Our Reason for Being

To serve our customers' health needs with imaginative science from plants and minerals;
To inspire all those we serve with a mission of responsibility and goodness;
To empower others by sharing our knowledge, time, talents, and profits; and
To help create a better world by exchanging our faith, experience, and hope.

In 1988, after 18 years in business, the Tom's of Maine community realized that we needed to formalize our values and beliefs into foundational documents to help guide the future growth and management of our company. Led by Tom and Kate Chappell, our cofounders, the community met and grappled with such thorny philosophical concepts as ethics, science, legality, emotion, and morality and how it all applied to running a sustainable business eventually emerging with our Reason for Being.

Tom's of Maine Statement of Beliefs

•   We believe that both human beings and nature have inherent worth and deserve our respect.

•   We believe in products that are safe, effective, and made of natural ingredients.

•   We believe that our company and our products are unique and worthwhile, and that we can sustain these genuine qualities with an ongoing commitment to innovation and creativity.
•   We believe that we have a responsibility to cultivate the best relationships possible with our coworkers, customers, owners, agents, suppliers and community.

•   We believe that different people bring different gifts and perspectives to the team and that a strong team is founded on a variety of gifts.

•   We believe in providing employees with a safe and fulfilling work environment and an opportunity to grow and learn.

•   We believe that competence is an essential means of sustaining our values in a competitive marketplace.

•   We believe our company can be financially successful while behaving in a socially responsible and environmentally sensitive manner.

•   We believe that we have an individual and collective accountability to the Company's beliefs, mission, destiny, and performance goals.