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Nature's Gift Thanksgiving Newsletter

Autumn is bringing a fresh crispness to the air, and we are busily getting ready for the holiday season.   We've restocked some of the out of stock goodies, ordered fresh supplies of your favorites, made and wrapped more soap, designed some new kits and gift sets, done all we can to help you get ready for the holiday season.

This Newsletter contains:

• A special sale of our favorite holiday essential oils and synergies.
• Back in Stock: Cool Mist diffuser, Car scenter, Rose Geranium Hydrosol and some favorite soaps.
• All new Bali Salt for bath salts.
• Our new Smoking Cessation Kit.
• A reminder of some new hints, tips and recipe pages online.
• A special half price Gift Wrapping on Fridays during November.
• US Postal Service Shipping Deadlines for Christmas Delivery.
• Announcement:  Home Study Clinical Aromatherapy Course Now Available.
• Charity of the Month - Toys for Tots.
• A reminder of our "10 on the 10th" anniversary sale.
• Comments and suggestions from our clients.
• Some Autumn scent blends and bath salt ideas.
• Our quote of the month..

HOLIDAY SALE:

First, a new addition.  For years we only offered our Three Kings Blend (Frankincense, Myrrh, and Bulgarian Rose Otto - liquid gold!) as an anointing oil.  We've finally decided to make our undiluted synergy available as well.   

All three of our holiday synergies,  Three Kings,  Holiday Joy (the scents of an old fashioned yuletide) and Winter Sunshine (our celebration of the Winter Solstice) are available at 10% off normal retail pricing on our Specials page.  All three are also available in gift sets on our Aromatherapy Gifts page.

To encourage your own holiday blending and gift giving, we've also taken 10% off the 15 ml sizes of all five of our Frankincense oils, and our Somalian Myrrh.  Also on sale, our favorite Conifer oils, to bring the scent of your childhood Christmas tree to your home today.  Black Spruce, Balsam Fir, Scotch Pine and Cypress Needles, all available at 10% off.  Only on our Specials page, of course!

BACK IN STOCK:

We ran out of our new Cool Mist Humidifier/Diffusers within 48 hours of putting them online in October. (Yes, we totally under estimated the demand for them.)  We've restocked, ordered a LOT more, and because we ordered so many more, have been able to lower the price a tiny bit.  We STILL don't know whether we ordered enough, so you may not want to delay.

June Curtice, of New Mexico, was one of the lucky few to receive one of our "first round" of the Cool Mist diffusers.  Her comment?

This Diffuser is definitely "two thumbs up"! Just perfect for the bedroom and my office. Desert air is very dry but with the furnace on during winter it's even worse. The diffuser is a great solution since it's small enough for a nightstand or a corner of my desk. Now I can add moisture to the air, plus fragrance or a therapeutic blend. It is easy to clean and I just love the five timer settings. With no heat and an automatic shutoff when water level gets low, this device is definitely very safe.  
 

Thanks for introducing this product which I highly recommend. I love it so much that I'm going to hint to my husband that he get me another one for Christmas.

Also, our ever popular Car Scenter diffusers.  (Maybe the feedback about them in past newsletters awakened your interest?) at any rate, they are back in stock and back online.

Both of these diffusers are available on our New and Special page, and our Aromatherapy Accessories page.

Rose Geranium Hydrosol.  We have been out of stock on this for a few weeks and FINALLY the new production has become available.  Available on our "New and Specials Page, and our Hydrosol page. 

Soaps:  Both our popular, skin-soothing Reunité, (Orange Blossom and Vetiver)  and a reformulation of our Joyous Abandon... now named Spice Blossom and even richer than before.  Available on our  New and Special Page, and on our Aromatherapy Baths page.

NEW for the Bath - Bali Salts

Harvested from the Pacific by centuries old traditional methods, the Island of Bali produces an amazing salt crystal.  Much larger grained than the other salts we use in our bath salts, but as quick to dissolve in the tub as the finest grained Sea Salt or Dead Sea Salt, these large pale gray crystals will add visual interest to any gift of bath salts you are thinking of creating for friends and loved ones.  An added benefit - they seem to absorb and hold essential oils more readily than the other salts we've tried.   Blend some with pure sea salt, epsom salts, dead sea salts, your choice.  (Courtney insisted that we bring these in - she took the sample home to play with, and loved them!)

NEW Smoking Cessation Kit

Two oils tested and proven significantly effective in helping people reduce the number of cigarettes they smoke are Black Pepper and Angelica Root. The frustrating part of the case studies is that they seem to indicate that people helped by one oil were unaffected by the other.  So we created inhalers of both oils, in hopes that one, the other, or both might be helpful to our friends who are trying to cut down or cut out their smoking.  Of course both of these new products are available on our New and Special page.

Handmade Gift Suggestions:

Courtney has compiled a lot of the recipes, hints and tips and formulas that we've shared over the years into a handmade gift giving guide.  See them here.  And visit our Recipes page for food ideas using our oils and hydrosols.

GIFT WRAP SPECIAL during the month of November:

(Yes, we really do want you to do all of your Holiday shopping here!)

For the month of November, on FRIDAY only, we will offer Gift Wrapping at half price.   We normally charge $5.00 to gift wrap your purchases, but on Fridays during November, we will reduce the charge to just $2.50.  (Don't forget all the gift options on the aromatic gifts page!)

HOLIDAY SHIPPING DEADLINES from the U.S. Postal Service:

 For your information - to guarantee delivery by December 25th, the Postal Service gives the following suggestions:

November 12th: Parcel Post Mail to all APO/FPO addresses.

December 5th:  First class Mail and Priority Mail  to APO/FPO AE ZIP 093

December 10th: First class mail and Priority Mail to the following APO FPO zip codes: APO/FPO AE ZIP #s 090-092, APO/FPO AE ZIP #s 094-098, APO/FPO AA ZIP #s 340, APO/FPO AP ZIP #s 962-966

Also December 10th:  Global Express Mail to South and/or Central America, except Mexico.  (Nature's Gift ships Global Express Mail on all International Orders.)

December 14th: Deadline to ship via Parcel Post

December 16th: Deadline for Global Express Mail to Europe (including the UK), Asia/the Pacific Rim, Australia/New Zealand, Mexico and the Middle East.

December 17th: Deadline for Global Express Mal to Canada.

December 19th: Deadline for First Class Mail

December 19th:    Express Mail to the following APO FPO zip codes: APO/FPO AE ZIP #s 090-092, APO/FPO AE ZIP #s 094-098, APO/FPO AA ZIP #s 340, APO/FPO AP ZIP #s 962-966

December 21st:  Deadline for Priority Mail (I think that's pushing the envelope!)

December 23rd:  Deadline to ship via Express Mail (but check your local post office.)

CLINICAL AROMATHERAPY HOME STUDY COURSE

Nature's Gift is proud to announce that not only are we providing the student kit of essential oils and supplies for Dr. Jane Buckle's Clinical Aromatherapy for Health Care Professionals home study course, but we have also been chosen to distribute the course itself.  For more information, please see our website.

CHARITY OF THE MONTH - Toys for Tots

Two Percent of every order placed on each Wednesday in November will be donated to Toys for Tots, to help bring happy holidays to children who otherwise might go without. You will also be given the opportunity to add a donation to your order. To see the other charities that we've been able to help thanks to you, please see our Donations page.

10 on the 10th

Don't forget to help us celebrate our 10th year online - On November 10th enter the promotional code "anniversary" (without the quotation marks!), press APPLY and receive 10% off almost every item in your shopping cart.   (Please don't order any Fast Buys, or the special books that cannot be discounted.  If you do so, it will delay processing of your order.)   The overwhelming response to this monthly celebration really has slowed us down a bit.  Shipment of your order may be delayed an extra day or so while we try to catch up. (We hope the savings will be worth the delay!)  NO other discounts may apply.
 

Our Clients Say

Allergies:

Kerry Miles, from New Zealand, writes:

Hi Marge
I just had to let you know how incredible your blue tansy is!
My husband had an allergic reaction to something unknown yesterday.  He broke out in red welts around his neck and it quickly started to spread up onto his face.  It was very painful and itchy and rather scary.  All I could think of to do in an emergency was to put a drop of your blue tansy on a tissue and tell him to inhale. 
Well what a shock!  The allergic reaction stopped almost immediately and within half of an hour there was no sign that anything had ever happened.  I knew blue tansy was good for allergies but that surpassed all expectations!
Kind regards
Kerry Miles

Miracle Oil

Alexis Stegal recently wrote:

Dear Marge,
First I would like to tell you that I ordered a bottle of  the "Miracle Blend" intending to
give it to my 85 year old mother-in-law for her arthritic feet.  I ended up splitting it
between her and my sister-in-law (not very much for each, but enought to try).
Well, wanted to send you a report about their results and you may quote me.
My mother-in-law was experiencing a lot of pain and swelling in her feet, especially
one toe in particular - she reports that it really has helped the pain. She also told
me that it immediately stops the "bite" of mosquito bites.  My sister-in-law has
had good results using it on pain in her elbow.  Have to tell you that it really works.

(thanks for sharing that...I'd never have thought of using it for 'skeeter bites')

And, more on our "Miracle Oil"  Stephanie K. recently wrote:

ps - by the way - my mother LOVES Marge's Miracle Blend and has been recommending it to everyone she knows - foisting it on her PT, Dr, etc. 
It's really helped her, post-knee-surgery!

Clementine Petitgrain:

We had decided to discontinue this essential oil.  I love it, but it seems most of you don't.  until Ruth Gilbert wrote: