Today is Earth Day: Herbal Company Offers Good-for-the-Earth Products

Why this subject of Earth Day on my anti aging beauty blog? Simple… it’s about supporting companies who have a conscience and care about the planet.

If you’re not familiar with this particular herbal company, let me be the first to introduce you.

Meet: Mountain Rose Herbs. They have been supporting organic agriculture since 1987 and are the largest organic retailer in the USA. Not all of their products are organic; those that aren’t are cultivated in the wild (this is known as wildcrafted) thus reducing the need for commercial farming. A good thing.

When companies like Mountain Rose Herbs make a commitment to sustainable farming the benefits to all of us include:

• chemical free foods/herbs (including DIY for skin care and cosmetics!)
• reduced pollution
• farmer worker safety

Have you ever seen a lavender farm? Back in my hometown, a well known TV host began a lavender farm for her infamous lavender and citrus teas…for miles the dry grasses of the  California central coast hills were carpeted with these lovely purple flowers. It’s a heady (ahhhh…the smell!) and beautiful site to behold.

If the concept of Earth Day has not yet registered…take a look at some of the statistics on Mountain Rose Herbs website. This will give you an idea why it’s important for all of us to support companies who truly have their priorities right. Here’s a sample of statistics offered on their site:

By converting at least 10% of your food, fiber and cosmetic purchases you will:

• Eliminate pesticides from 98 million daily U.S. servings of drinking water.
• Assure 20 million daily servings of milk that are produced without antibiotics & genetically modified growth hormones.
• Assure 53 million daily servings of pesticide-free fruit and vegetables. (Enough for 10 million kids to have five daily servings.)
• Eliminate use of growth hormones, genetically engineered drugs and feeds, and 2.5 million pounds of antibiotics used on livestock annually. (More than twice the amount of antibiotics used to treat human infections.)
• Assure that 915 million animals are treated more humanely.
• Fight climate change by capturing an additional 6.5 billion pounds of carbon in soil. (That’s the equivalent of taking 2 million cars, each averaging 12,000 miles per year, off the road.)
• Eliminate 2.9 billion barrels of imported oil annually. (Equal to 406,000 Olympic eight-lane competition pools.)
• Restore 25,800 square miles of degraded soils to rich, highly productive cropland. (An amount of land equal to the size of West Virginia.)

Sobering stuff, huh?

Here’s hoping this tad of information gives a little clearer perspective about Earth Day and that you’ll seek out companies like Mountain Rose Herbs for products that are truly good…for us and the planet.

Happy Earth Day,  fellow earthlings.