Fair Trade Beauty Product Ingredients:
What's it All About?
What's it All About?
By: Jamie Hall
Now a days ladies, we are attracted toward natural ingredients when it comes to beautifying ourselves. When we see the words shea butter, aloe, brown sugar, coco butter, organic, green tea, jasmine, lavender (you get the picture), we are sold to whatever make up, shower gel, lotion, soap or oil it is. But, it is very rare that we stop and think about where those organic and natural ingredients come from and what it takes to get them in those plastic containers we screw open daily.
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The Fairtrade Foundation is a non- profit organization that helps to advocate a justified and fair international trading system. In other words, the foundation helps to protect the poor and disadvantage farmers and workers that plant, cultivate, and trade the natural ingredients that we love so much; making sure that the trading systems they are a part is offers prosperity and growth. These farmers and planters come from countries such as Europe, Mexico, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
To many of these countries, Fairtrade offers much more than fighting poverty. With providing income, education is valued. With constant income, parents have enough money to keep their children in school, instead of working and farming. Fairtrade also enforces all of its farmers and their families’ healthcare and access to doctors, which was impossible to do before. Most notably, through its high standards, Fairtrade has changed the way women are treated in these countries. It is able to provide women with fair and equal treatment to health care, jobs, education, and independence.
Numerous well know beauty companies’ support and are apart the Fairtrade trading system; receiving great ingredients the right way. The next time you go out and buy make up, soap, shower gel, or any other beauty products, take a special heed to these specific companies and products:
To many of these countries, Fairtrade offers much more than fighting poverty. With providing income, education is valued. With constant income, parents have enough money to keep their children in school, instead of working and farming. Fairtrade also enforces all of its farmers and their families’ healthcare and access to doctors, which was impossible to do before. Most notably, through its high standards, Fairtrade has changed the way women are treated in these countries. It is able to provide women with fair and equal treatment to health care, jobs, education, and independence.
Numerous well know beauty companies’ support and are apart the Fairtrade trading system; receiving great ingredients the right way. The next time you go out and buy make up, soap, shower gel, or any other beauty products, take a special heed to these specific companies and products:
LUSH Fair Trade Foot Lotion, $21.95
mark. Fresh Approach Hydrating Body Cleanser, $10
Body Shop Rainforest Moisture Shampoo, $10
Aura Cacia Ginger/Mint Body Polish, $10.99
Akoma African Black Soap, $4.88
Queen Helene Coca Butter Lotion
The list doesn’t stop there. Visit www.fairtradeusa.org for more products that are in full support of Fairtrade and to learn more about the foundation.
So the next time you are putting on lotion, squeezing your shower gel, or washing your hair; smile. It’s a good feeling to know that positivity comes out of beautifying yourself.
So the next time you are putting on lotion, squeezing your shower gel, or washing your hair; smile. It’s a good feeling to know that positivity comes out of beautifying yourself.