Category — education

If you’re not yet familiar with our newest program, this is one you don’t want to miss. Unlike anything else available anywhere, our Natural Skin Care Development course is one of the most practical, fun and beneficial programs we offer. If you’ve ever researched the effects of conventional cosmetics and skin care, you probably know that the average individual uses over 9 different products a day with a combined total of 126 unique ingredients. Nearly 90% of those ingredients have never been evaluated for safety by any publicly accountable institution! Many of these products contain known or suspected carcinogens, pesticides, reproductive toxins and endocrine disrupters!

But where do you turn for affordable, effective, yet still luxurious skin care? It’s tough to find, but easy to make your own with the right techniques and know-how. In this 30 unit program, you’ll learn everything you need to know to produce everything you can imagine using all natural ingredients. Check out the description on our website to get a peek at some of the hundreds of formulas and dozens of techniques this program teaches.

And, the best part is that if you pre-enroll before the end of February, you can save $100 on the package price, which includes the textbook, formulation workbook, formulation guide, study workbook and 2 DVDs, plus 2 years membership to our online study portal which includes all of the resources and services you’ll need to complete the program successfully.

Or, you can enter to WIN a FREE complete package! Valued at $495 (the pre-discount price for the course), this giveaway is the biggest we’ve ever offered. On Valentine’s Day at noon, we’ll randomly select a winner from the comments to this post for this amazing giveaway.

Ready to enter? Get your first entry by leaving a comment below. You can earn additional entries by sharing the product page, our YouTube promotional video, and / or this contest blog post on your favorite social media site, including facebook, your blog, twitter, pinterest or elsewhere. That gives three potential ways to enter for each social media site you frequent! Be sure to leave a separate comment for each share, to ensure you get the entry! For additional entries, this prize package is transferable, so you can have your friends and family enter and share as well!

More details: Contest begins now and ends at midnight, February 13th (central time). No comments will be approved after midnight, 2/13. Winner will be randomly chosen at noon on Friday and contacted via email. No substitutions; void where prohibited. Winner must be 18 years or older; package is transferable.

UPDATE: This contest is now closed for entries. The winner will be posted at noon CST

For those of you that have been keeping up with our upcoming release announcements for the year, you know we’re thrilled about all of the new exciting programs that will soon be available! In just a few weeks, we’ll be allowing early registration for the new Natural Skin Care Development course, which covers everything you’d ever want to know about skincare and making your own herbal / natural products for the whole body. We’re also releasing in a few months a new aromatherapy course for the family. To say that the office is beyond excited about these new products and programs would be a huge understatement!

With the new program releases also comes a change in format for one of our favorite programs – the Holistic Wellness Professional course. Starting March 1, this program will only be available in the self study format, which includes the textbooks only. Any support / services, whether through the month to month option or the bundle options will not be available for purchase any longer. So, if you’ve been considering taking this course for the certificate through us, now’s the time to do it!

Just to clarify – services and support for this program will NOT be ending March 1, only the option to enroll. All students that are currently signed up or that purchase an option before March 1 will continue to receive their support and services through the purchased period. (Current students will NOT be affected.) We are only discontinuing the option to sign up for those services after the end of February. The textbooks for self study options will continue to be available indefinitely for those that want to still read through the material on their own.

Current students will also have special upgrade options available to them, which can be obtained from the office upon request.

If you have any questions about the program or need more information, please contact us at info(at)vintageremedies(dot)com

This week was the launch of the 8 Weeks to Real Foods series; on Monday, the first email hit thousands of inboxes! (If you’re not signed up for this FREE program, you can do so here.) The minute the email launched, the questions came pouring in: “Why not milk?” “What if we drink raw milk?” “Don’t kids need calcium?” and of course “What will we put on our cereal?” So I’m going to take a minute to elaborate on that one aspect of the program from this week.

To begin, no, we’re not anti-milk. Yes, children (and us grown ups too) need calcium. NO, we definitely do not recommend soy milk as an alternative. Milk was included in the elimination list for a couple of reasons:

1. Most milk consumed in this country is heavily processed. It’s been obtained from cows fed antibiotics and growth hormones. It’s been pasteurized and homogenized. It’s been skimmed and fortified. It’s been through a lot before it reaches your table. It’s not nearly as natural as we’ve been taught.

2.  The vast majority of individuals do not have the ability to digest liquid milk. With an exception for a few adults of European descent, most people simply don’t digest it well. And many of us have come to accept the symptoms of these sensitivities as normal. Recurring ear infections in children, eczema in all populations, digestive complaints – these are all symptoms of milk sensitivities.

3. Milk does not provide any nutrients that we can’t get elsewhere. It’s not the only source of calcium and it’s not the best source of calcium. And many argue that it’s not even a good source of calcium. Calcium can come form leafy greens (and is more bioavailable that way) and from nuts such as almonds.

What about other dairy products? Fermented milks such as kefir, yogurt and cheeses are great additions to the diet and have been processed naturally by microbes to be more easily digested and more nutrient dense due to increased bioavailability. We’ll talk about other healthier dairy products in future weeks.

What about raw milk? Many families are drinking raw milk obtained from their own cows or cows they own through a cow share. In this situation, much of the above information is not applicable, but the use of raw milk was not discussed in the series because raw milk is rarely available in a local grocery store.

Finally – what to put on your cereal? We recommend using a fermented dairy product such as yogurt or kefir with some whole grain granola or similar foods. However, keep in mind that each week’s info is written with the intention that you will customize it as suits your family best. If you don’t want to give up that morning cereal yet, try using some organic goat milk, which is nutritionally superior and less processed, or some almond milk. We don’t recommend using soy milk or other refined milks.

Want to read up more on this subject? Here’s what the Harvard School of Public Health recently said about the real need for milk in the diet.