Nature’s Secrets signs MoU with VTASL

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By Waruni Paranagamage Marking the 10th consecutive year of its supportive role, Nature’s Secrets, Sri Lanka’s No. 1 herbal cosmetics brand, signed an MoU with the Sri Lanka Vocational Training Authority (VTASL) last week to support a series of skills training programs. The MoU was signed between VTASL Chairman Colonel Dharshana Rathnayake and Nature’s Beauty Creations Ltd. (NBC) Managing Director Samantha Kumarasinha at the VTASL. Over the past years, Nature’s Secrets has been supplying, free of charge, all the beauty products required by VTASL for its beauty culture courses held island wide. Under these programs, Nature’s Secrets has been able to provide a helping hand to thousands of youth through skills training to uplift them to stand tall in the competitive business world. Nature’s Secrets also provides valuable scholarship opportunities to beauty instructors of VTASL, enabling them to enhance their skills to international standards.

Operating under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skills Developments, VTASL is providing skills training to rural youth while implementing skills development programs under various fields. Colonel Rathnayake said that although the collaboration of private companies with the Government sector is rare in Sri Lanka, Nature’s Secrets support it by facilitating training programs, giving scholarships and providing free beauty products. Outlining the aims of the partnership with VTASL, NBC Manager – Advertising and Public Relations Nalin Aluthge said that to expand its social responsibility role, NBC is now providing opportunities to university students to obtain advanced scientific knowledge on medicinal plants from its plant research centre in Horana. “We also have the Nature’s Secrets Research Award annually for the best performance of a commercially viable research project conducted at the Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya. In 2015 we are going to open a training school in Colombo only on beauty culture,” he added. Nature’s Secrets is the first and largest herbal cosmetics manufacture to produce according to internationally-recognised GMP and ISO quality standards. All the products, which are of international standard, are produced at its state-of-the-art factory equipped with the latest technology. Nature’s Secrets has set up a 13-acre medicinal plant garden around its factory where more than 500 types of rare herbal medicine plants are preserved, making it an extremely unique facility. A pioneer in green initiatives, Nature’s Secrets is the first and only cosmetics company to win the Gold National Green Award, Sri Lanka’s top green award. Today Nature’s Secrets exports its products to over 20 countries.