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We are so proud to introduce PEACEKEEPER™ Cause-metics™. PeaceKeeper™ Cause-metics™ was established to help women worldwide by donating 100% of their profits, after taxes and expenses to women's causes. What a great idea. PeaceKeeper products were always clean, but they have been reformulated to be as clean and healthy as possible. Here is a list of what these beauty products don't have. No FD&C Coloring, No Animal Testing, No Artificial Colors, No Artificial Fragrances, No Toluene, No Formaldehyde, No Acetone, No Phthalates, No Parabens, No Synthetic Preservatives, No Mineral Oil, No Lanolin, No Sodium Lauryl, No Sodium Sulfate, NO NASTY ANYTHING ! (Ingredients)

PEACEKEEPER™
Mission Statement

The goal of PeaceKeeper is to raise money for women's health advocacy and human rights issues by donating all profits, after taxes, to targeted women's organizations. We are extraordinarily passionate about raising millions of dollars for needed, worldwide social change.

PeaceKeeper is the only beauty company to donate all of its profits from all of its products year round. We make healthy, clean cosmetics that are exquisitely manufactured to support a woman's natural beauty. We support the unique notion of using make-up not for approval from others, but to celebrate one's own beauty. By purchasing our products, the consumer herself becomes a PeaceKeeper, helping contribute to the world around her.

PEACEKEEPER™ Cause-metics™
Unites Beauty with a Higher Cause

Launched in 2002, Peacekeeper™ Cause-Metics™ strives to instill women with the power to help others as they help themselves. PeaceKeeper is the first make-up company in history to donate ALL of its profits, after taxes, to women's health and human rights advocacy issues. Through its own unique brand of "dual purpose" cosmetics, PeaceKeeper encourages women to more fully recognize the level of abuse and inequality suffered around the globe-and to become an active part of the solution, simply by choosing a beauty product.

Consider the following statistics:

RAPE: Approximately every six minutes, somewhere in America, someone is raped. (RAINN calculation based on U.S. Dept. of Justice National Crime Victimization Survey, 2000)
Nearly 25% of women in a national survey said they have been raped and or/physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner of date. (National Violence Against Women Survey, July 2000)

FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: At least 140 million women worldwide have been forced to undergo this painful and demoralizing procedure, with another 2 million annually at risk. (United Nations Population Fund, 2000)

HONOR KILLINGS: Thousands of women are murdered, burned with acid or maimed every year by husbands, fathers or brothers who believe these women have brought shame upon the family. (UNICEF, 2000)

THE GLASS CEILING: Women are still paid less for doing the same work as men in EVERY COUNTRY on earth. (Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace, "Facts and Figures on Women," 2002)
Successful fund-raiser and non-violence advocate Jody R. Weiss was so moved by these alarming facts that she has worked tirelessly to raise awareness and find peaceful solutions to these issues. With Peacekeeper as her tool, Weiss works to raise funds for numerous women's organizations while instilling the message that PeaceKeepers use make-up not for approval from others, but to celebrate their own beauty.

Dedicated to helping women Look Good, Feel Good, Do Good™, Peacekeeper products, and thereby the women who use them, are imbued with the power of advocacy and transformation. "The choice is simple: become part of the solution-become a PeaceKeeper."

The line consists of inspirational shades of 12 Lip Paints, 10 Nail Paints and 4 Lip Glosses. There is absolutely no animal testing, and no harmful chemicals such as toluene and formaldehyde. In 2003, Peacekeeper Lip Paints were nominated as finalists for Best Lip Product of the year. Offering Lip Paint colors with names like Paint Me Empowered™ and Paint Me Compassionate™, PeaceKeeper urges women everywhere to use their power as consumers to make a difference.

PeaceKeeper™ Paints and products fund:

Women's Health Advocacy
o Auto Immune Diseases
o Breast Cancer
o Colon Cancer
o Depression
o Heart Disease
o Osteoporosis
o Menopause and Hormones
o Reproductive Cancers Research

Human Rights Advocacy
o Domestic Violence & Battery
o Female Genital Mutilation
o Female Sex Slave Trade
o Gender Inequality
o Honor Crimes
o Infanticide
o Rape
o Sexual Harassment

Our thanks to PeaceKeeper for supplying mission statement, statistics and company information.

Lip Gloss:
Castor Oil, Carnauba Wax, Beeswax, Shea Butter May Contain (+/-): Mica, Carmine, Titanium Dioxide, Iron Oxides, Ultramarines

Lip Paint:
Beeswax, Carnauba Wax, Candelilla Wax, Shea Butter, Castor Oil, Jojoba Oil, Grapeseed Oil, Tocopherol. May Contain (+/-): Mica, Carmine, Titanium Dioxide, Iron Oxides, Ultramarines.

Nail Paint:
Acetyl Tributyl Citrate, Adipic Acid/Neopentyl Glycol/Trimellitic Anhydride Copolymer, Isopropyl Alcohol, Stearalkonium Bentonite, Acrylates Copolymer, Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer, Benzophenone-1, Titanium Dioxide, Iron Oxide, Ferric Ferrocyanide, Mica, Carmine, *Argan.

*Agran Oil is painstakingly made by hand in Morocco and is harvested by Berber women living near the forests, who use traditional methods requiring 12 hours to extract a single liter of oil. Benefits from this oil include antioxidants, Vitamin E and Linoleic acid all benefiting the health of the nail.

Don’t Be Led On About Lead in Lipstick

October 11, 2007 – A recent wave of recalls of lead-tainted children’s toys has resulted in widespread concern about many products that consumers come into contact with on a daily basis. Now, cosmetics, specifically lip stick is a topic being discussed in the lead debate. This has caused consumers to wonder if lip stick brands that they use could pose a potential health threat.

“Protecting women from toxins in makeup and the environment is deeply important to PeaceKeeper. This is why I choose to use mineral-based formulations for all PeaceKeeper products,” said Jody Weiss, founder of PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates colorants used in food and cosmetics, some of which contain trace amounts of lead. Beyond that, California’s Proposition 65 has set a limit of 0.5 micrograms (mcg) in mass per day, the strictest mass standard in the nation for lead exposure. PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics’ Lip Paints are made from a mineral-based formula that contains 0.12 ppm of lead, the equivalent to 0.003 mcg/day which is 200 percent lower than limit set by Proposition 65. Furthermore, the Environmental Working Group rates PeaceKeeper Lip Paints a one out of 10, with one being the lowest level of potential risk when it comes to latent lead exposure.

In 2005 PeaceKeeper reformulated its entire collection of color cosmetics, featuring a new formulation that is superior in its ingredient-base and quality. The mineral-based formulas are made without parabens, phthalates, formaldehyde, acetone, toluene, mineral oil, FD&C colors, artificial fragrances, artificial preservatives, and of course, includes no animal testing.

In addition to making its products safe for the women who use them and the environment, PeaceKeeper’s mission is to raise money for and increase awareness of critical women’s health and human rights issues. In fact, PeaceKeeper is the only cosmetics company that donates all of its profits after taxes to charitable women’s organizations, giving consumers a choice to make a statement with how they spend their money. PeaceKeeper encourages consumers to more fully recognize the level of inequality suffered around the globe – and to become an active part of the solution simply by how they choose a product.

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Dear PeaceKeepers,

I want to start this letter by telling you that my mother was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 1972 at age 52 and died at 63. She was diagnosed way before the medical community had any real treatment for breast cancer besides radical mastectomies and the chances for survival were slim. Eight out of ten women who were in her circle of friends also contracted breast cancer. Environmental contamination and smoking for 30 years were determined to be probable causes.

So you can understand why protecting women from toxins in make-up (and elsewhere) is deeply important to me.

Since PeaceKeeper’s inception, I have personally been learning more and more about ingredients with my chemists to insure that we are on the leading edge. Whenever we have a chance to tweek our formulas with superior ingredients, we do. The Environmental Working Group has rated our mineral-based formulas as one of the safest in America without parabens, phthalates, formaldehyde, acetone, toluene, mineral oil, FD&C colors, artificial fragrances, artificial preservatives, and of course, no animal testing.

However, some people are mistakenly measuring lead content in cosmetics by using food measurements. They use a measurement for eating an entire bar of chocolate a day vs. smearing lipstick on the lips four or five times a day. And this measurement is misleading and incorrect. Its also designed to scare women. Even if a woman was to eat an entire tube of lipstick in one sitting (certainly not advised), it is only 2 to 4 grams vs. 40 grams which is the typical weight of a chocolate bar. Therefore, the correct measurement to determine lead in minerals which are used in lipstick is California’s Proposition 65 which has set a limit of 0.5 micrograms (mcg) in mass per day, the strictest mass standard in the nation for lead exposure. Using PeaceKeeper's lipsticks are safe as they come nowhere near those limits when worn numerous times a day.

I write this letter to reiterate PeaceKeeper’s commitment to health and safety for humans and the environment, and as a reminder that as a responsible citizen, it is important to stay informed with accurate information.

My mom would say that there are all sorts of challenging folks in society who would use unsubstantiated measurements to confuse consumers. We’re not interested in engaging with them. We’re interest in collaboration, honest investigations and compassionately learning together the whole truth.

Yours in PeaceKeeping,

Jody R. Weiss