As a wee follow up to the earlier post about my relative, I wanted to shine a light on some of the cool Breast Cancer Awareness Month products that are available this month. Between The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Susan G. Komen, the list of stuff to stock up on is practically endless. This year, the range of items goes way beyond cheesy scarves, brooches, and teeshirts. I’m gonna clue you all in to the products I personally plan to purchase.
There are some really great, healthy Breast Cancer Awareness Month products available at your grocery store right now. I think I already mentioned the Fresh Express Baby Blends salads I picked up this week. 10 cents of each purchase is for the cure, and the veggie spring mix is the bomb.
I love the entire line of Emergen-C products, and they’ve just released a sweet pink lemonade flavor in honor of this month. It’s chock full of vitamins C and B, and 50% of proceeds go to the cause. Love that.
The Republic of Tea is big into supporting breast cancer research. Together with Susan G. Komen, they created Sip For the Cure, a special line of green teas. I’d drink the rose green tea hot, but just imagine the pink grapefruit, lady apple, or pink lemonade green tea served in a tall, frosty glass with lots of ice? Mmmmmm. 75% of sales benefit the cure.
Sephora has every pretty pink makeup item you want. The thing with pink is, if the shade’s too pale, it may not really pop on beautiful brown skin. Pale pink lipstick just looks silly on me, and pale pink blush washes me out. I am very particular about my shade of pink makeup, bellas!
Which is why the Clinique BCA Kit is CALLING MY NAME. It comes with a gorgeous Fresh Bloom Allover Colour compact in Peony. OK, that compact so belongs on my (ridiculously overcrowded) dresser. And I love that there’s two lush, complimentary shades of shimmering pink. And I have an almost identical lipgloss that looks magnificent when layered over my beloved Vincent Longo lip stain in Baby Boo. That’s an effortlessly lush hot pink lip that can go from the office to the after work happy hour with just a dab of extra gloss for insurance. (an aside — are those new pearlessence gel stains I see? Oh boy!). That Tarte Inside Out Vitamin Lipstick in Zen would also look incredible on brown skin of all shades, IMO. And a portion of the $22 purchase goes to the Young Survival Coalition, a non-profit for young women with breast cancer.
If you’re looking for an affordable, undeniably luxurious product for the cure, you need to check out Philosophy’s Shower for the Cure. It costs $20, but 100% of the philosophy and our profit from this product are donated to the Women’s Cancer Research Fund! Way to truly committ to the cause, Philosophy! I can’t wait to get my hands on this.
For those of you who can afford to shop at Bergdorf Goodman, fancy French essential oil producer Darphin is offering a special limited edition bottle of rose aromatic care oil this month. For $75, you can indulge in rose oil, hazelnut, evening primrose, and sweet almond oil luxury, and 10% benefits the BCRF. I’ve tried the Tangerine Aromatic Bath and Body Oil, and it. is. AMAZING. It leaves my skin feeling incredibly silky and luxurious. But… it comes in a teeny tiny bottle for $75, so I kind of think of it as the kind of stuff JLo, Kimora, or Mariah Carey would insist on filling a claw-footed bathtub with. Which is to say, it’s incredible but well out of my price league. I gotta keep it real, you know.
Speaking of stuff I want that’s out of my price league… are these Kitchen Aid appliances not freakin’ adorable? All of my kitchen appliances are dark blue. But I could go for that beautiful tea kettle! Besides appliances, they offer pink handled kitchen necessities aplenty, from a cute measuring utensil set, to the tres cute pink silicone heart pan.
Bake your loved one a Betty Crocker cake in it for extra fundraising fun. General Mills supports a number of breast cancer awareness initiatives, including Pink Together, a MySpace community for survivors. Oh, and Kitchen Aid does more than just sell adorable pale pink products this month. They also host Cook for the Cure, where passionate chefs can host special fundraising parties for breast cancer charities of their choice. Check out the website for customizable invitations, party suggestions, recipes and entertaining tips.
Have you seen any cool pink products on store shelves? Let me know! And check out the products mentioned on some of my favorite beauty blogs — 55 Secret Street (yo quiero that Smashbox brush), The Makeup Girl, and Clutch Magazine.
Cute products! I love the fact that products are being created to support breast cancer research. I think manufacturers should start creating more products for other illnesses…there are already a few for AIDS, but not nearly as much. They should come out with yellow products to support the troops, or other colors for other diseases, cancers and causes.
I completely agree with you! I see several other ribbons — autism has the puzzle, Aids is red, yellow for troops. But I am not sure if there’s a designated month where so many companies and consumers can throw their weight behind those causes. I’ll have to investigate.
Maybe the pink products that support breast cancer can be a model for movements against AIDS, obesity and heart disease — issues that are wrecking the black community.
Imagine Kimora, Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige promoting a fabulosity campaign that funds fitness clubs or inexpensive organic foods to move against obesity — but maybe the image isn’t marketable? There must be something wierdly appealing about breast cancer images–not the illness–that makes this stuff marketable.
Anyway…I’d love to have a pink food processor and a pink veggie steamer–maybe with glittery handles to make it truly Kimora — oh or leopard print packages of tofu…
Simone:
You raise some very cool ideas (the whole obesity thing). I can’t roll with you on the pimped out food processor though!
I have my pink converses!
Nice products bella!
Ford auto, http://www.fordvehicles.com/warriorsinpink is running a campaign, “Warriors in Pink” for the month of October. 100% of the proceeds (not from the vehicles) will be donated to the Susan G Komen foundation. i agree with the others, some way some how the same attention we give breast cancer needs to be applied to any disease which may affect us.
This company is selling a cute Mini Makeup Brush set great for TravelAwareness Pink Brush Set
There is also a Beauty Can Cure Fundaraiser Which they are involved in. Beauty Can Cure is in partnership with City of Hope. Their donations not only support Breast Cancer research but also Diabetes, and everything in between. The fundraiser will take place July 14th 2008 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
My family members all the time say that I am killing
my time here at web, but I know I am getting experience everyday by reading such
nice articles.