Over The Hill Health Matters

Hey! What an excellent idea. For those of us still suffering from the agonies and annoyances of premenstrual syndrome, ie., ourselves, our wives, or our daughters, what could be better than PMS paintball?

Drugs.

Yes, indeed.

But why take away all the fun? Balanced hormones? Anger management?  Massive sedation? Psssha.

Embrace your inner and not-so-inner demons and buy a gun or five.

Paintball guns. And ammo. And grenades and cool outfits. But cool outfits in fat-pant sizes, because you are bloated, remember?

And who are you usually mad at when you are PMSing?

Everyone and everything that moves or gets in your way, I know. But realistically, doesn’t that usually boil down to the men in your life? Don’t think too long on that one. The answer is yes, it does.

Shoot them. Many times.

At least shoot a reasonable facsimile of them. The real thing might be far better at paintball than you are. Shoot them for that audacity also.

Take all those downloaded photos of your Dad and Uncle Bill, smiling and waving from the bassboat with your three brothers as they embark on that so-called family fishing trip that they refused to take you on.

Take that picture of your husband and his buddies laughing at your pain after you accidentally sat down on a wet toilet seat after the big game bash, when none of them even bothered to lift up the toilet seat, so you didn’t have that little annoyance to complain about.

Take that picure of your son and… aww.

Sons are always forgiven.

And they know it. And they work it. And…that’s right, grab that picure of the little, six foot brat and add it to the pile!  

Stick those smiley faces on the targets at the Pat’s PMS Paintball Palace, coming soon to a neighbourhood near you. Special moon-time rates. Discount to seniors. ‘Cause if you’re still raging at 65, it isn’t PMS. Your life just sucks and your men are assholes. You deserve a discount.

Youse is goin’ huntin’!

How did I come up with this brilliant idea?

I love paintball, albeit vicariously at the moment due to a myriad of workplace injuries. So I was perusing a number of paintball sites and forums, and happened upon the acronym PMS on a number of occasions. It was readily apparent that PMS did not stand for the usual female rampage syndrome. Actually, it stood for Paintball Mania Supplies. These people make an excellent cocker, it turns out, and are renown in the paintball world for this accomplishment.

I will leave this one alone.

It’s hard, I mean to say, difficult, but I will not get sucked, I mean drawn, into the sophomoric world of rude jokes. I am mature. 

But these best cocker people did give me the wonderful idea for a franchise chain of paintball emporiums. We could even pick you and all of your friends up at the door in a company mini-van. After all, friends usually PMS at the same time.  Instant team mates, all unfit to drive due to PMS- induced road-rage. 10 PMSing backseat drivers. I pity the fool who takes on that shuttle gig.

Seriously though, paintball hurts. Well.ca and Herbal Remedies.com both carry arnica and calendula creams and gels and salves to rub on all those bruises and scrapes. You probably won’t feel a thing until you come down from your killing frenzy. But when you do, Arnica and Calendula and Arctic Ice will be there for you. Arnica for bruises and swelling, no open wounds. Calendula for abrasions and rashes. Arctic Ice to mask the pain of overworked muscles.

Give all three to a masseuse named Lance. He’ll know what to do with them. He might even use them on you if you pay him enough.

You thought I was going to talk about PMS, didn’t you?

Okay, fine.

Next time!

Meanwhile, why not give paintball a try?  I read in a paintball forum that if you are too green or too old, they bury you in the leaves at the foot of the flag as the guard of last resort. 

Even I can do that.

No money for all of the parphernalia? Try slingshot paintball. It’s tons of fun. Silent but deadly.

Like farts.

Come to think of it, farts could give away we old farts’ positions on the playing field. What is the point of hiding under a pile of leaves for four hours, waiting for our moment of glory as we spring upon our unsuspecting enemy as they mistakenly assume they are about to capture our flag, if we are giving away our position with odiferous gases emanating from a certain bodily orifice?

Check out Herbal Remedies.com and Well.ca for Beano and the like. Don’t let gas lose the war. 

And don’t run out of gas either! Use a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement purchased from Well.ca or Herbal Remedies.com. We’ll review the many multi-vitamin and mineral supplements available on the market today in our next blog.

We will also touch on the importance of magnesium in the treatment of PMS and cramping. A personal odyssey.

Love you lots.

Pat.

Herpes simplex sucks. Big time. 

Herpes simplex 1 is the virus that we associate with lip and mouth sores, commonly referred to as cold sores. Herpes simplex 2 is the kind that we usually refer to as genital herpes.

Cold mouth sores is the very strange keyword phrase that will drive internet readers to this site. I have to repeat it at least three times in the article to ensure traffic, so please excuse its annoying, but necessary presence. Otherwise, I am talking to myself, again.

What I did not know until now, is that herpes simplex 1 and 2 can be found in either area of the body through cross-contamination, so to speak.

Lovely.

Herpes simplex 1 usually takes around 14 days to run its course during an outbreak. The actual virus, once contracted, is believed to reside in the body for life, although it lies dormant most of the time.

Genital herpes outbreaks can take up to four weeks to run their course. These outbreaks become shorter in duration as time goes on. I was surprised to learn that one can contract genital herpes without a break in the skin or sexual intercourse per se. And one can be contagious without any outward signs of the virus being detectable.

Not good.

Definitely work with the advice of a doctor on this one.

Apparently, vitamin D and niacin can help to prevent outbreaks or shorten the time of an outbreak.

Dynamiclear can dry up herpes blisters (cold mouth sores) within 72 hours. It’s an all natural topical ointment which not only shortens the duration of the blisters, it also reduces the number of outbreaks, and comes with that all-important money-back guarantee.

Allellujah.

Please check out the Dynamiclear website for more information on this product. Ask your health professional for their advice on whether this product is right for you.

I’m not going to ask anyone. I’m just going to try it. I do not have genital herpes, and I don’t have any allergies to the listed ingredients, and I am not going to bother spending the time or energy on consulting my doctor about a cold sore. When it comes to cold mouth sores, I can live on the edge and trust my own judgment. But that’s just me.

Please read the information provided on the treatment and prevention of cold sores on the Dynamiclear  site. The website is very user friendly, clear and informative. Definitely enough information to assist any lay reader or health care professional in making an assessment of the potential safety and efficacy of the products offered.

Cold sores are unsightly and make people miserable. Dynamiclear lessens the agony by shortening the time of the oubreaks and the number and severity of outbreaks. Secondary outbreaks are usually less than the initial bouts, even without any type of intervention, but Dynamiclear has effectively lessened the number and severity of outbreaks even more than is normally experienced without any topical application.

Do yourself a favour and give it a go. You will not regret it.

Festering running sores are not your friends. Why keep them around any longer than is necessary?

Unless you want to scare the neighbours, or keep that extra piece of pie for yourself. Touch your lips, touch the box, and voila, it’s reserved just for you!

Drink out of the milk carton and you’re a dead man. Dog house material.

Not that anyone reading this blog would ever even consider drinking out of the milk container at anytime.

Cold mouth sores not withstanding.

Right?

Pat.

Many thanks to the New York State Coalition Opposed To Flouridation (NYSCOF) for providing an amazingly informative link to their website in the “comments” area of my last post.

Please, please, please, go there.

So, you’re still here are you?

I know; I am addicting.

Don’t feel like checking it out, then at least know this:

The American Dental Association announced back on June 16th, 2000, that the new and improved cavity-fighting tool that beats fluoride hands down, is none other than calcium.

What a surprise.

In January of 2006, researchers overwhelmingly supported the use of a calcium-rich substance called Cavistat as the best cavity-fighter. Ask about Cavistat at DentalHygiene.ca.

Ask your dentist to use it and dump the fluoride.

Stand up for yourselves and your children and grandchildren.

If you don’t, you might not be standing up at all. Fluoride, it turns out, causes osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis, mottled and/or crumbly teeth, heart palpitations, and a cup of tea that sends you into hyperspace.

WTF?!

Why take fluoride?

Yes. That’s what I was thinking with those initials.

Ahem.

Dental hygiene.ca, dental hygiene.ca. These keywords will help to take the pain away. Because they will bring you into my website and I will be happy to hook you up with the NYSCOF.

Just call me the Cavistat Kid. Gleaming, shiny white teeth blinding an unsuspecting universe. My disarming smile stopping people in their tracks.

Don’t laugh. It actually happened.

I was working retail for a while last year when film was slow, and I smiled at an elderly customer. She was actually startled and jumped back two feet. So did a gentleman that same week. They both laughed and said that they had not expected such a lovely, warm smile in that usually hostile store.

The fact that they were in shock was all the more surprising since it was a Sallie Anne outlet. That is the Salvation Army store for those of you not familiar with the term. You know, God is love and all of that. Smiles are usually included, one would think.

Well, think again! They actually have a”Pit of Damnation” in which poor people seeking refuge in their shelters are permitted to indulge in a cigarette. I kid you not. 

Yes. The Cavistat Kid.The new cartoon hero of soon-to- be-released anti-fluoride, pro-calcium toothpaste commercials around the world.

Hey. You are supposed to be laughing with me, not at me. Just stop, or I’ll have to bite you in the knee cap.

With my perfect, fluoride-free pearly whites.

Pat

Drop the fluoride toothpaste folks, it is hurting your health.

The union of scientists for the EPA has asked for fluoride’s removal from toothpaste and water. It apparently has been proven, unequivacally, to do more harm than good. And the risk to children’s health in particular, is not worth the risk of any supposed benefit it may have for a small portion of the population’s tooth enamel.

Children swallow toothpaste. So do a lot of adults. Too much fluoride-filled toothpaste causes very bad stomach aches, and less than a tube of toothpaste can kill a 25 pound child.

Two tubes can kill an adult.

CSI says so.

If you can’t trust CSI, well, I just don’t know who you can trust.

I remember playing “inventor” as a child. Toothpaste was often the main ingredient in my mad scientist concoctions.This was long before the U.S. and Canadian governments insisted that fluoride be listed as a poison on the toothpaste tubes in 1997.

I remember parents happily allowing their children to play with their toothbrushes and the toothpaste tube while in the bathtubs. Limitless amounts of toothpaste were being sucked between their children’s teeth and down their gullets. Parents thought that this would be beneficial for their precious baby boos.

I wonder how many children’s commonly reported bed-time stomach aches were a result of this innocent  practice, and not an excuse for more attention, as it was often thought.

I have recently been using a fluoridated toothpaste, since we ran out of our fluoride-free one, and I was housebound due to a torn knee. I love my teeth, and am happy to have a shiny, white, clean smile so that I can mesmerize my victims into providing me with favours.

You can imagine my dismay when I realized my machiavellian plans would all be falling by the wayside because my gums were bleeding for no apparent reason. No plaque or tartar build-up; I just had my teeth cleaned recently.

I went to the trusty internet to find out what might be causing the bleeding gums. A site called Doctor’s Home Remedies stated that anyone having teeth and gum difficulties without obvious cause should stop using fluoride toothpaste, as too much, ie. any fluoride could be the cause of these problems.

And many other problems in the body also. ADD and ADHD included.

What?…..

I was shocked to learn that fluoride, even in the so-called small amounts found in toothpaste and public water supplies, can contribute to thyroid issues, arthritis, low levels of digestive enzymes, weak joints, loose and brittle teeth, and mottled enamel.

Fluoride combines with other chemicals, you see, so the positive results for tooth enamel are dependent upon other, uncontrollable factors. Fluoride dangers are numerous. I will dedicate a later post to a more in-depth scientific paper on the extent to which fluoride can affect our bodies, with the emphasis on why.

For the time being, please just take the EPA’s word for it, and stop using any toothpaste, water, or mouthwash with fluoride in it.

Fluoride can actually kill you, or leave you toothless.

Or dead and toothless.

How undignified.

How insane to even consider putting this stuff in our water supply and toothpaste.

I gimped out to the car and hobbled into the drug store in order to find a fluoride-free toothpaste. There was only one product available in the major pharmaceutical franchise known as Shopper’s Drug Mart.

Shopper’s carries Tom’s of Maine brand toothpaste in a number of natural fluoride-free flavours. I used it for only one evening and one morning, and my bleeding gums healed and have stayed healthy ever since. I am never going back to a fluoride toothpaste again, not even in an emergency. I’ll suck it up and use salt or baking soda if I can’t get out to the store.

Since fluoride can also cause heart palpitations, and a hyper-sensitive response to a simple cup of tea, it is totally evil and should no longer be scraped out of the smoke stacks of fertilizer factories and dumped  into the water and dental paste of an unsuspecting, and uninformed general public.

The general public might be ignorant, but those in the know who allow this poisoning of the populous to continue unabated as a means of getting rid of a deadly environmental contaminant which is an offshoot of fertilizer manufacuring, are criminals.

Hurting their own families for a profit.

Support the Environmental Protection Agency in their scientifically-backed fight to free us from fluoride poisoning.

Solay toothpastes, like all of their products, are given the green light for poison-free and allergy-free cosmetic products by the U.S.-based international cosmetic watch-dog, the Environmental Energy Workers SkinDeep cosmetic database site, www.cosmeticsdatabase.com. No fluoride dangers lurking in any of Solay’s products. (And yes, “fluoride dangers” is a keyword phrase that I need to repeat to drive traffic to this site. So is fluoride-free toothpaste. Hee hee; I sneaked it in. I’m so sneaky. Not.)

Tom’s of Maine carry one fluoridated toothpaste that they have recently and most misguidedly added to their dental cleaning arsenal. They have bowed to the pressures of a misinformed public.

Don’t sell out to The Man, Tom. Stick with fluoride-free toothpaste. Be a man.

Well.ca is an excellent internet company providing a number of fluoride-free toothpastes on-line. It has affordable products and offers a 60-day money-back guarantee, should you feel the need to return any purchase. They are a new internet presence, offering over 10,000 non-prescription health products for your purchasing pleasure.

Don’t forget to cross-reference any of your potential cosmetic purchases at the Environmental Energy Worker’s SkinDeep www.cosmeticsdatabase.com. This independently funded body of cosmetic scientists have done the research. All you have to do to stay free of toxic additives and chemicals is use it.

Find your safe products at Well.ca and  SolayWellness.com.

Support Our Troops Gnome

Buy a garden gnome in support of our troops!

Show your heartfelt support for our troops, where-ever they may be. (And remember, redundancy brings traffic to my website!)

This Amazon listing is the lowest-priced seller out there on the web today. I checked, saving you the trouble.

“Troops” is such a grown-up word. It evokes images of war-seasoned men and women running off to battle with high-tech know-how and full comprehension of what they are getting themselves into.

We were filming a movie at Trenton Air Force base a while back. We were using a platoon of solidiers as background performing artists. I went over to the field tent that we had set up to harbour everyone near the film set, while off camera. I just couldn’t get over all the fresh-scrubbed faces of the kids all decked out in green. That’s the word that came to mind, “kids”. Baby-faced, grade ten-looking minors. These are our seasoned soldiers folks. Being shipped out to Afghanistan the month after we were filming on this base.

If these soldiers look like trusting, exuberant, bursting with life, carefree children to me, then they look like this to the higher military brass as well. Nice going fellas. Sending kids out to do the dirty work.

I kid you not. Not one of the kids that we spoke to thought that they were actually in any danger. It was like they were in a dreamworld of comradery and friendship and social security.  All without the threat of death that a peace-time enlistment could indeed provide. It was surreal.

Friends of ours son is a career soldier in his early thirties. He has finally been sent over to Afghanistan also, after being on the tragic receiving end of the death notices of many of he and his wife’s friends up at  the base in Petawawa. He also told us that no-one he knew overseas was prepared for the reality of war and death. He said that many of his friends posted in Afghanistan were facing internal turmoil at their lack of psychological preparedness for the event of the actual loss of friends. “Pure chaos over there in terms of emotional preparedness. People are just falling apart inside.”

I love these kids and I want them to be safe. Showing support is honourable. So is using satellite imagery to hone in on the roads, and infrared film for night vigilanceof these known, limited routes of troop transport. The only time anyone seems to be killed over there is by roadside bombs. So why not just use air transport?  I don’t know. The expense?  What price do you put on someone’s life?  And if the Taliban are making money off the sale of opium poppies that they have the Afghan farmers growing for them, then why don’t we burn the poppy fields and plant vegetables and wheat? If we do it, by force, then the farmer won’t be blamed by the Taliban for siding with the outside world. If the farmer does it himself, without the appearance of coercion, because we smile at him and pat him on the back, he will surely be the target of Taliban retribution.

Show support for these young troops. Let’s all buy a support our troops garden gnome, but please, let’s get these young people home.

Buy a gnome, but bring them home.

New mantra.

Support Our Troops Gnome

What’s in a gnome?

Polyresin.

What’s in a name?

Your children.

Let’s not list any more of them on an war memorial wall.

Pat.

Dot com. That’s right everyone! Www.nevershaveagain.com is pleased to offer you the only FDA approved system of permanent hair removal on the  market today.

Pain free.

Carefree.

And most importantly,

Listen!

HAIR FREE!

It is also amazingly affordable.   The Finally Free permanent hair removal system costs thousands of dollars less than the usual regimen of shaving or creaming, or electrolysis. A one-time fee of @169.00, on sale now for only $99.95, and all your woolly mammoth problems are over.

Forever!

Finally Free uses a patented sonic wave application, which passes over the hair follicles, knocking them dead from the roots up.  Brazilian laser spas eat your heart out! Never Brazilian laser again.

Keep this tool away from any tool that doesn’t like you, or you might be rendered as bald as a baby’s bottom.  And be nice to your better half! One wrong word from you, one infidelity, and your spouse will be able to use your head for a bowling ball.

To be honest, I think that we all need Finally Free.

Be the first on your block to never need to shave again!

Tell all of your friends that Brazilian laser treatments are no longer a trip downtown affair!

A little “downtown” humor.

If you haven’t guessed yet; Brazilian laser is a search engine term. I am not fixated on the procedure.

Brazilian laser might not be too painful, but why “go south” in public, with any discomfort, when you can do the Brazilian thing in the privacy of your own home? Painlessly and without embarassment, and without the risk of blackmail photos.

Please check out the folks at www.nevershaveagain.com.

And tell them that I sent you.

Pat, the one with the furry eyebrows and five o’clock shadow.

But only on Thursdays.

Tell them to get an affiliate program like the rest of the 21st century.

So that I can look less like an neanderthal and make enough money to purchase one of their kits for myself!

Pat.

I’m sure that most of you saw the Austin Powers scene where Fred Savage’s character had a giant dark mole on his face that no-one could take their eyes off. If you didn’t; tada! Now you have. The image is your’s for life, or until Alzheimer’s rears its ugly, mole-infested head.

Just one step worse than Cindy Crawford or Sarah Jessica Parker.

Moles and cysts are not really beauty marks girls. Let’s be clear on that one, shall we?

They are moles.

And cysts.

Let’s remove them painlessly and without any fuss or visits to the doctor.

Unless they have changed colour or shape or size. In which case, consult a physician pronto.

Get rid moles with castor oil and baking soda! (I know; I need to say get rid of moles with castor oil and baking soda, but the search engines won’t let me. I have to play the game or I will be lonely here all by myself.)

I use castor oil and baking soda and it works like a charm. Just make sure that the castor oil is not stale-dated. When you combine these two ingredients and massage them onto the mole or cyst, you can often feel a gentle pulling, or drawing feeling, perhaps even a slight sting. Often, you will feel nothing at all, but the moles and cysts will diminish in size and eventually disappear.

I use a dab of castor oil and baking soda once in the morning and once at night, massaged into the skin over the offending protruberance.

They will sometimes grow back again over time, because the pattern for said growth seems to be established on some peculiar evil level of life. Apply castor oil and baking soda again, if the growth starts to reappear, and voyla, presto change-o, gone.

I had a small mole on my upper lip that has never regrown, but one on my cheek keeps trying to reassert itself over the years.

Castor oil and baking soda keeps it in check.

I kid you not.

Thanks Edgar Cayce!

Give it a try and let me know how it goes for you.

Get rid moles with castor oil and baking soda !

(The third time is the charm, I’m told. I can count; the phrase is also hidden in my meta title! What a world.)

Before and after pictures would be fun!

Can’t go out to the store for castor oil because of hideous moles?

Herbal Remedies.com is your online salvation!

Pat.

What the heck is TMJ?

TMJ and bruxism can be treated without medication or mouthguards, apparently, quite successfully. But what the heck is meant by TMJ? I have just been on a billion websites, where TMJ is discussed and an assortment of products offered to aid in its relief.

You would think that someone would tell you what the initials stand for.

Oh, I know; I’m supposed to know it by osmosis. If I stare at the letters TMJ long enough, the correct answer will come to me. Too Much Junk food? Tight Muscled Jaw? Twisted My Junk?

That would give someone bruxism.

What?!

TMJ stands for temporomandibular joint disorder, dysfunction, or syndrome

Now I know why it is called TMJ. It is also known as TMJD or TMD.

You can call it TMJ, or you can call it TMD or you can call it TMJD, but ya doesn’t have ta call it temporomandibular joint disorder/syndrome.

Would it really have been so hard to spell it out completely at least once on someone’s website or sales page?

The temporomandibular joint is the joint on the face that joins the mandible, or lower jaw, to the rest of the skull.  Each TMJ is actually two joints. This enables the TMJ to both rotate and translate.

I beg your pardon.

If someone told me to rotate, I don’t think that I would need much of a translation. They might need a new TMJ or two once they were done, however.

Translate, in this instance, means to be able to slide, and therefore allow the lower jaw to do all those fun movements involved in chewing, talking, and mocking people with overbites.

Speaking of mocking; I wouldn’t be at all surprised if fists had something to do with a lot of men’s TMJ disorders.

Inflammation of these joints can be extremely painful, as well as limiting the usual movement of the jaw. People often suffer from referred pain, manifesting as earaches, due to the close proximity of this joint to the ears.

Temporomandibular joint disorder is often exacerbated by a condition known as bruxism. Bruxism, or bruxing, is the repetitive, unconscious movement of the jaw.

And teeth grinding.

Chronic teeth grinding.

Teeth Grinding How To Stop

Sounding like Yoda gets more traffic hits to my website, so please bear with me!

There are mouth guards available on the market, but doctors don’t advise that you use such shields. Custom-made is the way to go if you choose this avenue of relief.

TMJ NO MORE

If you are fed up of looking like a hockey player in bed, and don’t have the professional “hip-check” to back it up, or make up for the usually less than sexy appeal of this mouth guard, check out this website:   www.TMJNOMORE.com.

The lovely lady who hosts this website was a long-suffering TMJ bruxater herself. She isn’t any more. She is a medical researcher, nutritionist and health consultant. She has found a drug-free, mouthguard-free way to stop her bruxism and TMJ. Many people have benefitted from her research and are no longer suffering from the effects of these reversible conditions. Many have found that their symptoms have not left completely, but are far less marked.

She claims that you can be TMJ-free entirely within two months using her 3-step program, and find great relief from the symptoms within the first twelve hours.

Sandra Carter is her name and she can help your TMJ go away.

Sandra Carter is your number one drug-free resource for: Teeth Grinding How To Stop.

Forever.

And without making all the money in your pocketbook go away too!

Please check out her website. Once again, that is Sandra Carter at www.TMJNOMORE.com.

If you don’t like what you see,

Bite me!

Teeth Grinding HowTo Stop

There, that should do it.

Traffic.

Pat.

What a bright idea!

Soft glow, but definitely a bright idea.

Crystal Himalayan salt lamps by Solay do indeed emit negative ions to the air. These ions bond with allergens, those nasty particulates in the air and take them down to the ground.

This type of bondage is definitely a good thing!

Less allergens in the atmosphere makes breathing a whole lot easier for many of us. Apparently, the negative ions also allow greater blood flow to the brain. This, in turn, is supposed to account for sharper minds and better memory.

These natural crystal Himalayan salt lamps by Solay come in a variety of sizes. One the size of a night light will do an office-sized room. Just don’t place them on a wooden floor in warmer weather, as they will leave a salty residue that can be difficult to remove. The lamps will also degrade a bit if the room they are used in is too humid. But they have no known harmful side-effects to users.

So breathe a little easier, and think a liitle smarter. Get your own salt crystal lamp today!

Solay Wellness Inc. carries a variety of colours as well shapes and sizes. They get fair-trade salt crystals mined from the Himalayas. Hence the name.

Check them out!

And while you’ve got the new mood lighting going on and feel energized from all that fresh negative-ion charged air that you’re inhaling, pick up some of Solay’s delicious chocolates and relaxing body oils. Share the moment with your beloved.

Or with your reflection in the mirror.

LIke me.

Just rethink that idea of using crystal himalayan salt lamps in the barn for your horses. Yes, they provide a nice soft light, and a healthier atmosphere. They’d go well with a good radio station. Something country, unless you’ve got Lipizans. But the salt lamp would become a salt lick, I do believe, and electricity thrown into the mix could just get nasty.

What? You’re mind never went there?

Well neither did mine.

Sheesh.

Pat.

For those seeking health products and foods that are in concert with vegan tenets, Solay Wellness products are definitely for you. I’ve checked the Environmental workers Group SkinDeep cosmetic safety database, and all of their products have been given the green light. Literally.

Check my post on safe toothpastes and mouthwash. I discuss this group in greater detail there.

The EWG researchers stand alone, like the Environmental Protection Agency.They are not in the pocket of any pharmaceutical company. They depend upon donations to keep their website and research up and running. The EWG uses a stoplight system of assessment with regard to the safety of cosmetic and toiletry products on the market today.

Green means that the EWG have not found any dangerous compounds which are carcinogenic or pathogenic. It does not mean that one is safe from allergies, however. Natural products, as we all know by this point in time, can cause allergic reactions just like man-made chemicals. All the ingredients are clearly listed, so that you can easily guage your own sensitivities to any products.

I am personally going to start with the Solay toothpowder and see what it is like. And their face cream. Solay carry an anti-aging cream and I will spread it on my toast if that will help!

I love toast.

And they sell coffee and tea too!

And caramels.

And chocolate.

And granola.

All organically grown ingredients.

That means I can eat more.

And what on earth are these salt lamps that they advocate?

Solay carries natural salt crystal lamps, which give off a soft, ambient glow and provide negative ions to the atmosphere. Negative ions are beneficial in that they apparently make the air easier to breathe for people with asthma, chronic lung conditions and air-borne irritant allergies. They are also touted in the literature to improve memory and learning capabilities.

I will look into the scientific basis for these additional claims in my next blog.

What was I just saying?

Solay Wellness carries products for your pets too!

Delicious vegan cookies, and cruely-free shampoo, and pet beds. Your cat might be a killer, and your dog might kill cats, but at least their little tummies will have one less evilly-gotten thing in them with these tasty, healthy morsels from Solay.

Check out the Solay Wellness website.

Pat.