See our inspired Stolen Beauty actions below! You can view more on our Local Spotlight and post your own!

July 19, 2010 Inside the Cosmetics convention, Ahava boss denies the Occupation, by Nancy Kricorian, July 22, 2010 On Monday, July 19th, Jodie Evans of CODEPINK and supporter Zissa went to the Cosmetics Professionals (COSMOPROF) Convention at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas to confront Ahava North America CEO Michael Etedgi for the second year in a row. Last July, Jodie and another woman did a bikini and mud protest in the Ahava booth at the convention. This year they were hoping to have a dialogue with Etedgi and to educate more cosmetics professionals about the illegal practices of Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories. More...

July 9, 2010 CODEPINK LA Action Report by Bonnie Johnson: Today Inez and I visited a couple of the shops where I called and sent letters this week. At the first place the manager and owner were out, but we talked to a retail clerk who was very concerned to hear about the issue and promised to give our info to her bosses. She also gave us their schedules and tips on a couple of other places she'd seen carrying Ahava. We thanked her and left. At the second place, the owner, with whom I'd spoken on the phone, was there by himself. He said he was an Israeli Zionist, called us anti-Semites and told us we were supporting terrorists (he also called me personally a "bimbo" and a "hooker"). He suggested what we could do with our letter and ordered us out of his store. Since there were no shoppers inside anyway we positioned ourselves on the sidewalk with our banner (I got a nice photo of Inez above) and gave leaflets to passersby. He helped draw attention to us by coming out and honking a horn in our ears after threatening to call the police. We conversed with pedestrians and got a couple beeps from cars, even as the irate man stood between us and yelled. When we had to leave we cheerfully told him we'd be back and he not-so-cheerfully gave us the finger.

WPIX TV 11 Coverage of Ricky's Protest July 9, 2010 Battle Over Ricky's Cosmetics CODEPINK joins Brooklyn for Peace protesters outside another Ricky's store. See related article for more: Mud-slinging on Montague! Protesters say Ricky’s backs Israel’s ‘illegal’ occupation, The Brooklyn Paper.

May 25, 2010 Demonstration Outside Ricky's CodePink-NYC and Adalah-NY staged another raucous demonstration in front of 2 stores in the Ricky’s chain – one on 3rd Avenue and one on East 14th Street in Manhattan. Ricky’s continues to carry the Ahava line of creams and lotions that is manufactured in an occupied West Bank colony using stolen Palestinian mineral resources taken from the area near the Dead Sea. More...

April 24, 2010 AHAVA boycott action in Austin, Texas More than 30 people carried picket signs in front of the Gateway Shopping Center in Austin on Saturday, April 24, urging shoppers to boycott ULTA Beauty for refusing to take Ahava Dead Sea cosmetics off their shelves. The Austin protests, which began the previous week at the Sunset Valley ULTA store, are part of an international campaign to call attention to resources taken from illegal Israeli settlements. The UN has declared the Israeli settlements in Palestine to be a violation of international law and Ahava violates the fourth Geneva Convention by exploiting Palestine’s natural resources.

April 17, 2010 AHAVA boycott action in Austin, Texas Pink Police officers declared ULTA a crime scene and cordoned off the Ahava section while about 15 "shoppers" with messages on their shopping bags performed a freeze in the middle of the store. Pink Police asked people in the store to boycott ULTA until they remove all Ahava products from their shelves. A sidewalk protest was held immediately following the action.

March 31, 2010 Manhattan, NYC AHAVA Boycott Action outside Ricky's NY Members of CODEPINK NYC, Adalah-NY, Women in Black Union Square and other groups protested outside two Ricky's NY stores calling on Ricky's CEO Dominick Costello to stop selling AHAVA cosmetics.

March 30, 2010 Washington, D.C. Lord & Taylor Action

March 27, 2010 Arlington, VA store action

September 19, 2009: CODEPINK protest - Union Station, Washington, DC Activists staged a protest action inside of and also in front of an upscale shop located in Union Station, in Washington, DC. The store carries products of Ahava, “Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories,” an Israeli company.

July 29, 2009: CODEPINKers protest AHAVA in upscale DC beauty shops Read Press Advisory

July 28, 2009: CODEPINK LA AHAVA action in Santa Monica CODEPINKers Jodie Evans, Susan Adelman led a group of protesters at this action. Pretty upset, Santa Monica Daily Press, July 29, 2009

July 21, 2009: CODEPINK Launches its "Stolen Beauty Campaign" at AHAVA Store in Nordstroms at Las Vegas Fashion Mall CODEPINKers Jodie and Parislaunched our campaign with a dramatic protest, which included signs and chants at the Ahava booth inside the beauty industry's annual major Cosmoprof conference in Las Vegas, and called on the Israeli company to end its exploitation of the Occupied West Bank and to follow international law. Read the story here and the press release here. See more action photos here!

June 14, 2009: Educating the NYC Public! On the sands of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism's Tel Aviv Beach, bikini-clad CODEPINK activists covered themselves in mud to expose Israel's dirty occupation of Palestine. The beach event aims to boost U.S. tourism to Israel and clean up Israel’s image just months after its devastating 22-day assault on Gaza that killed more than 1,400 Gazans, injured 5,300, destroyed approximately 4,000 homes and displaced 50,000 people into temporary U.N. shelters. The bikini-clad CODEPINK women distributed info exposing Israeli Dead Sea cosmetics company AHAVA, which uses mud illegally extracted from and packaged in the Occupied Territories. "Despite its name, (Ahava means "love" in Hebrew), there is nothing loving about a company that profits from stolen resources and oppressed people,” says CODEPINK coodinator Rae Abileah who organized a protest of AHAVA in Tel Aviv last week.“We will paint ourselves with mud to expose the dirty practices of AHAVA and the Israeli government.” From Fox News: Bikini-Clad Activists Crash Tel Aviv Beach Party, by Erica Emmich, June 21, 2009

June 10, 2009: Educating Kristin Davis! Sex & The City star and Oxfam ambassador Kristin Davis receives a letter from CODEPINK activist Dana Balicki at an Ahava beauty products promotional event at Lord & Taylor in New York City. Davis is a paid spokesperson for Ahava, which obtains and manufactures its products in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. CODEPINK is asking Davis to educate herself about the facts of Ahava's criminal theft and exploitation. Dana Balicki said, “I told Kristin that her admirable work as an Oxfam Ambassador is undermined by her allowing AHAVA to use her good name and beautiful face to cover up their crimes.”

June 6, 2009: Protest against AHAVA, Hilton Hotel, Tel aviv, Israel See photos and View video of our action at an Ahava store in Tel Aviv.