Activism
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              The Beauty Industry’s Pay-to-Play Problem (and why I chose another way)
            
          
          
            
            
              
                By Denise Cartwright, CRUDE Founder/CEO
On Vox’s Today, Explained podcast, former Sephora executive Artemis Patrick breaks down the pay-to-pla...
              
            
            
            
           
         
      
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              Healthy Soil for a Healthy Planet
            
          
          
            
            
              
                Why you should care about regenerative farming
By Cattie Khoury, Toodaloo Founder
Ever heard the saying “as above, so below”? This expression’s me...
              
            
            
            
           
         
      
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              International Women's Day
            
          
          
            
            
              
                Happy International Women's Day!
For over 100 years, women across the world have joined together in the fight for equality and justice. Initially o...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              Meet the Microbialites
            
          
          
            
            
              
                Great Salt Lake's Living Rocks at Risk
By J.T. Alvarez
They’re not fuzzy, cuddly, or adorably helpless, but these endangered organisms still dese...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              Save Our Great Salt Lake
            
          
          
            
            
              
                The Eco Crisis Threatening CRUDE’s Home
The Great Salt Lake is drying up.
As it does, an increasing amount of decades’ worth of industrial waste an...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              Honoring an Inclusive Father's Day
            
          
          
            
            
              
                Thinking of and breathing for all of you this Father’s Day
By Eric Mosley
According to retail advertising companies, Father’s Day is the summer ho...
              
            
            
            
           
         
      
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              Thriving with Accessible Skincare
            
          
          
            
            
              
                Social media and the influx of self-care culture
By Julian Gavino
Over the years, we’ve been barraged with advice on how to dress, how to make you...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              Restoring Communities with Return to the Heart
            
          
          
            
            
              
                All proceeds of the Balancing the Biome Summit support Return to the Heart Foundation. Read on for more information on their vital mission transfor...
              
            
            
            
           
         
      
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              CRUDE Cares: The Floret Coalition
            
          
          
            
            
              
                CRUDE is a proud member of The Floret Coalition, an anti-racist collective of small businesses supporting and funding equity-oriented actions via m...
              
            
            
            
           
         
      
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              Beyond Recyclable
            
          
          
            
            
              
                The Big Idea Behind Staying Small
CRUDE has been told time and time again that we should add this, that, or the other thing to expand our product o...
              
            
            
              
            
            
           
         
      
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              LET YOUR NATURE THRIVE | JoJo Bluemel
            
          
          
            
            
              
                
In 2018 we featured a lovely model — JoJo Bluemel — on our homepage and all over our marketing. I was so excited to feature JoJo, who is trans, an...
              
            
            
            
           
         
      
    
   
 
 
    
    
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