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AllEmailDeletedImmediately

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Jan 7, 2008, 11:36:13 AM1/7/08
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val189

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Jan 7, 2008, 11:48:12 AM1/7/08
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On Jan 7, 11:36 am, "AllEmailDeletedImmediately" <der...@hotmail.com>
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> better start reading the labels.
>
> http://www.burtsbees.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/UtilityView?conten...

Uh-oh - this is where the quality starts to slide...I'd better get out
there and load up on the current products on los shelvos.

AllEmailDeletedImmediately

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"AllEmailDeletedImmediately" <der...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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they got almost $1B. tom's of maine sold out a while back, to colgate, i
think.


Jeff

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Jan 7, 2008, 12:32:38 PM1/7/08
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Is that any of your bees wax?

Jeff

nos...@sbcglobal.invalid.net

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"AllEmailDeletedImmediately" <der...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c5tgj.1330$K%6.1104@trndny04...

Great, so now we'll be literally forced to brush our teeth with a
known carcinogen (sodium laurel sulfate). Burt's was one of
the last remaining remnants of morality in the U.S. market.


Fuzzy Logic

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Jan 7, 2008, 2:15:49 PM1/7/08
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"AllEmailDeletedImmediately" <der...@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> better start reading the labels.
>
> http://www.burtsbees.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/UtilityView?contentPag
> eId=590&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1

You won't be able to fit this on a label:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/business/06bees.html

max

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Jan 7, 2008, 2:46:21 PM1/7/08
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In article <pzugj.36972$Pv2....@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net>,
<nos...@sbcglobal.invalid.net> wrote:

One door closes, another opens.

Sounds like a gaping mile-wide niche market just opened up!

BTW, i have already trademarked Cuthbert's Apiarian Balm Sticks, so it's
taken.

.max

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The part of betatron @ earthlink . net was played by a garden gnome

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> "AllEmailDeletedImmediately" <der...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> "AllEmailDeletedImmediately" <der...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> > better start reading the labels.
>> >
>> > http://www.burtsbees.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/UtilityView?contentPageId=590&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1
>>
>> they got almost $1B. tom's of maine sold out a while back, to colgate,
>> i
>> think.

snip

> Burt's was one of
> the last remaining remnants of morality in the U.S. market.

obviously not.

>
>
>


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"Fuzzy Logic" <b...@arc.ab.caREMOVETHIS> wrote in message
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let's see 10 yrs from now.


val189

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> > "AllEmailDeletedImmediately" <der...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > > better start reading the labels.
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> > >http://www.burtsbees.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/UtilityView?conten...

>
> > they got almost $1B. tom's of maine sold out a while back, to colgate, i
> > think.
>
> Great, so now we'll be literally forced to brush our teeth with a
> known carcinogen (sodium laurel sulfate). Burt's was one of
> the last remaining remnants of morality in the U.S. market.

baking soda, salt - definitely frugal, too.

AllEmailDeletedImmediately

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"val189" <gweh...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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the dentist told me that baking soda is too abrasive to be used daily.
didn't ask about salt.


Gene S. Berkowitz

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Jan 8, 2008, 12:38:35 AM1/8/08
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In article <1ysgj.5890$qV.1210@trnddc03>, der...@hotmail.com says...

Considering that the sale was announced on 31-Oct-2007, that probably
won't make much difference.

--Gene

Cindy Hamilton

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Jan 8, 2008, 1:06:02 PM1/8/08
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On Jan 7, 1:55 pm, <nos...@sbcglobal.invalid.net> wrote:

> Great, so now we'll be literally forced to brush our teeth with a
> known carcinogen (sodium laurel sulfate).  Burt's was one of
> the last remaining remnants of morality in the U.S. market.

Use baking soda or baking soda and salt. You're not literally
forced to do anything.

Cindy Hamilton

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