Shopping advice
Be suspicious of terms such as "natural" and “organic” when
used on body-care packaging - many manufacturers are exploiting the lax
marketing rules. As the rules stand, only 1% of a product has to be naturally
derived for that term to be used.
Some initially scary-sounding but friendly ingredients to seek as alternatives: phenoxyethanol (a grapefruit seed extract), sorbic acid, tocopherol (vitamin E), ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and retinyl (vitamin A).
Ethical Consumer Research Association – providing information on
universal human rights, environmental sustainability and animal welfare
to empower consumers to act ethically in the market place:
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/
European Eco-label – helping European consumers to distinguish
greener, more environmentally friendly, products of high quality:
http://www.eco-label.com/default.htm
Get Ethical – a range of ethical goods from suppliers across the
UK:
http://www.getethical.com
Green Shop – products for a sustainable future:
http://www.greenshop.co.uk/
Natural Collection - environmentally-friendly goods:
http://www.naturalcollection.com/natcol/default.asp
National Non-Food Crops Centre (NNFCC) – independent, authoritative
source of information on the use and implementation of non-food crop
products and technologies in the UK:
– Homepage: http://www.nnfcc.co.uk/index.cfm
– Links to plant-based pharmaceuticals:
http://www.nnfcc.co.uk/links.cfm?sectionid=21&subid=31§name=Pharmaceuticals
– Links to plant-based personal care products:
http://www.nnfcc.co.uk/links.cfm?sectionid=21&subid=23§name=Personal%20Care
Soil Association - a list of organic veg box schemes
in Scotland; is there one near you?
http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/0/8213499e0c3733f580256fe7003a6c2e
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For further information please contact WWF Scotland: phone 01350 728200, email info@watersense.org.uk, or write to WaterSense, c/o WWF Scotland, Little Dunkeld, Dunkeld, PH8 0AD