Lush cosmetics supports local rodent rescue

[adoptaratcanada]

(cross posted with permission of the author, from the Small Animal Rescue Society. She tells me this info is not on the Lush website yet: www.lush.ca It's an international company, www.lush.com, that makes vegetarian toiletries, with no animal testing)


Local to Vancouver, Canada. I wasn't sure if this is "news", but I wasn't sure where else to put it...


"I got a call from LUSH cosmetics yesterday....apparently this woman met one of our volunteers at the Fort wine event. Whoever that was - good job!

She took the information back with her and their charity committee has decided they would like to help us out.

They will be giving us $2000 PLUS (and this is the best part) - our logo and info about us will go onto their labels & packaging at 140 stores across the country. I think that is what she said....but they are also an international company with stores all over the world. www.lush.ca/about/

The info is here www.lush.ca/about/charity-pot/

How cool is that?? ;D They will be featured in all the stores.

And they do NOT test on animals nor do they use ingredients tested on animals - yay!!"

[Die Fledermaus]

Do you have any list of companies that still DO test on animals??

>> With the proceeds, LUSH donates to carefully selected charities around the world that support animal rights, environmental protection and humanitarian concerns. <<

Any specific groups they contribute to? Oh yea! There it is, right under that where it says "Our Partners". They seem reputable enough!

>> Help Us Find New Partners to Fund

If you know of an environmental, human rights or animal welfare group that might be a perfect fit for LUSH, email us at [e-mail]. <<

Anyone with ideas?

[adoptaratcanada]

Apr 23, 2009 21:20:02 GMT -4 Die Fledermaus said:

Do you have any list of companies that still DO test on animals??

www.caringconsumer.com/pdfs/companiesDoTest.doc or if you prefer a non-doc. file, you can check this page which is the same info: blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=20177590&blogId=403673276 or if you do a web search for "companies do test" it will bring up lots...most of them are copies from the PETA site.

Sadly, it's all the household names. It's tricky to avoid them, but I'm an avid label reader and rarely buy any of the big names, either I use stuff from the health store, or do the "old fashioned" products which work just as well as the nasty ones.

[Die Fledermaus]

I will get back to that when I have time and am less tired.

I will post names. . . or YOU could and save me the work! I just answered a long hamster question.

[adoptaratcanada]

Apr 23, 2009 22:49:06 GMT -4 Die Fledermaus said:

I will get back to that when I have time and am less tired.

I will post names. . . or YOU could and save me the work! I just answered a long hamster question.

Ok, once again, I wasn't sure if I could copy from another website ;D

[Die Fledermaus]

OK. I gotta go.

I will try that mice video with a SIXTH browser I just found. In a few minutes. Back tomorrow.

[Dezzi]

YAY SARS!!!! I'm a member (as is Andrea, she got me started) and I was SO excited when I saw that forum post. Last I heard they were still in the process of finalizing everything?

[Die Fledermaus]

Whatever became of Andrea?? One day she just vanished from here.

[Dezzi]

Honestly I'm not exactly sure, I haven't talked to her in awhile. She posts on the SARS forum, but it's usually to answer a question. I think she's been crazy busy, 'cuz she's not even on there very often.

[Die Fledermaus]

I guess that's it. She was very distracted last time I heard from her.

I wish her bunnies, and Whizz, the best. The dog's condition was another distraction for her. Whizz has a web site somewhere. I should try to find it.