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Dr. Bronner’s bar, 8 and 32 oz. soaps now made with organic oils!
Dr. Bronner’s has at last sourced well-priced organic oils that meet our rigorous quality control and supply requirements. By keeping our margins as tight as possible, we are providing our bar, 8 and 32 oz. soaps at a great price with all soap and essential oils certified organic by Oregon Tilth under the USDA’s rigorous food standards. They are made with organic coconut, olive, hemp and jojoba oils, and most are scented with organic essential oils. They contain no synthetics, no petrochemicals and no floral water fluff. All cylinder bottles are now made from 100% post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic, a marketplace first pioneered by Dr. Bronner’s. The bar soaps are wrapped in Living Tree Paper’s Vanguard Recycled Plus (10% HempFlax / 90% PCR) paper.
First international conference of the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA
On October 23th and 24th 2003, almost 50 hemp experts from 15 different countries — Japan, China, Australia, South Africa, and of course Europe — met in Hürth in The Rhineland. Speakers from the most important hemp cultivation countries gave lectures on cultivation, processing and product lines.
Group pushes hemp as successor to tobacco as money-maker
A leading official of a group that promotes hemp says it could replace tobacco as a money-making crop in North Carolina if it weren’t a member of the cannibis family.
Healthy education on trans fats
Is it possible to get rid of trans fats in the body that you have eaten? Researchers in Denmark suggest that if you were to stop eating all trans fat, it would take several months to a year for it to leave your blood and body fat. The good news is that eating oils rich in Omega-6 & Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids(EFAs) like cold pressed Hemp Seed Oil help to displace trans fats in the blood. The EFAs also have the opposite effect of trans fats as EFAs help to raise the HDL (good) cholesterol and lower the LDL (bad) cholesterol.
Hemp Conspiracy
Hemp Conspiracy details the creation of a legal industrial hemp venture in Nicaragua in 1997/98, as allowed under both Nicaraguan and international law. Following successful implementation and with the 80 ha research crop surviving even Hurricane Mitch, it is destroyed by the DEA and arrest warrants are issued for Canadian based company shareholders. Canadian national and Hemp-Agro SA technical director, Paul Wylie is arrested in Nicaragua.
Hemp bikini manufacture announces production
Bikini manufacture Designs by Donald Tuvalu (DBDTV) has announced the arrival of the first shipment of hemp yarn to its manufacturing base in the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu. The Tuvaluan, Canadian project has commissioned the manufacture of a limited number of the handmade two piece swimwear which would become the worlds first Tuvaluan produced export for the luxury apparel market.
Hemp crops to battle salinity
Farmers may soon have a new crop to market and a new tool to combat salinity, after legislation was introduced into State Parliament this week to allow for the creation of a commercial hemp industry.
Hemp may hold hope
An international boom in demand for hemp-based products could prove a saviour for Sunshine Coast sugar cane farmers. The local cane industry appears to have no future after the Moreton Sugar Mill closes at the end of the year, but hemp devotees believe a switch to the crop could create a multi-million dollar industry.
Hemp website online
A recipe for burgers made from a plant with low levels of cannabis is just one of the products being sold online by a south Wales company. The firm, run by businesswoman Gail Dunsbee from her home in Chepstow, offers a range of goods including clothes and bath oils all made with hemp — a derivative of the class B drug.
Hemp website online
A recipe for burgers made from a plant with low levels of cannabis is just one of the products being sold online by a south Wales company. The firm, run by businesswoman Gail Dunsbee from her home in Chepstow, offers a range of goods including clothes and bath oils all made with hemp — a derivative of the class B drug.