Our Future
Our Beliefs and Practices to Assure Our Future
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How safe are our products? Our products are 100% biodegradable, cruelty-free, and do not contain harmful synthetic fragrance oils, preservatives, petroleum products, FD&C colorants and dyes, parabens, phthalates, or other toxic chemicals.
The researchers behind Skin Deep, the Environmental Working Group, have compiled a database of more than 25,000 cosmetic products and compared it against 50 definitive toxicity and regulatory databases, making it the largest integrated data resource of its kind. Why did a small nonprofit take on such a big project? Because the FDA doesn't require companies to test their own products for safety. Each product has been given a hazard rating from 0 to 10, with 10 being the most dangerous level of toxicity.
44 of our 47 products have a rating of 0; 3 have a 1. Click EWG Skin Deep Database.
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Our packaging is selected to incorporate the highest recyclable content from safe and renewable sources with minimum environmental impact. We reuse packing and shipping materials we have received rather than generate new waste. We invite you to please reuse or recycle our packaging materials as well as our product containers.
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Because millions of trees are sacrificed each year for 17 billion catalogs, we refrain from mailing paper catalogs and invite our Guests to visit our Website to learn more.
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Over 28 billion gallons of water are wasted every year on making paper for junk mail (source: greendimes.com and EPA), therefore our Guests will be enjoying our free e-Newsletter when they Sign Up with us.
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Global carbon dioxide levels are higher today than at any other point the last 420,000 years. Because 82% of the increase in emissions is a result of burning fossil fuels to generate electricity and power our cars (source: cleanandgreen.us), our company runs on 100% wind-powered energy from Puget Sound Energy Green Power.
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We are a member of The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) - Campaigning for Health, Justice, and Sustainability. The OCA is a grassroots, non-profit, public interest organization working specifically to protect our food supply. The OCA works on public education and encourages sustainable agriculture, fair trade, and product labeling of genetically engineered and irradiated food.
- We support the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and pledge that our products will meet the standards and deadlines set by the European Union Directive 76/768/EEC to be free of chemicals that are known or strongly suspected of causing cancer, mutation, or birth defects.
