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I just spoke to a friend who just returned from a two-week cruise. She had a great time along with her husband, and family members.

Our conversation drifted toward natural products. She is also a member of the Shaklee family, and we are both quite passionate about what we put into our bodies, and what affects our health from our surroundings.

If I may digress a bit. Ghislaine, who is the friend I am mentioning here, and I met while taking Naturopathy classes toward a diploma in 1996. I was sitting in the row next to hers and one desk behind hers. At one point, she took out a nutrition bar, and the packaging caught my attention because it was a Shaklee product. At break, I approached her, and a life-long friendship was born.

Ghislaine mentioned to me that Shaklee had recently applied to the government to be able to use the Ecolo symbol that proves a product is safe for the environment. Imagine my surprise when she said that Shaklee could not use the symbol because they do not meet one of the requirements: they must test their products on animals. Whaaaat??? Is this not an oxymoron? Shaklee doesn't test any of its products on animals. It never has, and never will! They have too much respect for the balance of our delicate ecologic system and fauna.

I knew that the government allows a company to claim that a cleaning product is biodegradable if it does so at a minimum of 50%. My question is, What does the other 50% contain? That, to me, is not kosher at all. Sorry!

In fact, Shaklee was the first company to receive the Climate Neutral Certification in 2000. See the press release here: http://www.shaklee.com/news_presskit_anannounce.shtml.

Shaklee's cleaning products are 100% biodegradable, and they put it right on their label! Their nutritional products are tested for quality and bioavailability over and over before they put them in the consumers' hands. They guarantee right on the label with pride their products will do at 100% what they say they do! So what's the problem? Are they too good to be true? Well, they are more than good, and they are true to themselves. When a company, or anyone for that matter, does that, it can only transfer that philosophy down the line.

Take a step toward bettering your health, your earth, yourselves! You will never regret it! I've been a Shaklee member for 18 years, been using their products for 18 years, and I take pride in saying that I am and have done the best for my environment and my family.

There that's my rant for today!