Ecobelleza Festival, an event that brings together companies, entrepreneurs, and environmentally friendly initiatives in one place, returns this April 29th and 30th with around 100 stands in four categories: cruelty-free products, zero waste culture, local handmade production, and vegan food. In addition, the activity will feature the presence of non-profit organizations and foundations that work for the environment and animals and promote values of equality.
This 2023 the event will have various workshops, masterclasses, and artistic exhibitions that promote the values of the event, and a Cruelty-Free Beauty Space, where attendees can access makeup, manicures, and other beauty services in exchange for donations. “We are very happy to meet again at Estación Mapocho after four years, because holding an Ecobelleza event in person and being able to bring together hundreds of initiatives that promote respect for animals and the environment, with thousands of people responsible for their daily consumption habits, is part of the mission of our NGO,” said the Founder and General Director of Te Protejo, Camila Cortínez.
The Ecobelleza festival had its first version in 2014, and after 15 successful events, it paused its production due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These initiatives seek to promote responsible consumption among its attendees, offering environmentally friendly product alternatives, as well as workshops, talks, and activities that promote awareness around our daily consumption habits.
Ecobelleza 2023 Festival will be held next Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th of April at the Estación Mapocho Cultural Center from 12:00 to 19:00 hours, and is sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment and the Municipality of Santiago. To access the event, there will be several ticket options starting at CLP 2,000, which will be a direct donation to the mission of NGO Te Protejo and its four areas of work: Awareness, Connection, Advocacy, and Certification.
For more information, check their website www.festivalecobelleza.cl, or their social network @eventos_ecobelleza.
As Fundación Glaciares Chilenos, we will participate again in this event with a talk given by our Director Constanza Espinosa on Sunday, April 30th at 13:00 hrs.
About NGO Te Protejo
Te Protejo is a non-profit organization founded in 2012, whose mission is to promote the use of animal cruelty-free products. Te Protejo is the first organization in Latin America capable of certifying companies that don’t test on animals, and more than 150 have already gone through its certification process, based on the model of international organizations such as Peta and Leaping Bunny. The NGO also consolidates the only list of brands available in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Perú, which have been verified as animal testing-free by certifying organizations.
Additionally, it’s the organization behind the #BeCrueltyFree Chile campaign that seeks to legislate to ban animal experimentation in the local cosmetics industry.
More information at www.ongteprotejo.org, and on their networks on Instagram, TikTok, Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter as @teprotejo.
