Fashion Targets Breast Cancer

After 17 years of success, leading charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer has launched Fashion Targets Breast Cancer - a fab idea in which lots of high street and online retailers have joined forces to offer certain exclusive items with a minimum of 30% of proceeds going to the charity. 

Each year 50,000 women in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer - the campaign will help to raise vital funds for the charity to help stop women dying from this disease. 

This year's campaign is all about uniting mothers and daughters and is fronted by Sharon and Kelly Osborne and Peal and Daisy Lowe, who are encouraging shoppers to 'Wear Your Support' - and now it's easier than ever - to support the cause, you don't need to wear a t-shirt emblazoned with the charity logo - there are some gorgeous pieces from the likes of River Island, Warehouse, my-wardrobe.com, Topshop and Debenhams. 

Three of my favourite pieces from the collection are these:

1. Topshop Love skirt - £22 with 30% going to Breakthrough Breast Cancer

2. Laura Ashley stripe dress - £80 with 30% going to Breakthrough Breast Cancer

3. Topshop Love t-shirt - £18 with 30% going to Breakthrough Breast Cancer

You can view the rest of the items, and shop now by clicking here.

Trilogy Helping Hand Wash

I have put aside my usual Radox, or whatever is on offer for a pound at the supermarket, and for the past couple of weeks have been using Trilogy's Helping Hand Wash to, well, wash my hands.

The concept behind it is fabulous and one I am totally behind - all profits go to the Child's i Foundation which is a charity that deals with baby abandonment in Uganda. The founder of Child’s i, Lucy Buck, worked as a TV producer on shows including Big Brother, until finding an abandoned baby in a car park changed her life. This spurred Lucy on to give up her career in TV and set up her own charity as well as an orphanage in Kampala, Uganda.

Lucy says

“For several years my life was divided. I worked as a producer on high-profile TV shows and volunteered at an orphanage in Uganda. In 2008, I buried a little baby boy called Abraham. He had been abandoned in a taxi park and died of meningitis in an orphanage aged just 16 weeks. In his short life, no one had truly loved him. I decided then to quit my TV career to establish the Child’s i Foundation, with the aim of helping ensure Abraham’s tragic story wasn’t repeated over and over again. Our belief is that every child deserves to grow up in a family rather than in an institution.  Every purchase of this product helps make this dream possible.”

300mls of the Hand Wash is priced at £13.50 - which is a lot more than I would normally spend on soap - but it is a really lovely product, supporting a really good cause.

It is quite lotioney in texture and doesn't lather up massively well but because of this feels really moisturising - almost as if you are washing your hands with hand cream.

If you have any other Trilogy products - if I tell you it has *that* smell, you will know what I mean. If you are a Trilogy virgin - their trademark scent is of frankincense, rose geranium and lavender and this smells just the same. It also combines the natural antibacterial properties of Elderberry and Burdock with natural vegetable oils - at this time of year all the natural goodness is definitely helping. I think this is the first year my knuckles haven't cracked with the cold - hurrah!

If you'd like to get your hands on Helping Hand Wash - check out the Trilogy website to order or find your local stockist. It's only going to be sold in 2012, so please, buy as many as you can.

If you'd like to find out more about Child's i Foundation, please visit their website www.childsifoundation.org