Blissful Brain Aromatherapy Blend:

Finding a name for this blend was really difficult for me - I'm not sure why. I think because I felt inadequate at being able to describe the real emotional affect this blend has on me. I'm still not "happy" with the name and any suggestions would be appreciated. I do feel blissful and happy when I diffuse or use this blend, but it's really more than that. Research has shown that the oils in this blend do different things to the brain and, of course, everyone is unique and will experience different emotions. To make this blend simply add it to about 2 ounces of a vegetable or massage oil, your favorite unscented cream or unscented bath salts:

Sweet Orange (Citrus sinensis) – 5 drops
Ylang-ylang (Cananga odorata) – 1 drop
Jasmine sambac (Jasminum sambac) – 1 to 2 drops
Rose (Rosa damascena) – 2 drops
Mandarin (Citrus ritculata) – 2 drops

Sweet orange is well known for it's ability to make people feel happy and there are institutions and organizations - more in other countries than in the USA - who diffuse it into the air to bestow those feelings onto their customers and/or employees. We recommend organic citrus oils due to the potential build up of toxic pesticides in citrus peels.

Ylang-ylang is widely known and accepted in the aromatherapy literature as an aphrodisiac, but it also has some calming properties to it, as does Mandarin due to their ester (chemical constituent) content. These "chemical constituents" in essential oils are natural according to our definition of natural - nothing added to nature.

Jasmine sambac absolute is a well-known anti-depressant with sedative type properties and also well known to be an aphrodisiac. Jasmine must be solvent extracted as an absolute and is quite expensive so be very careful where you purchase this oil, as adulteration is unfortunately common (no, we don't carry it yet- still searching for a good reliable source), The literature also attributes it with the power to diminish negative emotions such as anger. Dr. Amen calls them ANT’s – Automatic Negative Thoughts and they are particularly bad for you and your brain. Jasmine is quite powerful and will overpower the blend if you add too much. We think 1 to 2 drops in this blend will round out the fragrance and the beneficial properties. I absolutely love Jasmine and swoon whenever I open a bottle of it – seriously. Thankfully, a little bit goes a long way.

Rose absolute (solvent extracted) or Rose otto (steam distilled), also very expensive and precious, can have up to 50% citronellol – per Dr. Kurt Schnaubelt,which accounts for its “tonifying” affects.  He states, “…the physical and emotional impact of a drop of rose at the right moment can extend far beyond those effects (tonifying effects). This precious oil is one of my most favorites and has the reputation of being a very strong antidepressant.

Mandarin contains an interesting chemical constituent called N-methylanthranilate. This is a natural constituent as all unadulterated essential oils are natural in the truest sense of the word  – nothing added. What’s interesting about this constituent is that it is not present in Tangerine oil – so don’t substitute the nice tangy fragrance of Tangerine for Mandarin. Again, according to Dr. Schnaubelt, this constituent called an “ester” has “pronounced relaxing qualities”. This is also a very good oil for children, which is why we include it in our Sleepy Baby Blend. 

Let us know if you make this blend. You can, of course, tweak it to your own personal satisfaction and we'd love to hear about that - how you made it, how you used it and if you did, indeed, feel blissful after using it. We recommend using it in a diffuser such as our ultrasonic diffuser, or simply dropping a few drops on a kleenex, or as we mentioned previously - adding it to your unscented bath salts, unscented cream or massage oil.

Thanks for listening!

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Ann has an interesting and varied background in both allopathic and natural health care. She was a Critical Care Registered Nurse for about 11 years. After working in the corporate world for many years, she returned to college to obtain her nursing degree. At the beginning of her hospital career she worked a little over a year in the Operating Room, a couple years on the Orthopedic Floor and a couple years in Short Stay (outpatient surgery), finally deciding that Critical Care was the place she wanted to be until total burn out in combination with foot surgery sidelined her to her real passion - healing and helping people with natural personal care products, nutrition and aromatherapy.  Discovering the amazing health benefits of essential oils and natural/organic ingredients moved her into the realm of cosmetic/personal care products formulator. Having a passion for nutrition and natural health, she has also furthered her education in the area of medicinal herbal remedies, became a Certified Clinical Aromatherapy Professional, and has delved enthusiastically into the area of natural health & nutrition, raw food, vegan and vegetarianism. She is a research addict and loves to blog about a wide variety of things she is discovering and hopes her blogs will benefit you and your family.

Environmental Working Group? How do they "work"?

Nice name and they've managed to make themselves a household word. How did they do this? Because we all like scary stuff. Admit it - you do. Alarmist information is so much more interesting to read and takes a priority every time over other news. I know you can't pick up a newspaper or a magazine without reading a new scary story about how bad something is - the source of this information will most likely be the EWG. I'm so glad now that I'm not alone in thinking they are not all they're hyped up to be - other than getting very rich over our fear and anxiety. See this blog article about their financial responsibility and at the link below for Activistcash.com.

Interesting quote: "The Environmental Working Group has perfected the art of duping science and health reporters. This is an organization that never met a food it couldn’t turn into a panicked newspaper headline. Not even vitamin A is safe from EWG’s poison pen.The Environmental ‘Worrying’ Group’s regular assaults on common sense have made it one of the most error-prone activist organizations in America. But now consumers and the media have a one-stop shop for information that can help them fight back.

How about this?

We like to watch the Medicine Hunter, Chris Kilham, when we get the chance. I came across his article on Tamanu oil while researching another project. His article is good and gives accurate details about this amazing oil. We have additional information in our ingredients information pages. We use it in a lot of our products, plus we sell it certified organic in 1 oz treatment bottles. Ours is cold-pressed and unrefined, making it dark in color and thick with a wonderful caramel fragrance. This oil is better than tea tree oil for acne – a big surprise to us when we first discovered it. It’s partly because it is very antibacterial. It has a lot of other uses besides that including shingles. We’ve successfully treated quite a few customers with the Tamanu oil with Ravensara essential oil. Read his article Tamanu Oil, but we think our product is better than the one he endorses – seriously – and more reasonably priced.

After a long HOT day (temperatures in the high 90's with humidity giving us comfort zone of 110) at the farmers' market, I come home to just cool off and rest! I find instead that there was a very bad mishap with our blogging platform through Feedburner.  If you subscribed to our blogs via email please, please delete and disregard the email that was sent out Saturday, August 7th. We very much apologize for what probably appears like spam - this was not something that came from Wingsets and we are in the process of finding out what caused this to happen.  Again, please delete and disregard the email that was sent. We strive to not fill up your email box with useless information and spend many hours researching and writing about things that matter to you and to us. We hope you will continue to subscribe to our blogs as we research and write more information you will find helpful in your search for a healthier lifestyle.

Thank you!

Ann

My daughter who knows I won't use anything other than stevia to sweeten my coffee or tea, handed me a packet of Truvia and then had to listen to my lecture about how this was just a patented copycat of the real herb stevia.

The next day, my husband, also thinking he's doing me a favor and with the best intentions brings me home a box of PureVia, such a nice marketing name! So, he also had to listen to my tirade. Why a tirade? It just makes me angry that stevia (the REAL herb) wasn't allowed in food products for years, but as soon as the BIG GUYS took it to the lab and got it patented, well, now it's in lots of products. My take on this is that anytime they take it to the "lab" and take an "extract" out of a whole product, you lose God's synergy and not unlike all the deadly problems we see with pharmaceuticals which are manufactured under the same premise, we have NO idea how safe these products are. Dr. Mercola has written a good article on it - so he's saved me a lot of time and effort. Thank you Dr. Mercola. The article is basically about aspartame and we should all know by now how deadly that is, but he also mentions the stevia debacle. Click here to read Dr. Mercola's article.

To quote Dr. Mercola:

"On December 17, 2008, the FDA did grant GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status to rebaudioside , which is one component  of the whole stevia plant, and this specific purified component of stevia may be used as a food additive and sold as an alternative sweetener. Examples of include Truvia and Purevia. The jury is still out, however, on whether consuming this one component of stevia is as safe as consuming extract from the whole plant, as all the synergistic, protective factors have been removed in these refined products."

I continue to preach - stay as close to the source in every decision you make - whether it be sweeteners, not using processed foods or buying cosmetics that are as free from chemicals as possible. God has put into every plant a synergy and even as science has begun to discover some of these synergies, we don't and won't ever know why the whole plant works best. The same is true of aromatherapy - you can find "isolated" chemicals now taken from the real plant essential oil, but it will always lack the synergy put there by nature. 

Not only that, PureVia's ingredients START with Erythritol, which is a sugar alcohol, and although Wikipedia says it doesn't cause gastric problems like other sugar alcohols, it looks to me like their marketing people wrote the entire Wikipedia article - which is why Wikipedia isn't a particularly good source of information a lot of the time - another discussion, sorry. Then the next ingredient is Isomaltulose, which according to Wikipedia (again sounding like pure marketing) is "fully absorbed in the small intestine as glucose and fructose. Like sucrose, it is fully digested and provides the same caloric value of approximately 4 kcal/g" - so it does have some calories. Then you have Reb A (rebaudioside as mentioned above), and to quote their packaging "a stevia extract." Last ingredient listed, plus you also have "cellulose powder and natural flavor" - what!? Now granted, even NuStevia is a stevia extract - but that's it - that's all it says on ingredients, other than it contains no soy, yeast, gluten, wheat, milk, synthetics, articifical colors or flavors, preservatives, saccharin, aspartame, sucralose or artificial sweeteners. Now I don't know about you, but it's a no brainer for me. Yes, I know the real stevia extract is not available in your favorite soda pop - which you shouldn't be drinking anyway - read here. 

My favorite brand of stevia is by NuNaturals called NuStevia - it seems to taste the best and comes in convenient packets or bulk sizes for cooking. Do you have a favorite brand? We used to have a stevia plant, but there is some bitterness to stevia but it still works very well in smoothies and cooking.

Thanks for listening!

Does your dog have thunder fear? Would you like to learn about natural ways to calm your pet?

Abby, our elder dog, looks a lot like me.  Her nose is just a little longer and her red hair is natural, plus she has a bit more of it. Hers is naturally turning grey along her nose - not a problem I've had yet. She's a mixture of golden retriever for sure, the rest we're not sure about. She may even be all golden retriever and certainly has the temperament golden retrievers are known for. She has always been a very loving, sweet, gentle pet and has grown old while our family has been blessed with the addition of four grandchildren - each of which liked to pull on her ears and possibly a couple wanted to ride her. Each of them seemed fascinated by Abby and she loved the attention. In all the years, possibly 13, that we've had her, we've never seen her bare her teeth or snarl - ever (except once when my brother-in-law brought over his male dog who she didn't like much.) We've now added another dog, Brit, a beautiful and robust (understatement) Brittany Spaniel. Brit and Abby get along very, very well. I actually saw him let her take a raw bone from him just the other day. He seems to understand that she's the elder and he gives her her due respect.

Abby was a gift from a friend whose husband no longer wanted her because she wasn't a very good hunting dog. In fact, she was a terrible hunting dog because she had and has thunder fear. She doesn't have a mild case of it; no, she becomes absolutely crazy when she hears thunder, gunshots or fireworks. Over the years she has jumped our 4 foot fence more than once or twice. She doesn't know nor care where she's going, she just runs. We've learned that she can't be outside even at the hint of a storm and her favorite place during a storm was in our downstairs bathroom with the door closed thank you very much. I've tried many different things over the years to try to calm her. Melatonin was suggested but that didn't seem to help and it was difficult to get her to even take the pill. Petting and hugging, which normally is something she craves, didn't work at all.  The vet once gave us a prescription for Valium, but I never filled it. We always know when a thunder storm is coming a good 20 to 30 minutes before it arrives because Abby starts her prancing around and getting anxious long before we hear the thunder.

This picture was when Abby was much younger - our granddaughter in this picture is now 15. The 2nd picture is of Abby and Brit about six months ago. Brit is somewhat bigger now.

Aromatherapy:  As per our usual routine, I brought the dogs in one evening and frankly they didn't smell very good. So I grabbed my bottle of lavender and chamomile spray that I keep downstairs near the grandkids' bedroom. I've been known to spray under their beds and around their beds at night to help them sleep and calm them down. They love it and it seems to work quite well. I wasn't even thinking about the calming properties, I just wanted to neutralize some of the dog smell! I sprayed each dog and around the area they sleep in. I went back upstairs to finish doing whatever it was I was doing.

It was about an hour later that I heard the thunder. I immediately ran downstairs to put Abby into the bathroom before she got too upset. Instead, I found her asleep. Asleep! Considering her age, I quickly checked to see if she was breathing. She raised her head, gave me a calm, happy look and I think even lovingly licked my hand, and put her head back down. Very unusual I'm thinking. I waited a little bit to watch her and as the storm increased in intensity with lots of loud thunder, strong winds and lightening, Abby got up a few times and changed position, but went back to sleep!

Now I'm kicking myself wondering why in the world I hadn't thought of lavender and chamomile essential oils sooner!! I'm an aromatherapist! Idiot! The blend that I've used for years with myself and others for calming and relaxing purposes. It's a simple blend of True Lavender and Roman Chamomile and both as essential oils or herbs have a long history of being used for this purpose. I guess I can attest to the fact it works on dogs - or at least our dog.

Herbs: Since that time, I've had the opportunity to read and learn more about thunder fear. I've discovered it isn't an unusual problem and is, in fact, common with dogs. I've also learned that there are herbs that can be used successfully, although I haven't personally tried any of these remedies for Abby. I personally have used all of them at one time or another for myself or family members.

• Oats (Avena sativa) - According to Dr. Kidd's Guide to Herbal Dog Care: "A pet with upset nerves can benefit from a daily or few-times-a-week dose of oats. Cooked oatmeal added to your dog's food will help the nerves as well as provide a source of fiber."(1)
• St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) - this herb is well-known for helping with depression for your pet as well as anxiety, tension or separation anxiety.
• Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) - it doesn't smell very good and I'm not sure how you'd get your pet to take it, but this herb is well-known for reducing tension and anxiety. It is recommended often as a sleep aid. There is a rumor that it was a favorite among Londoners during World War II and the seemingly endless bombing they experienced. Have you watched Foyle's War? Loved it.
• Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis and Matricaria recutita) - which is Roman Chamomile and German Chamomile respectively. I used the Roman Chamomile in the essential oil blend spray mentioned above. The herbs themselves are available in tea form and I buy them in bulk to make my own teas and infusions. They are both known as "potent sedatives used to reduce anxiety in a stressed animal". (1) These herbs may also ease an upset stomach and allow your pet to sleep during a car ride. Brit gets nauseous with just a short trip to the vet, so I'll have to try this on him.
• Kava Kava (Piper methysticum) - known to reduce anxiety and tension (including muscle tension) and calm restlessness. Kava Kava is often recommended to also relieve depression and generally create a sense of well-being, clear thinking and relaxed muscles. It is also often used in herbal sleep blends that appear to work and without being addictive or have residual effects in the morning. I read in one report that it could help with sociability - in people, not sure about dogs, but might be worth trying before taking your dog to the local dog run. However, this herb has come under some disrepute due to possible hepatic toxicity related to some kava herbal supplements containing pipermethystine from aerial stem peelings.Know your source and buy organic if possible. 
  
• Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) - which as a herb is also very relaxing and sedating and can be used to quiet a dog that barks a lot. Make a tea of the lavender and slightly moisten your pet's food. As an essential oil, it can be diluted in a carrier (vegetable) oil at 2 drops of oil to 1 tablespoon of oil - olive oil works nicely. Dab a little around your dog's ears and paws. I like the spray better, but there are many ways you can use essential oils. We use an ultrasonic diffuser in our room every night as I am a chronic insomniac. Why not try using it around where the dog's sleep or stay during a storm or anxious period?

• Catnip - well known for its ability to calm animals and people. It's one of my favorite ingredients in my evening tea and it grows like a weed in our yard. I love to dry it and store it for future use. I think I'll try putting some in Abby's food - except she doesn't eat when she's anxious and I'm assuming most dogs don't. I often mix catnip with lemon balm - both the herbs and the essential oils for their relaxing and calming properties.
  

Just like people, not all dogs will respond the same and what works for one might not work for another. These herbs can be blended together or used individually. Let me know if you try it, if it works or doesn't work. Try the essential oils too but remember they are the concentrated oils from plants and must be diluted prior to use. Always test a small amount of oil on your pet before using. Essential oils should NOT be used with cats. I used about 2.5 grams of essential oil per 8 oz of distilled water to make the spray. But you probably won't weigh everything like I do for all the products I make. Depending on the weight of the liquid, which changes slightly and especially with some essential oils, generally speaking 1 gram is equal to 1 milliliter (ml) and there are 2.5 mls per one-half of a teaspoon. If you are using a good dropper cap, this would be about 50 drops. Check out our dilution chart on essential oil use - coming soon. 

Addendum added June 9, 2010. It occurred to me that not everyone wants to make this blend themselves and we do carry this blend of essential oils, True Lavender and Roman Chamomile, in our Lavender & Chamomile women's natural fragrance line. I used the body mist on the dogs that night and will in the future.

Thanks for listening!

Ann

1.  Kidd, R. (2000). Herbal Dog Care. North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing.

 Is eating vegetarian and leaving out any dairy or even bee products such as honey or propolis - thus being vegan - healthier? Let me say that in our household we do still eat meat on occasion, actually only if we go out to eat. We've seriously been giving the dogs raw meat from our freezer that has been there for four years. I know, I know there are people starving and don't tell our family. We are trying to reduce our intake of dairy, but bee products still look like a very good option to me. We've helped hold back many a sore throat from turning into a full-fledged cold by using raw honey and essential oils. So - my question is - what are the benefits of vegan? And - what are the benefits of being vegetarian? Do people choose this or that path for ethical reasons relating to animal cruelty? My research also shows that dairy might not be a good choice, but then I read that yogurt is an excellent choice. So many choices and so little time. It can get confusing.

I just read an extremely detailed book called "Becoming Raw" (1). This was without a doubt the most detailed book, and well-researched book (with many references for further study), that I have ever read including any and all textbooks I've been exposed to - ever. That being said, it's not an easy read, even for me with a medical background and long history of self-study and classwork in the field of nutrition. I bought this book because I wanted to learn more about eating raw and doing it right (hence our blog category "Raw done Right"). However, what this book does is give you lots of reasons to stop and ponder if raw, vegetarian or even vegan is really your best choice. The authors do a very good job of showing research after research that disproves a lot of the myths of vegetarian and/or vegan diets. 

My point and purpose of writing this particular article is to say that now I'm even more intrigued and determined to find out why vegetarian and maybe vegan is the best way to eat. I don't say it has to 100% all the time, and I will show why and when you could or should use one over the other. So - keep checking back as I begin to break down these questions into more digestible (pun fully intended) bits and pieces of understanding.

We also need your feedback - please. I want to hear why you prefer one way of eating over another. Why you perhaps don't want to leave animal products out of your diet. Did you know there is anthropological research showing that some populations do, in fact, require meat to survive? So, we need to hear from all of you and hope you'll check back for more discussion about eating vegetarian or vegan.

Thanks for Listening!

Ann

1.  Davis B., & Melina, V. Becoming Raw, The Essential Guide to Raw Vegan Diets. Summertown, TN: Book Publishing Company, 2010.

A few weeks ago, my husband and I ventured down the bike trail that runs for miles behind our house. It was a beautiful spring day with temperatures in the 70's and the trees were just beginning to show their leaves. We were amazed at all the "weeds" growing along the trail even though we've walked this trail for 20 years or more. But since we have changed our diet to include more raw greens, we were very curious about all the green things we saw. I study herbs and their beneficial properties, but usually buy them USDA certified organic and they arrive all nicely dried and packaged. We use them extensively in our creams. But - this was new and uncharted territory for me! We took some pictures, picked a couple greens that looked tasty (not sure about the legal ramifications of picking weeds on a city bike trail) and brought them home in an attempt at identification. Luckily enough our neighbor, the landscaper, was in his yard as we walked past. He quickly identified the few leaves in our hands as "curly dock" and it was in fact a weed. We went home got on the internet, pulled out our books and began to research this plant, oh, I mean weed. We discovered that not only did it taste really good, it did have some of the same beneficial properties found in other dark leafy greens that we purchase every day. 

So, what's my point? We all have weeds in our yards - well, of course we do. Then again, maybe we don't because we use toxic-laden pesticides to kill those unsightly things.  My point is this - we decided to start learning plant identification and putting the knowledge to good use to go out and forage for our own organic greens. The dandelions in our yard is just one of many examples of leafy greens.  Don't eat them if you use pesticides or herbicides!  We don't use toxic chemicals on our yard and gardens and haven't for years - the size of our earth worms is testament to that. Never thought I'd be more proud of the size of my earth worms than I was at the lack of weeds in my yard! The dandelions are really good in salads and many other ways. According to this article on "4 Reasons to Love Weeds" -  "Aside from being prolific, one cooked cup offers a third of the daily value (the new RDA) of vitamin C and a whopping seven times the daily value of vitamin K. It also provides 144 percent of your daily vitamin A needs, 10 percent of your daily calcium, 12 percent of your manganese and 10 percent of your iron. Dandelion leaves are used medicinally in tea, vinegar or tincture as a bitter, taken before meals to improve digestion, and as a simple diuretic to reduce excess water in the system. The root is used in similar fashion as a bitter and also to nourish and optimize function of the liver, the body’s most important detoxification organ." 

So, I don't know about you, but there is a garden in my back yard that I don't have to "weed", they taste good, they're quite cheap and they're really good for me. So, don't tell me you can't eat organic greens because they're too expensive!  And, tell me, how many of you purchase the herbal supplement Dandelion - not nearly as good as the real deal raw green itself.

Thanks for listening!

Ann

Ann Wooledge, RN, CCAP
Student in herbalism, Certified Aromatherapist, Holistic Nutritionist and lover of all things natural.

I get daily newsletter emails from Dr. Sears, who I consider to be one of the fairly good guys who comes up with good articles backed by research references. I've noticed, however, that he likes to sponsor ads for affiliate products - meaning he gets a kickback for recommending products. This is common practice and may or may not be bad. However, this particular ad caught my attention (as I'm sure they meant for it to) and I followed the link to watch the requisite video and listen to the marketing hype. Now, I love ice cream and just looking at the picture on their website, made my mouth water.

The picture I've added here, I'm sure is doing the same for you, but I really have to limit my intake of this delight. So this product, Protein Freeze, sounded good, although we're trying to reduce our intake of animal protein in general. The next thing I ALWAYS do is look at the ingredients - and this is where I just got frustrated and angry that a doctor of medicine, who knows better and who purports to be a health advocate would recommend a product with the following two ingredients:

1.  Sucralose - marketed as Splenda. Any artificial sweeteners are now being recognized as not good choices. Below is one of the better studies giving us reason for NOT choosing Splenda:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18800291 -"Splenda alters gut microflora and increases intestinal p-glycoprotein and cytochrome p-450 in male rats."

Department of Pharmacology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA. Email: donia  [at] duke.edu

"This study from Duke University shows that at Sucralose consumption levels of 1.1-11 mg/kg (below the FDA 'safe' level), a 12-week administration of Splenda exerted numerous adverse effects, including (1) reduction in beneficial fecal microflora, (2) increased fecal pH, and (3) enhanced expression levels of P-gp, CYP3A4, and CYP2D1, which are known to limit the bioavailability of nutrients and orally administered drugs."

2.  Acesulfame potassium: Although the FDA has approved this sweetener as a "safe artificial sweetener", there have been studies showing several possible problems with its use. These studies resulted from mostly animal studies and they have shown that insulin secretion is stimulated, regardless of the fact there are no calories to speak of, and the secretion is the same as any consumption of a carbohydrate in that it is dose dependent. This could aggravate low blood sugar attacks.

Another study showed that Acesulfame potassium (K) was tumorial (produced tumors) in the lung, breast and thymus gland, several forms of leukemia and chronic respiratory disease, again, in animal studies. The Center for Science in the Public interest petitioned for a stay of approval by the FDA because of "significant doubt" about its safety. Well, that was back in 1988, and we've already seen how the FDA doesn't listen or respond to these requests - aspartame as a vivid example.

Don't be fooled - as I almost was - by the hype surrounding advertisements and products such as this. Eat as close to the source as possible, avoid processed foods as much as possible and very certainly stay away from artificial sweeteners. Stevia still remains your best choice to avoid adverse effects of sugar intake - not Truvia, the patented form, but true, natural, Stevia. 

Our new Recipe Blog is about to be launched and in there, we WILL provide recipes for ice cream that are healthy and taste good. 

Thanks for listening!

Ann

Bio: Ann McIntire Wooledge, RN, CCAP, is an experienced Critical Care Registered Nurse, a Certified Clinical Aromatherapy Practitioner, practicing student in herbalism, experienced cosmetic and personal care formulator with an emphasis on natural and organic ingredient sources, continuing her studies in Natural Health and Holistic Nutrition at Clayton College of Natural Health.  She has spent the last 9 years of her life dedicated to research and dissemination of the truth about ways to live healthfully in a planet full of toxic chemicals. She belongs to many national and international organizations related to her field of studies and expertise. These organizations are listed at the bottom of each page of our website.

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