Scientists Zoubida Charrouf and Dominique Guillaume have recently stated that Argan Oil ’should readily find a place of choice amid the most profitable oils for human health’. Organic Argan Oil is available online from Organic Argan Oil UK. 

Used for centuries by the people of Morocco, Argan Oil is a luxurious, versatile, natural oil produced from the nuts of the rare Argan tree (Argania Spinosa L.), known locally as the ‘Tree of Life’. The Argan tree is native to south-western Morocco and the region where Argan trees grow became a UNESCO international biosphere reserve in 1999. 

There are two main types of natural Argan Oil, both available online from Organic Argan Oil UK.

Cosmetic Argan Oil is used for beautiful and healthy skin, hair and nails. Culinary Argan Oil, with its rich and delicious nutty flavour, is one of the healthiest vegetable oils, packed with essential vitamins and nutrients.

Celebrities as diverse as Sophie Dahl, model and writer, and Heston Blumenthal, Britains leading chef, are both fans of this ‘wonderful’ natural oil, produced in Morocco for centuries. 

A spokesperson for Organic Argan Oil UK explained how Argan Oil can help you look better and feel healthier, inside and out: “Argan Oil is rich in unsaturated fats and in Vitamin E. Research suggests that these can bring health benefits and protect skin. People who use Argan Oil certainly agree. One woman said that Argan Oil was ‘pure gold’, another praised it as an ‘absolute match’ for very sensitive skin.”

Cosmetic Argan Oil: Used as a cosmetic, Argan Oil protects and moisturises the skin, reduces signs of visible ageing and tackles the appearance of wrinkles and damage caused by stress, sun and wind. Argan Oil is ideal for all skin types, including the most sensitive skins. It has been used as a traditional remedy for a range of skin conditions, including psoriasis and eczema. It is also used to reduce the scars left behind by adolescent acne, other scars and to reduce and prevent the appearance of stretch marks. Argan Oil adds a beautiful and healthy sheen to hair, leaving it feeling silky soft and smooth. Pure Argan Oil can be used with lemon juice to repair and strengthen damaged and brittle nails. Argan Oil can also be used as part of your shaving routine, moisturising and nourishing the skin and helping to prevent shaving rash, itchiness, cuts and shaving nicks. Argan Oil has also been traditionally used as an anti-inflammatory for conditions such as arthritis and rheumatism.

Argan Food Oil: Used regularly as part of a well-balanced diet, pure and natural Argan Oil can potentially reduce the risk of a range of diseases and help you look and feel healthier. With a wealth of Vitamin E and essential unsaturated fatty acids, Argan Oil has been researched extensively. Studies have been carried out to assess Argan Oil’s potential ability to help in fighting against and preventing a number of conditions, including reducing the risk of obesity, lowering high blood pressure, reducing high cholesterol levels and possibly even helping in the fight against diabetes and cancer. Scientists claim that ‘daily consumption of argan oil is highly likely to be one factor strongly favouring the prevention of urogenital and digestive cancers as well as obesity and cardiovascular diseases.’ 

You can read more about pure, natural and organic Argan Oil on Organic Argan Oil UK’s website: www.organicarganoil.co.uk

Organic Argan Oil UK is an active member of Ethical Junction, learn more

Scientists in Japan have created a portable machine that can convert everyday plastic into oil, which can then be used as gasoline, diesel and kerosene.

This could be a great invention and one that could certainly help Third World Countries become a little cleaner – seems almost too good to be true.

Check this video out to find out more, it’s amazing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGabrorRS8

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A new report from WWF UK and The Co-operative reflects on the proposed budget of £254 billion that oil companies are proposing to spend on extracting oil from the Canadian tar sands. Whilst many fear the ecological impact of releasing the oil in this area of our endangered planet, WWF also look at it from a financial angle.

Colin Butfield, Head of Campaigns at WWF UK, warns that the plans could single handedly destroy any hope of keeping CO2 emissions at an acceptable level and goes further to remark that the vast sums of money, could be used to help fund so many renewable energy projects, including the Desertec Industrial Initiative – a plan to link Europe to vast solar plants in Northern Africa providing 15% of Europe’s electricity by 2050.

For more information and how to join the campaign against Tar Sands oil, check out the report on the WWF website

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August 2009 newsletter 15% off online

Welcome to our August newsletter we hope where ever you are you are getting a little sunshine.

Using the website for online orders

All customers if you haven’t already done so, firstly need to register
with the site by going to Sign in via the Home Page then contact me via
email jim@simplysoaps.com
or telephone during office hours, 01603 720869 to be set up to see
trade prices online, we will respond confirming that we have set you
up, so that when you log in again you will be able to buy Simply Soaps,
Hedgerow Herbals and Faerie Flames at trade prices. Current prices
shown are mail order prices in bulk.

The benefits of buying online is that it is quick and easy,
carriage is only £2.50 instead of the usual £5, and there are no
minimum orders. Plus we are offering a further 15% discount off your
order total!!* Simply type in the word: trade15 in the discount code
box at the checkout and you will be entitled to 15% off your order.

NO MINIMUM ORDERS

Due to the increasing
demand for our products and in order to keep refilling those lines that
sell more quickly, our retailers have asked us to reduce the minimum
order value from £100. So we are more than happy to oblige, there will
be NO MINIMUM ORDER AMOUNT. Laurence Campion for the company says that;
‘this will help in the current climate plus some of our lines out sell
others, so now customers don’t have to wait before re-ordering.’

As part of Article 13’s United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) commitments (http://www.article13.com/csr/ungc_iip_values.asp) for 2009 to ‘work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery’, we have written the Second of a series of  five best practice cases studies on Transparency and Anti-Corruption (T & AC).  The aim of the case studies are to disseminate T & AC best practice and to advocate take up, to our network of partners, clients, associates and the Article 13 visitors through the use of a well recognised organisation/ brand.

This case study focuses on Shell’s Transparency and Anti-corruption
approach in its operations in Nigeria. Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) is the
second largest multinational energy corporation in the world, with wide
scale operations and activities, a diversity of different business
units and has over 102,000 employees in more than 100 countries and
territories (http://www.shell.com/). The case study identifies in great depth, the following:

1.    The Company
2.    The key drivers for change integrating T & AC.
3.    Taking action
a.    Core values
b.    Communication
c.    Policies and initiatives
d.    Reporting
e.    Working with the community
4.    Challenges to transparency and anti-corruption
a.    Poor track record
b.    New challenges
c.    Corporate citizenship
5.    Conclusion

Full case study:
Article 13 T & AC case study:
Ford (http://www.article13.com/A13_ContentList.asp?strCategory=Best%20Practice)

Further information on T & AC please see:
Transparency and anti-corruption resource centre
(http://www.article13.com/csr/ungc-transparency-anti-corruption.asp)

Contact information
Please contact Fiona Banyard on fionab@article13.com or call 020 8840 4450
Please also see Article 13’s website www.article13.com