Pink Ribbon

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, B & L are featuring wonderful products throughout the month that you can purchase to help support the great cause!

The scent of a candle can be so welcoming and relaxing.

Well, now when you settle down to unwind after your day, you can raise awareness for breast cancer with Archipelago Botanicals Ribbons of Love Candle. Created by the women at Archipelago Botanicals, this candle blends Pink Grapefruit, Clementine, and Pomelo.

This hand-poured candle will smell delicious and it retails for $29.00-- could it get any better?

You bet! A portion of the profits will go towards fighting breast cancer.

The candle is available in a number of places including Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's and Archipelago.candledelirium.com.

Pink Ribbon

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, B & L are featuring wonderful products throughout the month that you can purchase to help support the great cause!

Since the colder weather is upon us - B & L can't believe it is October and there has already been snow! - you are going to need to take care of your precious hands. So take care of yours with Aveda Hand Relief while raising awareness of Breast Cancer!


This hand creme will help soften your hands (which will be a soothing welcome in the cold months, since they will probably start to dry out real soon!) and diminish visible sings of aging.

Aveda Hand Relief retails for $20 a bottle and will give $4 from each sale to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.


Pick up your bottle (or two) of Aveda Hand Relief at aveda.com (maybe one for your desk and one for your home!).

Pink Ribbon

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, B & L are featuring wonderful products throughout the month that you can purchase to help support the great cause!

Have you ever tried to put your money away for a night out with the girls or to purchase those shoes you have been eyeing and have not been so successful?

Well now you can do so in style with the Tough Cookies Piggy Bank!


This adorable piggy bank retails for $50, but if you aren't looking to spend that much because you actually want some money left over to put in it, you can totally opt for the Mini Piggy that retails for $22.


Touch Cookies will donate 20% of the proceeds to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

The piggy banks are available at shoptoughcookies.com.

Pink Blue Ribbon

As you've been reading, and have probably seen plastered throughout other websites, your school, and/or your company (and to hear one more time), October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Well, in addition to the pink ribbon products we have been featuring this month, B & L want to take a moment to remember the guys in our lives and enter in a little sidebar to them: the blue ribbon.

One thing we know and can understand are guy's gripes about shaving!

"It makes my face breakout." "My face gets irritated after I shave." "I hate shaving for work."

(We totally understand! We would love to not shave our legs, armpits, and other unmentionable areas, but it's just not going to happen! We have to keep up appearances!)

Well, guys, Anthony Logistics for Men is here to help!

Anthony offers a full-range of facial products from cleansing your face pre-shave to pampering yourself after-shave. And, no, there is nothing girly about the products!

Pictured above is "The Essentials Starter Kit," featuring:

• Glycolic Facial Cleanser (2 oz)
• Shave Cream (2.5 oz)
• All purpose Facial Moisturizer (2.5 oz)
• Lip Balm (.33 oz)
• Body Cleansing Gel (2 oz)
• Glycerin Hand and Body Lotion (2.5 oz)
• Anthony Logistics Product-Info Card
• Storage Container

Buy it here for just $40.00.

Ladies, you can also pick up most Anthony products for the guy in your life (including Dads and Brothers!) at your local Sephora, Bloomingdales, and Nordstroms! (Walk right by that shoe section!! Keep going!) The holidays are right around the corner, too!

And, every purchase does a little good: Because of the Company's focus on a man's needs, a percentage of all Anthony For Men proceeds is donated to not-for-profit public charities dedicated to increasing awareness and to the ultimate elimination of Prostate Cancer as a health risk for men and their families.

All Anthony For Men packaging highlights their purpose with the fight against Prostate Cancer’s signature blue ribbon.

Pink Ribbon

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, B & L are featuring wonderful products throughout the month that you can purchase to help support the great cause!

Shower for the cure!

That's right! You can show your support while you sudz up with philosophy!

Philosophy's pink ribbon shower gel can be used as a shampoo, shower gel, or even a bubble bath!

(Talk about relaxing! Then you can cuddle up in your pink blanket with sleeves and paint your nails a lovely shade of "Pink of Hearts"! Look at you, you cure supporter!)

The creamy formula contains a touch of milk proteins and fruit essences, providing your body with deluxe nourishment!

And, with just a couple clicks, you can order yourself a bottle from the philosophy website!

100% of philosophy's net proceeds from the sale of "shower for the cure" will be donated to the Women's Cancer Research Fund.

Pink Ribbon

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, B & L are featuring wonderful products throughout the month that you can purchase to help support the great cause!

L remembers when she first learned of the now infamous "blanket with sleeves"-- her friend GF was going to buy this 'Swanket' for his girlfriend. Always the giver of gifts that had a purpose, he tried to convince L of its usefulness. L, on the other hand, thought it was just one of the silliest things she had ever heard of! "Swanket? heh heh heh! Mom! Guess what GF is giving his girlfriend for Christmas!! A blanket with sleeves!!! That, and a flashlight!!"

And now, the nation has been swept away by the backwards bathrobe, also know as the Snuggie (not forgetting the "Designer Snuggie" in hot animal prints¹), and, L, has been put in her little place. (Over 4 million of them have sold! That's over $80 million in revenue!)

Well, don't let L's foolishness stop you from checking Brookstone's version of the Snuggie, the n•a•p^® Comfy Ultra-Plush Blanket with Sleeves.

L has definitely touched those n•a•p^® blankets when she's been in Brookstone and they're definitely cuddle-worthy!

Just think: you, a toasty beverage, a highlighter, and your Constitutional Law casebook.

All month long, until October 31, 2009, Brookstone will dedicate 10 percent of sales from each n•a•p^® Comfy Ultra-Plush Blanket with Sleeves in Pink (retail price: $39.95) to Breast Cancer Network of Strength. Brookstone is running the program in all 315 stores nationwide, including its 50-plus locations at U.S. airports, and online at www.Brookstone.com.

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1. L hopes you picked up on the sarcasm she used as she typed "designer".

Note: this is not to be confused with the 'WTF Blanket"! Thanks, CK!

Pink Ribbon

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, B & L are featuring wonderful products throughout the month that you can purchase to help support the great cause!

Take a break from the dark colors of the season and indulge your tips in OPI's "Pink of Hearts" nail polish. Pink of Hearts is OPI's third exclusive Nail Lacquer created to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Rethink Breast Cancer.

Pink of Hearts 2009 is a pretty, empowering light pink-- a color meant to inspire and uplift.



In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, OPI will make a donation of $25,000 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. OPI will also make a $5,000 donation to Rethink Breast Cancer in Canada."

Loves It, Hates It: Pink Ribbon Edition

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, B & L are featuring wonderful products throughout the month that you can purchase to help support the great cause!

Boring office supplies: "Hates it!"

Being greeted at your desk by a range of pink office supplies: "Loves it!" (L's Department Admin is just the best!!)

And the purchase of the Sharpie benefits a good cause! Sharpie will donate ten cents from the sale of each special Pink Ribbon Sharpie marker to City of Hope for breast cancer research, treatment and education.

Find them at your local Staples or office supply store!

Pink Ribbon

As October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, B & L will feature wonderful products throughout the month that you can purchase that help support the great cause!

First up: Vera Bradley Hope Garden Signature Collection

Vera Bradley has come a long way from the grandma-esque prints of the '90s to the bright and youthful patterns they feature today. The trademark quilted cotton handbags, wallets, luggage, and personal items are great for everyday use, traveling to and from the office, and weekend get-aways!

Vera Bradley Hope Garden signature products is the third (after Pink Elephants, retired July 2008, and L's personal favorite, Pinwheel Pink) to go to support Breast Cancer.

Pictured below is the Hope Garden Clutch, which retails for $42.00. But, (have no fear, Recessionistas!) the Signature Cotton collection ranges from a $10.00 ID Case to a Weekender Tote for $92.00-- so, there's something for everyone's price range!

10% of Vera Bradley’s net proceeds from the sale of products in Hope Garden will be donated to the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer and other breast cancer projects and services. To learn more about the Vera Bradley Foundation, visit verabradley.org.