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This Little Light of Mine

26/6/2017

Ecolyte Soy Candles offers a range of exquisitely fragranced candles in beautiful containers which can be refilled time and time again.

The range was developed by Isha Edwards in 2006. As a practitioner of Wholistic Therapies in Auckland, Isha's focus is on using only natural and chemical-free products around her home and her clients. When you burn an Ecolyte candle you know that you are using a natural product that's not going to harm your environment. Only the highest quality fragrances are used and there is also a range which uses pure essential oils.

Isha’s mission: to inform people of the benefits of using soy candles and to offer quality products for sale at realistic prices.

Doing No Harm

25/6/2017

Ranchorama Remedies are produced on an 80-acre property in Waitakere, Auckland. It’s a busy place where they grow herbs, raise beef cattle and breed Tenessee Walking horses.

Miranda Adams’ day job is as violinist and Assistant Concertmaster with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and despite the musical fulfilment she gets from this, playing the violin is punishing on her body, especially the neck and shoulders. This, plus a weakness for migraines and some minor skin cancer issues led Miranda to begin making her own chemical-free muscle balms, skin healing balms and sunscreens, right there in her kitchen.

The herbs are grown on the property or bought from organic sources, infused in oil and mixed with beeswax to create balms. The sunscreens use non-nano zinc oxide (non whitening once rubbed in).

Miranda is inspired by the ancient traditional power of herbs such as calendula, kawakawa and lavendar to heal many skin conditions such as rashes, ecxema and acne, also comfrey, mint, arnica and ginger for muscular pain.

It is the hope of Ranchorama Remedies that everyone who uses their products does so because they are chemical and preservative free and cannot do any harm, only benefit the user.

Making It Worxx

21/6/2017

With vivid memories of being a 4-year-old busily lining up her dolls and “teaching” them, Lisa Melrose of Fun Worxx Publishing wasn’t surprised when she decided to study Montessori Early Childhood Education as a career.

After many years of teaching, Lisa felt a strong pull towards equipping our little people with a healthy set of life skills and emotional awareness. Combine this with her love of all things patterned and colourful, it was the natural step to start creating a set of delightful picture books and activity books designed to help support children between the ages of 3 and 8 years old, in developing their skills in perceiving, understanding and managing emotions.

Characters include Penny the Princess, Ronny the Robot, Betty the Bee and so many more wonderful personalities that will keep children busy (and learning) for hours!

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