Totally excited! Went to ROSS yesterday and came across an interesting item. ABRA-Therapeutic baths-cellular detox bath. It was at a discount of $5.99. The item seemed really intriguing to me. I looked at it for a few minutes. Organic Herbal Formula!, enriched with vitamins! Made in USA! No Animal Testing! Nothing artificial! Ok, I had to try this. I was curious about this "cellular detox bath", so I investigated online. Lo and behold, found great reviews about this stuff. Supposedly helps eliminate the toxins on your skin from smog and other impuritans in the air etc and causes your skin to feel really good, smooth, clean etc. I am really excited to try this stuff now! I will definitely have to update my experience when I do in a few days!
Edit: Looks like I am going to have to wait until I have a bigger/better bath tub to get the full effects
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Ending the ignorance: the beginning of ethical and economical consumership
Many, many years ago, I had read an article that talked about the cultivation of cocoa beans around the world. I still remember feeling quite uneasy as I read about how many major chocolate manufacturers used cocoa beans that were cultivated by slaves on African soil. I started to realize right then how slavery has not gone away. http://www.organicconsumers.org/fair_trade/slavechocolate060414.cfm
"Sweat shops" are no secret. We know full well that products made in most underdeveloped countries are made in factories where there is no way of verifying fair labor practices and in most cases there is nothing fair about the production of these products. We know in the back of our minds the bleak and dark reality of what "made in China" really means. The very real possibility that these products are made at the hands of workers who are possibly even children who have spent all day, making pennies on the hour with no regulation or protection.
A huge transformation happened in my thinking a few years back when I wrote a paper in my U.S. history course. I was asked, "Now that you understand the harsh reality of the industrial revolution in the Northern states, which do you think is worse, the extreme conditions of the factories where immigrants were taken advantage of and made little money and worked in factories where conditions were bad enough to make people ill etc. or slavery?"
The point of this paper was to really consider how the industrial revolution and the "north" weren't as innocent as they may seem at first glace of U.S. history. I decided they were both very wrong. Yet, I felt an uneasiness about writing how bad this all was when I knew in my heart that these things were still going on today and as a typical consumer I supported it. Convenience and affordability are more important that the ethics of how the product is produced. I realized, nothing has changed. Just because these things aren't happening on US soil (legally) doesn't make it obsolete.
I knew at that time, things had to change for me in how I purchase my products. I also knew it is such bold and different task that it couldn't just happen right away..........
"Sweat shops" are no secret. We know full well that products made in most underdeveloped countries are made in factories where there is no way of verifying fair labor practices and in most cases there is nothing fair about the production of these products. We know in the back of our minds the bleak and dark reality of what "made in China" really means. The very real possibility that these products are made at the hands of workers who are possibly even children who have spent all day, making pennies on the hour with no regulation or protection.
A huge transformation happened in my thinking a few years back when I wrote a paper in my U.S. history course. I was asked, "Now that you understand the harsh reality of the industrial revolution in the Northern states, which do you think is worse, the extreme conditions of the factories where immigrants were taken advantage of and made little money and worked in factories where conditions were bad enough to make people ill etc. or slavery?"
The point of this paper was to really consider how the industrial revolution and the "north" weren't as innocent as they may seem at first glace of U.S. history. I decided they were both very wrong. Yet, I felt an uneasiness about writing how bad this all was when I knew in my heart that these things were still going on today and as a typical consumer I supported it. Convenience and affordability are more important that the ethics of how the product is produced. I realized, nothing has changed. Just because these things aren't happening on US soil (legally) doesn't make it obsolete.
I knew at that time, things had to change for me in how I purchase my products. I also knew it is such bold and different task that it couldn't just happen right away..........
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