Question:
help please regarding the body shop
i need some advice folk
i recently joined the love your body scheme @ tbs
however that was before all the L'Oreal takeover malarky.
Im not fond on giving money to L'Oreal so now i am in a catch 22 situation
I still have eight stamps left so that means i have to spend 380 before i can clear it out.
If I rip it up, does it not then seem hypocirical to ocntinue to have an use my beloved Boots Advantage Card, seeing as how Boots is chock a block full of L'Oreal, P+G, UniLever etc. etc. - I try to only buy their ownlabelled products or from things I think are OK like John Frieda but it still isn't deemed as very ethical from what I have gathered.
I do want to keep my Boots card and to ocntiue to use up the TBS one but I just odn't want to feel quilty about who is getting my money @ TBS, i really do not know what to do.
I haven't been in TBS since due to a work placement but will inevitably have to come to some decision over this matter
what should i do???
The problem with being ethical is that you always worry about being ethical enough!
At the moment we're not clear about where L'Oreal is going with TBS. You could contact them/TBS stating that you will not renew your loyalty card if you feel that there hasn't been significant changes in policy within the group - or something along those lines.
In that instance you are at least giving them a fair go and giving them the benefit of the doubt.
I was fortunate in that my card had just run out!
you are right, it is probably nigh to impossible to be fully ethical but one has to try their best.
i think i saw an email address for TBS on a website so may have to drop them a line about it.
I dearly wish I could do more things ethics wise but I am probably too obsessed with loyalty cards - I know the Lush Forum would love it the very day I actually manage to rip up my Advantage Card, although i don't see that day coming at the moment.
Here is the address for the body shop:
http://www.uk.thebodyshop.com/web/tbsuk
Id stopped using them a while back as didnt like the colours in things, I did venture in to ask if their make up was vegan but they didnt know and suggested i went to Lush:confused:
I use to use Boots own brand but decided i couldnt support a company that tests - with Boots being such a big company producing so many products some tested on animals. However yes i still use supermarkets that stock all the ranges who test - so tricky isnt it:confused:
This site is interesting:http://www.naturewatch.org/ they are running a scheme to do with the loyalty cards.
These days im using several more ethical online shops for products and use Clarins for a lot of make up, but none have loyalty card schemes im afraid - but the products are really nice:)
Id be interested to know how you get on if you contact the Body Shop.................
Alison:)
thanks for the link, going offline now and probalby won't be back on until monday but definitely need to sor this out.
im not sayingthat i can't shop anywhere that doesn't have a card - i buy several things @ Lush and they odn't have a scheme, what I meant is that sometimes your judgement is lcouded by the thought of points and coupons and freebeis. im a bit reluctant to spend a huge amount of money so wouldn't go for a clarins moisturiser myself, and would probalby only buy things like soap and that on the interent that it wouldn't matter too much if i couldn't semll, touch or test it on myself first, a bit harder with makeup and perfumes although i have swapped with people on the Lush Forum for perfumes from B Never too Busy to be Beautiful which is a posh perfume shop owned by the folk who own Lush, unfortunately all three B shops are in the south of England so it';s a bit hard for me to get the stuff so it's really pot luck knowing whether ill like the scents from what people have said online then trying it off them, which sometimes doesn't work and then you have to let someone else have it.
maybe im not cut out for all this ethical shopping malarky as much as i thought i could be but i do try my best, even if i can be as white as white - am trying to give up Coke at the minute which hasn't been all plain sailing I can tell you.
i need some advice folk
i recently joined the love your body scheme @ tbs
however that was before all the L'Oreal takeover malarky.
Im not fond on giving money to L'Oreal so now i am in a catch 22 situation
I still have eight stamps left so that means i have to spend 380 before i can clear it out.
If I rip it up, does it not then seem hypocirical to ocntinue to have an use my beloved Boots Advantage Card, seeing as how Boots is chock a block full of L'Oreal, P+G, UniLever etc. etc. - I try to only buy their ownlabelled products or from things I think are OK like John Frieda but it still isn't deemed as very ethical from what I have gathered.
I do want to keep my Boots card and to ocntiue to use up the TBS one but I just odn't want to feel quilty about who is getting my money @ TBS, i really do not know what to do.
I haven't been in TBS since due to a work placement but will inevitably have to come to some decision over this matter
what should i do???
Answers:
The problem with being ethical is that you always worry about being ethical enough!
At the moment we're not clear about where L'Oreal is going with TBS. You could contact them/TBS stating that you will not renew your loyalty card if you feel that there hasn't been significant changes in policy within the group - or something along those lines.
In that instance you are at least giving them a fair go and giving them the benefit of the doubt.
I was fortunate in that my card had just run out!
Answers:
you are right, it is probably nigh to impossible to be fully ethical but one has to try their best.
i think i saw an email address for TBS on a website so may have to drop them a line about it.
I dearly wish I could do more things ethics wise but I am probably too obsessed with loyalty cards - I know the Lush Forum would love it the very day I actually manage to rip up my Advantage Card, although i don't see that day coming at the moment.
Answers:
Here is the address for the body shop:
http://www.uk.thebodyshop.com/web/tbsuk
Id stopped using them a while back as didnt like the colours in things, I did venture in to ask if their make up was vegan but they didnt know and suggested i went to Lush:confused:
I use to use Boots own brand but decided i couldnt support a company that tests - with Boots being such a big company producing so many products some tested on animals. However yes i still use supermarkets that stock all the ranges who test - so tricky isnt it:confused:
This site is interesting:http://www.naturewatch.org/ they are running a scheme to do with the loyalty cards.
These days im using several more ethical online shops for products and use Clarins for a lot of make up, but none have loyalty card schemes im afraid - but the products are really nice:)
Id be interested to know how you get on if you contact the Body Shop.................
Alison:)
Answers:
thanks for the link, going offline now and probalby won't be back on until monday but definitely need to sor this out.
im not sayingthat i can't shop anywhere that doesn't have a card - i buy several things @ Lush and they odn't have a scheme, what I meant is that sometimes your judgement is lcouded by the thought of points and coupons and freebeis. im a bit reluctant to spend a huge amount of money so wouldn't go for a clarins moisturiser myself, and would probalby only buy things like soap and that on the interent that it wouldn't matter too much if i couldn't semll, touch or test it on myself first, a bit harder with makeup and perfumes although i have swapped with people on the Lush Forum for perfumes from B Never too Busy to be Beautiful which is a posh perfume shop owned by the folk who own Lush, unfortunately all three B shops are in the south of England so it';s a bit hard for me to get the stuff so it's really pot luck knowing whether ill like the scents from what people have said online then trying it off them, which sometimes doesn't work and then you have to let someone else have it.
maybe im not cut out for all this ethical shopping malarky as much as i thought i could be but i do try my best, even if i can be as white as white - am trying to give up Coke at the minute which hasn't been all plain sailing I can tell you.