SAPPHO COSMETICS
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It’s about learning how to make up and being as daring as you please but even more importantly it’s about putting products on our faces and bodies that will not harm us.
Sappho’s Cosmetics – All products available on this site are phthalate and paraben free. Each product has been chosen for it's safety, ease of application, quality and beauty. We have searched for and found products that we believe are truly wonderful. They are lush, easy to apply, packaged for utility and recylability and made in North America. We believe in the complete disclosure of ingredients and do not deal with any company that tests on our animal friends.
JoAnn Fowler, founder and CEO of Sappho Cosmetics has worked in the television and movie industry as a make up artist since 1989. Her credits include many films and television series and her list of her achievements includes an emmy nomination for "Reefer Madness" . Prompted by Mia Kirshner and Jennifer Beals of the L Word, we began researching cosmetic safety and as a result saw how desperately a line of makeup with full ingredient disclosure and adherance to the strictest safety measures was needed.
We have discovered some truths about what standard cosmetics are all about and the news is not encouraging! Don’t however take our word for it - please research yourself and come back to our site.
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SAPPHO CIRCA 630 B.C.
Considered to be one of the great Greek lyrists and one of the few known female poets, Sappho’s poetry was all about love. It is thought she married a prosperous merchant, bore a daughter Cleis and spent much time studying the arts on the isle of Lesbos, at the time a cultural center. Sappho was exiled to Greece for a time due to political activities in her family.
As with most 7th century poetry, her works were performed with a lyre. She composed her own often sensual and melodic music and refined the now called Sapphic meter. Being one of the first poets writing from a first person point of view she wrote about love and loss in her own life and described how deeply she was personally affected.
Sappho’s poetry is primarily written for and about women. Much of her work was directed to some of the many women who came to educate her in the arts. They are for the most part reflective poems of love and yearning. When the women left finally to marry in Greece she often wrote their wedding songs.
It appears that in the 7th century her poetry was not condemned for it’s homoerotic content although later on in history this changed. Plato honored her work in ancient times and today she remains an important literary and cultural figure. What is left of her poetry still remains a challenge for literary historians but 2000 years later – scholars are still writing, honoring and studying both her and her poetry.