Get green people!

As someone who enjoys shopping, I inevitably buy things (mostly over the internet) and lately I have become disgusted by the amount of packaging that is so unnecessary. For example, I bought a jar of cream for my face and the amount of packaging would have kept it in tact if it was shipped from frickin' Mars. Do we really need all this packaging? I have tried to limit the amount of packaging I get by recycling plastic bags, using cloth bags and asking for as much stuff as possible to be put in one bag. But I have little impact over products I buy that are packaged. Is anyone out there trying to inform businesses about how to go green?