October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month at Gary Manuel Salon Seattle

Special Edition Hand Relief from Gary Manuel Salon Seattle

Throughout the month of October Gary Manuel Salon Seattle will be offering Aveda’s Special Edition Hand Relief Hand Lotion. For every 5 fluid ounce/150 ml tube of this specially designed pink lotion container purchased at Gary Manuel Salon Seattle Aveda will donate four dollars to breast cancer research.

 

Each year it is estimated that over 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer; of these nearly 40,000 women die from breast cancer each year. Aveda and Gary Manuel Salon Seattle have committed to supporting the cause of eliminating breast cancer through contributions to this worthy cause. Through the efforts of Aveda, Gary Manuel Salon Seattle and our caring clients, we have contributed over $1.5 million dollars to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation since 2004.

 

In our commitment to support cancer research AND animal rights, Aveda and Gary Manuel Salon Seattle are proud that our donations to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation support cruelty free research into the causes and cures of breast cancer.

 

Evelyn Lauder founded The Breast Cancer Research Foundation®  as an independent, non-profit funding groundbreaking medical research. The Breast Cancer Research Foundation contributes more than 88 percent of each dollar donated  to research and awareness programs.

 

Aveda’s Hand Relief is an incredibly moist hand lotion offering therapy that eases dry, chapped hands. It reduces signs of aging and relieves dry skin using  plant emollients, humectants, exfoliating fruit acids and anti-oxidants, including vitamins A and E. Visit Gary Manuel Salon Seattle today to try this amazing lotion and support a cause that touches each and every one of us.

Join in Aveda’s Bottle Cap Recycling Program with Gary Manuel Hair Salons in Seattle

Aveda's plan to recycle bottle caps which fill our landfills, endanger animals, and damage our environment:

Aveda salon, Gary Manuel Hair Salons in Seattle – By now most of us have gotten used to sorting through our garbage to determine which items we can recycle and which will be going to our overwhelmed land fills. Possibly the most frustrating part of this is the fact that the lids to the bottles we use regularly are not recyclable in most areas.

Aveda has stepped up to the plate to launch an educational recycling program involving teachers and parents to teach children about recycling and engage the community in disposing of these nuisance bottle tops that pose a threat to nature and our environment.  Check out the details of the program here:

Aveda found that a majority of plastic bottle caps do not get recycled today.

Often these caps end up as litter or trash and migrate into our rivers and oceans. Birds and other marine creatures mistake them for food with tragic results. The magnitude of this pollution problem is devastating to our oceans and wildlife.

Your school can be part of the solution by joining recycle Caps with Aveda.*

Join Aveda's caps recycling initiative that helps extend the current boundaries of recycling and elicits participation through our community. In partnership with community schools, preschool through 12^th grade, we have built a recycling program for plastic bottle caps. Aveda has been able to work closely with our suppliers to develop ways to make new caps from the recycled caps We currently incorporate caps into our professional hair care line and will continue to incorporate recycled caps into future Aveda products.

What type of caps do we collect?
The program accepts caps that are rigid plastic, sometimes noted with a 5 in the chasing arrows recycling symbol.

This includes caps that twist on with a threaded neck such as caps on shampoo, water, soda, milk and other beverage bottles and pharmaceutical lids, flip top caps on tubes and food product bottles (such as ketchup and mayonnaise), laundry detergents and some jar lids such as peanut butter. Click here to download a Cap Collection Guide.

Excluded from collection are non rigid lids such as yogurt lids, tub lids (margarine, cottage cheese), and screw on lids that are not rigid. Please do not include any metal lids or plastic pumps or sprayers. Unfortunately, too much of the wrong types of materials can contaminate the recycling process. mission to encourage local recyclers to accept plastic bottle caps.

Join the Recycle Caps with Aveda campaign and feel great knowing that your plastic caps will be repurposed into new packaging and kept from entering our waterways and harming wildlife.

Want to know how your school can get involved?
Click to learn more: Parents | Teachers. Remember to contact capcollection@aveda.com when you are ready to enroll your school.

Like to color or know a child who does?
Click here for a Fun and Educational Recycle Caps with Aveda Coloring Page. Enjoy!

For more information on how to enroll your school contact capcollection@aveda.com or call 1-877-Aveda09.

* * Due to transportation, logistics and resource availability, only schools in the contiguous 48 state are eligible to participate.

Media Statement
Please contact capcollection@aveda.com if you are interested in publicizing your participation in the Recycle Caps with Aveda program or if you have been contacted by media for inclusion in any stories on the program

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Join Gary Manuel Hair Salon Seattle and Aveda for Earth Month 2011

April is Earth Month for Gary Manuel Hair Salon Seattle and Aveda

In 2009 and 2010 The Aveda network of salons, including Gary Manuel Hair Salon Seattle , partnered with Global Greengrants Fund to bring clean drinking water to tens of thousands of people in over 30 countries around the world. Greengrants has been funding the construction of hundreds of wells and solar pumps. But perhaps more importantly, residents are being educated to maintain these systems and to advocate for their own communities’ rights to access safe drinking water. Take a look at the following video documenting this monumental effort by Aveda and Gary Manuel Hair Salon Seattle:

Join Gary Manuel Hair Salon Seattle and Aveda in providing drinking water to our most needy people
 

As many underprivileged communities have been helped through the efforts of Gary Manuel Hair Salon Seattle and the Aveda network of salons and spas, there are still millions in need of help. Aveda and Gary Manuel Hair Salon Seattle are offering a Light the Way™ Earth Month Candle. This limited-edition soy wax candle, which sells for $12, features an aroma of organic French lavender and will raise $1,340,000 for clean water projects around the globe. 100% of the Earth Month Candle proceeds will be donated to Global Greengrants Fund.

Please, join us today in bringing the most simple of requirements to the world, clean, clear water.

Visit Gary Manuel Hair Salon Seattle to purchase your Light the Way candle.

Gary Manuel Salon Seattle & Daymakers!

At Gary Manuel Salon Seattle, we share Aveda’s mission, ‘… to care for the world we live in, from the products we use to the ways we give back to society.’ And we strive to make your haircuts, beauty, and styling experiences with us ‘transformational!’ But what if we at Gary Manuel Salon Seattle, along with you, could take it a step farther and change the world we live in simply by ‘making someone’s day!’

Staff at SALON NAME Recently Learned About David Wagner and …

The Experience that Changed His Life

It only takes a moment to make someone’s day – to become a daymaker – and sometimes those moments even change lives as I discovered a number of years ago. I was working in my salon one day when a client came in to have her hair styled. I was surprised to see her, since it was right in the middle of her five-week period between hair cuts. I figured that she must have an important social engagement, so I asked her about her evening plans.

‘I don’t have anything special going on,’ she told me. ‘I just want to look and feel good tonight.’

I gave her a great scalp massage, then shampooed and styled her hair. During our 30 minutes together, we joked and laughed. At the end, she smiled radiantly, hugging me goodbye.

A few days later when I received a letter from this client, I began to realize the enormous potential of Daymaking. My client admitted that she had wanted her hair styled so it would look good for her own funeral. She had planned to commit suicide that evening. But the wonderful time she had during our appointment had given her hope that things could get better. She decided to check herself into the hospital and get professional help. She thanked me for caring, even though I hadn’t known what she was going through. She wrote ‘thank you for being there, without knowing that you were.’

I was stunned. I had spent time with this woman about once a month for three years, yet that day I had no inkling she was so distressed. I was glad to have made such a difference, yet the experience left me with an enormous sense of responsibility. What if I had been upset, distracted, or hurried when she came to see me?

That experience made me take stock of myself as a stylist and as a person. How many of the ten clients I saw every day might be in personal crisis that I would never know about? Even if it were only one person a day, I might have no way of knowing who needed some extra attention.

I resolved to treat every person I met like that woman. It might sound like a lot of work, but it wasn’t hard to have fun with my client that day. It was natural and made my day brighter, too. I vowed to give care and attention to everyone I saw. I figured it would make their day a little better, and who knows, it might save a life.

I still thank my client for the gift of that letter because it changed my life as much as my kindness changed hers. When you realize the difference you can make for others, whether by spending a light-hearted half-hour together, giving them a smile, or simply holding the door open for them, your whole approach to life shifts. Why have random acts of kindness when we can have intentional acts of good will?

- David Wagner

Watch this great video by David Wagner!

 

David, a world-renowned hair stylist, artist, entrepreneur, educator, and cancer survivor, is the founder and spirit behind Juut Salonspa, the original AVEDA concept salons. Juut comes from the Japanese word ‘Juuten’ which means to refill. As a first name it means to uplift humanity and serve others, which is exactly what David is all about. He is a best selling author and innovator of the “pay-it-forward” movement of Daymaking. Visit the Daymaker Movement website.

We at Gary Manuel Salon Seattle salute everyone who wants to join us in becoming ’daymakers.’

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