The Good, The Bad: Ugly Cosmetics Companies

Good Companies

Tom's of Maine
Burt’s Bees
Alba
Jason Natural Organics
Avalon Organics
Kiss My Face
Origins Organics
Yes To Carrots
Physician’s formula
Whole Foods 365
Weleda
Dr. Haushka
Jurlique
Juice Beauty
Eve Organics
Dr. Bronner’s
California Baby
Avalon
Nature's Gate
Lily of the Dessert
Dessert Essence
Boscia
Doll Face
Lavera
Tarte
PlantLoveBotanical
by Cargo
NVEY Eco Organic
Lavanila
Yu-Be
Pacifica
Josie Moran
L’Occtaine

Bad Companies

MAC
Maybelline
Cover Girl
L’Oreal
Max-Factor
Revlon
Avon
Elizabeth Arden
Laura Mercier
Stella
Sally Hansen
NARS
Neutrogena
Lorac
Jane Iredale
The Body Shop
Too Faced
Dove
Johnson and Johnson
Lancôme
Clinique
Aveda
Garnier Fructise
Herbal Essences
Dial
Almay
Bare Minerals
Rimmel
Wet N’ Wild
OPI
Essie
Yves Saint Laurent
Channel

Tips for Greening Your Life

· Reuse your towels: your body is clean after showering, so there’s no need to use a different towel each time.

· Don’t use paper towels to dry your hands: keep a small hand-towel in your bathroom to cut down on wasting paper towels.

· Turn off the faucet when brushing your teeth or similar activities: you can waste up to 3 gallons of water in a minute!

· Use waxed dental floss for sewing: the coating will make it less prone to ripping and gives it an extra use.

· Wait until you have a full load to do laundry to save water.

· Unplug your phone charger when it is not in use: chargers that are plugged in tend to use energy even when not connected to your phone.

· Buy reusable bags for shopping: if you do have plastic bags, use them for trash or recyclables.
· Buy a mug or water bottle: this will cut down on using lots of unnecessary plastic.

· To relieve menstrual cramps: drink chamomile or spearmint hot teas. Taking meds like Pamprin or Midol only supports major pharmaceuticals that use ingredients found only in remote areas of the world like rainforests that also seeks to literally make money off of women’s pain.

Feminism and Vegetarianism

Amy's table at the expo focused on the links between feminism and vegetarianism - here are some major points taken from:

T“The Sexual Politics of Meat: A feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol Adams

“Patriarchal text of meat”

§       social, political, economic, linguistic context that animal flesh is associated with woman and flesh eating is associated with maleness

§       flesh eating = power

§       power = male

 

o      The image of the “Cattle Queen” exemplifies how women are objectified and tangentially how animal bodies are used in the narrative of human life.

o      How meat becomes political:

§       Animals become “absent referents” when the become “meat”

·      Literally because they are dead

·      Linguistically because they are no longer cows, chicken, pigs, sheep or even animals to become “beef”, “pork”, “poultry”, “mutton” (meat). Physical process of butchering animals is represented in language through objectification and fragmentation.

·      Metaphorically when used to describe our (human) experiences through appropriation of theirs (animal experiences)

o      The cycle of objectification, fragmentation, and consumption (47)

§       Objectification permits the oppressor to view another being as an object

§       The oppressor then violates this being by object-like treatment eg. The rape of women that denies women freedom by saying no or the butchering of animals from living breathing beings into dead objects

§       This process allows fragmentation, or brutal dismemberment, and finally consumption (visual consumption of women in media)