Get Involved in Breast Cancer Awareness

Kourtney Kardashian

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so we are spreading the good word: get yourself checked. This doesn’t necessarily mean putting yourself through the boob-squish-erator that is the mammogram machine—though if you’re over 40 it may be time for that move, and every two to three years subsequently. In the meantime, starting in your 20s, it’s important to get a breast exam from your healthcare provider at least every one to three years, according to the National Cancer Society.

Besides getting professionally felt up, there are many ways you can participate in Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Donating to Planned Parenthood is incredible because they offer mammograms, exams, and screenings as an all-encompassing part of women’s reproductive health.

You can shop, too. While some brands donate to cancer awareness foundations, some of our favorite non-toxic brands are born of the cause, and consistently contribute to products and processes that support healthy, cancer-free living.

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Cute bra and panty sets

Price: $98-$330

The Kit Undergarments

Throughout the rest of the month, KIT is donating 3% of every kit sold to Women’s Cancer Research Fund. And, if you take a selfie in your Kit and post it, tagging @thekitundergarments #kitstokickcancer, they’ll donate an additional $1. We’ve never heard of a better reason to post cute photos of ourselves in our underwear.

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Rosy Glow Duo

Price: $72

Biossance

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Biossance curated a dreamy collab with Breast Cancer Prevention Partners to mash-up their cult-favorite facial oil and their new vegan lip balm in a limited-edition kit. Vitamin C rose oil and squalane brighten and rejuvenate the skin, while hyaluronic acid and ceramides pack a super plumping punch for your pout. It’s a bit of steal of the duo, and of course—completely toxin-free.

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Odacité Products

Price: $36

Odacité

“Breast cancer was a major wakeup call,” says Valerie Grandury, the founder of Odacité. “ I realized that in order to heal – and for my children to have a livable planet – I would have to make it my mission to live a toxic-free life, starting with the products I was applying on my skin every single day. This mission became my absolute passion and so was born Odacité.”

On top of supporting a non-toxic brand to spread the beauty economy into greener corners, for every $150 spent in October, Odacite will donate $10 to Living Beyond Breast Cancer, and gift each shopper with a choice of one of three free gifts, including the exclusive BCA inspired BA+S Eye Contour ($62). Win Win.

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Non-Toxic Perfume

Price: $80

Dedcool

The amount of toxic chemicals that make up perfume or ven just the “one” ingredient masked as “fragrance” would bring you to tears to comrehend. It’s essentially poison, lighter fluid, and carcinogens, and we are spraying it directly on our throats and delicate lymph areas.

Dedcool offers completely non-toxic, yet intoxicating scents that are refreshing and seductive. They make candles, too. We’ve all got that friend who is obsessed with scented candles. Maybe you are that friend. Consider switching things up this month for your own sake and the sake of your loved ones. It will smell even sweeter when you know it’s safe.

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Squeaky Clean Velluto Powder Foundation

Price: $69

Hynt Beauty

Hynt Beauty founder Meryl Marshall is also a breast cancer survivor, and takes absolutely no shortcuts in making her products impurity free and naturally perfect from concept to creation, including packaging and environmental output. Marshall has taken great care to scrutinize every single ingredient that composes Hynt Beauty products for the safety of herself and her consumers. It’s more than just mineral makeup, it’s the epitome of clean.

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Clean Lipstick

Price: $25

Vapour Organic Beauty

Another super clean beauty brand, Vapour Organic Beauty’s mission is to provide safe and effective cosmetics with convenient, multi-use products. Vapour makes so much more than just lipstick, too! You can find Vapour at many retailers, but if you click our image to buy through Credo Beauty, you’ll be donating. Credo gives 1% of all proceeds to their non-profit partner, Lipstick Angels. Help spread a little love and beauty.

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Restorative Balm

Price: $26

CV Skinlabs

Put away the petroleum-based products. That’s right, we said it, throw out your Aquaphor. This is the ultimate clean, non-toxic salve and is your new, go-to everything balm. It’s especially amazing for skin that is suffering the after-effects of chemotherapy and other intense cancer treatments. CV Skinlabs has also put together a Mind + Body + Spirit box to cope with cancer diagnoses, in which 10% of all proceeds will go to the Breast Cancer Fund for the month of October. However, any CV Skinlabs purchase helps the cause—these are all the organizations CV Skinlabs donates to all year round.

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Shiva Rose Holi Stick Natural Deodorant

Price: $26

Agent Nateur

If you haven’t already, do yourself a favor; cut out the hard stuff. And by hard stuff, we mean rubbing aluminum and other harsh, duct-clogging, toxic chemicals under your arms and delicate breast tissue. Yep, you have breast tissue in your armpits, and antiperspirant deodorant is not good for it. Agent Nateur makes it easy to make the switch with this sweet-smelling Shiva Rose scent that mingles with your body chemistry quite nicely. That’s the smell of cancer prevention.

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