Fair Trade brings the benefits of trade into the hands of communities that need it most. It sets new social and environmental standards for international companies and demonstrates that trade can indeed be a vehicle for sustainable development.

Today, a growing movement of workers, environmentalists, consumers and farmers worldwide is calling for a different framework for trade. We want a global trading system that promotes workers' rights, protects the environment and sustains the ability of local producers to meet community needs.

Together, as consumers, we can make a huge difference by demanding significant changes in the ways goods are produced, and vote with our dollars for a more just and environmentally sound trading system.

The use of pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers is killing our planet. Organic farmers work with nature by using techniques such as crop rotation, composting and companion planting. This eliminates the use of harmful chemicals that leech into our soil and travel thorough our waterways.

Organic farming increases biodiversity in both flora and fauna, and supports local agriculture.

In these times of environmental and global dis-ease, organic farming offers a real alternative to the genetically modified chemical soup that we have all been unwittingly exposed to over the last 50 years.

Essential oils have a long tradition of providing a variety of therapeutic benefits.

The use of essential oils in a cosmetic will have an antiseptic and antimicrobial action, as well as a healing and soothing effect on the skin.

Essential oils help the skin and hair detoxify, drain, heal and regenerate. Essential Oils are extracted from plants, leaves, flowers, roots, buds, twigs, rhizomes, heartwood, bark, resin, seeds and fruits.

Essential oils are a natural product made by distillation with either water or steam or by mechanical processing of citrus rinds or by dry distillation of natural materials.