Green That Gives

Causes that help needy children are always close to people’s hearts and your customers are no exception. Make yours the go-to shop by stocking well-made items that look amazing and do great things for the earth and its people. You can be a retail superhero by carrying soaps and socks that save the world. SoapBox Soaps donates one bar of soap to a needy child for every bar purchased. PACT picks a different cause each season and for this spring/summer, it has teamed up with Whole Kids Foundation to develop sustainable gardens.

SoapBox Soaps Cleans and Saves Lives

What if you could offer your customers a chance to save the world while doing something they do every day: keeping their kids clean. Just by purchasing soap, more than 3,000 children’s lives can be saved every day. SoapBox Soaps are ethical, environmentally friendly and great for kids’ skin.

This isn’t your garden-variety oatmeal soap in simple brown packaging. The SoapBox Black Soap is made from activated charcoal and has a blend of all-natural essential oils. Kids will like it because it looks like a rock, parents will love it because its mild gritty texture is great for exfoliating.

Cinnamon Spice has everything nice and would make an ideal holiday offering, along with their scintillating Spearmint. Lemongrass and lavender will smell amazing in your store year-round, as will the sweetly scented orange. For those sensitive to smells, SoapBox Soaps has an unscented version, which is the foundation for all of the great bars. The soaps are made with sea salt and shea butter that gently cleans and revitalizes young skin.

In the last two years, SoapBox Soaps has donated product to children in Ecuador, Haiti, Thailand and Uganda. In total, they have made contributions to four continents and seven countries. They’re also doing good in the U.S.A. by providing their soap to families at homeless shelters, women shelters and nursing homes.

Smelling good and doing good is all well and good, but how do you convince your customers it’s good for their little one’s dermis? SoapBox soaps contain all-natural premium ingredients, including gluten-free ground oatmeal, organic shea butter and sea salt. These soaps are gluten free and made in America. They’re also free of palm oil, parabens and phthalates.

You can display SoapBox Soaps’ beautiful packaging with pride because it is made of 100% recycled fibers and 35% post-consumer waste.

Get on your SoapBox and save the world one bar at a time at www.soapboxsoaps.com

PACT Socks Go from Toe to Hoe Gardens

Continue your pledge to offer the best to your customers. PACT is a movement disguised as a clothing company. PACT focuses on clothes that make the world a better place, including socks with soul, altruistic underwear, and other everyday essentials made with fabrics that feel good and go easy on the environment. The best part: with every purchase, your customers help PACT make a positive change in the world.

Each season, PACT designs a new collection of clothing inspired by someone doing something good: whether it’s about clean water, sustainable food, or affordable housing. For spring 2013, PACT, along with the Whole Kids Foundation and Indiegogo, is teaming up to help build urban sustainable gardens across the U.S. that provide increased access to healthy food and empower adults and children to actively experience how food is grown from seed to plate. This is PACT’s largest project to date, and for the first time ever, a partnership like this has been developed to provide sustainable gardens across America.

The PACT line of high quality, great value clothing is growing but it’s still the essentials –– underwear, socks, and graphic tees, with more to come. Don’t go looking for basic colors, though. PACT socks follow this year’s theme of sustainable gardens with items like the polka dot Heather Gray Garden Dot and Kale Railroad Stripe crew socks. PACT socks are made of the finest single-sourced organic cotton and all facilities in PACT’s supply chain are certified according to GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) ensuring the highest level of environmental and social responsibility in the world. They are made of 90% organic cotton/7% nylon/3% lycra.

Want to really impress the greenest customers? Carry the Recycled Socks by PACT. These socks are made from yarns that are left over from the manufacturing of other socks. PACT gathers up leftover yarns and spins them together to make new yarn. The coolest part? The socks are manufactured in a factory powered by 100% wind power.

PACT’s organic cotton work socks are designed with strong (but still soft) 6-gauge yarns. As the weather warms up this spring, give your customers the comfort of socks without the look with PACT’s no-see-um socks. These low-cut socks have a brushed super-soft interior with silicone beads on the inside heel to prevent slippage.

Keep an eye on www.wearpact.com as they roll out their new children’s collection this September.