LOOK FOR NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS PRODUCTS. :) <3
These are just a couple of the brands I buy that are animal friendly. Elf is a make up brand that I recently discovered and it´s very very affordable (needless to say how excited I was when I found it!!!) their products go from $1 dlls to around $6 dlls TRESemmé it`s on the ok price and the Tom´s of Maine it´s a price I pay reducing other extra treats I can possible want.
I found all this products at target (http://www.target.com) you can also buy online some other brands http://www.petamall.com (part of the money spent in here will go of course to support the cause) also a awesome, fast and easy way of searching FOR CRUELTY-FREE COMPANIES AND PRODUCTS… http://www.peta.org/living/beauty-and-personal-care/companies/default.aspx You don´t always need to go to organic stores or anything like that, you just need to go to your regular store and search for the animal friendly signs, they most likely have them. If you can´t find them you can call the number on the product you are interested on buying and ask them if their products are free from animal cruelty or animal friendly and if not maybe you can ask them when would they start creating this kind of products. That way we show the companies that we DO care and we want more cruelty free/animal friendly products. I strongly believe is a thousand percent worth it! Animals are a thousand percent worth it and more!
I encourage you to look more often to the labels of the products you are buying not only for ingredients matter but also for these animal friendly signs. The more we are involved in this the more help we are giving to defenseless animals, WE ARE THEIR VOICE!
By Blanca Loaiza
To me, social enterprise is a business model that follows the three ethics of Permaculture:
- Earth Care (tackling environmental issues)
- People Care (tackling social issues)
- Fair Share (reinvesting profits in pursuing the above)
This article highlights the importance of good business sense in creating a sustainable social enterprise.
If you don’t read it all, take one key point: everything else comes secondary to a fantastic product.
Do a good product while doing good in the world: your social enterprise will be good.
Do a poor product while doing good in the world: your social enterprise will be poor.
(Source: appletonpermaculture.com)
I found this on the “trevor project” tumblr, which is an organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention to the LGBTQ youth. I found it very touching, I mean, these words would sure be apprecciated by any person in the world whether or not they belong to the LGTBQ youth. It just makes me think how much people need to hear this more often than not, and we should let all the people we can to know they are all of the above and more.
We never know what people are going through and I have always thought that even a smile can change a life… so here is a suggestion: share this picture with all your friends and family, you can do it through facebook, twitter, tumblr, instagram ,or any social media of your preference, or you can even print some of them and give them to your favorite people. Print them as flyers and hand them to people in your school or work or if you prefer paste (with permission of course) some of them on clever spots at your job or school ,that way if somebody is having a tough day and they happen to look, it will give them a good feeling.
Why not spread a good message and do something good for the people we share the world with?.Mean it and do it from the heart and it will shine through…
with love… Blanca Loaiza
You are crafted with beauty and purpose. The world needs you - you were put here for a reason.
La gente necesita ser escuchada! hay que estar atentos y siempre prestar nuestros oídos! People need to be heard! we need to be aware and always lend our ears.
Aveces cuando por alguna razón (enfermedad,accidentes,entre muchas otras cosas) nos encontramos sin poder hacer muchas cosas en la vida, pensamos en todo lo que pudiéramos hacer si tuviéramos la libertad necesaria.Pero una vez recuperada,siento que nos conformamos con lo poquito que podemos hacer y se nos olvida el “Yo” extraordinario que fuimos antes en nuestros anhelos.