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Congratulations to the winner krys!
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Today we have a fantastic giveaway from The Body Shop - a gift basket filled with 9 of their best selling products!
1. Peppermint Foot Soak (for the day after the wedding), 2. Satsuma Shower Gel, 3. Vitamin E Eye Cream, 4. Cocoa Body Butter, 5. Hi Shine Lip Treatment, 6. Shea Body Scrub, 7. White Musk Perfume, 8. Peppermint Foot Lotion, 9. Shimmer Cubes (X2, different shades)
The Body Shop has always been recognized for their natural inspired and ethically produced beauty products. They run their business on five main values: Protect the Planet, Support Community Trade, Against Animal Testing, Defend Human Rights, and Activate Self Esteem.
To enter this contest, please tell us what you’ve done (or plan to do) to support any of these five values. You have until 12pm EST Friday to enter. Good luck! 
I love the Body Shop, such great products.
To protect the planet we plan to have both ceremony and reception at the same location (less traveling). We used tree-free paper and postcard rsvp for our invitations and will use only seasonal flowers for the bouquet and seasonal food. No flower centerpieces but again something seasonal that we can pick up in the forest and bring back after the wedding.
To support community trade we are avoiding big companies and working with a local organic brewery for the beer.
To protect the planet, we’re giving our guests reusable grocery bags from Whole Foods, made from recycled material. We hope the guests will nix the plastic bags, and use the recycled totes instead!
Protect the Planet - we use re-usable grocery bags, carpool, recycle, re-purpose items in our home instead of buying new items, etc.
These products sound great. I recycle cans, bottles, and paper. I try to do my part to make our planet a better place to live.
I try to activate self esteem every day that I’m at work. I’m a teacher, so I find that that is one of the most important things for my kids.
As for our wedding, we are using a company that uses sustainable seafood, local and organic produce, and is very adament about protecting the environment in all of their work.
We are also supporting community trade through our beers by using locally brewed beer.
Protect the planet: I used cute reusable shopping bags as the gift bags for my bridesmaids. If we do OOT bags, we’ll be using reusable bags as well.
In our daily lives we compost regularly and use reusable shopping bags. When we get plastic bags we take them back and recycle them.
For our wedding we’re purchasing as much as we can locally including our DIY bouquet and groom’s boutonnière. I’m buying flowers from the farmer’s market.
We also have a wedding rule: if we can’t reuse it we’re not buying it! Our Thank You cards are left over stationary from our RSVP postcards, our card box is going to be used as a planter, etc.
Those are a few things we do to do our part.
I’m an engineer and I mentor 8th grade girls who are intersted in math and science, which helps self esteem.
It’s quite simple. Think about what you actually need, and don’t be wasteful. We’re not doing anything in the wedding that would create more “trash.” No tangible favors - edible ones are the best anyway! No save the date magnets - just email. Etc.
Ooh, I love it! I do not purchase any products from companies that test on animals. I also work for an environmentally sustainable company so I help drive ways we can better protect the planet every day.
Protect the planet - we use as much locally farmed/raised/grown stuff as we can get our hands on, use those awesome cloth grocery bags, reuse or recycle when we can. It sounds silly, but I also compliment at least three people every single day - promote self esteem, woot!
I use reusable shopping bags for all my shopping. I recycle & I will not buy products that have been tested on animals.
To protect the planet we bought bus passes for our guests that wanted to try out our city’s fabulous public transportation.
Our wedding planning is centered on protecting the planet! Our venue will use foods from local farmers and our main dish is vegitarian!
My fiance and I share 1 car and use it as little as possible by walking, biking, and taking the train. We also are using reusable shopping bags for our oot bags. Rehearsal dinner is walking distance from our hotels and the ceremony and reception are in the same location.
I installed the curly low-energy light bulbs (whose name is escaping me right now) in my house and am a loyal recycler.
Protecting the planet: We recyle anything we can, both at work (which is hard to do in a research lab) and at home. For our wedding favors we gave away wildflower seeds. I make a conscious effort to never buy cosmetics or similair products tested on animals for myself or as gifts.
I’ve been a vegetarian for the past 5 years which ultimately helps animals as well as the planet. I’m using recycled paper for my invitations and recycled bags for my bridesmaids bags.
I love Body Shop products!
To Protect the Planet I am actually making my own invitations from scratch using reycled paper, We are making plantable paper favors, and are having seasonal flowers.
To Support Community Trade we have found a local caterer who uses organic and local products.
In our OOT bags we are putting small bottles of shampoo and lip balm that don’t do animal testing. I am against animal testing as it is so this was important to me.
To defend human right we have decide to purchase our wedding bands from a jeweler that uses conflict-free diamonds and metals. The jeweler is also local.
To activate self esteem, I consciously make an effort to give at least one truly sincere compliment a day to someone I know or a stranger.
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