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Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, the country’s top selling natural soap brand, has upped the ante in its bid to clean up the rampant organic misbranding in personal care aisles. In an effort to ensure that when you buy organic, you actually GET organic, Dr. Bronner’s went to court.
The family owned business filed its Second Amended Complaint today in San Francisco Superior Court against numerous personal care companies that use non-organic pesticide-intensive agricultural and/or petrochemical material to make the main cleansing and moisturizing ingredients of their misbranded “Organic” products. Defendants include, among others: Hain-Celestial (Jason “Pure, Natural & Organic; Avalon “Organics”); Levlad (Nature’s Gate “Organics”); Kiss My Face “Organic”; YSL Beaute Inc (Stella McCartney’s “100% Organic Active Ingredients”), Country Life (Desert Essence “Organics”); Giovanni “Organic Cosmetics”; and the certifiers Ecocert and OASIS.
Former defendant Estee Lauder was dropped from the suit because it has not in fact entered the market under its AVEDA brand with OASIS certified products as it had earlier threatened to do. Former defendant Ikove agreed to change its labeling practices of relevant products. However, the remaining defendants continue to refuse to abide by basic organic consumer criteria. Dr. Bronner’s new complaint seeks damages in addition to injunctive relief, for false advertising under the federal Lanham Act, rather than simply the injunctive relief that Dr. Bronner’s sought under California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL). Filing under the federal Lanham Act also keeps the case on a straightforward track to trial for product misbranding and false advertising, instead of allowing it to be bogged down in an appeals court arguing whether lost revenues are “restitutionary” versus “compensatory” damages under the UCL. The entire Second Amended Complaint along with background on the case is posted online at: http://www.drbronner.com/usda_organic_body_care.html
The defendants’ “Organic” or “Organics” products are composed mostly of cleansing and moisturizing ingredients that are not organic, but that are instead made from conventional agricultural and/or petrochemical material, with organic water extracts or aloe vera for an organic green-wash. “Organic consumers expect that the main cleansing and moisturizing ingredients in “Organic” or “Organics” products are in fact made from organic material, and are not simply conventional formulations with some organic tea on top. If defendants cannot live up to their organic claims, they need to drop those claims. The misleading organic noise created by culprit companies’ labeling practices, confuses, misleads and deceives organic consumers who want to buy authentic organic personal care products, the main ingredients of which are in fact made with certified organic, not conventional or petrochemical, material, and are free of synthetic preservatives. ” said David Bronner, President of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps.
Dr. Bronner’s has made clear that for defendants to make outright “Organic” claims in branding or labeling (eg. “Organic Lotion” vs. “Lotion made with Organic Aloe Vera”), products must at minimum be 95% organic, without hydrogenating, sulfating or synthetically preserving ingredients; and the main cleansing ingredients must be derived from organic rather than conventional agricultural material. Dr. Bronner’s products, in contrast to the brands named in the lawsuit, contain cleansing and moisturizing ingredients made only from certified organic oils, made without any use of petrochemicals, and contain no petrochemical preservatives.
*give your eyelash curler a five to ten second zap with the hair dryer before curling your lashes…the heat gives extra staying power so your eyes pop all day!
Discover Nature’s Youthful Radiance with Pangea Organics’ NEW Radiance Gift Set – a Website Exclusive
Get ready to spruce up your skincare routine! For $100, get started with the best of Pangea Organics’ award-winning Ecocentric Skincare line with the new Radiance Gift Set –a $167 value, available exclusively online at www.pangeaorganics.com. FREE shipping on all PRE-Orders placed online now thru June 15th.
The star products included in the new Radiance Gift Set are packed with plant-based ingredients, powerful antioxidants and key minerals, vitamins and essential oils that work to balance, nurture and nourish your skin from the inside out. As the leader in the organic skincare category, the efficacy and performance attributes in all Pangea Organics products never strays from the company’s vision of Ecocentric Skincare: Always Beneficial, Never Artificial.
TWO-TIME, AWARD-WINNING FACIAL CLEANSER – $28 SRP
- Get ready to love your face and take the first step towards healthy, glowing skin. Specially formulated to wash away impurities without stripping essential oils, the Egyptian Calendula & Blood Orange formula is good for all skin types and leaves skin refreshed, revitalized and renewed.
TWO-TIME, AWARD-WINNING FACIAL SCRUB – $32 SRP
- Restores and balances the skin with a powerful blend of antioxidants, cell-regenerating and clarifying elements that leaves skin polished, healthy, radiant and especially soft. Suitable for all skins types.
SIX-TIME, AWARD-WINNING FACIAL MASK – $40 SRP
- The ultimate multi-tasker. It does everything from detoxifying, deep-cleansing and exfoliating, to toning, moisturizing, and even helps to reduce wrinkles. Contains unique ingredients such as Acai, Goji Berry and Matcha Tea – a powerful blend of antioxidants and anti-aging elements leaves skin polished, glowing and radiant.
TWO-TIME, AWARD-WINNING LIP BALM – $12 SRP
- Rich in vitamins, nutrients and essential fatty acids. Provides powerful healing properties and features deep-moisturizing, organic oils that offer tremendous staying power while nourishing, protecting the skin.
BRAND NEW EYE CREAM (Just released: APRIL 1, 2009) – $55 SRP
- Packed with antioxidants, cell regenerators and anti-inflammatories, combat the signs of aging while providing much needed moisture and nourishment. Designed to work with the daily cycles of your skin, prevention and protection during the day while cooling, soothing, nourishing and regenerating at night.
Pangea Organics was born out of the desire to do right by the planet, and is continually looking for more ways to live up to that dream and let you in on the fun, too. Hence the idea behind the new Radiance Gift Sets. Just when you think you’ve received a lovely box of organic skincare products — surprise! You’ve also been given the gift of giving back to the earth by way of a spruce tree. Inside the fibers of the Radiance gift boxes, there’s a Spruce Tree just waiting to be planted.
Americans emit, on average, five (5) tons of carbon per year per person? While a single tree will absorb only one (1) ton of carbon dioxide in its lifetime. If everyone plants their gift box this year, there will collectively be 2,500 trees planted – that’s equivalent to NOT driving roughly 615,000 miles in one year! The average lifespan of a spruce tree is 75 years, that’s an energy savings of approximately 46 million miles. What a difference you can make in your very own backyard!
The gift boxes are 100% compostable, biodegradable, plantable and made from a Zero-Waste process using 100% post-consumer newsprint, without glues and dyes. The outer labels are made of uncoated Monadnock’s Astrolite PC 100 paper (100% post-consumer, FSC-certified, elemental chlorine free, and printed with vegetable based inks).
What we choose to consume today, directly impacts how we – and future generations – will live tomorrow. With that in mind, 5% of net profits will go towards helping build the Pangea Institute, an emerging non-profit organization dedicated to researching and teaching all aspects of sustainable living and business practices. Choosing to buy Pangea Organics means you, too, are positively impacting the future.
The Pangea Organics Radiance Gift Set is available for pre-order exclusively online at www.pangeaorganics.com – offer expires June 15, 2009. All orders will ship on or around June 15th and will arrive on or around July 1st.
“The grass is always greener on the other side” is more than just a bumper sticker. We all want a bit of what we don’t have. So it’s only natural that as a curly haired girl, I have gravitated to straight hair styles my whole life. (All you fellow curly haired girls, I know you can relate). I consider myself a bit of an expert on flat irons and straighteners, since I have tried kajillions of them. Literally. Kajillions.
And after all these years of comparison, I can say with confidence that the H2Pro Flat Iron 300 Special Editionis at the top of the game.
We all know that a ceramic flat iron is way better for our hair in that they produce gentle, even levels of heat that won’t destroy your hair. They can even actually help repair damaged follicles. The H2Pro Flat Iron takes this one step further by adding Tourmaline to the ceramic plates of their flat irons. Tourmaline is a stone that when ground into a fine powder and infused into the ceramic plates of a flat iron, its high negative ion output creates sleeker, shinier, frizz-free hair. Even my super curly, coarse hair was super soft, shiny and STRAIGHT in minutes…and the most amazing part was that it actually stayed like that for two days! With other flat irons, I’ve had to go over my hair multiple times in ONE day, whereas with the H2Pro Flat Iron one straightening session lasted two days with no touch ups. UNBELIEVABLE!
The H2Pro flat iron has the additional advantage of Nano Technology. This refers to the technology of nano science, meaning very small particles. Nano-sized ions transfer the heat quickly, creating shine and eliminating static. It also uses infrared heat, which warms the hair from the inside out, thereby causing less surface damage. In short, this flat iron uses all the latest technology to give you the best possible straightening results in a short amount of time. What girl could ask for more?!?!?
With adjustable heat settings (depending on how hard your hair is to straighten) this is the perfect flat iron for all hair types, from the most difficult curly hair to you lucky straight locked ladies who just want to add a bit of sheen and shine, or make your hair super super straight…and for everyone in between.
After years of spending a good chunk of my time straightening my hair, only to have it look frizzy, fried and straightened, I am beyond thrilled to have found a tool that leaves my hair looking sleek, shiny, and as if it was naturally straight. Ironically, it was just recently that I came to terms with my curly hair and have found some styles with which I love it curly. Hmmm, this may change all that….
You know those teeny tiny little safety pins that are sometimes used to attach a sales tag to you clothes? Here’s a great way to reuse them: Pin a safety pin in the seam of a clingy dress or skirt and it will keep away static cling!
Bangs are everywhere, on short and long hair styles, on straight and curly hair…Here’s how to tame your bangs so that they lay how you want them to, even if you have a cowlick. The crisscross motion she talks about is key: it is what overrides the hairs natural inclination to lay to one side or the other. How? by confusing your hair so that it just gives in and does what you want it to. You can’t get great hair without first breaking it’s spirit. True story.
Learn How To Do Bangs like Eva Scrivo from evascrivo.com on Vimeo.
Leave it to Mother Nature to provide us with the perfect styling product for hair: salt water. For those who don’t start every morning off with a trip to the beach, try Bohemian Beach Spray from David Babaii for WildAid. This non aeresol spray is perfect for all hair types, creating texture and volume with salt from the Dead Sea and volcanic ash from the South Pacific. It also contains Shea Butter, Jojoba Oil, Hemp Oil and Cupuacu Butter to keep your hair hydrated…that means you get texture and volume without the crunch of some styling products…this one’s all about the soft and supple. Spray it in straight hair, then curl, and your curls will hold without hairspray. Curly hair gets definition and control without stiffness, and fine, limp hair gets some pumped up strength. All this and it smells like a day at the beach, all coconutty and tropical, but in a subtle way. Uncontrollable craving for a pina colada? Blame it on the beach spray.
