Summer Greetings!

In This Issue
-New Articles/Interviews
-Advertising Opportunities For Pledge Members
-Discount Opportunities
-Truth In Labeling

New Articles/Interviews:

1. Soap for Health - Preventing Colds & Flu

by Dottie Simmons

It sounds odd, I imagine, 'soap for health'... but in fact the act of hand washing with soap, is one of the greatest single advances in medicine. Soap bonds on a molecular level with both grime and water, thus enabling dirt and germs to be rinsed away.

Before soap, and later before the discovery of microbes and the idea of 'germs' became common knowledge, medical procedures from the common to the extreme were performed with no attention to cleanliness. Not only the environs in which treatment was done, but the hands of the healer were often filthy and doctors went from patient to patient without washing, as did the others who attended the wounded and ill. Little did they know that they carried with them the infection and contagious disease that often spread wildly among their charges. It was actually in fairly recent history that cleanliness became 'scientifically' accepted as a means of preventing disease.

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2. A Brief History of Bodycare and Perfume

By Dottie Simmons

How many wonderful things can be linked together in the evolution of civilization - religion, health, perfumery, and beauty all are linked throughout time.

The first use of fragrance was aromatic plant matter burned as incense to gods and ancestors. The origin of the word 'perfume' comes from the Latin 'per fumum' meaning "through smoke". This fragrant smoke was believed to carry prayers aloft, connecting the people with their deities.

Early bathing, too, is linked to religion as a means of purifying oneself, and scented oils were made by infusing in oils the resins and foliage of the coniferous trees used for the original incense.

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Discount Opportunities-Pledge Members Supporting Each Other

Tammy D. (we all know her as "The Mud Queen") of www.DeadSeaBulkMaterials.com has graciously offered a continuous 5% discount to all NIRC pledge members on all of her products/ingredients. The discount code to enter is NIRC05 and this code must be placed in the Special Instructions Box on the check out page of her site.

Truth in Labeling

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