Oh Dewberry got the boot a LONG time ago. But I'm sure at one stage it was the ONLY fragrance to wear....it makes me shiver too
Berenice - she may have got it a bit wrong, I'm not sure. Sometimes the bottle lids cannot be recycled, I know all my makeup brushes are except for one small part. Sometimes it just cannot be helped.
I still don't know why people get all uppity about "TBS claiming to be all natural" in fact they use synthetics quite proudly in some cases - such as the musk from the famous White Musk range. To use 'natural' musk would mean to extract it from the deer in a very painful manner (from a very sensitive place too mind you ).
I also don't know any other company with such a community focus, even if it is just one day a year - it's still FAR MORE than anyone else I know. Lots of employees do far more than that because they want to.
The head office is just up the road from me and I used to be there all the time when I was working with them. They have a restaurant for the employees (scrummy food! and allergy free/gluten free stuff was a matter of course), a pool, and a childcare centre.
I'd often get an email requesting spare pencils and crayons as someone was jetting off o/s to help out a community in their holidays, and they had community service awards in which the prize was 2 weeks o/s helping out in one of the co-operatives or being a mentor for teenagers in far flung areas.
When the takeover was announced people were picketing out the front waving placards and we were all watching this rolling our eyes because we couldn't see how it was going to change the company itself, or how it could wipe out YEARS of humanitarian work and ground-breaking campaigns....
I have a few body shop things. Had a party a few months ago.
I have the Buriti Baby Body Wash.Its tear free & its ingredients come from the Buriti tree in the Amazon. I like it & its ok on DD2's eczema skin so far. They have a baby moisturiser & shampoo I think too.
I loooove there coco butter. My sister can't use their soaps though. She gets a rash. She's not usually sensitive to that sort of stuff.
Lulu, thanks for those posts, most interesting and informative
I sometimes think that people are just so confused with all these terms like, Fair Trade, Natural, Not tested on Animals Organic etc.. they hear one and think all these terms apply. They need to stop for just a few minutes, read, absorb and hopefully understand.
We recently had a Body Shop open near us (2 hours away) and when we are near them, my DH goes in to stock up.. I spent years telling him how they help little communities all over the world etc and now he is actually taking a little notice of me and finds out what product has what ingredient and where it comes from etc.. then he proudly goes and tells his mum who looks at him like he is some weirdo
i thnk ther was ascandal but for me after working at the head office even though there product repose and line are prettty ethicaletc i still see it as a joke sien ci know how much waste at the head office
Thanks so much for that Lulu and Suse, I really appreciate that info. that's what I always thought, that they never claimed to be natural, just free from animal testing you're right, if they were 100% natural, then they'd be using real musk etc. I have used their products for years - not a lot because I don't *do* beauty stuff LOL, but I have always admired their humanitarian work.
Traveller, I guess this is the conundrum. They may be, in a round about way, owned by Nestle now, but so long as TBS continues in it's present form and keeps their programs running in the same manner as they were before the takeover, I think the benefits of that far outweigh the fact that they are owned by Nestle. And the ironic thing about that is the same women that TBS helps are probably being targeted by Nestle to use formula but for me personally, I would rather see sustainable communities being built and supported kwim? So I wouldn't stop buying TBS products, because if everyone stopped buying their products, it isn't Nestle you are hurting, it is those communities and sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture.
Nope, they never tested on animals. They test on people.
Some companies get around it by not testing on animals themselves but buying the research on the ingredients - that has been tested on animals which is by and large the same but they can still put the 'not tested on animals' badge on the technicality. TBS may have been caught up in that which is why things changed.
I'd also like to say that any sort of product from paper, pens etc were all sourced from companies with ethical practices as well.
In fact in recent years (I think it was the U.S) were going to change the laws to say that ALL cosmetics had to be tested on animals. TBS fought that strongly and were prepared to shut down all their US shops.
I used to work at there head office, and personnaly whislt they do a lot i saw so much waste and it seemed to me that after working there it was all a farce. so much paper wastage etc Didn't really seem to "live teh reuse recyle reduce" (LOL) thing at all. diffrent though they are really great with ingrediants etc.resturantsn and child are center a big plus though.
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