Urbal Tea Is a Local Milwaukee Herbal Tea Company
Every blend of Urbal Tea is formulated to assist in the healing, strengthening, and preserving of the entire human body. Herbal tea works with the body in an all-natural way to promote balance and good health. Almost any herbal leaf, flower, and root can be made into tea. What makes us different is that we only blend herbs; therefore none of our herbal blends contain actual tea or caffeine. Camellia sinensis, known as the tea plant, is just one plant. Our herbal infusions focus on all the other species of plants Mother Nature provides. We incorporate many local herbs like nettle, dandelion, burdock, and clover. Many of these herbs can be found right in your own backyards. All of the herbal teas contain numerous vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, and each blend targets a different ailment or need. Meant to be enjoyed every day, Urbal Teas provide a bounty of nourishing herbs to benefit the entire body and soul. Our passion is to help people kick the caffeine and processed-sugar beverages. Drinking tea is a simple and easy way to refresh and heal. Please visit our website urbalhealth.com for more details on all the wonderful blends we offer.
Urbal Tea is liquid for life.
Poofy Organics
About ten years ago, I decided to go green with my household and personal care products. My only exceptions have been hair dye, stain, and bleach. If you know me, you would likely agree one never knows from one day to the next what color my hair may be. That being said, my husband used to make comments during those ten plus years of chemical-free living about how he missed the way I used to smell during our dating years. I used toxic perfumes and chemical-laden body sprays from famous mall stores, which in turn equated to an allergy pill a day for over fourteen years. Frankly, I just hadn’t found anything that was pure enough for me to put back on my body, so I stayed away from scents altogether.
In October 2012, I attended the Holistic Mom’s conference in Chicago. While wearing my nametag and browsing the booths early in the morning, I heard a woman exclaim, “Wow, your name is Aphrodite? You should sell our products!” I thought to myself, “Yeah right! I just don’t think that there are any products out there that are safe enough, up to my standards, or are not filled with things that I don’t want in my house.” Excitedly, and upon further investigation, I found myself intrigued by the pure, clean, organic ingredients.
That day was the very first day of my fantastic journey. By noon, I had become an Independent Poofy Organics Diva, which in turn made me their very first recruited Diva. A Diva hosts home and Internet-based parties while educating people about the benefits of toxic-free living. I had not realized until I walked away from the table that fateful day that I had just met the founder, owner, and CEO of Poofy Organics, Kristina Gagliardi-Wilson.
Poofy Organics was founded in 2006 after one of Kristina’s family members was diagnosed with cancer. During this frightening battle, Kristina discovered there simply were no truly safe products on the market for her family to use. She began making her own pure, clean, organic products. As local interests grew in her creations, she decided to sell her homemade products on eBay. It quickly became obvious that her calling was much bigger. She soon opened her own store, Poofy Organics, sweetly named after her daughter’s childhood nickname.
Poofy products are made in small batches by hand at our USDA certified organic facility in Rutherford, New Jersey. All products are gluten free, cruelty free, contain zero toxins, and have no hidden ingredients. We offer a wide variety of luxurious bath and body products for the entire family. There are fun kids’ scents available within our Young, Wild, & Free line. Other product lines include I AM goddess for Women, Ruggedly Natural for Men, Baby Poof for Infants & Toddlers, Poofy Polish for everyone, delightfully aromatic household cleaners for your home, and USDA certified organic essential oils for your peace of mind.
For information on parties, great shipping rates, and answers to your questions contact me today -715.552.1474
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Good for You and Earth: CORE Meals
Oakland, California—based CORE Foods began after Corey, the founder, lived with twelve different tribes around the world. He hand-ground corn in Mexico, foraged for sago grubs in Papua New Guinea, rice farmed in Indonesia, herded goats in Mongolia, beat taro in Brazil, and sling-shot dik-dik in South Africa. All these experiences drew him to conclude that for best nutrition, one should eat mostly whole fresh fruits and vegetables.
Through a loan from Whole Foods Market, CORE Foods was born, with the goal of making it possible for anyone to eat healthy anywhere, anytime. Corey wanted the company to be not-for-profit due to the universal principle he had observed in every tribe he’d lived with: treat others they way you want to be treated.
By Earth Day 2010, CORE had developed two meals: Defender Meals (oats, nuts, seeds, fruits—for daily healthy living) and Warrior Meals (whey protein, healthy fats, and complex carbohydrates—for energy, endurance, and strength). Each meal keeps you fueled for four hours. All meals are of high-quality nutrient-dense whole certified organic ingredients—no syrups, salts, oils, flours, or additives. Meals have no preservatives, so a meal can last one week on the go, one month if chilled, and six months if frozen. Each pack of ten meals costs about $40.
CORE Meals are available in 300 stores nationwide or at www.corefoods.com. CORE uses local sources as much as possible, and the meals are gluten free and kosher. In efforts to protect the environment, CORE uses American-made recycled and low-waste materials and avoids excess waste and energy use. CORE offsets its remaining emissions via CarbonFund.org. The company supports community involvement in its hometown of Oakland by donating thousands of CORE Meals to the homeless and by participating in other community events.
Honey Salon: Could This Be What You’ve Wanted?
by Barbara Tzetzo Gosch, freelance writer
After fourteen years as a professional hair stylist, Becca Barr created her vision of an eco-friendly and wellness-centered beauty salon in Eau Claire. Barr has combined her healthy lifestyle and entrepreneurial skills to provide clients with a “Special Place” where they can feel pampered and safer from chemicals.
“While growing up, I was taught to pay attention not only to the food I would eat but what I’d put on my body,” she revealed.
The awareness to take charge of your health needs along with her hair stylist listening skills contributed to Barr’s discovery that a new kind of hair salon service was needed. She was reminded of clients, as well as herself, who had experienced allergic and other reactions from using hair products that have an increase in chemicals. “Honey,” was selected to be part of her salon’s name because—it’s a natural alternative. In addition, Barr, who is a beekeeper, decided upon the “Queen Bee” as its logo, expressing her dedication to the environment.
At Honey Salon:
1. She uses gentle, ammonia-free color—plus, sulfate-, gluten-, and paraben-free products.
2. Products used are organic. See “Intelligent Nutrients” website at www.intelligentnutrients.ca.
3. You’re the only customer in the salon during your appointment, and you get personal service for that unique good cut, style, and blow dry.
4. Online scheduling encourages clients to email or text photos to obtain their desired style.
5. The salon is family friendly and welcomes children.
6. The salon is accessible to physically challenged clients.
7. Relaxing massages and soothing herbal tea available.
As bees are attracted to honey, you may find yourself wanting an especially sweet experience that Honey Salon provides!
2704 London Rd. Eau Claire (715-864-9571). www.honeysaloneauclaire.com
Are You Thriving?
The holidays are just around the corner! Are you looking for that perfect gift for some special people in your life? How about the Gift of Health? Do you or someone you know suffer from: low energy, low mood, joint discomforts, headaches, managing your weight, or trouble sleeping? Then the THRIVE Experience may be just what you are looking for!
As hard as we try to create a healthy food environment for our families, it can be extremely difficult due to farmlands having nutritionally depleted soil and using over-processed ingredients. These circumstances make it almost impossible to fill all of the nutritional gaps in our bodies.
The THRIVE Experience is a new direction in simplicity. Take two capsules before your feet hit the floor in the morning, take our THRIVE lifestyle shake mix, slap on your DFT foam, and you are done for the day!
This simple three-step system provides our bodies with over 100 synergistic vitamins, minerals, probiotics, nutrients, digestive enzymes, amino acids and antioxidants that fill those nutritional gaps in our bodies to allow us to run at an ultra premium level.
Le-Vel is redefining the term FREE, with their innovative direct sales company. Anyone can join the Le-Vel team for free, whether it’s as a customer or a promoter. They are a Cloud-based company which allows them to invest in the highest grade ingredients available, as well as an industry leading compensation plan.
If you would like to know more about the THRIVE Experience, please visit www.UltraPremiumLifestyle.com or give Tiffanie (Independent Brand Promoter for Le-Vel) a call at 715-495-8432.
To read some amazing personal experiences, check out the Le-Vel Facebook fan page. For more information, you can also listen to this prerecorded informational call. 1-530-881-1499 Pin 137907#”
How to Be Lovely
What does it mean to “love yourself to be lovely”?
That’s the tagline at Molly Marie Photography, a local studio founded by Molly Keyser in 2007. Molly’s studio specializes in women’s portraits—boudoir, glamour, and maternity. Unlike some other photographers, Molly doesn’t rely on Photoshop to give her clients photos they can be proud of. Instead, Molly’s mission is to empower women with the realization of their beauty through portrait sessions for which they do not need to lose 10 pounds or hide their “imperfections” to be attractive. Being lovely comes from a place much deeper than the external appearances; it stems directly from a woman’s core of confidence.
Developing this mission has been many years in the making. Several years ago, Molly struggled with self-image and began a weight loss journey. She now wants to share her personal discoveries with women who harbor similar feelings of inadequacy. “I wasn’t able to have success with my weight loss journey until I loved myself with the weight on. I wasn’t able to create more time for myself until I truly loved myself enough to create time for me.” Being lovely comes from a place of self-assuredness, of being at peace with who you are right now.
Stephanie, of north-central Wisconsin, shared her experience of learning to embrace her beauty after a glamour portrait session at Molly Marie Photography. “I was nine months pregnant with my fourth child when I scheduled my photo shoot and was honestly looking forward to my hair and makeup being done, and having a few photos taken of myself. Little did I know all the benefits that came from it. I am your average stay-at-home mom of four, and I will admit I lost myself in the shuffle of a hectic household. I felt I had let myself down in a way . . . after doing this, I realized that I am still the woman/wife I was before becoming a stay-at-home mom. I was in there, and I was smokin’ hot (who knew under those sweatpants?). I carry myself differently, and I take a few extra minutes to myself in a day, dress better, and even put a little makeup on when I stay at home. I just feel so much more confident! Don’t get me wrong . . . I still have sweatpants days, but all I do is look at my photos, smile, and things look a little brighter.”
Stephanie learned to love herself to be lovely.
“This tagline to me is so much more than just my business tagline,” Molly shares. “It’s deeper than that to me. What this means is that no matter what you’re struggling with, you have to find a way to love yourself here and now in order to be ‘lovely.’”
Take a few extra minutes for yourself today. Remember, or discover, that you are beautiful, attractive, valued, strong, and lovely now. Relish the moment and carry it with you.