Thymes Gives To You & Your Charity

Since the holidays are all about giving, Thymes is inspiring customers to live their lives more thoughtfully. The Thymes “Give & Get” contest allows you to tell the world about your favorite charity by sharing a brief essay about what they do, who they help and why they mean so much to you.

If your charity essay is voted most popular by readers, that charity will win a $500 donation in your name. In addition, you will receive a Thymes gift basket of a $100 product value, in a fragrance of your choice. Three runners-up will each win a $50 gift card to Thymes.com.

L'Occitane + You: Helping Women in Burkina Faso

L’OCCITANE is proud to announce their inaugural Fundraising Walk for the L’OCCITANE Foundation. With the goal of raising funds for the economic emancipation of women in Burkina Faso, L’OCCITANE’s team will join together for a 3.5 mile journey through Manhattan on April 27th, 2012, and they need you to help raise awareness and funds for this great cause.

Energized by L’OCCITANE’s philanthropic tradition and longstanding commitment to social responsibility, over 150 L’OCCITANE employees will fundraise throughout April with the goal of building a grain mill in Burkina Faso. The addition of this mill will alleviate the daily 10-mile walk made by women in Burkina Faso to feed themselves and their families. To raise awareness for this cause, the walk will kickoff at the 86th Street Heritage L’OCCITANE Boutique where participants will don bright yellow t-shirts and give out hand creams as they stride down 5th Avenue, ending with a celebration at the Flatiron Flagship. L’OCCITANE’s continued support of the Foundation has totaled 5 million dollars over the last 5 years!

Help L’Occitane is taking to raise funds for the women in Burkina Faso: Snag some of your favorite L’Occitane products online with the code FOUNDATION from April 20th - April 30th and 15% of your purchase will help build the grain mill in Burkina Faso.

Shawls to Give & Receive

Help empower the women of Afghanistan and look amazing!
Afghani widows make beautiful shawls and scarves for Afghan Hands, get an education and a decent wage, and you will be a better person for shopping. It's a win-win!
Check out some of my favorites:
 

Smell great to fight cancer!

Fall fashion color trends change from year-to-year, but one shade that’s always in season for October is pink! Lisa Hoffman Beauty, a collection of fragrance inspired by Lisa's international travels with her husband Dustin Hoffman, is proud to donate 100% of proceeds from the Tunisian Neroli 4-Vial Varation collection to benefit the National Breast Cancer Coalition. This year – give back in a beautiful way with Lisa Hoffman Beauty!

Lisa Hoffman Beauty Variations® pulse point oils: This unique fragrance concept features four pulse point oil variants of a single fragrance in a portable and chic leather wallet. This amazing set will also make a fantastic gift!

About the National Breast Cancer Coalition: As a network of hundreds of groups and tens of thousands of individuals, NBCC speaks for women.  We’re not afraid to rock the boat. We believe scientists must get the funding they need for meaningful breast cancer research. We believe everyone must have access to quality care. We believe trained, educated advocates must have a voice everywhere breast cancer decisions are made. And we believe with Breast Cancer Deadline 2020® we can end breast cancer by January 1, 2020.

The Cutest Soaps help save sight!

Discover the new fund-raising soaps from L’OCCITANE!
Launched October 12th, 100% of the proceeds from sales of the Get on Board for Sight Limited Edition Soaps ($6 each) will support ORBIS,an NGO committed to ending preventable blindness.

Inspired by the ORBIS plane, also known as the Flying Hospital, these limited-edition charitable soaps from L’OCCITANE are crafted in the shape of a plane wearing glasses. Enriched with nourishing shea butter, they leave hands soft and delicately perfumed. Available in Pink (floral and fruity) and Blue (verbena), 100% of the proceeds from sales will allow ORBIS to launch a large-scale project in Burkina Faso, Africa. This country is very special to L’OCCITANE as the company has been working with women’s cooperatives to source Shea Butter since the 1980s

Trish McEvoy 'Be Prepared' Pink Kit

EIGHT lip colors in a clever little magnetic case!

Top Deck: Tropical Pink Lip Gloss, Babydoll Lip Gloss, Rosette Lip Gloss, Sparkling Pink Lip Color.

Bottom Deck: Bare Lip Color, Buff Lip Color, Sugared Pink Lip Color, Sexy Lip Gloss.

You can mush them all together, rearrange, and there is even a mirror!

My caveat: The magnets that hold the little pans in the container are not the strongest thing on earth, it is possible to flip a pan out-- so don't use while driving or in the movie theater or in a big important meeting, even if you are ever-so discreet about it during said meeting...

The colors are all great & mix well!

Average staying power for gloss, much better for the non-gloss.

I have this in my purse-- it works great with other lip sticks as well!

Heart Health Month! Heart Disease is the #1 Killer of Women!

February is Heart Health Month!!!

Your heart is important--take care of it, for goodness sake!

Being healthy contributes immensely to being beautiful, as well as to feeling beautiful, and it is the smart thing to do.

You know the drill: Eat right, Exercise (Hey, if I can work out, you certainly can!), get regular check-ups (dental, too). Spread the word & the good health! Don't waste all those anti-aging products by not growing old.

To that end, we are spotlighting some products that give back to the cause of Heart Health, and we will start reviewing exercise equipment.

Here are some wonderful products that will make you even lovelier inside & out:

-Perfumania's The Red Collection, a limited-edition fragrance collection. $5.00 from the sale of each The Red Collection will be donated to the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women movement.

-Bobbi Brown's limited-edition Lip Gloss Trio (in partnership with the Heart Truth campaign and its annual Red Dress Collection Fashion Show) The trio includes three of Bobbi’s favorite shades: Buff Lip Gloss, Pink Sugar Shimmer Lip Gloss, and Slopes Shimmer Lip Gloss (available exclusively in this set). Only 500 of these limited-edition palettes, which feature a specially designed package and the tagline “Listen to Your Heart,” will be available from www.bobbibrown.com for $40 each.

-Clairol Professional's branded Go Red For Women Clairol Professional products, colorists can contribute to the cause- twenty cents of each purchased product are donated to this charitable cause, contributing a total $140,000 donation. Also, pros should check out the “True Color From the Heart” contest this February.

Another reason to go natural!

Okay, so we love Beautorium, the online natural and organic beauty marketplace.
Now we love them even more!
For the month of September, Beautorium will be donating 10% of all proceeds from online sales to Stand Up For A Cure.
Stand Up For A Cure in conjunction with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating lung cancer through strategic partnerships with some of the finest medical institutions in the world. Stand Up for a Cure was founded to raise awareness and funding for lung cancer research, treatment and education through a series of benefit concerts.

Great Hair helps to stop cancer!!!

From a PureOlogy press release:
PureOlogy is excited to evolve its partnership with the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition (NOCC) as the organization's official haircare and styling partner. During September and October, PureOlogy will offer a Limited Edition Break the Silence Volume Booster promotion which includes PureVolume Shampoo, 10.1 Oz. and PureVolume Condition, 8.5 Oz. Also included is our complimentary, tortoise shell style brush with NOCC's signature teal color bristle pad. The box features information about the signs and symptoms of Ovarian Cancer to educate women about this disease.

"In conjunction with Limited Edition Break the Silence Volume Booster promotion, PureOlogy will donate $25,000 to the NOCC," explains Karen Fuss-Zipp, Senior Vice President of Marketing for PureOlogy. "PureOlogy and the NOCC will continue our year long campaign to facilitate a greater dialogue that will lead to earlier diagnosis, improved survival rates and quality of life for women with ovarian cancer."

Throughout 2008, NOCC and PureOlogy will host 21 NOCC & PureOlogy's Walks to Break the Silence on Ovarian Cancer around the U.S. to help increase awareness of the work NOCC and PureOlogy are doing to educate women about the symptoms and risk factors for ovarian cancer.
Help Break the Silence on ovarian cancer!

Fight gravity & cancer!

Mama Mio (http://www.mamamio.com/) has developed a lil'something to lift the sag!

Oh yes, Boob tube! No, I'm serious. They have also come out with a Boot Camp for your boozies, as well one to firm up your butt.

Check out how they are donating proceeds to the Cancer Research Foundation & giving self-exam instructions starting this October.

Save lives & your chest!