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Still not sure what women want?  Or are you just trying to beat the last minute shopping panic?  The women from the GreenCupboards.com team are here to help! Take a look at our suggestions for your special lady.

Silky smooth skin

1. Burt’s Bees- Body Lotion

In the hustle and bustle of everyday activity some women put their basic needs on the backburner.  For dry hands that crack, flake or itch, provide the perfect therapy with Burt’s Bees Soothingly Sensitive Aloe Buttermilk Body Lotion.  This pack of three will keep her skin soft and fresh while providing her with soothing scents and the prefect balance of moisture.

Go flow in style

2. Hugger Mugger- Yoga Mat

The health of body, mind, and spirit are essential to a woman’s life.  Give her the gift of personal time with the Hugger Mugger Tapas Nature Collection Ultra Yoga Mat.  This no slip mat comes in tie-dye colors of Evergreen, Flame, and Ocean.

Create your own!

3. SodaStream

Try this hot new item for some kitchen fun!  Spend time with your sweetheart and spur the inner creative guru by experimenting with various flavors to make your own fizzy drink!

Bamboo to bring a room together

4. Anji Mountain- Bamboo Rug

Are you looking to spice up your home or bring the décor of a room together?  Check out our extensive supply of Anji Mountain bamboo rugs.  These rugs appeal to a woman with exquisite taste.  Create the ideal natural atmosphere to relax after a long day of work.

bath essentials

5. Alba Botanica- Sea Salt Body Scrub

Sometimes the best way to relieve stress is to lay back in a warm bath.  To heal cracked, stressed, or damaged skin give the woman in your life Sea Salt Body Scrub from Alba Botanica.  This scrub is just what a woman needs while she spends some time in the tub.

for cullinary lovers

6. TruBamboo- Cutting Boards

A woman who enjoys the culinary arts will love these bamboo Key West Cutting Boards.  Made from thin slats of bamboo these boards have a classic finish that makes them an eye catching companion, perfect to fulfill all slicing and dicing needs.

environmentally elegant

7. Sprout Watch

Using a non-traditional sustainable plastic made from corn, these watches are light weight and elegant. An upcoming trend this season, Sprout watches come in shades of black, lavender, and white.

eco-gloss

8. Lavera Lip Gloss
Made for sensitive skin, Lavera Lip Gloss is the perfect addition to any woman’s cosmetic bag.  This shimmery lip gloss provides sun protection by using organic extracts in order to provide lips with a balance of color and moisture.

9. Make Love Not Trash Tote

Is your lucky lady looking for a new handbag?  The Make Love Not Trash Tote is an environmentally friendly tote that is both decorative and conveniently sized.  The tote comes in the shades Midnight, Sand, and Sienna.

Peaceful aroma

10. Kiss My Face – Peace Soy Wax Candles

The Peace Soy Wax Candles from Kiss My Face are organic and made in the U.S.  With various soothing scents this candle is the perfect mood setter for a relaxing evening at home.

Happy Shopping!

Images:

http://dbagjournal.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/

http://www.greencupoards.com

The Hollywood PETA Pair

Why naked? You would have to ask the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). PETA has had many controversial campaigns, many of which are too extreme to show images of on this site, but PETA boast them on their site with “explanations”. PETA’s most recent campaign is more moderate, but they have once again hiring naked women to make a point. As with any commercial, the “attraction factor” is meant to lure potential customers to the product, but what is PETA’s product…. Ethical Treatment of Animals? I’ll let you decide for yourself what this has to do with nakedness- because I’m not too sure.

If anything it was a hazard site those on the Hollywood drivers who looked to see two women showering on the side of the street… seemingly not wearing bikinis. Cameras were rolling and pictures were taken, all to make the statement that by giving up just one pound of meat Americans could save 2,463 gallons of water, or as they say, six months of showering. Again, how this ties back into ethical treatment of animals is beyond me. Perhaps this could be a water conservation effort, but then why would they hire people to stand outside all day wasting water?

Maybe someone driving by eating a McDonald’s quarter pounder was thinking, “Okay so because I ate this, I won’t shower for two months, then I can eat another one. That’s the same thing right?”

Maybe Jeremy Russel from the American Meat Association can shed some light on this issue. “Sometimes when people do these sorts of carbon-footprint analyses, the obvious answer is the opposite of what they thought it was…. Water use is actually quite expensive for meat companies. There is a constant pressure, an economic pressure on them, to become more and more efficient in how they use water.”

What I gather from this is that by not eating meat, and by wasting water your putting economic pressure on meat companies… I am not quiet convinced that 1+1 =2, I think that PETA is taking an angle to ethical treatment of animals that does not quiet highlight their actual goals. I don’t think that anyone will stop eating meat to save water, just like I don’t think people will eat meat instead of showering. Water is used in production of virtually all products, and drawing an abstract connection (because don’t make any water consumption comparisons to other industry’s) to the meat company doesn’t quiet fit. PETA could have been more effective in a water conservation effort if they stood on the street corner (fully clothed) and boycotted bottled water companies, but that’s not their goal, saving animals is, and I am not understanding the connection.

While researching this campaign I read a post from someone else who was confused,

The Man’s response to PETA Models Shower Nude In Hollywood to Protest Meat:

“Let’s see… Animals create CO2 (a Greenhouse Gas)… Plants convert CO2 to O2 (reducing greenhouse gas by converting to life sustaining Oxygen)… Vegans eat plants and save animals… stay with me here… Wouldn’t the logic follow that Vegans are prime contributors’ to Global Warming? Prevent Global Warming! Eat meat!”

I don’t know what this protest accomplished, but there was an accident on the street when one “preoccupied” driver was paying more attention to the red head than the road and smashed into the car in front of him as you can see in the video. One onlooker Judi Kutz made the comment “I suspect the younger males are paying less attention to the cause and more attention to what the girls are doing,”

I really don’t think that can be disputed.

But if PETA’s attraction did make one person seriously understand and transform their lifestyle, if not go vegan but to lead a greener lifestyle… I think that it’s a good thing, despite what others and I may think. These two nude girls, and those who hired them obviously think that this is an effective way to get their message across.

What do you think about PETA’s nude Hollywood demonstration?

Could PETA's New York pair make you go vegan?

Sources:

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/03/22/peta-models-shower-nude-in-hollywood-to-protest-meat/

http://www.kgun9.com/story/14494714/petas-nude-shower-protest-or-exhibitionism

Images:

http://www.life.com/image/80797487

http://www.black-and-right.com/2011/03/23/pic-of-the-day-278/

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/tag/nude-shower-demonstration/