Fairtrade Beauty

Last week The Fairtrade Foundation announce the first beauty products to hold the FAIRTRADE Mark in the UK.

Currently, there are 57 products available from 5 different companies including Boots and Lush. With these companies paving the way, they are showing other companies how to make it easy for consumers to support Fairtrade workers with minimum effort and hopefully more will shortly follow suit.

Each product contains at least one Fairtrade certified ingredient. There are serveral natural products that could be sourced from Fairtrade producers, such as cocoa butter, brazil nut oil, honey and vanilla.  Click HERE for information regarding the minimum levels set for Fairtrade ingredients.

Cadburys commits to going Fairtrade

At last!  The news I’ve been waiting for! Cadburys have announced that they plan to achieve Fairtrade certification by the end of Summer 2009 fo their Cadbury’s Dairy Milk.  You can read all about it here, on the Fairtrade Foundation’s website.  This is such great news! Now I can grab a bar of chocolate when I fancy it without the associated guilt I usually feel because it isn’t Fairtrade!

Fairly Traded Jute – A Correction

Earlier this year, we were lucky enough to have had press coverage regarding our jute and cotton bags.

We would just like to point out there are currently no Fairtrade standards for jute and therefore no Fairtrade certified jute available on the market. Fairly traded jute products do exist however (produced in ethical working conditions) but these do not come under the Fairtrade system and they therefore cannot carry the FAIRTRADE Mark.

There are, however, products available that are made from Fairtrade certified cotton and which carry the FAIRTRADE Mark. It was not our intention to mislead anyone.

Click here to view our fairly traded jute and cotton bags.