New and Interesting Websites!

I just found some really cool new and interesting websites for us to all check out! One is
www.caringconsumer.com
and the second one is
www.peta.com

They are really cool and they will work well for all of us to help the animals!
Thanks

My Opinion on the Mary Kay Products

Ok, sorry for the long brake over the summer when I was not blogging. But I am back! So now its my opinion on the Mary Kay products that I have bought. I bought a face cleanser and moisturizer for teens and hand scrub and moisturizer. I have to say I love the hand scrub and moisturizer! It made my hands feel amazing! My hands were soft and felt great after every time I used it. My friend also used it for a week when I was at camp and loved the feel of her hands. (The cold water from the camp sinks where quite a shock to our hands and my face when I used the creams.) The face cleanser and moisturizer was good too. The only downside to the face products is that I have to remember to use the products everyday which I am not that great at doing! Though when I did use the face cream my face we clean and glowing. When I would forget to use the creams on my face, it when back to dull. The names of the hand products that I strongly suggest getting are called "satin hands." It comes in a set of two bottles, one is a pump bottle that is a "satin smoothie hand scrub" and the second bottle is a squeeze tube which is a "hand cream." Both of the bottles are orange. The "satin smoothie" can be found at, http://www.marykay.com/spabody/bodycare/10014095/10014095/default.aspx
for $15.00.
Then the Hand Cream can be found at, http://www.marykay.com/spabody/bodycare/10014094/10014094/default.aspx
for $8.00
The name of the face cleanser and moisturizer are, Velocity Facial Cleanser and Velocity Lightweight Moisturizer. The bottles are orange and white. The "Velocity Facial Cleanser" can be found at, http://www.marykay.com/skincare/cleansers/Cleansers/10001600/default.aspx
for $10.00
The "Velocity Lightweight Moisturizer" can be found at, http://www.marykay.com/skincare/moisturization/10001500/10001500/default.aspx
for $12.00
I really enjoyed using my Mary Kay products and will continuing using them (if I remember with the face cream!) and post if anything changes. Also coming up will be my mothers views on her Mary Kay products and the links.

P.S. sorry if the links don't work. If they do not work. you can go to google type in Mary Kay, it was take you to a list of options, click the third one and it will take you to the home page of Mary Kay.com. Then on the top right hand of the page there is a text box that say Search Mary Kay, if you put in Satin Hands and Velocity it will give you the links to where you can buy the cruelty free hand cream and face cream! Thanks!

Mary Kay Products

A couple of weekends ago there was a fair in my town, so I went with my friend, I signed up for a raffle to win a free Mary Kay makeover and a 25 dollar gift certifict. Later I got a call from Renee who is a Mary Kay specalist (and very nice) and she told me that I had won the makeover and gift certifict! She also said that I could share it with 1 or 2 other people (I choose my mother). So we set an appointment, on that day we got ready and she came! Renee was very nice and exited as we were! She set up on our dining room table and we were set! Renee let us try many different types of skin care. She had everything! She had different types of care for different people and there skin types. My mother or Susan as she said in an earlyer post she said that she had dry skin, I have oily skin so she had 2 different types of care for both of us. After we got to try the wonderful skin mosterizer, we got to figure out our skin tone and foundation. We figured out what our complection was, once we did that she let us try it on our hands we got to smooth more of it on our face. Then after that we got to try an eye cream that got rid of wrinkles (not for me) and black circles! That really worked fastly! We could see a change in minutes! After we tryed everything we got to choose what we wanted to buy and keep. My mother got skin care for her and for her hands. I got skin care called Volcity which is made for teens so there skin does not become oily and doesent stay oily. I also got a wonderful hand softener and mosierizer. My mother and I will have our opinions on all of our Mary Kay products. Mary Kay is 100% animal cruelty free!

My Point of View

The other day I went to the mall and went to The Body Shop and I bought some lip butter (cocoa nut smelling) and this worked really well. I usually have very bad chapped lips in the winter but once I stared using the lip butter I did not have chapped lips that offten. (I still had some chapped lips) The Body Shop were very helpful and happy. Thank you The Body Shop for helping!

Susan's Point of View

Here’s a review for all the older ladies! (Hopefully Beyoncé will come up with a song for us soon! Lol!) I am a 50-year-old Mom with dry skin and a couple of age spots (eewww!). Running out of my daytime face cream, I decided to try “Wise Woman Regenerating Day Cream” from The Body Shop ( http://www.thebodyshop-usa.com/bodyshop/ It was not cheap, ($32.00).

Loved the store, there were lots of great smelling creams and lotions to try. (Moroccan Rose is a standout, I’m a fan of florals anyway). The Nature’s Minerals Loose Face Powder looked good on the back of my hand, excellent coverage and a matte finish, but was so messy to use, I decided not to buy it. There was a lot of information available about their philosophy, fair-trade practices, environmentally-friendly packaging and, of course, their stand against testing on animals. (http://www.thebodyshop-usa.com/bodyshop/values/index.jsp If you don’t want to read labels but still be animal- and planet-friendly, this would be a convenient way to shop.

The store manager was friendly and energetic and knew her product line. I was disappointed to discover the daily moisturizer for women my age had no sunscreen, but I decided to try it anyway, since my foundation has an spf of 20. The name of the product made me think of pictures like this, http://flickr.com/photos/kazkapades/272225375 beautiful to be sure, but not the look I’m going for. However, the lotions feels GREAT. It has a little bit of subtle sparkle that works for me, too, and a very light but pleasant scent.

I will definitely shop at The Body Shop again, although I probably won’t buy the “Wise Woman” face cream again, it was expensive and had no sunscreen.

Thanks Susan!

About The Body Shop

The Body Shop is a store that was founded by Dame Anita Roddick it has been more than 30 years since she started her jorney with the idea "businesses have the power to do good." Now The Body Shop is a store that is commited to using and selling products that are all natural and not tested on animals.
Some interesting facts about The Body Shop

•We became the first cosmetics company to source sustainably harvested palm oil and introduce the ingredient into the beauty industry, working in partnership with a certified organic producer in Colombia, in 2007.

•n early 2008 we introduced 100% PCR bottles (post consumer recycled) while all our PET bottles (polyethylene terephthalate) currently contain at the minimum 30% recycled material, with a target to convert to 100% within the next 12 months.

•Our unique Community Trade program creates sustainable trading relationships with disadvantaged communities around the world and provides essential income to more than 25,000 people across the globe.

•The Body Shop® continues to raise awareness and funding for women across the world affected by domestic violence in 2008. Our Stop Violence In The Home campaign runs in more than 55 countries and has raised in excess of US$4 million.

•In 2008 we continued to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS among young people, working with MTV Networks International. This campaign funds the Staying Alive Foundation, a grass roots organization supporting young people internationally.

•We have committed to becoming Carbon Neutral by 2010, ensuring that carbon dioxide emissions from the company's core retail business worldwide are reduced.

•We're committed to trading ethically - our sourcing team is trained in ethical audits and we only trade with suppliers who are committed to our Code of Conduct for Suppliers.
(Those were copied strate from The Body Shop website)

Please visit http://www.thebodyshop-usa.com/bodyshop/index.jsp?cm_re=Tyra_MoroccanRoseValentines-_-Navigation-_-logo
for more information and to buy products from The Body Shop! Thank you!

Why Even Test?

There is no real reason that people and make up companies test on animals, the animals have different reactions than humans do. So why do makeup companies test on animals? Makeup companies test on animals because they think that the makeup will have the same effect on them as it may us, which is not true. The companies also (as I said in an earlier post) have to make sure that the makeup is safe for humans and shipping in large amounts.

Testing Without Animals

There are ways to find out whether the product is harmful to humans with out using and harming animals. This is called Neutral Red Uptake Assay, this is when they take alive cells in glass dish and put a drop or two of the chemical or product in the glass dish with the alive cells. Then they come back later and see how the cells reacted with the chemical mixture. This is also called "in vitro" or literally "in glass". This does not involve animals or humans in the testing. This does not hurt any one or any thing. This type of testing does not involve animals or humans and does prove whether or not the product being tested can be harmful or even deadly.

Countries and Animal Testing

Since so many people believe that testing on animal is cruel and not right most makeup companies claim that they don't test on animals. But by trading standards the makeup must be tested some how to make sure that the product is not harmful to humans. In some countries you can meet these standards. But in the U.S and Japan some companies have to test on animals to meet these standards.

Introduction

Some makeup companies test their makeup on animals. Most of the makeup companies test their eye make up on rabbits and rabbits don't have tear ducts (what make us cry) like us so they force open the eye and put the make up on the eye. It feels like getting soap in your eye and it burns. Since the rabbits don't have tear ducts it burns the eye and eventually it will eat away at the eye. This also may cause the animals to struggle (because of the pain) agenst the straints and brake their necks so they die. This is all cause by testing makeup on rabbits. The poor little bunnies! This is just one of the many problems that testing makeup on animals cause.