All Things Jill                                                                                                                                                               February 2009

W I N T E R G R E E N
(Gaultheria Procumbens)

Wintergreen is a small evergreen herb which grows up to 15cm (6 in) high with slender stems, leathery serrated leaves, drooping white flowers followed by fleshy scarlet berries.

Wintergreen and Sweet Birch oil are both nearly identical in chemical composition and aroma; similarly, both have been used in traditional folk and native North American remedies. This tradition has led to the discovery of Methyl Salicylate, its main ingredient, as a pain reliever. The salicylates inhibit the formation of prostaglandins, thereby reducing inflammation and pain. Along with its analgesic effects, Wintergreen also has anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatic, antitussive, astringent, carminative, diuretic, and stimulant properties.

NOTE: Internal use of wintergreen should be avoided because it can be toxic.

Check out our organic Wintergreen essential oil in our  popular Achin' Body Muscle Rub.

  In This Issue:

 \  Product Feature:
        2009 Products

 \  Retailer of the Month:
        Fluffy Bottom Babies

 \  Shades of Green:
        Hypermiling!

Happy New Year everyone!  Over the past couple of months a LOT has  happened here at All Things Jill. First and foremost, we've moved to a smaller town, just south of Calgary called Okotoks. Hailed as the "Greenest City in Canada", we're very excited to start 2009 in our new home base.

Email addresses haven't changed, but our phone numbers have, and new contact information is at the bottom of this newsletter, and of course on the website.

Through the Holiday Season All Things Jill made appearances in Vancouver, Calgary, Medicine Hat, Swift Current, Lethbridge, Red Deer and Toronto in November and December.  We would like to extend a warm thank you to all of our customers who came to see us at the various shows and who placed orders online.

Now that we've started a new year, we've been looking at a few new projects.

Namaste,
      Jill

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100% NATURAL
New Products

Some of you have been asking for new products and we are very excited to let you know what's on the burner in the kitchen for the first quarter of 2009:

Moms-to-Be: stay tuned for a much requested Nipple Butter.

Mini Lotions: our well received Hand & Body Creme will be available in a purse size!

Babies: You get your very own Sweet Dreams Baby Body Wash refill bottle!

Candles:  We have some adorable new tealights in trendy tins.

Pamper Your Body. Protect the Earth.

Carrying our full line of Baby and Mom-to-Be products, Fluffy Bottom Babies strives to help you make the best choices for your family and the environment. They carry a wide range of products from cloth diapers and natural laundry detergents, to BPA free bottles and baby carriers. They are a full service natural parenting store based in Canada, and love to help customers with their cloth decisions as they know how confusing all the options can be!  

Click the logo above for more information

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Shades of Green
Hypermiling - Our newest Venture  

So what is this Hypermiling thing anyways? It is a method of increasing your car's gas mileage by making skillful changes in the way you drive, allowing you to save gas and thereby have an easier time withstanding the rising oil and gas prices.

We've taken to doing it in the city, on long highway drives and have definitely noticed an increase in gas mileage.  We're now pushing our little All Things Jill Ford Focus an additional 100km's per tank easily!

Some of the easiest things you can do to increase your vehicle's fuel efficiency:

• Turn your engine off if you will be idling for more than 10 seconds! We turn off at long intersections, drive thrus and when we're waiting for one another outside a shop

• Coast, Coast, COAST! Down hills, up to a red light, anywhere you can. It's easy in a manual transmission vehicle - simply engage the clutch to move your vehicle into neutral. During our summer vacation through the mountains, we added an additional 150kms to our tank simply by coasting down any hill we came to.

• Keep moving in traffic congestion: don't start & stop all the time - this consumes fuel. Try coasting slowly along with the congestion - you may even help to smooth it out!

• Don't accelerate quickly off the mark: You use the most gas when you accelerate. For example, to get to a certain speed in 3 seconds, it takes more acceleration (fuel) than it would to reach that same speed in 4 or maybe even 5 seconds.

Hypermiling sources:
http://www.climatechangecentral.com/publications/enerclick/hypermiling-gas-gauge-blues-away
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermiling
http://www.cleanmpg.com/  

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