Fair Trade Day will be May 8th this year, and we would like to have you to celebrate with us!

It just so happens that this year the special day lands smack dab after our new move to 342 Adams Ave., in Scranton!  In light of this lucky coincidence we will be having our grand re-opening that Saturday as well. You’re invited to come down and investigate all of the new items we carry along with new clothing, shoes, and housewares. Our scrub bar will be up and running again by then as well, so feel free to drop by for needed exfoliation.

We also have special event day happenings going on as well. May’s giveaway will be a chance to win a $50 gift certificate for anything in the store, so you can enter to win.  We now sell fair trade coffee, too!  We’ll have brewed coffee for you to taste, and soap samples for everyone! If you’re the creative type, enter our contest to design our next soap!  The winner will receive 2 pounds of their creation, plus a store gift certificate!  Also, we will be giving away a Ten Thousand Villages tote bag with every order over $25.

Don’t forget that Mother’s Day is May 9.  We have lots of beautiful items appropriate for any mom, from soap to sterling silver.  We can show how much we love our own moms while supporting mothers all over the world!

Hope to see you then!

                The Fanciful Fox, the Hill Section boutique that caters to the conscious consumer, will be moving its location this spring. The mother-daughter team of Kathie and Amanda Fox will be moving to a new, larger location to accommodate their ever-growing inventory. At their current location at 1425 Ash Street, they sell handmade organic bar and liquid soaps, lotions, scrubs, and all sorts of skin care.  There is also a scrub bar where customers can have body scrubs made to order while they wait.  In addition to bath and body products, The Fanciful Fox also sells handmade items that are friendly to the planet and the artisans that make them.  They have items such as jewelry made from recycled paper, purses and bags made from old plastic and car seat belts, and hand woven scarves.

Their new digs will be at 342 Adams Avenue in downtown Scranton. Along with the new larger space, the inventory will expand as well to include more fair trade items such as shoes, a wider selection of clothing for women and children, house wares, coffees, teas, and vegan chocolates. They are expecting some items that are made by people in Haiti, and jewelry from Tibet. Not only has the fair trade stock exploded, but the bath and body merchandise has as well. At the new storefront on Adams Ave, there will be an array of new soaps, body butters, fair trade sugar scrubs, and a wider variety of candles.  There will also be enough room for an in house workshop.  Made to order bath and body products will be easier than ever, especially the scrub bar!

The Fanciful Fox is a vegan boutique that cares about the planet and all the living creatures on it.  In 2009, they were awarded a Compassionate Business Award by PETA.  They are licensed by PETA as a cruelty free company, and they were recently invited to join the Fair Trade Federation.

World Fair Trade Day is Saturday, May 8.  To celebrate that occasion and their “Grand Re-opening” downtown, The Fanciful Fox will be hosting a fair trade event from 10:00 am until 8:00pm.  There will be free fair trade coffee samples, soap samples, and a chance to win a $50 Fanciful Fox gift certificate.  There will also be live music and a contest to design their next soap.

Every time winter comes along we are all faced with the same irritating problem, dry skin. And every winter we all try a thousand products that don’t work as well as we would like them to. But, this winter we, at the Fanciful Fox, have a solution…Babassu Body Butter!

This new creation has the perfect concoction of moisturizing butters and oils to whip your skin into shape, and show once and for all who’s boss! Aloe butter naturally soothes and heals cracked skin, while cocoa butter works its magic to make you smooth and beautiful. In addition, added jojoba oil, with natural vitamin E, moisturizes making you silky all over. The all star of this product, though is the exotic Babassu butter. Babassu butter penetrates skin quickly providing a protective barrier and soothing skin without leaving behind a greasy, oily feeling that so many other items do.

Babassu butter originates in Brazil from the Babassu palm tree. The meat from the babassu nuts are extracted, after they fall to the ground, and pressed to form butter. The Babassu butter that is used in this fancy body creation is wild crafted, which means that the nuts used to make this ingredient came from nature. The trees were not farmed, but instead searched out in the forest and gathered. This process of wild crafting drastically reduces deforestation, and preserves the natural integrity of the land and tree.

Key Ingredients and Their Purposes:

Wild Crafted Babassu Butter – high in lauric acid, penetrates quickly, soothing and protective

Aloe Butter – soothing, healing, moisturizing

Wild Crafted Cocoa Butter – moisturizes, improves skin elasticity

Jojoba Oil – moisturizes while leaving soft, silky feel, improves skin elasticity and suppleness

Vegetable Glycerin – humectant (attracts and retains moisture to skin)

Vitamin E – fantastic antioxidant

Check It Out!

We would like to officially announce that we were awarded a 2009 Compassionate Business Award from our friends at PETA. We work really hard to ensure that our products are completely cruelty free. We take pride in researching every ingredient that goes into our products to make absolutely certain that no animal has been harmed down the line. As far as testing goes…we have many willing human test subjects that we try all of our products on!

We don’t know why Erth is spelled so silly, and frankly we don’t care. We just LOVE the product.

The mineral makeup we carry is 100% pure, crushed minerals. There are no unnecessary fillers such as bismuth, oxychloride, and there are no nano-particles.

What this means to you is that the makeup you are choosing is so pure you can sleep in it.

All the makeup we carry, including foundations, blushers, bronzers, veils, and eye shadows will apply beautifully, and will help condition the skin while giving you a soft look. Erth Minerals is a naturally non-comedogenic and bacteria resistant makeup. It gives wonderful converage to acne and rosacea without irritating the skin.

We believe so strongly that you will love Erth Minerals just as much as we do, not only for the quaility, but also for the value, we are offering a 100% money-back guarantee.

So…what’s so great about it?

The Dead Sea has been a place to extract mud and salts to be used for beauty for centuries. In fact, this water source has been a place to beautify since the days of Cleopatra. The Dead Sea contains the highest concentration of minerals (32% to be exact) to be found anywhere in the world! This is ten times higher than any other regular ocean, making it perfectly magical. The reason that the mineral content is so high is because of the natural rapid evaporation in the unusual environment.

Both our dead sea bath salts and our dead sea mud masks contain many amazing exfoliating and cleansing minerals.

To name just a few:
Magnesium:
Promotes healing of skin tissue and provides skin surface with anti-allergic element. Essential for cell metabolism.
Bromide:
Soothes skin, relaxes body muscles, and tranquilizes nerves.
Sulfur:
A natural disinfectant (constituent of certain vitamins).
Potassium:
A moisture regulator that maintains a neutral environment in the skin.
Calcium:
A building block for corrective tissue under the skin surface.
Sodium:
Relieves stiffness and muscle cramps and maintains neutral environment in the skin.

The minerals in dead sea products helps to expell toxins and pollutants that are absorbed by the skin. Fine lines and wrinkles can be reduced when using one of our mud masks as a facial. Dead Sea Mineral products are known to stimulate circulation, enhance cell regeneration, relieve muscular pains and stress and overall improve skin tone and general health.

So, basically the mineral content in our mud masks and bath salts makes them so great!

no synthetic detergents
no chemical thickeners
no synthetic fragrances
no preservatives

just shampoo the
way it used to be

100% from the earth
100% biodegradeable
100% cruelty free and vegan

All of these shampoos can be used as a pretty fancy body wash.

100% VEGAN & CRUELTY FREE

We know hardcore vegan standards. We at the Fanciful Fox, don’t only produce vegan products, we live a very strict vegan lifestyle. So, don’t worry there’s not even any honey. We even refuse to use real silk. You can fully guarantee that our products have never been tested on even a single animal.

RESEARCH…RESEARCH…RESEARCH…

We are very concerned about the quality of our ingredients. That is why every single ingredient we use we research thoroughly ourselves. Your health and well-being means the world to us. So, although we do use synthetics, every synthetic we use is completely safe. If you would like to look up our ingredients as well, ask the FDA, Cosmetic Industry Resource Center, and American Cancer Society, we already did.

WE’VE NEVER…

We never, nor will we ever in the future, use any petrochemicals, parabens, formaldehyde donors, or carcingogens of any kind. They sound just as bad as they are for your body. We only use ingredients that sound pretty and are pretty for you.

The style of our products, and our store overall pretty much looks like the compromise of a sixteen year old and her forty-something mother, which it completely is. Our products reflect the needs and wants of human beings of all ages, and are always fun, fancy, and fabulous. We are eclectic and we like it that way. We give ourselves an antique vintage vibe, with a splash of modern new-age fun into the mixing pot. We constantly change our products, store displays, and everything so everything’s always new, different, and exciting. Just for fun.

To You My Friend,

The beginning is actually quite a silly story. It all started when my mother, Kathie Fox, and I were bored on a rainy afternoon. So, we hit a local craft store looking for cute mother-daughter activities. We stumbled upon a candle making kit, and thought it looked like fabulous fun. Who knew that one candle kit would morph into a bath and body store. The fair trade part of our store came later. We learned of fair trade through learning about our vegetarianism. We thought it was a great idea, and morphed even more to add fair trade into our stewing pot. The idea exploded and we finally took the plunge, and our store has been open since September 2008.

Namaste,
Amanda Fox