One lucky EcoSalon reader will win $240 worth of incredible skin care products from Vision Biospherically Correct products. Want to enter for your chance to win? Read on.

Who doesn’t want to give their skin a healthy, glowing springtime boost? Vision Biosperically Correct Skin Care Products can help, and you could get to try these outstanding, revolutionary products for free. We’re giving away a skin care system from Vision that includes all natural, organic and wild harvested ingredients.

Vision’s skin care system relies on superfoods such as acai, camu camu, copibia and tamanu oil to help create healthier and fresher looking skin in just days. It’s the ideal line of products for skin needing extra hydration and nourishment, making it perfect for the summer days just ahead.

The package includes:

Silky Olive Cleanser: For centuries people have understood the benefits of olive oil for the skin and now you can experience it too. This finely textured facial cleanser containing pure olive oil, will leave your skin feeling soft and silky smooth. With a gentle blend of essential oils to add a light, fresh scent this is a wonderful product to use every day. Finish your skin care routine with your favorite Vision moisturizer. Palm oil free.

Reviving Face Exfoliant: Made with New Zealand’s own sea salt to deeply cleanse the skin. This face and body scrub will brighten your day by removing dull skin cells and letting fresh ones shine through. Salt minerals are beneficial to the skin and white clay is known for its detoxifying and softening properties. Jojoba oil helps to moisturize and calendula tincture helps to restore your skin to its radiant best. Use once per week or as required. Splash your face with lukewarm water and apply scrub to the face in small circular motions. Rinse well and finish with your favorite Vision moisturizer.

Refreshing Citrus Lotion: This zesty orange lotion provides a perfectly smooth matte skin finish, ideal for a non-moisturized look or as an under make-up prep. Packed full of rosehip oil, the amazonian super fruit extract camu camu and aloe vera for maximum vitamin E and C skin health and vitality. A delightful pick-me-up with orange and lemon essential oils for extra freshness. Wonderful stored in the fridge as a fantastic summer time boost after a hot, dry day.

Revive Eye Gel: They say that the eyes are the window to the soul. Revive the tender skin around your eyes with this refreshing gel packed full of organic aloe vera , the supreme ingredient for cooling and reducing puffiness and lightening dark shadows around the eye area. A little of our tender loving care goes a long way. Apply gently with finger tips around eye area. (Palm oil free.)

Nourishing Eye and Face Cream: Prime skin nutrition with this easy to spread, two-in-one eye and face cream formulated with the anti-oxidant rich acai oil; ideal for providing good fatty acids. With a subtle floral scent, this is a convenient product nourishing enough to use both day and night. Spread lightly over face and use finger tips to gently pat around eye area.

Face Superfood: A magical blend of exotic ingredients sourced from all over the world, resulting in an outstanding cream with exquisite texture and feel. This nutrient rich skin food, featuring acai and  tamanu oil, is absorbed rapidly and is therefore ideal as a day cream for dryer skin types and as an exceptional night cream for all skin types. Calendula oil aids healing and evening primrose and camu camu are known to restore skin elasticity. In conjunction with a healthy lifestyle, we are confident you will enjoy the benefits of fresher, more rejuvenated looking skin.

Pretty amazing, right? Want another reason to love Vision? Vision Products give back: it’s a charitable trust that donates a minimum of 15 percent of all net profits to charity. At checkout, customers can even choose which charity they want 15 percent of their purchase to be donated to right away. Vision Products is truly a brand that stands behind the quality of its products and the integrity of its mission and our planet.

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Is it ever appropriate to work for free? Even if you’re a freelancer?

If you’re a creative, there is a 99.9 percent chance that you have at one point or another worked for free. Sure, you were “paid” in coffee or some other barter system, but there was no cash transaction. And even if you have never worked for free, it’s 99.99 percent certain that you have worked for less money then you deserved to earn.

It has been said that we are the slaves of the internet, and in a culture of content creation, the value of content has gone down. The market is saturated, and when there are so many wanting to make it and offering up their services for free, the chance that you will get paid for your content goes down.

Of course this is an oversimplification of a problem that ultimately comes down to a vicious cycle: individuals undervalue their own work, which in turn makes other people undervalue it as well. If you want your work to be seen as valuable, then you have to see it as valuable first, especially if you’re embarking on a career as a freelancer.

Should you work for free?

No. Well, sometimes yes. But, no, really you should always try to say no. Except for in those situations where you should say yes.

You can see why this is complicated.

Working for free sets a precedent, and while you may just want to get your name out there, if you’re trying to build a client list and a respectable reputation, taking jobs that don’t pay anything doesn’t help you do that.

On the other hand, sometimes doing something for free isn’t necessarily about the payment, it’s about the promotion, or about spreading a certain idea.

As marketing expert and author Seth Godin says, “The more generous you are with your ideas, and the more they spread, the more likely it is your perceived value goes up.” This means, however, that you need to gauge the level at which your ideas are being spread. Free work for www.noonehaseverbeentothiswebsite.com is one thing, and an opinion piece in a nationally acclaimed newspaper, is quite another.

Need some direction in establishing whether or not you should work for free? Illustrator Jessica Hische designed the Should I Work for Free? flow chart. It’s a bit tongue in cheek and yet I have found myself referencing it regularly. In a nutshell: your mother deserves your free labor, but the established business that promises you “a good portfolio piece” doesn’t.

Talk to anyone that works in the freelance business and the likelihood is that at some point during their career they assessed a situation to evaluate whether or not they should work for free. Often times, when people have weighed the pros and cons, and know what the potential benefits of free work will be, they will go ahead and do it. Everyone has a “well, I did this for free, and then it lead to this and then it lead to this and now I am doing this other great paying project.”

And unfortunately, we live in a society where money equals success.

As Tim Kreider points out in The New York Times, “Practicalities aside, money is also how our culture defines value, and being told that what you do is of no ($0.00) value to the society you live in is, frankly, demoralizing. Even sort of insulting. And of course when you live in a culture that treats your work as frivolous you can’t help but internalize some of that devaluation and think of yourself as something less than a bona fide grown-up.”

Ultimately, it comes down to the value question: do you truly feel that your own work is being valued? And to add on the that question, have you thought about the value of the work of other people in your industry, and are you helping or hindering it?

Decide your value and do your best so that others understand that value as well.

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Images: Jessica Hische, Anonymous

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