Therapy In A Box Introduces Fair Trade Collection, Featuring Hand Made Telephone Wire Baskets, for the Holidays

Therapy In A Box adds fair trade collection featuring Zulu telephone wire baskets to its gift basket line and commits 10 percent of collection's proceeds to A Bridge For Africa.

LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB) November 11, 2005 -- Hollywood make-up artist Alison Sherwood turned the traditional gift basket upside down when she introduced her visually stimulating gift box line Therapy In A Box a few years ago. Now, just in time for the holidays, Alison has introduced a new collection of thought provoking baskets that are not only beautiful and useful, they are meaningful. Therapy In A Box’s brand new Fair Trade collection features telephone wire baskets, which are handmade by the Zulu people of South Africa. The purchase of these baskets helps the Zulu workers improve their working conditions and create more jobs and Therapy In A Box will donate 10% of this collection’s proceeds to the non-profit organization A Bridge For Africa.

Therapy In A Box’s Fair Trade collection gives shoppers the opportunity to give back this holiday season. The collection features four beautiful gift baskets that are perfect at the holidays and beyond. Priced between $86 and $250, each gift arrives wonderfully packaged in a hand woven telephone wire basket:

“Imagine” features fair trade organic coffee, hot coco, green tea, two chocolate bars; hand made salad servers and two hand made spoons, and a beautiful set of earth tone dish towels in a 16” by 3 3/8” large earth tone basket. The basket, a fabulous gift in itself, retails for $225.

“Dream” also retails for $225 and features Archipelago Morning Mint body lotion, sugar scrub and shower gel, a body scrub brush, a bamboo teak candle, an organic mint Dagoba chocolate bar, and Refresh Tea in a large square basket that makes a wonderful accent in any home.

“Harmony,” designed for men, features Archipelago Morning Mint shaving cream, sugar scrub, shower gel and body lotion, a bamboo teak candle, an organic mint Dagoba chocolate bar and Refresh Tea in a square, earth-toned basket. “Harmony” retails for $250.00.

“Kindness,” the smallest basket in the Fair Trade collection, includes Archipelago’s brown sugar scrub, lotion and shower gel, a sisal scrub mitt, Bluwick travel candle and a tin of chocolate traveler wedges in a 7” by 3” basket and retails for $86.00.

Therapy In A Box has committed to donate 10% of this special collection’s proceeds to La Jolla, California-based A Bridge For Africa; a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting self sufficiency and the dignity of work in rural Africa. The organization partners with rural artisan groups in Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia and Ghana to design, create, and market beautiful handmade products in the U.S. The proceeds from these high-quality fair trade items pay the artisans a living wage, and are reinvested in further jobs, training, and development.

Founded with the simple desire to relieve the frustration she so often heard from friends and coworkers daunted by the task of buying gifts, Alison has created more than 50 unique gift boxes with an esthetic that comes from more than a decade of working on television and movie sets. Alison offers a wide variety of gift options for everyone on the list, even those “seen-it-all, tough-to-buy-for” types. Therapy In A Box has something for everyone on the list and makes gift giving easy. Gifts can be ordered online at www.therapyinabox.com or by phone 1-800-530-1988.

For press inquiries, please contact Karie Reynolds at 626.403.9143.

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