ANIMAL Testing???????????????


Animal testing, yup, done some. Eewww.... right? Hold on, HOLD OOOOOOOOOOOON! When I say the products are animal tested, bear with me and hear us out :)

Chance (the horse) was particularly disgruntled that there was a line of super strong bug-be-gones and he wasn't getting any (slathering, that is). So when the formula was in its 'testing' stages, he insisted he'd be included in the trial runs. YOU try to argue with a 4000 lb 'mule' and see how YOU do.

So at a particularly nasty summer (horsefly wise) we slathered up, both of us, and started trecking up the mountains. It was hot, the beasties were buzzing, and despite sweating profusely (he more than me) we did not get stung for 2 hours. When during the third hour, the horseflys started coming close enough for panic attacks (mine, not his, man, these things were as big as a chopper) we turned tail. But all in all it was a blasting success and I had to make that stuff by the bucket.

Chance has also 'tested', with pleasure and recurring consistency, several formulas like the butt balm (don't laugh, if you have super sensitive HORSE skin that gets infected from every tiny scrape and if you're also a tad bit, um, clumsy, you don't care what the lable sez as long as it helps), propolis tinctures, and specifically, for particularly nasty infections and open sores, the tooth and gum formula. He says it is not a laughing matter to be treated with it, but the results are immediate, itching and burning stops and all in all, he'd demand he'd be considered the official #1 Animal tester for SW HB and we'd just better get used to it.

He's been taking the cold & cough and arthritis formulas during winter time for years anyway, although we don't consider that test, we just know it works.

The cats didn't want to be left out, and while my furious Tomcat Nikita didn't want a repeat performance with the Tooth and Gum formula (they really can't handle that much alcohol) for a nasty infected cyst on one tooth, he quitely slobbered for a few hours and then went to eat. It WORKED, although we agreed that for future occurances we try to water it down some.

Minou (the Siamese) was treated with the same formula dilluted with Collodial Silver Water for a boil, which was washed out with it after lancing and then packed with HoneyHealer salve. Needless to say, it healed fast.

Even the Kittens are getting treated with a squirt of Silverwater and a drop of Echinacea in their formula, when they arent' feeling up to par.

So yes, we do animal 'testing' :) When and if it is appropriate.

Green Blessings,Sorcy SummerWind