Olay Partners with Actua to Reinforce its 10-Year Commitment to #FaceTheSTEMGap

This International Day of Women and Girls in Science (February 11, 2022) Olay, as a brand rooted in science, reinforces its 10-year commitment to #FaceTheSTEMGap in collaboration with Actua and Walmart Canada. As part of this initiative, Olay is donating $50,000 to Actua’s National Girls Program, and raising the voices of prominent women in science, technology, engineering and math-based careers to help young women and girls envision a future in STEM. According to 2019 data provided by Statistics Canada, women only make up only 23 per cent of science and…

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OLAY Introduces Easy Open Lid For People with Disabilities, Shares Design With Beauty Industry

 Fifteen percent of the world’s population lives with a disability (source), yet these individuals are often excluded from the beauty industry both in representation and product offerings. OLAY North America is introducing the Easy Open Lid, a limited-edition prototype developed with and for people with disabilities. The Easy Open Lid will be incorporated into the product design of OLAY’s most popular products: the Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Cream, Vitamin C + Peptide 24 Face Moisturizer, Retinol 24 Face Moisturizer and Collagen Peptide 24 Face Moisturizer. To create the design, OLAY met with…

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Olay Supports STEM Education Across The Country With Science Kits Created For Blended and Virtual Learning

In September, Olay announced a 10-year commitment to double the number of women and triple the number of women of color in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) careers by 2030. Women hold only 24% of these roles, a figure that represents the STEM gap. The brand takes a step toward closing the STEM gap by helping schools intervene at a critical moment when girls’ STEM interests need to be fed in order to avoid what is known in tech as the “middle school cliff” — where girls, who were…

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Young Women’s Trust & Olay’s Fearless Female Ambassadors Encourage Women To Overcome Labels & Face Anything

‘Too emotional’, ‘too bossy’ and ‘too girly’: Introducing the top three negative labels UK women are branded with. Recent research by Olay reveals that 60 percent of women experience negative labels at least once a week, while the same number of women (60 percent) also feel judged by their appearance every day. So Olay is launching a campaign with Young Women’s Trust to do something about it. Olay found that, despite 63 percent of women being told ambition is a necessary attribute to succeed, 1 in 20 have been labelled…

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