This newsletter contains:
- A Summer Hydrosol Sale
- Two new essential oil kits/collections at big savings
- A "Double Mint" special
- A Cedarwood special
- A brand new Skincare Product
- Major price reduction on Passages Synergy
- Major price reduction on our remaining stock of Palma
Rosa (Making way for the new!)
- Four Back in Stock oils
- Import difficulties - why we have no French Lavender -
Helichrysum scarcity, German Chamomile - etc.
- Coming Soon:
- Hints, tips and feedback from our clients
- Press Clippings:
- Our Quote of the Month
Hydrosol Sale
This summer we are offering a pair of roses: both our
Turkish Rosa Damascena Hydrosol and our Organic Bulgarian
Rosa Alba Hydrosol. Order both and save 15%. Only, of
course, on our New and Special page
New Kits or Collections:
A Bouquet of Roses:
Two mls each - 10% dilutions of Turkish and Bulgarian
Rose Otto, Bulgarian Rosa Damascena Absolute, Rose Maroc
(Rosa centifolia Absolute) and a 5% dilution of our fabulous
new Rose de Mai. Save $10 by ordering all five. For now,
only on our Special page.
The Woodlover's Kit:
Five very special "wood" oils - both our Cedarwoods,
Rosewood from the Amazon, Sandalwood Sri Lanka, Sandalwood
Absolute, and our Tree of Life Synergy - purchased
separately they would cost $106; buy the full kit for only
$75.00. Add a
Woodlover's Essendulum for only $15.00 more!
For now both of these kits exist only on our Specials
page. We will be moving them to the
"Aromatherapy Kits" page when time allows.
Double Mint Sale:
Order 15 mls each of our USA grown Peppermint and
Spearmint oils and save $4.00. Only on our
Specials page, of course. Also, a
Cedarwood Sale - Order 15 mls each of our Atlas and
Himalayan Cedarwoods and save $4.00
All New Skincare Product: Nature's
Gift Creme Cleanser
Suffice it to say that someone sent me a sample. I loved
it. I ordered more, just for me. People started commenting
on my skin. I let the staff "play" with it. THEY loved
it. Now available both in the traditional version that I
loved, and with our age-defying Cleopatra's Secret synergy.
Read more and order on our Specials
Page. (Eventually we'll move it to our
Skincare Products page,
but not yet. You get to be the first to try it.)
Price reductions:
Our Passages Synergy has been reduced from $38 for a 5 ml
bottle to $25! Read about it and order it
on our "Just for Women"
page.
Sale while they last: 15 mls of our Nepalise Palma Rosa,
normally $7.00, while supplies last, only $5.00. Only on
our Specials Page.
Back in Stock announcement:
Four oils that we had been totally out of: Fresh Ginger
Root, Litsea Cubeba, distilled Lime, and Spikenard. All
are back in stock and available once more.
Import difficulties:
Helichrysum:
The weather this past summer has not been ideal on the
island of Corsica. Last summer we were able to purchase 4
liters of our "traditional" Helichrysum. We have less than
16 ounces left. This year we reserved 5 liters; and were
awarded one. Our cost will be 50% higher than last years.
We inquired about the "Copper Free" helichrysum which,
last year, was much less costly than the traditional (as
reflected in our retail pricing.) Last year we imported
four liters of it, and have almost two full liters left.
The asking price of the "copper free" is twice what we paid
last year. We will not be importing more of it.
I have located one more liter of last year's Corsican
Helichrysum at a higher price than I want to pay, but we
have it on the way to us. We are looking at the wide range
of products that we offer and debating which can be dropped
from our repertoire.
The situation with Helichrysum Hydrosol is even worse.
The producer of our "Traditional" Corsican Hydrosol is now
adding 15% alcohol as a preservative. Since most of you who
purchase the Heli Hydrosol use it for hypersensitive and/or
inflamed skin, I am not sure that the additional alcohol
will be a wise choice. We did have another shipment of our
"copper free" hydrosol arrive...spoiled and molded with...
something... floating in it. We are watering the plants
with it. I want to cry.
German Chamomile:
Many of you know that our English grower/distiller
retired after last summer. We have sold the last of his
beautiful matricaria, and have been sourcing more. I have
spoken with several sources in the UK and in France. The
distiller he recommended told me quite frankly that he is
thinking of building an ark. It has not stopped raining long
enough for him to harvest in several weeks. If and when he
is able to bring in a crop, he will contact us with a
sample. I have received samples from Africa and India...and
rather than being deep inky cobalt blue they are green. Not
old, freshly distilled, but greenish blue. Seems to me that
indicates they don't have nearly the amount of Chamazulene.
The search goes on. This week we did receive one lovely
sample from the UK - at twice what we paid for last summer's
crop. (Well, what we had been buying was extremely low
priced, so we may just be playing catch up.)
French Lavender:
We are blessed in sourcing our French essential oils
through one of my mentors. He has been shipping us our
French oils for years. This year we ran out of both our
High Altitude and (almost out) our Lavender Mailette.
Neither will be available for about another month, but he
sent me 2 more liters of last year's Mailette, and, instead
of the High Altitude, an Alpine WILD lavender. They should
have arrived about a week or ten days ago. The Wild Alpine
was to have been our featured new product in this
newsletter. Fedex kept saying "Clearance Delay" and I
thought it was Customs. Wrong! The FDA has seized the
shipment of Lavender oils and of Thyme Thujanol, and are
holding them. Two reasons are given: 1. the labels are in
French and they don't know what they are. (We have faxed
them translations of the labels, and in the future my friend
will label in English.) 2. "This article appears to be
represented as a drug the name of which is recognized in an
official compendium and its strength appears to differ form
or its quality or purity appear to fall below the standars
set forth in such compendium. PRODUCT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE
FOUND IN COMPENDIUM." (That's what the letter says,
folks. I have been unable to contact the official whose
signature is on the letter. I am told they "may" accept our
translated labels and release the shipment. The tone of
voice indicated "not very likely" but they may. Otherwise
they will return the oils to the sender for relabeling. I
still don't have any explanation of what the statement about
the compendium is about.)
There are weeks that I wish we sold can openers!!!!
GOOD NEWS: coming soon:
We have FINALLY sourced some Golden Champa absolute that
we all love. It may take a few more weeks, but we will be
able to restock it. We are awaiting samples of some products
we've been curious about, and others that you have
requested. The 2007 supply of our Lavender Mailette and
Buena Vista hydrosols is finally complete. They are on
their way and will be here within the week. We will shortly
be adding Argan Oil and Camelia Oil to our list of carrier
oils; and ah, the CO2 samples that are coming: Arnica, for
bruises - just in time as Heli becomes almost unobtainable.
Organic Pomengranite Seed, Evening Primrose and Borage,
Equadorian Musk for the perfumers. Samples are coming of a
new Organic Ylangylang Complete from a different source. A
beautiful Patchouli, soft,sweet and almost floral with notes
of saffron and amber. We're excited about all the new
goodies, and hope you will be too! They will (we hope!)
trickle in over the next month, and be added to the specials
page as they arrive, so you may want to check back in often.
(If you email us, we'll add you to a waiting list.)
Our Clients Say:
Mono and Lyme Disease:
Christine Dunster writes:
- FYI --- my daughter was very ill w/
both Mono. & Lyme --- used ravensara
(topical & inhalation) & diffused eucalyptus (globulus &
citriadora) w/much success.
- We have a lot of inquiries about Lyme Disease, so this
is valuable information! Thanks for sharing Christine!
Impetigo
Lisa LaVerde wrote asking for suggestions with her
daughter's impetigo. I wrote back that Impetigo can be
either a staph or a strep infection...if it were Staph, I'd
want to use our MERCY line of products that have been
successful with MRSA. She wrote back after less than two
weeks:
FYI I used the Mercy wash and gel, and
Manuka. I also used some goldenseal powder for overnight.
I am happy to report they worked very well. I think the
Mercy remedy was fantastic! I will be keeping that on
hand!
Thanks for your help!!
I love it when we get feedback like that!!!
Mosquito Bites
Lois Carroll recently wrote: I keep a
bottle of Myrtle available in the summer, just in case I get
a mosquito bite. If it is put on immediately, it will never
itch and you will not know that you got bit. I don\'t know
why it works but it does.
(For days that you've forgotten to apply your
SkeeterBeater?)
Seems to me Lois is using the Myrtle for mosquito bites
the way some people use Cajeput for Fire Ant Bites.
Amazing!
Press Clippings: The M
Technique®
You all know how enthusiastic we are about
The M Technique®!
Christi came across a wonderful interview with our friend
Jane about it in a British Paper.
Read the article here.
For our third quarter charity this
year we have chosen The Joyful Heart Foundation.
The Joyful Heart Foundation, for victims of sexual
assault and for prevention was founded by Jayne Mansfield's
daughter, Mariska Hargitay of Law & Order SVU on NBC. 100%
of funds donated go back to the program. You may read about
the Foundation at her website http://www.mariska.com/, and
the foundation's website. http://joyfulheartfoundation.org/.
They do wonderful things and here is their mission:
The Joyful Heart Foundation is dedicated to helping
survivors of sexual assault heal mind, body and spirit. Our
programs are designed to nurture and enable the creative
healing process for survivors and their communities. We
support the larger anti-violence movement by raising
awareness and funding for programs with similar missions.
Since our products are designed to heal body, mind and
spirit, we felt this cause just "fit" who we are. We hope
you'll join us in supporting their important work.
Quote of the Month:
Bear only perfumes and the scent
Of healing herbs to just men's fields!
[Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862),
Have a wonderful August, everyone, and try to stay cool! |
