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Your Free Gift This Month

By Kate Matharu  on Wednesday 29 April 2009

Body Shop Shea Butter, beauty, marie claire

Why this month's Shea Body Butter from The Body Shop free gift offers independence to Brazilian women

If you've snapped up a copy of the June issue this month, with British star Kate Winslet gracing the cover, you'll have received our fabulous free gift, Shea Body Butter from The Body Shop, worth £4.85.

As well as giving you super-soft, smooth skin for summer, this beauty must-have also offers an altogether different purpose; independence and a vital income for women in Brazil. 

The all-over moisturiser contains three key Community Trade ingredients, shea butter, cocoa butter from Ghana, and babassu oil from Brazil. 

Over 100 households in the Maranhão region of Brazil derive a livelihood from the babassu oil trade. Women gather nuts from the babassu palm tree and carry them home to break open. These broken nuts are then taken away to a pressing facility by a truck. 

Thanks to the fair and stable trading relationship with The Body Shop, women in the area have access to a market to sell the oil that, otherwise, may have been out of their reach.

The price The Body Shop pays for the oil helps ensure that these women receive a fair income. It also allows them to invest and plan for their future.

They now have greater confidence to assert their rights and fight to protect their access to the babassu groves.

 

Words by Kate Matharu, Wednesday 29 April 2009

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this is an amazing product,and offer i buy this anyway and its excellent quality ,thankyou marie clair and bodyshop
Comment by joanne frith on May 01 18:05

i think it is verey sensible and responsabl to buy fair trade produce
Comment by andrea on May 01 18:58

thank you
Comment by alision on May 01 21:58

cooooool
Comment by sofia on May 02 10:36

nice +++
Comment by frank fei on May 04 00:41

exellent

Comment by nazia rafique on May 04 01:41

good qualty
Comment by sam solomon on May 04 10:23

Good stuff
Comment by Sandra on May 04 12:30

very nobel and good work
Comment by p mehta on May 04 22:49


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