Owner at Faces of Astarte: Natural Hair & Skin Care Consulting
Utica, New York Area
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- Author at NonToxic Beauty Blog
- Owner at Faces of Astarte: Natural Hair & Skin Care Consulting
- Past
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- Lead Cosmetologist, Health & Beauty Supervisor at Natur-Tyme
- Director at Kids Against Pollution
- National Environmental Associate at New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)
- Participant at J. Michel Associates
- Owner at Herbal Hair & Skin Care
- Education
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- Mohawk Valley Beauty Culture School
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Christine Shahin’s Summary
We are intrinsically connected to our environment. It is also our "common ground" in that what effects one will effect all. Ecological health, vibrant or poor, contributes to personal health respectively. If the air we breathe, water we drink, soil we grow food in is optimum, assimilated into ourselves, our health in turn is optimum.
What we create, manufacture, and purchase, comes from the earth, the environment. How we use these resources, depleting or replenishing - obviously determines if there will be more to use but also if what we use employed any toxins, also contributes to our personal well being.
Natural resources are our money in the bank - except there is no overdraft protection.
My Goals are to BE THE CHANGE and:
Provide Healthy Safe Beauty Options
Promote Awareness of Same
Propagate an Eco-Economy
Christine Shahin’s Specialties:
Years of experience at the decision making table from local, regional, state, national and international environmental, labor, human rights issues.
Years of experience implementing natural healing and lifestyle practices.
Having the first father assisted hospital birth at St. Luke's Hospital in Utica.
Five Home Births
Raised family using mostly alternative therapies.
Years of Organic Gardening: herbs & vegetables.
Experience making own products and teaching same.
Christine Shahin’s Experience
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Author
NonToxic Beauty Blog
(Consumer Goods industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Mission of Non -Toxic Beauty Blog is to Inform about the realities of main stream personal care products
Update on legislation pertaining to health and beauty products
Empower readers to make healthy purchasing choices for themselves, their families, and friends known and unknown, human or other. -
Owner
Faces of Astarte: Natural Hair & Skin Care Consulting
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
Astarte, the ancient Phoenician great goddess of fertility, motherhood, and war, Ishtar her Babylonian counterpart, is one of the oldest Middle Eastern aspects of the great Goddess, dating to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
As a Holistic Beauty Practitioner, the face is what is of most concern with my clients; therefore Faces of Astarte expresses the diverse faces of all the beautiful souls and spirits that come to me in search of nurturing for their young, repair, and healthy graceful aging for themselves. -
Lead Cosmetologist, Health & Beauty Supervisor
Natur-Tyme
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
March 2004 — April 2008 (4 years 2 months)
Central NY's Premier Nutritional Headquarters
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Director
Kids Against Pollution
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry)
April 1990 — July 2007 (17 years 4 months)
Kids Against Pollution (KAP) is a multinational network of active youth dedicated to solving and preventing pollution problems through interactive educational projects and events in order to protect children’s health and the planet. Poverty and Prejudice are intimately connected with pollution issues and therefore are part of KAP’s mission.
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National Environmental Associate
New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
1999 — 2002 (3 years )
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Participant
J. Michel Associates
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year )
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Owner
Herbal Hair & Skin Care
(Cosmetics industry)
April 1990 — August 1994 (4 years 5 months)
My in home all natural salon.
Christine Shahin’s Education
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Mohawk Valley Beauty Culture School
Licensed Cosmetologist, Associates , Beauty Culture , 1990 — 1992
High Honors in Beauty Culture
OTHER EDUCATION
Successfully completed numerous Environmental Issue Trainings: climate change, community organizing, dioxin, endocrine disruptors, Freedom of Information, groundwater, Jobs & the Environment, media, pesticides, psychological effects of toxic impacts, risk assessment, solid, hazardous, and medical waste, grant writing, & fundraising. Excellence in Non-Profit Leadership & Management Learning Institute Certificate Program, Full Capcity Leadership for Executive Women, J. Michael Associates; Women in Politics, Training for Candidates/Campaign Managers, Certified Community Trainer Unlearning Racism, YWCA; Executive Leadership in Non-Profit Organization, Maxwell School of SU. Herbal Remedies Woodland Essence. Self studied Natural Skin Care by Aubrey Organics, Mohawk Beauty Culture School earning cosmetology license. Syracuse University School of Nursing—completed introductory nursing courses before leaving college to become a wife and mother.
Additional Information
Christine Shahin’s Websites:
Christine Shahin’s Interests:
Natural food, natural healing, natural beauty, natural living - naturally! Also Women and Children issues. Peace through Justice. Eco-Economy
Christine Shahin’s Groups:
* Director Kids Against Pollution (KAP) 1990-2007
* Citizen’s Environmental Coalition, state toxics organization 1990-2000
* New York State Labor and Environment Network 1990-2004
* The National Council of Churches’ Eco-Justice Working Group for Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese 1997-2004, (Co-Chair of Enviro Racism Committee)
* Advisory Board Central NY Occupational Health Clinic occupational exposures, injuries and illnesses 1994-2004
* GreenHouse Network
* Environmental Justice Climate Coalition 2000-2004
* World Summit on Sustainable Development Johannesburg South Africa 2002 official delegate
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International Network of Social-Eco Entrepreneurs -
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American Holistic Medical Association -
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The Network of Arab American Professionals -
GreenWorldGroup -
Greening of Medicine -
Cosmetics and Beauty Network -
Eco Fashion and Ethical Fashion Networking Group -
Natural and Organic Cosmetics Marketplace -
Risk, Regulation & Reporting -
Spa Sustainability -
CSR -
Women TIES
Christine Shahin’s Honors:
AWARDS RECEIVED
* New York State Labor & Environment Network’s 1993 Building Bridges Award for coalition building
* Parents Magazine’s 1997 “As They Grow" Environmental Category June Issue
* Parenting Magazine’s 1997 "Top Ten Parenting Leaders” Environmental Category, May Issue
White House Honors Luncheon First Lady Hillary Rodham-Clinton and EPA Administrator Carol Browner May 22, 1997
* Herkimer County Honor Christine Wood Day 1997
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