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Superdrug’s New ‘Simply Pure’ Vegan-friendly Skincare Range

Adele — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:28:11 +0000

Superdrug launch brand new vegan-friendly skincare range priced at £2.49 each

The Simply Pure range has been developed to be mild, gentle, fragrance free and hypoallergenic, but even better it is also suitable for use by vegetarians and vegans

The whole line has been dermatologically tested and carrys the BUAV leaping bunny symbol

The highstreet brand has introduced a light moisturiser, face cream, cleansing facemask, toner and eyemake up remover; each one vegan-friendly and pocket-friendly

www.superdrug.com

Top iPhone applications for vegetarians and vegans

Adele — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:38:04 +0000

Weekly top iPhone apps: vegetarians and vegans

Relaxnews

This selection of applications will help people on strict vegetarian or vegan diets find and make delicious food.

VeganYumYum Mobile
VeganYumYum Mobile is a recipe finder for vegans. Based on the popular food blog of the same name, VeganYumYum lets users search for tasty recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts and snacks. The recipes come complete with step-by-step picture guides and beautiful food photography. There is also a handy checklist that can be used like a shopping list for ingredients. Users can save their most used recipes into the favorites menu and access the application offline.
Price: free
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/veganyumyum-mobile/id294390088?mt=8

VegOut – Vegetarian Restaurant Guide
VegOut is a location-based vegetarian restaurant guide. The application makes it easier to find restaurants that serve vegan, vegetarian and vegetarian-friendly dishes. VegOut can be configured to search for restaurants located in your vicinity or can be used to find good places to eat in a defined area (helpful if you are planning a trip overseas or outside of your city). The listings are sourced from HappyCow.net and come with crowd sourced reviews.
Price: $2.99
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vegout-vegetarian-restaurant/id301275521?mt=8

VeganXpress – Menu & Shopping Assistance
VeganXpress is a very helpful application for vegans or vegetarians that find themselves in popular chain restaurants and fast food places with non-vegan/vegetarian menus. The application provides information about which items on the menu can be eaten by vegans. There are hundreds of menu items from over 110 popular restaurants that are actually suitable for the vegan diet and this application will help you find them quickly and easily. The app also includes a full list of common beers, wines, snacks and junk foods – many of which you might be surprised to find are compatible with the vegan or vegetarian diet.
Price: $1.99
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/veganxpress-menu-shopping/id307591991?mt=8

BNB
BNB (Be Nice to Bunnies!) is an app that will help you find cruelty-free products from the supermarket to the beauty counter. The application provides a list of companies that do and don’t test their products on animals as well as information about whether the product can be used by vegans. Users can search by product name, product category, or company name.
Price:$1.99
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bnb/id313784933?mt=8

Vegetarian Scanner
Vegetarian Scanner is a barcode scanner for people wanting to find out more about the additives found in common foods. Users take a photo of the ingredient list found on the food label to find out if the additives contain animal products or not. For iPod touch users without a camera, the food additive numbers can be manually entered into the app or found using the search feature. The application is only compatible with information derived from “E-numbers” – a food labeling system used within the European Union, Australia and New Zealand.
Price: $1.99
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vegetarian-scanner/id364894008?mt=8

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A Little Fun for Star Wars Fans: Han Solo In Your Soap! and it’s Vegan too! :)

Adele — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:07:16 +0000

As a big Star Wars fan AND a vegan, I LOVE this!!!! I wish someone in the UK could make it too!

Han Solo In Your Soap! Who knew carbonite could be so cleansing?

Holy Skywalker Ranch, is that Han Solo frozen in carbonite?

Yes, yes it is. For just $6.50, Luxury Lane Soap is offering one of the very first Harrison Fords you can rub all over your body without feeling dirty, or at least very dirty. Okay, you might feel dirty. But you will be physically clean!

This 100 percent fragrance-free soap is made with just four, healthy, vegan ingredients: pure olive oil, shea butter and aloe vera and some skin-safe pigments to make it look awesome, which it does.

“Each soap is hand poured and then detailed with pure, skin safe matte and metallic pigments. These are made one at a time with a LOT of love..” says the website.

The truly nerdy can even request an “Aurebesh” label, to make it as though Jabba himself gifted you.

Though currently sold out, you can sign up to be among the first to be notified when these 5 oz, 4.2″ x 2.25″ soaps are back in stock.

Sign up here: http://luxurylanesoap.bigcartel.com/product/solo-soap

You can also get Star Wars and Fight Club soap.

Compiled by EVOLVE! Campaigns – http://www.evolvecampaigns.org.uk

Source: http://www.tonic.com/article/smile-file-han-solo-in-your-soap/

Leaping Bunny’s: ‘Take the Leap’ pledge and Cruelty-Free Guide

Adele — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:48:03 +0000

Make a commitment to eliminate animal testing by pledging to only purchase products approved by the Leaping Bunny Program, which provides the best assurance that no new animal testing is used in any phase of product development by the company, its laboratories, or suppliers.

The Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics’ (CCIC) Leaping Bunny Program administers a cruelty-free standard and the internationally recognized Leaping Bunny Logo for companies producing cosmetic, personal care, and household products.

To encourage more companies to sign on to the Leaping Bunny Program, they have launched a nation-wide pledge campaign to urge consumers to take the leap to cruelty-free products. By signing the pledge you will help to make our collective voices even stronger and drive more companies to go cruelty-free, saving animals from cruel and unnecessary testing. After adding your signature, you will receive an exclusive link to purchase I Took The Leap merchandise!

CLICK HERE FOR CRUELTY-FREE SHOPPING GUIDE

March Mania – Weekend Spree

Adele — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:24:19 +0000

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You can make enquiries as regards to what products are vegan – we have been informed many of their products are, we just don’t know which ones!

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Special Half Price Offer with FREE Draw to WIN Jewellery worth $150 plus FREE CD by Maria Daines

Adele — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:16:01 +0000

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CRED Celebrates the launch of Fairtrade and Fairminded Gold Standards

Adele — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:35:34 +0000

Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International (FLO) and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) have announced the long-awaited launch of the first international independent third-party certification for gold production. The new Fairtrade and Fairmined standards will mean that millions of impoverished artisanal small-scale miners around the world will be able to receive independent certification and recognition for their efforts, bringing economic security to millions of families and their communities around the world.

CRED have long recognised the value in knowing exactly where their gold comes from, the way it was mined and all the hands it has passed through. Along with their mining partners Oro Verde™ they have championed the cause of the artisanal miner and the Fair Trade approach that seeks to put control back in the hands of the producer and pay a Fair Price for their work

CRED are founder members of ARM, and CRED Founder Greg Valerio has been instrumental in seeing this new standard completed, working closely with FLO, ARM and all other parties involved. They are delighted for him and for everyone involved, and look forward to the great benefits this standard will bring to the mining communities that form ARM, and the many more around the world that will be brought in. Fairtrade and Fairmined gold will guarantee a minimum price, creating security for producing communities. It will include a 10% Social Premium that will support the education and development of entire communities, and a further 5% Ecological Premium will be payable to miners that extract gold without the use of chemicals. Miners like CRED partners and ecological champions Oro Verde™.

Oro Verde™ have been producing independently-certified artisanal gold for over 7 years. They have worked hard to develop gold production that uses no chemicals, protects the environment and supports the continual development of producing communities. Oro Verde’s model was the inspiration and prototype used to produce the Fairtrade and Fairmined standard. As such Oro Verde™ will be first in line to be certified.

CRED continue to produce truly ethical jewellery in Oro Verde™ Fair Trade gold. The Eden Wedding Rings and the sumptuous Penelope Collection by Annabel Panes are the latest examples of CRED’s pioneering journey towards excellence in design and ethics. With CRED and Oro Verde you can buy with confidence knowing that our jewellery is the fairest attainable.

Prices:

Wedding bands start from £200.00

Forget-me-Knot Dropstone Earring – £1,250

www.credjewellery.com

Special Half Price Offer with FREE Draw to WIN Jewellery worth $150 plus FREE CD by Maria Daines

Adele — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:12:31 +0000

VERY SPECIAL OFFER FOR READERS AND ETHICAL BUSINESSES

3 ISSUES HALF PRICE

+ FREE Maria Daines Music United for Animals CD

+ FREE Make Up Samples

+ WIN Jewellery set of your choice worth up to $150 thanks to beautifulthingsbyaeva.com !

Winner will be drawn once we have a minumum of 25 purchases at the end of March

COST

UK 3 Mags £6.25 (+£1 p&p) using promo code: lovedelly

US & rest of the world 3 Mags £9 (+£2 p&p) using promo code: dellyworld

To buy go to subscriptions click on 3 Issues and put in the relevant code

BUY AN ADVERT 1/12 PAGE FOR JUST £25 !

+ promotion throughout myspace/facebook

+ entered into draw to win jewellery set

Contact: adele@lifescapemag.com if interested in this offer or have any other questions

Superdrug Becomes BUAV Approved

Adele — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:01:57 +0000

The BUAV is delighted that the high street giant Superdrug has become BUAV approved as an animal testing free cosmetics and toiletries retailer under the BUAV’s internationally recognised Humane Cosmetic Standard (HCS). It joins a host of other companies including Marks and Spencer, The Co-op and Argos

Superdrug’s entire own brand toiletries product range now carries the globally recognised leaping bunny logo. With over 900 stores in the UK, ethical shoppers will be able to purchase typically hard to find cruelty-free products such as hair dye, sun screen and shaving products. The logo guarantees that no animal testing has occurred in any part of the product’s manufacturing process

Michelle Thew, BUAV Chief Executive said: “We are delighted that Superdrug has taken this important step to become BUAV Approved and congratulate it for doing so. I am now calling on other high street retailers to follow suit and clear all animal tested products from the shelves once and for all.”

For more information about buying cruelty-free and products available to buy online, see:

www.gocrueltyfree.org
www.uncaged.co.uk/crueltyfree.htm
www.naturewatch.org”
www.animalaidshop.org.uk/cosmetics.htm
www.honestycosmetics.co.uk
www.thenaturalstore.co.uk

Compiled by EVOLVE! Campaigns – www.evolvecampaigns.org.uk

Argos is the first catalogue to become BUAV Approved

Adele — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:53:47 +0000

The BUAV is delighted to announce that Argos, the UK’s leading general merchandise retailer, has joined other major high street retailers such as Marks and Spencers and been approved under the BUAV’s internationally recognised Humane Cosmetics Standard (HCS), for not testing its products on animals.

Argos, the multi-channel retailer, sells general merchandise and products for the home from over 700 stores and the internet throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland. Argos’ own brand make-up and cosmetic product range is approved under the BUAV scheme and the globally recognised Leaping Bunny Logo now appears on the company’s website and in its catalogue.

BUAV Chief Executive, Michelle Thew said: “We are delighted that high street giants such as Argos are responding to the growing consumer concern over cruelly animal tested cosmetics and toiletries. We applaud Argos, the first catalogue company to be approved by us, for taking this step to prove its cruelty-free retailer status. The BUAV’s Leaping Bunny Logo is the absolute gold standard in cruelty-free products.”

Maria Thompson, Commercial Director, Home Retail Group said “We offer clear information and products to customers to help them make responsible choices. We are very pleased to be able to promote our own brand make-up and cosmetic range which meets the internationally accepted guarantee of cruelty free products”

The BUAV and the Humane Cosmetics Standard (HCS)

The BUAV is the UK’s leading organisation peacefully campaigning to end cosmetics testing on animals across the world. The BUAV operates the Humane Cosmetics Standard (HCS), symbolised by the globally recognised ‘Rabbit and Stars’ (‘Leaping Bunny’) Logo. The HCS was developed in 1996 by a group of animal protection organisations from across Europe and North America, including the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE) and the Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics (CCIC).

What is the HCS?

The HCS is the only internationally recognised scheme that enables consumers to easily identify and purchase cosmetic and toiletry products that have not been tested on animals.

Companies sign up to the HCS to demonstrate that animal testing has been entirely removed from their products and ingredients.

Related links:

EVOLVE! Campaigns

http://gocrueltyfree.org

http://www.buav.org

http://www.uncaged.co.uk

http://www.naturewatch.org

http://www.britches.org.uk