Welcome to the August issue of the NIRC Newsletter

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

New Articles/Interviews:

1. Sorcy's St. John's Wort Journey - Sorcyism on The power of plants, or Are you a true herb lover?

By Sorcy of SummerWind's HealingBreezes

It was a lovely day, and though it looked rather cold when I left the house for a bit of grocery shopping the sweater I wore quickly became a very bad idea.

Rushing along home, I plotted my small St. Johns Wort bed and what I would do with the first few flowers. Infuse some in olive oil? Castor oil?? Alcohol??? There were so few, and my need for all three were so big.

Driving deep in thought, out of the corner of my eye, I saw something I never noticed before in this area. A little pathway off the country road, with a sign 'water access for small boats'.

Always a sucker for new possible harvesting grounds off the trodden path, I stopped to investigate, and after a few bends and turns into lovely wilderness, stood speechless in front of a whole field of SJW in full bloom. READ MORE......

2. Minerals and Colorants

By Melanie McCullough of Herbal Natures

No one can really claim "all natural" when it comes to minerals or colorants such as
oxides. They are naturally derived, but have gone thru a process to remove some of the "natural" ingredients that a person would never want to put on their skin.

Inorganic pigments may be derived from naturally occurring mineral sources, such as titanium dioxide or sericite mica. They may also be derived from a synthetic produced mineral source, such as ultramarine blue (kaolin clay and other additives fired at high temperatures to produce the color and then cleaned of the sulfur that results from this process) READ MORE..

Advertising Opportunities Still Available for Pledge Members

Check out our Pledge Member Page for Advertising Opportunities. We are offering some amazing discount packages for pledge members to advertise with us. We also invite you to visit and support the other companies who have taken the NIRC Truth In Labeling Pledge. CHECK IT OUT NOW....

Discount Opportunities-Pledge Members Supporting Each Other

1. National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy

National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy is offering NIRC Members a special Summer-time discount to join as a new member of NAHA or if you are an expired member of NAHA to renew. Please indicate in the Special Requests Box or on the Membership Form 'NIRC" member summer-time discount 10% off. Even more discounts on New or Renewing Membership when registering for WOA VI Conference. www.naha.org email: info@naha.org

2. ESutras entire product range!

A'isha Bauer of ESutras would love to offer a 10% discount to NIRC pledge members this summer on the ESutras entire product range!

Just create an account - shop and at the checkout type this code! CODE : ESSUMMER

You can visit her website here: http://esutras.com/esutra/ For any questions you can email her at cs@esutras.com or info@esutras.com

 

If any other pledge members would like to offer a discount, please contact us at nirc@naturalingredient.org for more details.

Truth in Labeling

Learn about our Natural Product Labeling Guidelines and Take the Pledge. GO THERE NOW...

We are committed to bringing you the latest information and benefits for NIRC Pledge Members. This is an interactive site so let us know if there are any particular topics you would like us to explore in the future.

Naturally Yours,

The NIRC Advisory Board

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