Get Thee to a Spa!!

It's getting into the holiday season when family will be popping in and out every week.  All the stress of changing sheets, making meals, and entertaining distant cheek-pinching aunts can cause some stress.  Don't let it show - get thee to a spa!

Organicare debuted in eight spas nationwide this past month.  Check one of them out to combat the holiday stress lines.

Spa Nordstrom: 

Dallas, Texas (Galleria)

Scottsdale, Arizona (Fashion Square)

San Francisco, California (San Francisco Centre)

Canoga Park, California (Topanga)

Atlanta Georgia (Perimeter)

Houston, Texas (Galleria)

Seattle, Washington (Downtown Seattle)

Now, get yourself to one of the fabulous Organicare spa locations so your skin doesn't look like the turkey's!

Halloween Horrors: carcinogens in your shampoo?!

In the spirit of Halloween, Organicare is going to scare your socks off.  

Check this website for the hazard level of your current beauty products.

http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/index.php

This website has a list of carcinogens used in everyday products.

http://100777.com/node/1117

Now for your reassurance:  Organicare uses ingredients like oranges, vanilla, coconut, lavender, cocoa, açai, milk ... all easily pronounced (some with a little help: açai is pronounced ahh-sigh-eee).  Now you know what you could be putting ON your body can be as healthy as what you put in it.

Happy Halloween!

The Eco-Chic Box

We've said it a million times ... our packaging not only chic, 

it's ECO-chic!

We've gotten rave reviews about the goodies inside our boxes and now even the boxes themselves are being recognized!!  Industry leaders are reporting our packaging as some of the most inventive and environmentally-friendly on the market today.  

Organicare teamed with Willoughby Design to create our gorgeous and earth-friendly packaging and the partnership was a great success!  "Willoughby designed the Organicare packaging to be sophisticated, fashionable and serious while, at the same time, staying true to the product’s unique earth-responsible mission," Packagings of the World's blogger Samantha commented.

Our packaging is produced in a facility that uses only renewable resources such as wind and hydro-power.  The paper used for our boxes is 80% post-consumer recycled material and remaining 20% is obtained from responsibly managed forests.  Organicare ensured that our facility vowed to be carbon neutral (for each tree consumed, another is planted) -- but we took it a step further.  Organicare plans to become carbon POSITIVE in 2009.

We'll keep you posted on more news of our ECO-CHIC boxes!

To read the full write-up on Packagings of the World blog, click here:

http://packagingsoftheworld.blogspot.com/2008/10/organicare-packaging.html

Organic "Cheaters" Taken to Court!

This week marks an important week for all green skincare junkies.  Dr. Bronner's

Magic Soaps filed a claim against organic "cheater" brands this past March claiming that their labels mislead consumers.  Dr. Bronner's took the case to court in California on October 8th and the court granted permission to proceed with the case.

"Culprit brands include Avalon "Organics", Jason "Pure, Natural & Organic", Nature's Gate "Organics", Kiss My Face "Obsessively Organic", Giovanni "Organic Cosmetics", Head "Organics", Desert Essence "Organics" and Stella McCartney's CARE "100% Organic".  The culprit certifiers are OASIS and Ecocert; Estee Lauder is also a defendant due to its expressed intent to enter the market under its Aveda brand with misleading OASIS certified "organic" products." --Organic Consumers Association

Yesterday, October 16th, the first two companies, Ikove and Juice Beauty, decided to settle with Dr. Bronner's and avoid litigation.

Many of the other brands have vowed to become fully organic by 2010.  Too bad we beat them to it!

For more information, please visit:  http://www.organicconsumers.org/bodycare/index.cfm

Bendel's Round Two

As previously mentioned, due to our outstanding first week at Henri Bendel, Organicare will return for another week to host a special event at Bendel's on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Visit Organicare from 10/20-10/26 on the cosmetics floor to hear about our latest news and future events, to buy product, and score some samples of our stellar daily vitamin moisturizer and firming eye serum.

A Big Day for the Organicare Team !

There was no shortage of energy and good thoughts today for Organicare.  Not only did Daily Candy: Dallas write about the line, but October 1 also marked the first day Organicare retailed in Dillard's AND through our website. 

Thanks to everyone who helped us through the day!     "Are YOU using anything organic?"