{"id":9476,"date":"2012-10-15T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2012-10-15T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T11:00:21","slug":"blog-action-daythe-power-of-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/blog-action-daythe-power-of-we\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of We, The Power of Our Wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/power-of-we.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9479\" title=\"power of we\" src=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/power-of-we.jpg\" alt=\"power of we\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/power-of-we.jpg 600w, https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/power-of-we-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Purchasing safe cosmetics and personal care products?\u00a0 You are doing more than creating a healthier lifestyle for yourself, you know.\u00a0 You are creating healthy changes in the world.<\/h3>\n<p>The way we spend our dollars tells cosmetics manufacturers what we want.\u00a0 Our purchasing power affects change, calls out for action and casts our vote.\u00a0 When you buy your nontoxic skin care, makeup, baby care, shampoo\u2026you are telling the economic community that this is what you want on your store shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t think of buying a bottle of lotion as being such a big deal?\u00a0 Well, it is!\u00a0 Each time you purchase safe products you are creating a demand for healthy ingredients, safer farming and production methods, recycling programs.\u00a0 Each dollar spent on products made with organic ingredients tells cosmetics manufacturers, the multi-billion dollar cosmetic industry and even our government that we want more organic ingredients used.\u00a0 And less <a title=\"Ingredients to Avoid\" href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/ingredients-to-avoid\/\">harmful junky ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first reason most people switch from toxic cosmetics to safer products is to a live a healthier lifestyle.\u00a0 For themselves and their families.\u00a0 An added bonus of using nontoxic products is that we are not flushing synthetic ingredients down our drains and into our earth.\u00a0 But by continuing to buy safe cosmetic products we are making sure there will be more of them in the future, keeping these good things going and improving on them.<\/p>\n<p>Spend wisely.\u00a0 Use your purchasing power.\u00a0 Take a vote.\u00a0\u00a0 Tell cosmetics and personal care manufacturers what you want.\u00a0 We all have to buy stuff, let\u2019s make it count.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Image: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/cat.mhtml?lang=en&amp;search_source=search_form&amp;version=llv1&amp;anyorall=all&amp;safesearch=1&amp;searchterm=jump&amp;search_group=#id=81671782&amp;src=0c8ebf46e34b0a901e76e4cba538f663-1-73\" target=\"_blank\">Power of We<\/a> photo via Shutterstock]<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do your dollars do for your?  For your community?  For the rest of the world?  Probably more than you think&#8230; <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/blog-action-daythe-power-of-we\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":9479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[15,11,5082],"tags":[6151,2332,3434,16,3245,70,6768,3629,635],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/power-of-we.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}