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Love in 2018 involves loving yourself.  In the Second Great Commandment,  Love your neighbor as yourself, the yourself part is often forgotten.  There is a huge problem, however, with leaving off the end.  You simply cannot love others without learning how to love yourself!

It may seem like it would be easy to love yourself.  But the world sends out a constant stream of messages that you are not good enough.  In fact, your quirks and unique characteristics are part of what makes you you.  And you are special.  In fact, there is no one else exactly like you.  There will never be another you.  That means your love, your relationships, your experiences will never be replicated.

Learning to love yourself involves knowing your own primary love language.  Is it gifts?  Quality time?  Acts of service?  Physical touch?  Words?

Understanding love languages is very helpful in all relationships.  (See Gary Chapman’s book, The 5 Love Languages, and take the 5 love languages quiz at www.5lovelanguages.com.)  Learning to love yourself is the beginning of learning to love others well.

So, communicating love to yourself in your own love language is a great place to start the New Year.  If your primary love language is words of affection, begin 2018 by shaping your internal communications with loving self-messages.  If your primary love language is acts of service, learn how to do things for yourself that matter to you.  Spend time in your garden, give yourself some special pampering, clean and organize your living room.  If your love language is gifts, hmm, well, that’s probably not too difficult to figure out!  If it is physical touch, give yourself a hug every morning when you wake up!  If it is quality time, consider the spa treatment (see January 6 blog!).  [Editor’s note:  The spa treatment might work just fine for ALL love languages!]

Loving yourself is an important component of good health.  Unlike narcissistic behavior, it equips you for healthy relationships and the ability to love others, including your neighbors.

Love in 2018 involves your personal health on all levels – spiritual, emotional, physical, and relationships. First and foremost, love begins with God.

Not all faith traditions depict God as a God of love.  For some, God is a God of judgment and damnation.  For some, God is a Universal Force of Nature.  For me, God is personal and the Author of Love.  The Greatest Commandment, Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength, is our right response to the Author of Love.  It is our right response because our spiritual health engages our entire being.  That includes our heart, soul, mind, and strength.  In short, our entire being.

A love response has to do with gratitude. Gratitude is one of the strongest traits linked to happiness and mental and emotional health.  Early on, one of the most important things parents teach their children is saying please and thank you.  The social practice is an important one, but ultimate gratitude is a soul response.  It is a reflection – perhaps a barometer – of spiritual health.

So, to develop and deepen your love in 2018, make it a priority to practice gratitude.  And in that spirit, I want to tell you – each one of you – how deeply thankful I am for you.  You have journeyed with me in some way over the past year.  It means a great deal to me.

I am thankful to God for this great gift of Life, and many blessings – including you.

Happy New Year!  Though love in our English language is a problematic word that runs the gamut of use from the most shallow of realms to the greatest of depths, it is, nonetheless, one of our most important words.  There is nothing that can fully replace those three precious words, I love you.

At midnight on New Year’s Eve, among all of the noise and confetti, the practice is to find someone to kiss.  Hopefully, that someone is indeed a loved one, but sometimes it may just be another partygoer.  For some people, it may even be a complete stranger.  The secret hope attached to the kiss is to find love in the coming year.

On the threshold of 2018, my wish for each of you is love in 2018.  Therefore, I am dedicating the next several days – the first week of 2018 – to contemplating this most simple yet complicated subject.  My premise begins with the Two Greatest Commandments from Jesus:  1) Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength; and  2) Love your neighbor as yourself.

I invite you to join me in exploring

Love in 2018

• December 31, 2017, Happy New Year. I wish you love in 2018.
• January 1, Loving God (Spiritual Health)
• January 2, Loving Yourself (Emotional Health, Part 1)
• January 3, Loving Others (Emotional Health, Part 2)
• January 4, Loving Your Body (Physical Health)
• January 5, Loving Your Skin (Detoxing Your Skin)
• January 6, Loving Time With Yourself (Time for a Spa Treatment)
• January 7, Loving Your Home (Creating a Sanctuary)

Happy New Year!

The Sheeperfect® Christmas Extravaganza is going stocking stuffer crazy! Remember how good things come in threes? Like …

• Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus
• Three Wise Men
• Three Blind Mice
• A Crowd ;>
  … and …
• Sheeperfect® Trios

For Christmas, we are rolling out wonderful combinations in threes. The extra special Christmas surprise is H3O – an exclusive Christmas-only collection of special Christmas scents of Sheeperfect® Air. These perfect stocking stuffers offer just the right opportunity to get acquainted with the wonders of essential oils. Therapeutic in many ways, these little bursts of freshness are loaded with healing properties, both aromatically and topically. The 2017 Sheeperfect® H3O Air Trio includes:

•  Frankincense and Myrrh
•  Clove bud and Cedarwood
•  Cinnamon bark and Nutmeg

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A new tradition; all three 10ml sprays are distinctively special and introduce – and reintroduce – Christmas to the senses. Place your order early. These gems are limited and only available for Christmas. $30

New Trio collections can be personalized by selecting any three favorites from the following assortment: 

• .5 oz Cleanser
• .5 oz Salt Scrub
• .5 oz Sugar Scrub
• .5 oz Icing
• .15 Lips.

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Each Trio is a special Christmas offering at $22.73.

Featured Trios include Sheeperfect® Pure Cleansing, Sheeperfect® Clean and Soft, and Sheeperfect® Tulips.
 Sheeperfect® Pure Cleansing is perfect for great skin care, and travel friendly. Put one in your gym bag, for sure. The set includes Cleanser, Salt and Sugar Scrubs.
 Sheeperfect® Clean and Soft provides a mini spa collection that can be personalized to include your favorites. This set includes Cleanser, Salt or Sugar Scrub, and Icing.
 Sheeperfect® Tulips offers a trilogy of Icing or two Icings and a Lips.

Last, but NEVER least, don’t forget the best of the best: Sheeperfect® Skin. I know, no one wants to use the sheep because they are too adorable. So, buy the bar too and keep the sheep. They are perfect for giving … (but you won’t want to part with them).

And remember your guys! Sheeperfect® Skin for Men only comes in bars, and, beginning in 2018 will become, simply, the Man Bar.

Top your stockings with a sheep or a bar – or both. It is the “star” at the top of the stocking.

This special Christmas collection is available now through the Christmas Extravaganza on December 1st. Preorder now for early delivery. Orders received after December 1st will be available the week before Christmas.

Wishing you a very merry Christmas! May your stockings overflow with goodness.

At this Fall time of year, as the weather changes to chilly and my skin cries out for more nourishment, I remember that it was this time last year that inspired me to explore making my own moisturizer.  Reflecting back, I revisited my early thinking as I found myself launching Sheeperfect^®.  In the spirit of the season, I want to share with you my Philosophy statement from December 2016.  It remains true today, and has become part of the platform of my business.

In my adventure exploring skin-care products, one of my discoveries was that most companies produce a plethora of different products.  Some product lines take up an entire section of store shelves.  Marketers counsel that producing multiple products offers the opportunity for “upselling.”  In order to get more of your money, merchants entice buyers to believe they need multiple products.  Eventually, buyers are persuaded to advance to the more expensive and “exclusive” line.

While I agree that we are all unique individuals, and everyone has their own set of personal concerns, it is also true that we are all human beings.  Our physical bodies all share some commonalities.  There are both external and internal variables that affect us, such as environmental conditions; weather; sun, wind; heat and cold exposure; age; smoking; diet; and other factors.  Despite all of the variables, skin is the largest organ of the human body, and hydration for the skin is like a good drink of clean cool water.

Marketers pander to our fears.  If you don’t like your toes, you can find a miracle cream for that.  If you don’t like your eyes, there’s a special miracle cream for that.  If you have a saggy neck, there’s a potion for that.  Marketers are savvy to identify and cater to the body parts that you may think are imperfect.  They know you’ll spend your money if they can persuade you that 1) their products can work miracles; and 2) you need them!  Of course, they also know if they use a beautiful celebrity to promote their products, you will buy them in hopes that you, too, can look like they do.

I recently listened to a celebrity who has just come out with 17 new additions to her line of skin-care products.  On an affiliated talk show, she had a dermatologist recommending to two audience members 12 or 14 products they each needed, and elaborating the (complicated) new skin-care regimen they were to undertake.  Wow!  Seriously, 12 or 14 separate products?!?  (The average (sale) price of each item in the collection was $50.65.)

Many people get into skin care because it is a multi-billion dollar industry.  They are looking to get rich.  They are in it for the money.

Not me.

In creating my business, my motivation is not about the money.  It is about sharing quality products that have the best, purest, highest-quality ingredients.  I believe I can create and offer something that isn’t otherwise available on the market.  I am creating a limited line that includes products that contain few selected ingredients with no added water, fillers, additives, or chemicals.  Because of that, my products are highly concentrated; small amounts go a long way.  I am my best first tester; I am only offering products that I deem worthy for my own skin.  As a perfectionist and fastidious about research, my products will be worthy of their value.

My products will never be watered down or thinned.  They will meet my high standards, and will be products I am committed to.  Most importantly, they will pass my love test:  so intoxicating you will want to use periodically just to breathe in.

I am of the age where my annual visit to my doctor ends with a bunch of follow up visits to specialists.  This time, one of the specialists I was referred to was a dermatologist.  This was my first visit to have the full body once-over to check my skin.  I have a lot of moles, so that is something to monitor.

The dermatologist was the first doctor to ever introduce himself to me by his first name.  I liked that, and told him so.  He started his exploration, checking out my head – the first place, he explained, that might show indications of skin changes.  Everything appeared to be looking very good.  Then, he went on to the rest of my body.  I asked him about a few areas of concern, only to hear him dismiss a few “barnacles!” 

Mike continued his review of my body, remarking that everything was looking very good.  Then, he paused and said, “I may have spoken too soon.”

A spot on my back gave him concern.  It needed to be biopsied.  He explained that the test results would indicate whether the area needed to be excised.  Days later, the results were in, and I made the appointment for the procedure.  The appointment scheduler – who could only book me out several months! – assured me it wasn’t cancer.  This, however, did not quell my alarm.

So, what did I do?  Well, the first thing I did was look up the medical description of the test results.  From there, I researched melanoma.  Then, I looked into what essential oils are healing agents for skin cancer. 

My research led me to:  frankincense essential oil.  Frankincense essential oil was consistently the first and primary essential oil for addressing every form of skin cancer.  This was comforting to me because my main line of Sheeperfect^® Face and Body Cleanser (Always)  uses frankincense as the primary essential oil.  Since this is the product I use every morning and evening, it gave me a strange sense of relief.  Frankincense essential oil is also included in the Skin for Men bar.  [Insider secret:  Skin for Men is soon to be renamed the MAN BAR.]

Frankincense is lauded for its strong healing properties, and plays a central role in alternative therapy treatments for skin cancer.  And since frankincense has special significance from a biblical perspective, my Christmas Extravaganza will include special essential oil combinations including frankincense, myrrh, and other Christmas blends only for the event (or by special order).

Hopefully, with my improved skin care using Sheeperfect^® products, and, of course, avoiding sun exposure, my skin will find its way to increasingly good health.  I wish the same for you, too.

In the Pacific Northwest, October rolls in, closing the gate on anything that reveals Summer.  New colors emerge.  Branches and leaves fall in the wind.  And good things seem to come in threes!

…Three months of holidays …and three-day weekends.

…Three months to anticipate the New Year.  (Are your resolutions ready to go?)

…Three wise men.

…And three new thrilling combos from Sheeperfect^®!

Don’t they also say that good things come in small packages???  I am brimming with excitement about these new Sheeperfect^® collections that are arriving just in time for …well, anything! … and Christmas.  Perfect for gifts, stocking stuffers, and your travel bag.  And if you are into the tiny house movement – or live in a houseboat (like my sister) – these little tubs tuck into tiny spaces on a bathroom sink, tub, or shower shelf.  The beauty of it is that Sheeperfect^® products are so highly concentrated, you don’t need much, so tiny tubs take time.  …OK, I got carried away with my Ts!  Hmm, this is a better title:  Tiny Tubs Take Time!

Ahem, I digress!

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Announcing the new Sheeperfect^® Compact and Sheeperfect^® Trio.  These are just the coolest little bags of goodies!  And you get to personalize your combos with your hand-picked favorites!  So, enjoy!  Drum roll, please.  Here’s the scoop:

The Sheeperfect^® Compact includes the basics:  5 Skin-ny Minis, 5g Icing**, .5 oz Face and Body Cleanser*, .15 oz Lips – and you can add the option of 5g Sugar and Salt Scrubs too!  Introductory price:  $19.99; $24.99 with Sugar and Salt Scrubs.

The Sheeperfect^® Trio comes in two versions.  Did I say two versions?  What’s with that!?!

The Pure Cleansing version includes a .5 oz Face and Body Cleanser*, .5 oz Sugar Scrub, and .5 oz Salt Scrub.  Introductory price:  $14.99.

The Clean and Soft version includes a .5 oz Face and Body Cleanser*, .5 oz Sugar or Salt Scrub, and.5 oz Icing**.  Introductory price:  $19.99

*Sheeperfect^® Face and Body Cleanser now comes in three versions:  Always is our classic, Acne Prone for those concerned about breakouts, and Awake for a citrus spritz.

**Sheeperfect^® Icing now comes in four options:  Lime and Mint; Sweet Orange, Grapefruit and Bergamot; Rosemary and Mint; and Ylang ylang and Grapefruit.

Select your Scrub, Cleanser and Icing preferences, and call or e-mail when you are ready to order.

And stay tuned for some special Christmas scents only available at our Christmas Extravaganza on December 1^st (mark your calendar) or by special order.

Visit the factory!

You are invited for wine, fine chocolate, and a relaxing social evening.  Come when you want, between 4 and 7 p.m.  Stay as long as you want.  Enjoy a lovely evening, see the newest additions to my Sheeperfect^® line, and explore what works best for you.

Friday, October 20, 2017

4 – 7 p.m.

At the factory (my home):

121 NW 203^rd Street

Shoreline, WA   98177

Newest products will be on display, including new essential oil combinations and the newest Sheeperfect^® Compact.  Also, Christmas gift bags and stocking stuffers are in the works.  Learn how you can personalize your collection for your own best care.  There will be opportunity to sample Sheeperfect^® products and purchase your favorites, but there is never any obligation to purchase. 

Feel free to bring a friend, and come for a pleasant evening.

Nancy Christel, President and CEO

Sheeperfect^®

206 446-7776

www.sheeperfect.com

Mark your calendars for the Christmas Extravaganza on December 1, 2017.

Forget about it!  Regardless of whether your skin is oily or dry, skin is skin and has a uniform need for good care.  Billions of dollars are made by the skin care industry differentiating “skin types” and making a fortune selling a multitude of products supposedly designed to cater to your particular needs.

Here’s the problem:  Your “skin type” is likely produced by the bad products you are using on it!  Often, more bad products are created to counteract the bad products you are already using!  If you think your skin is oily, you look for products that are drying, not realizing they may be causing your skin to overproduce needed oils.  If you think your skin is dry, you look for products that claim to be hydrating and “non-greasy.”  Have you checked the ingredients?  Water does not hydrate your skin.  In fact, your water-based products are likely contributing to your dryness.

Rather than focusing on “skin type,” we should be focusing on skin health. 

Healthy skin is fresh, balanced, and hydrated.  Healthy skin has a protective barrier that works mightily protecting the body from contaminants and disease.  Nourishing, strengthening, and supporting this protective barrier is critical for skin health.  Good skin care seeks to:

• maintain the skin’s natural pH balance;
• provide natural cleansing that does not strip the skin of its sebum; and
• encourage the skin to do its naturally beneficial job of working to maintain that protective barrier.

Skin health is a subject worthy of significant consideration.  It should call into question the kinds of ingredients used in skin care products.  It should call us to seek healthy ways to care for our skin.  It should motivate us to want to eliminate chemicals, preservatives, alcohol, fragrances, and other additives to the products we use on our skin.

Forget about “skin type.”  Get serious about skin health.  Learn how to cleanse and moisturize your skin for your good health.  Get acquainted with Sheeperfect^® and learn to love your skin.

Highly concentrated ▪ Ultra pure▪ All natural▪ No water

I was too.  The idea of slathering oil on my skin – my gosh, especially my face! – was anathema.

Until I learned the truth about good skin care.

Once again, research has changed my understanding.  And changed my practices.  And changed my skin!

The truth is:  Oil dissolves oil!  You know how oil and water don’t mix?  What happens when you pour water on a surface that has been oiled?  It runs off, doesn’t it.  Water doesn’t get in there and clean without surfactants.  Surfactants are compounds that act as soap, detergents, and foaming agents, and are used to remove dirt.  The problem with surfactants and water-based cleaners is that they can be harsh on the skin, are drying, and remove natural beneficial oils and good bacteria that provide an important protective barrier.  Resulting skin damage produces dryness – or increased oiliness caused by the skin overreacting to the damage – redness, skin irritation, eczema, and other skin disorders.

Oil, on the other hand, when massaged into the skin, binds with oils already in the skin, and works to cleanse the pores.  Toxins and surface impurities, removed with a clean, steamy washcloth, leave the skin clean, fresh, renewed, and hydrated.  Oil maintains the skin’s pH balance, and supports the skin’s protective barrier.  The best cleansing oils are nutrient dense and include antifungal, antimicrobial, antibacterial and additional powerful healing properties.  Essential oils added to Sheeperfect^® products simply compound the beneficial properties.

So, instead of worrying about oil clogging our pores, we should be saying anathema to all the cleansers out there that are soap and water based!  Slather on Sheeperfect^® Face and Body Cleanser – and say hello to a whole new fresh, dewy you!