By will-buy
That's the aim of Fairtade Fortnight, a yearly campaign focused on improving standards of purchase the farmers, creators and suppliers from the products we buy, which starts on February 21.
But how to determine if the items we buy are safeguarding the folks and environments which makes them?
One strategy is to discover the Fairtrade symbol (it's much like a blue and yellow yin yang), which is a global sustainability organisation co-owned by a lot more than 1.8million farmers.
'Fairtrade supports and challenges businesses and governments, and connects farmers and workers with the people who buy their products,' the organisation says.
'By choosing Fairtrade, people can make change through their everyday actions. A product with the Fairtrade mark means producers and businesses have met internationally agreed standards.'
But there are other ways too. Many brands now support fair-trade initiatives independently through direct trade and are in a position to monitor the impact their buying is wearing communities and environments over years.
For example, Lush and The Body Shop happen to be working with communities from third world countries for many years.
Read on for a set of the very best Fairtrade products currently available.
Dr Barbara Sturm's Aloe Gel
90% of Dr Barbara Sturm's insanely cooling aloe gel, perfect after waxing, threading, laser skin treatment or sun exposure) is made of pure, organic and fairly traded aloe leaf juice, that is harvested manually.
When combined with provitamin B5 there is a major cooling hydration hit.
Buy for lb50 from Space NK.
Body Shop Shea Butter
The Repair shop features its own Community Fair Trade programme working with communities it has supported, sometimes for many years.
The Shea Butter is produced with the aid of farmers in Ghana and Brazil, who're paid fairly for their work.
Buy it for lb18 in the Repair shop.
Odylique Maka Mask
Odylique has been a trailblazer within the fair-trade space and many of its make-up and sweetness products contain either fairly traded sugar or shea.
I love this three-in-one Maca Mask that mixes clays with organic sugar cane, organic oats and baobab to carefully exfoliate.
Buy it from lb20 from Odylique.
L'Occitane's Shea Butter range
L'Occitane's Shea Butter range supports 10,000 women in Burkina Faso who work to farm and produce the shea.
This Shea Intensive Hand Balm is ultra-rich and has been specially adapted to protect and nourish dry hands and skin.
Buy it for lb24 from L'Occitane.
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Neal's Yard Bee Lovely bath and shower gel
Neal's Yard has numerous fairly traded materials going into its products including organic avocado oil, frankincense, sandalwood and geranium.
We love the Bee Lovely bath and shower gel, which uses fair-trade honey from Mexico and also results in a home for 100 bees with every purchase.
Buy it for lb14 from Neal's Yard.
Lush's Fairly Traded Honey shampoo
More than 1 / 2 of Lush's Fairly Traded Honey shampoo is honey itself, which fans say leaves their hair 'soft, supple and clean'.
The added beeswax and linseed will help with that, with oils of bergamot, rose absolute and neroli uniting to leave your mane smelling heavenly.
Buy it from lb10 from Lush.
Kiehl's Buttermask
The perfect overnight winter lip saviour, Kiehls' aptly named 'Buttermask' contains fairly traded coconut oil and wild mango butter to leave your lips softer and smoother when you sleep.
Buy it for lb19.75 from John Lewis.
