October is Fair Trade Month!
I discovered the Fair Trade mission a few years back when buying tea. It became important to me to buy my Rooibos, a South African tea, Fair Trade certified. Doing this simple act of buying a certified tea, that I typically keep in stock, gives me such a good feeling knowing I am lending my support to empower South African women.
What is Fair Trade?
Fair Trade USA is the leading, non-profit, third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in North America. They certify transactions between U.S. companies and their international suppliers to ensure that fair trade farmers and workers are paid fair prices and wages.
This non-profit ensures that employees have safe working conditions and development funds to empower and uplift their communities. Fair Trade USA also helps to protect and support the environment by encouraging companies to maintain responsible and sustainable business practices.
The Fair Trade Impact!
- Protecting the environment – Farmers learn and implement environmentally sustainable practices.
- Building business – Workers are empowered to demand fair wages and treatment.
- Empowering women – Women are guaranteed healthcare, rights and freedom from harassment.
- Supporting education – Revenues are set aside to build schools.
- Fighting poverty – Farmers are given market-based tools to lift themselves out of poverty.
- Providing healthcare – Workers and their families gain access to doctors, medicine and proper nutrition.
The ONE WORLD organic lip balm line, features three, theme inspired balms. ONE WORLD is created and manufactured by Eco Lips, right here in the USA. Eco Lips fuses Fair Trade Certified Cocoa Butter with exotic, organic, essential oils, and other nourishing emollients. In support of Fair Trade month, we are giving away the FULL line of ONE WORLD balms to a winner!
Lemon Lavender – Soothing essential oils of the Mediterranean to calm and RELAX.Coconut Ginger – Tamanu oil, native to the south pacific is paired up perfectly with organic Coconut oil and Ginger to RESTORE dry, damaged lips.
Orange Spice – Organic Argan oil, Sweet Orange, Fennel seed and Cardamom are inviting scents of Morocco to RENEW and rejuvenate your lips.
The balms are packaged in large .25 oz tubes made from 40% recycled material. My personal favorite of the line is Coconut Ginger. What a heavenly scent!
This is a petroleum, cruelty-free balm and made with Non-GMO ingredients.
How Can You Support Fair Trade?
You can support Fair Trade month by purchasing Fair Trade certified products, after all, it’s a market-based approach to fighting poverty. You can also support Fair Trade month by entering into this giveaway and choosing the tweet option that contains the #FairTradeMonth hashtag. Tweet daily to increase your chances of winning! Use Facebook and Google+ to do the same.
Enter to Win!
Enter to win the full line of ONE WORLD balms by simply leaving a comment telling me which Fair trade impact means the most to you, your favorite Fair Trade certified ingredient or which ONE WORLD balm you’re most interested in trying. Choose to tweet, Facebook and Google+ this giveaway and more to increase your chances of winning! Please note – entries without correct, validating information will not be considered. This giveaway is open to US residents, 18+. This giveaway ends 11/1/12 midnight EST.
Disclosure & Disclaimer:
This giveaway is not affiliated or sponsored by Fair Trade USA. TheOliveParent provides contractual services to Integral Marketing, Inc. All all reviews and opinions of the products mentioned here is my own. Products were given to me free of charge for the purposes of a review and to sponsor a giveaway. Please read the Terms and Conditions on the Rafflecopter for further information.
The Lemon Lavender sounds amazing! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI would love to try lemon lavender. It sounds relaxing. for some reason at nights , my mouth gets dry the most, so with it be relaxing I would love to try. I do not know enough about fair trade to pin point a product I like. Fair trade means the workers or makers, got the right amount of money, and were not jipped out of anything. I hope that sounds right!
ReplyDeleteThe lemon Lavender sounds wonderful, I'd love to try that one. Thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteI love that Fair Trade gives people an opportunity to earn a living. Often, the internet can provide a marketplace that simply isn't there locally, but we can make sure we're not taking advantage!
ReplyDeleteI'm most interested in RENEW.
ReplyDeleteI would love to try the Orange Spice. The fair trade impact that means the most to me is that they protect the environment. Thanks so much for hosting this great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteEloise
furygirl3132[at]comcast[dot]net
Fighting poverty is why we buy fair trade, I love the fair trade cocoa butter. I would love the coconut ginger for my husband who has chronic dry lips!
ReplyDeleteI learned about Fair Trade recently when buying coffee at Whole Foods, now I try to be conscious about where my dollars are going and who they're hurting or helping.
ReplyDeleteI'd really like to try the Coconut Ginger! Thank you for the chance!
Which Fair Trade impact means the most to you?
ReplyDeleteThe fact that farmers are making livable wages!
What is your favorite Fair Trade Certified ingredient?
Cocoa!
Which ONE WORLD lip balm are you most interested in?
Coconut Ginger!
1. Liveable wages
ReplyDelete2.Cocoa
3.Lemon Lavender sounds the best.
I would enjoy the Restore (Coconut Ginger) flavor. Fair trade to me is being environmentally friendly and fair to workers. Also keeping the community in harmony.
ReplyDelete(Rafflecopter name:Richelle)
The lemon lavender sounds great!
ReplyDeleteBrandi beautifulbargains
Coconut Ginger is definately my kinda lip balm! Thanks for the giveaway news! :)
ReplyDeleteI'd like to try coconut ginger. Fair trade is great because it allows us a great product and helps people in their livelihood.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to try the Lemon Lavender.
ReplyDeletecoco nut Ginger
ReplyDeleteThe lemon Lavender
ReplyDeleteThe Fair Trade that means the most to me is-Empowering women – Women are guaranteed healthcare, rights and freedom from harassment
ReplyDeleteThe favorite ingredient- is nourishing emollient
I would most like to try-Orange Spice
It sounds like buying a Fair Trade item is very important so that the sellers are treated fair and humane.
ReplyDeleteFair Trade helps workers.
ReplyDeletejessicawedwards@gmail.com
The coconut ginger flavor sounds amazing!
ReplyDeletepetchk79@gmail.com
First I would like to try the Orange Spice the flavor sounds great. Fair trade to me means the workers are paid the right amount for there product and not take advantage of. Good example of this is coffee I know the farmers have a long way to go before everything is equal but at least with coffee it is a start.
ReplyDeleteI'm into fair trade chocolate from Africa!
ReplyDeleteJust started reading about fair trade chocolate- so can't wait to try that
ReplyDeletevickie
vmorgan456 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Lemon Lavender! Yum
ReplyDeleteThe coconut ginger sounds really nice. I think that would be my favorite.
ReplyDeleteLove fair trade.
Nice! Love organic products :)
ReplyDeleteI'd love to try Lemon Lavendar!
ReplyDeleteThis line sounds heavenly!
ReplyDelete1. fair wages
ReplyDelete2. coffee
3. Relax looks great.
Coconut ginger sounds awesome!
ReplyDeleteFair trade means everyone gets equal opportunity!
Mmm. Coconut Ginger! Yummy.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to try the Coconut ginger flavor :D
ReplyDeleteI am really interested in the Renew lip balm. I love orange spice (:
ReplyDeleteI think it is wonderful that the Fair Trade organization can help others support their own families when they might now have been able to otherwise. I think that the Lemon Lavender lip balm sounds wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI love that fair trade is empowering women. I would like to try orange spice.
ReplyDeleteI try to find products that say "fair trade." I would love to try the Orange Spice lip balm - yum!
ReplyDeleteThe fair trade impact that means the most to me is supporting education – Revenues are set aside to build schools.
ReplyDeleteJenny
always looking for eco-friendly products
ReplyDeleteThe coconut ginger - I suffer from dry skin so much@
ReplyDeleteI would love this. I am constantly putting on lip balm:)
ReplyDeleteI've sought out fair trade items ever since visiting a co-op of women in Central America that sells their products via fair trade organizations. The different projects that grew out of their weaving business are amazing. The families escaped poverty, the kids went to school instead of begging in the market- a common sight elsewhere in the town. Love to see companies like this one marketing fair trade products and I'd love to win :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your story!
DeleteEco Lips has recently reformulated more of their products to include Fair Trade Certified ingredients in order to support the movement even further.
Their Dagoba (organic chocolate)lip balms now include FTC Cocoa Butter! I will be giving away all three Dagoba lip balm flavors soon. :) Follow me on any of my social medias for the announcement!
Lemon Lavendar sounds lovely!
ReplyDeleteI like that fair trade helps to empower women.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite product is the essential oils and my favorite flavor is lemon lavender.
ReplyDeleteI would be interested in the Restore lip balm.
ReplyDeletejenswps at yahoo . com
Lemon Lavendar. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI think orange spice sounds awesome.
ReplyDeleteI would love to try Coconut Ginger!
ReplyDeleteLemon Lavender :0
ReplyDeleteCoconut ginger sounds great
ReplyDeleteI appreciate this! Fair trade is awesome!
ReplyDeleteLemon lavender sounds great.
ReplyDeleteActually, both products sound awesome. I would love to try either of them. I also like that fair trade helps to empower women.
ReplyDeletecoconut ginger, sounds tasty!
ReplyDeleteSupporting education! There is nothing more important than educating our future generations! No-GMO would be an ingredient that I am favorable that they don't include in their products! Coconut ginger sounds great!
ReplyDeleteI like that they protect the environment. Too many companies just care about the bottom line.
ReplyDeleteFighting poverty is so important. Eliminating poverty takes care of many of the other issues listed. Coconut ginger lip balm sounds fantastic.
ReplyDeleteCoconut Ginger sounds great, I love compainies that are fair trade.
ReplyDeleteLavender Lemon!!!!Yummy! I love the idea that others are given a chance to earn living wages with Fair Trade. I love that is is "fair". My favorite Fair Trade item is Coffee and Chocolate!
ReplyDeleteRafflecopter name:Mechele JOhnson
I'm most looking forward to the orange spice balm
ReplyDeleteCrazyweirdo33@yahoo.com
I would love to try Orange Spice
ReplyDeleteCynthia.Richardson@azbar.org