ECO-FRIENDLY OR ECO-FAKE????

Sorry to keep on harping about the Green Thing….but…we really  want to bring you the best  skin, hair and body care on the planet.  We keep dumping things that could possibly be harmful, and, we keep adding  exciting new ingredients….years ago (remember, we’ve been doing this for 30 years !) they were saying ‘natural’ was a fad.  Now, suppliers and manufacturers can hardly wait to be the first with  cleaner, more pure ingredients for the paradigm shift in skin care, i.e. PURE! FRESH! CLEAN!

But, things  aren’t as simple as they seem.  We insist a product be ONE HUNDRED PER CENT NATURAL to be called a natural product, and ONE HUNDRED PER CENT ORGANIC to be called an organic product….1 or 2 percent just doesn’t make it!  Do you want to discover your new expensive organic shampoo only has 1% organic ingredients, maybe the essential oils that scent it…and the rest is only ‘natural’ or sometimes….even synthetic!

The reason I am ranting again about this today…is I think I finally saw the ultimate Eco-Fake product!  A rising star with a wonderful ‘green, natural, eco-friendly’ etc. website has just introduced a line of skin body and hair care!  Yes,,,it is all about ORGANIC, ORGANIC, ORGANIC.  But a quick glance at the ingredients (does anybody else read this stuff??) shows not only are most of the ingredients not organic, they are not even natural, and actually, quite the same things you would find in a 16oz bottle of really cheap shampoo at the $$ store or drugstore. The small amount of ‘organic’ in this product is only there for show, for the marketing buzz, and to get those big $$$$!!!!

So, all I can say is…..read the labels….and then google the words you can’t read, pronounce or understand!

Bye for now,

Linda

WHAT’S THE BUZZ????

I AM ADDICTED TO LIP BALM!!  Like many others.  I have one in my purse, one near my computer…one at my desk at work, one at my desk at home, in the  hiking pack, my little bike thing, in my car, and now, with spring finally here, I’m keeping one in the greenhouse.

Over the past couple of years, our most requested product has been Lip Balm.  Why haven’t we made it before?? Well, we wanted to do it right.  Most of the Lip Balm I’ve used…I haven’t liked.  I do a lot of gardening, hiking and biking, all outside in sun, wind and cold…I found most balms either too hard, with synthetic mineral oils and waxes.  Or too soft, with natural oils that melted and went off quickly, or were too sticky.  The nice natural ones often had really creepy preservatives to fend off rancidity.  Often they had a lot of synthetic fragrance, and who wants to put that on their lips, or possibly, eat it???

Lip Balm, easy as it seems, was a challenge.  So, we spent two years researching!  Yes, we Did!!! We ended up firstly, with a huge 7 gm state-of-the-art tube…almost TWICE the normal amount.  Then, we consulted a young naturally-oriented cosmetic chemist who helped us formulate a water-free product…apparently, bacteria need H2O to survive.  The shelf life is around two years.

Then, we used local Wildflower Honey & Beeswax, and soon I should be able to supply these from my own hive.  Most important, we decided from the beginning, because it is used on the lips, that IT HAD TO BE 100% ORGANIC!!! Not just 1% so we could put it on the label……but 100% ORGANIC!!!!

We’ve used the best ingredients available;

Wildflower Honey (from free-range bees) – Queen of Skin Softeners, anti-aging/anti-wrinkle.  Coconut Oil – Natures Best Emollient, Beeswax;  Natural wax, not hydrocarbon like white cosmetic waxes.  Olive Oil – Emollient,  removes flaky dry skin.  Shea Butter – smooths skin,  Mango Butter – Great Natural Emollient.  Hemp Seed Oil – Rich in Omega 3’s, healing.  Vitamin E – Anti-oxidant, Peppermint Essential Oil – Fresh, clean scent, and Vanilla Absolute for a warm, sweet scent.

We believe we’ve come up with the best lip balm in the world….and we can prove it!!! Again, you get twice as much 100% Wildflower Honey Lip Balm for a reasonable price..with ALL
of the great ingredients, and NONE of the bad ones!

After 30 Years of making the best natural skin and body care available…we’ve done it Again!! We weren’t the first kid on the block to have Lip Balm…but…

We  feel  this is the best Lip Balm on the planet !!!!!!!!!!