The Splosh UK Forum

I had a bit of a messy session yesterday with a couple of sisters (Dawn 23 & Helen 21 both brunette).

Anyway as we were setting up the paddling pool and the gunge and getting the girls into their outfits, when Helen asked if I was using Fair Trade Products.

It turns outs as she is a student she has a eveninng job in her local Co-op and they specialise in Fair Trade products.

As she kept going on about it I said I would ask the forum if anyone uses these products and if so are they as good as the unfair trade ones.

Paul

Ps. I would love to show you some of the pictures I took, but I'm not entirely sure that what these 2 got up to is totally legal between sisters!!!!!!

Fair trade produce may be sound ethically but it is generally more expensive than the exploitative variety. Of course their aims are very laudable but I'm not sure it is worth the extra for sploshing.

Let us be the judge about the legality of the pictures!!!

paulthepieman wrote:
Ps. I would love to show you some of the pictures I took, but I'm not entirely sure that what these 2 got up to is totally legal between sisters!!!!!!

You tease! As Bill said I'm sure we could verify their legality. Why don't you post them and we will delete them if they are too dodgy

Also I agree with Bill, fair trade would be good but pricy! Maybe it would feel better with all the brownie points you would get. I won't get into the whole "wasting food" sploshing argument

Not related to sploshing, but I can heartly reccomend Co-op Fairtrade Belgian Chocolates - some of the nicest I've ever tasted.

Regarding splosh ethics, whenever we've done egg shoots at Saturation Hall we've always used free range eggs. Yes, they cost more, but battery farming is evil, and we absolutely refuse to support it.

Is there such a thing as fairtrade custard? I think in general fairtrade applies to things sourced from poorer countries (coffee and chocolate being obvious ones), wheras custard is made mainly from milk, so tends to come from our own countries.

I'd say that it's generally a good idea to pay attention to your models views and beliefs. We've worked with vegetarian and even vegan models, and adjusted things to suit on their sets, checking in advance if planned substances were acceptable. Seemingly ketchup is vegan, but salad cream isn't, which was something I didn't know before.

The most ethical sploshing substance of all is mud, 100% natural, not a foodstuff, good for the skin, very, very messy, and comes in a range of colours from almost white (clay) to almost black (peat-bog)! Now, if only the local weather would let us get some nice mud shoots done this year...

DungeonMasterOne wrote:The most ethical sploshing substance of all is mud, 100% natural, not a foodstuff, good for the skin, very, very messy, and comes in a range of colours from almost white (clay) to almost black (peat-bog)! Now, if only the local weather would let us get some nice mud shoots done this year...

And manure. Pictures of a woman being gunged with horse manure were posted on here a few months back. Horse manure makes really good gunge when it is mixed with water.

stonecastle wrote:

DungeonMasterOne wrote:The most ethical sploshing substance of all is mud, 100% natural, not a foodstuff, good for the skin, very, very messy, and comes in a range of colours from almost white (clay) to almost black (peat-bog)! Now, if only the local weather would let us get some nice mud shoots done this year...

And manure. Pictures of a woman being gunged with horse manure were posted on here a few months back. Horse manure makes really good gunge when it is mixed with water.

I'm not sure that horse manure (with or without water) is good for the skin, and I don't think it comes in the range of colours that mud does.

Mike.

wow it took me two whole words to figure out who that post was by!

paulthepieman wrote:
It turns outs as she is a student she has a eveninng job in her local Co-op and they specialise in Fair Trade products.

Get her to wear her uniform and splosh her with fair trade stuff, then get her to wear something else and use non fair trade stuff and see if there is a difference

Then post the pics and let us all decide

Fair trade sploshing is a nice idea but fair trade is sooo much more expensive! However I do think that if you splosh a lot and regularly, you have some sort of responsibility to make sure you don't waste food (even when its all over me I don't like to see dessert go to waste!) and recycle, etc, so you can get messy with no guilt!

The closest I get to dealing with the guilt side (and compared to the amount supermarkets chuck out daily, us sploshers are are far from being the worst when it comes to waste) is by using stuff that is getting towards its 'use by' date and would probably have been chucked anyway. So chuck it over me instead!

Mike Nomic wrote:I'm not sure that horse manure (with or without water) is good for the skin, and I don't think it comes in the range of colours that mud does.

Well, that probably depends on what you feed the horse, but the RSPCA might have issues with some options...

Hayley wrote:The closest I get to dealing with the guilt side (and compared to the amount supermarkets chuck out daily, us sploshers are are far from being the worst when it comes to waste) is by using stuff that is getting towards its 'use by' date and would probably have been chucked anyway. So chuck it over me instead!

<fx: chucks a 10-litre bucket of almost-out-of-date custard at Hayley>

Will that do?

Hayley wrote:The closest I get to dealing with the guilt side...is by using stuff that is getting towards its 'use by' date and would probably have been chucked anyway. So chuck it over me instead!

Surely thats an excuse to do a bigger shop in the first place?!

Glug! Works for me, DM1!

PS Still looking for an RAF-style boiler suit!

Hayley wrote:Glug! Works for me, DM1!

PS Still looking for an RAF-style boiler suit!

Glad you enjoyed. I've another here if you'd like?

I've seen some very nice dungarees in the vintage section of eBay recently, must look for boilersuits too. I've some new models in the pipeline / just starting (honest, there's an actual pipeline driven by Victorian super-technology that transports models from further afield to the village pub, from where they can walk / ride / catch a lift to the Hall), we've quite a few shoots planned if the weather co-operates.