For the past two years I have gone through companies I have advertising contracts with or have sponsored a Flaunt It! Monday and try to choose a little something that would be nice for a green client gift for the holidays.  This year my client holiday gifts have been sponsored by Sally Lee Candles.  This post isn’t part of the sponsorship, but I just think they’re great people with a great company and I want to give them some extra kudos!  My clients should all have their gifts by now (I hope) so it should be safe to say “Thank You” to Sally Lee Candles, publicly.  I hope my readers will check them out and give their candles a try.  I promise you will love them!!

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Green Christmas: Sally Lee Candles

So the readers that visit Eco-Office Gals should have at least one fairly common goal: do what we can to help the Earth, right?  I certainly hope so!  So, when you get all these ideas going of simple things you can do each day to help the environment, where do you go? myEARTH360! A great online source full of great home products to green your home, work, yourself, your family and the pets.  I like that myEarth360 stocks products that are practical, things that you actually use in your home on a regular basis.

However, myEARTH360 goes beyond simply supplying environmentally sound products, portions of each sale goes back to schools to support environmental education and awareness! Here are some great details from the site:

• Development of the I Count for My Earth Campaign, a school program that gets the green message out to kids in an interactive, fun way. Lynn personally developed the campaign before the business even existed and is just something I do because I think enviro-awareness has to start with the kids so they can become the champions at home.
• Schools can participate in the I Count campaign for free, Shop & Share is optional.
• Creating and selling signature I Count for My Earth water bottles at Lynn’s son’s suburban Chicago school.
• Encouraging consumers to ‘vote with your dollars’, by shopping her online store and its diverse array of no-sacrifices-necessary, low-impact products. From essentials (home, school and office supplies, pet care, etc.) to extras (tableware and fashion), everything you buy counts for the earth!
• Launch of myEARTH360 hosted green parties: attendees share ideas on how to buy more eco-responsibly while discovering amazing green products from the eco.practical to the eco.chic in an upbeat, communal atmosphere.
• Regular e-newsletters and blog updates covering important eco-related issues like indoor air pollution, the battle of bottled water and what you can do about them.

This is a great place to shop and know you are really making a difference! So, I got to try a few fun products from Lynn’s store including some beeswax candles and some Shaklee Basic H2 All-Purpose Cleaner.

The Beeswax candles were a first for me and I was excited to try some of these. I do enjoy candles and know how cruddy paraffin candles are. They were great and very slow burning in comparison to paraffin.

Lynn also included a bottle of Shaklee Basic H2 All-Purpose Cleaner from her Shaklee Get Clean Site. Shaklee is non-toxic, biodegradable and manufactured by a green company. The bottle came with a little bit of cleaner, which I just added water to the fill line. The cleaner was truly versatile and cleaned up everything nicely.  There were no strong odors, crazy colors, just clean!

I love the concept behind myEARTH360 and encourage you to visit them for your eco-friendly needs!

Meanwhile, how about a chance to try out some goodies from myEARTH360? Lynn will give one lucky a $25 Gift Certificate to use in her store ! Do as many of the below as you wish and leave a separate comment for each one:

• Visit myEARTH360 and comment here on which product you would love to try or something you learn from the site.
• Blog about this giveaway or the I count for my Earth Campaign and link back to this post.
• Follow @myEARTH360 on Twitter or become a Fan on Facebook and comment that you did.
• Tweet this giveaway
• Stumble this giveaway
• Use other forms of social networking to spread the word about this giveaway.
• Subscribe to my feed to stay up to date with the latest from Eco-Office Gals.
• Buy anything from myEARTH360 and comment 5 times that you did! (I will confirm)

The deadline for entering is Wednesday 10/07/09 at 8pm EST at which time one winner will be randomly chosen.  Please don’t forget to leave a separate entry and any entries that show obvious laziness i.e. a simple “Thanks for the great giveaway” will not be published therefore not counted. It’s just not fair for the people that do know how to follow simple directions. US residents only. Thanks!

Here are your random numbers:

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Timestamp: 2009-10-09 18:10:45 UTC

Congrats Jessica!

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Flaunt It! Monday: myEARTH360

Happy Monday! We have one of my favorites to review this morning… candles. I love scented candles, but due to being educated a while back about paraffin candles I haven’t bought any in quite some time so it was really nice to have the opportunity to do a review for Sally Lee Candles. Sally Lee Candles makes Soy candles.  A little about Sally Lee  (from the site)

We love candles and that’s why we handpour Scented Soy Candles for our customers to enjoy. 

Unlike ‘regular’ candles, our candles don’t produce toxic fumes when they burn! Yes, ‘regular’ candles produce black soot and fumes.  Our candles are natural & non-toxic!

I enjoyed experiencing this wonderful candle. I was sent the 4oz cinnamon bun. I love spicy scents and it would have been hard for me to choose between the cinnamon bun, apple pie or pumpkin pie. I did not make a scent request for this review, I just mentioned that I was allergic to Jasmine so I was so excited that this is the scent picked for me to review.

The candle really made the house smell amazing – the whole house – not just 2 inches around the lit wick like some candles. The candle burned fairly well.  I realize there are a set of instruction for caring for candles properly, and I’m not always the best at flowing direction, it my have lasted longer if I had done so.

Sally Lee Candles also implement Green policies (from the site):

Sally Lee Candle Co. is trying to be as earth-friendly as possible.  We believe in not “over-packaging” products, re-using boxes/papers etc.  Your order may be delivered in a used box with used newspaper or shredded office papers…but your product will be brand new!  The tins we use are made from 30% recycled materials so please wash them out with hot soapy water when done…and then use again!

We have several other green items we are working on including adding solar panels to our workshop to power our manufacturing process!

Now, that what I love to see… small businesses growing green!

Want a chance to win 2 – 4oz. travel tin candles, your choice of fragrances?  Do as many of the below as you wish and leave a separate comment for each one.

• Visit Sally Lee Candle Co. let us know some of the benefits of Soy wax or a concern about using paraffin wax NOT mentioned in this post.
• Visit Sally Lee Candle Co. and comment here on which product you would love to try
• Blog about this giveaway and link back to this post.
• Tweet this giveaway
• Stumble this giveaway
• Use other forms of social networking to spread the word about this giveaway.
• Subscribe to my feed to stay up to date with the latest from Eco-Office Gals.
• Buy anything from Sally Lee Candle Co.  and comment 5 times that you did! (I will confirm)

One winner will be chosen on Wednesday 6/03/09. Please don’t forget to leave a separate entry and any entries that show obvious laziness i.e. a simple “Thanks for the great giveaway” will not be published therefore not counted. It’s just not fair for the people that do know how to follow simple directions. US residents only. Thanks!

Sorry people better Late then never random number 14 is the winner JoAnn Legano, Congrats!

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Flaunt It! Monday: Sally Lee Candles

Love Candles? Try one that releases maximum scent without the black soot a paraffin candle leaves behind.  A blend of vegetable wax and wicks that are lead free and also core free (no zinc) and are made from 100% cotton.

Today Carolyn is offering one of Eco-Office Gals readers a 16oz jar candle from Mia Bella.

Additionally, Carolyn is offering 25% OFF any of her in-stock inventory and her wonderful Christmas Baskets.  Just mention Eco-Office Gals to receive this great discount before the Holidays! Contact Carolyn for more information about her sale items!

Get your entry in for one of Carolyn’s candles by either visiting Scent-Sations and come back here to comment on your favorite product, sign up for the Eco-Office Gals updates and comment to let me know you did… or both for 2 entries!  Let others know about today’s giveaway by posting on your blog or Twitter for additional entries.   For each entry leave a separate comment.  Winners will be announced this evening! Good luck!!

And the winner is…

Here are your random numbers:

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Timestamp: 2008-10-24 02:02:31 UTC

Congrats Elizabeth!

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Giveaway: Love Candles?