Best face forward
Since I’ve become totally disillusioned by The Body Shop’s products — and a lil bewildered by the bizzare ways its sale to L’Oreal is affecting the fair trade movement — I’m putting a new, healthier face forward.
Now this whole process took me a while, cuz I decided to finish off my old stuff before moving on to the new ones. Below: My before and after products, each with a report from EWG (Environmental Working Group) rating its safety from 0 (low concern) to 5 (high concern).
Before: The Body Shop Vitamin E Facial Day Lotion with SPF 15: Score 3.9 :(
After: Avalon Organics Vitamin C Moisture Plus Lotion with SPF 15: Score 1.4 :)
Before: The Body Shop Vitamin E Moisture Cream: Score 3.8 :(
After: Avalon Organics Daily Moisturiser, Lavender: Score 1.6 :)
Before: The Body Shop’s facial wash: Score 3.1 :(
After: Avalon Organics Facial Cleansing Gel: Score 1.7 :)
Before: Body Shop Vitamin E Eye Cream: Score 2.8 :(
After: Aubrey Lumessence rejuvenating eye creme: Score 0.5
I got everything at Co-opportunity, now just a short bike ride from my place –
I loooooove Avalon Organics. You might want to also check out Nature’s Gate Organics products as well - their mandarin orange & patchouli shampoo and conditioner are absolutely to DIE for…and no parabens or SLS…and people will ask to smell your hair (if you’re into that)
:)
Comment by Macrogal — May 31, 2006 @ 8:47 pm
I am really interested in this topic, but I can’t get any(!) results (even for the products you checked) - how did you do it???
and how come the over-all score is e.g. for your “The Body Shop Vitamin E Facial Day Lotion with SPF 15″ is 3.9, when the worst ingredient-score is 1,8???
Comment by Gernot — June 1, 2006 @ 3:01 am
P.S: I have to be precise - I do get results for the Avalon products, but non for Body Shop products…
(and just yesterday, my girlfriend got a new “Love Your Body”-card…)
Comment by Gernot — June 1, 2006 @ 6:38 am
Hey Gernot — The links are working for me, for both the Avalon and Body Shop products… The reports for the Body Shop are marked as “draft product reports” on the site — maybe that’s the problem?
Macrogal — I’m still working on finishing off my old shampooo & conditioner from the Body Shop, but I’ll def. check out Nature’s Gate once I’m done –
Comment by Siel — June 1, 2006 @ 10:18 am