Welcome to Terressentials. We hand-craft a growing line
of truly natural and organic personal care products with no
synthetic petrochemical or oleochemical ingredients of any kind
- even in the fine print. We're a little unusual in that regard.
In fact, some people call what we're doing a revolution. Since
60% of everything that touches your skin is absorbed into your
body, your personal care products should be selected with as
much care as the food you eat.
We
at Terressentials make our products with only food quality ingredients
and medicinal grade herbal extracts. Some companies load their
so-called "natural" or "organic" products with synthetic chemicals,
hoping that you won't ask too many questions and that their
green-washing hype will distract you from the small type on
the back of the bottle. We think that this deception is very
uncool. We're not like that. We are a young company with a deep
conscience and a strong vision. We believe that individuals
can make a difference and that is why we take a stand to reveal
the truth about the impact of body care products on your personal
environment.
We
don't think that the quest for healthy living and natural beauty
should be sullied with any unnatural ingredients. We also operate
our natural products showroom and raise herbs at our organic
farm in Middletown, MD, and teach our planet-mates how to enjoy
their transition to a chemical-free life, putting back what
they took from our mother, the earth, one little piece at a
time. We're constantly updating and adding to our web site.
Stay tuned (bookmark this site) and check back frequently to
see what's new.
Terressentials Product Highlights
Organic bodycare products: Face,Body,Hair,Bath
& and Baby products
The
Flower Therapy line is handcrafted from organic botanicals like
hibiscus flowers, prized for their high content of natural organic
acids that may help improve skin clarity and texture without
the irritation of harsh, chemical exfoliators or alpha hydroxy
acids. Our research into traditional Chinese floral beautifying
preparations, used for centuries by royalty in the orient, has
yielded exciting skin care discoveries about forsythia fruit,
red peony root and matrimony vine fruit. These remarkable herbs
were used for their moisturizing and wrinkle-reducing properties;
for calming, astringent and skin-brightening properties and
to help stimulate the skin's renewal process. Recent studies
have identified in camellia sinensis (green tea) powerful antioxidant
properties that may help to rejuvenate sun-damaged skin. We’ve
also learned that our native American wildflower 
echinacea,
particularly when combined with aloe vera, may help to soothe
skin puffiness. We’ve carefully studied the physiological properties
of essential oils, particularly skin enhancement and mood lifting,
and have created a certified organic blend of the finest oils
for your body and soul. We prefer to use well-researched, fresh,
certified organic steam-distilled and cold-pressed oils because
we believe that they provide the purest, most effective and
synergistic protection for your skin.
Where
to Find Terressential Products:
We wanted to let you all know that,
because so many of you wonderful folks have expressed the desire
to be able to purchase our super natural body care products
in stores near your homes and workplaces, we have been trying
to respond to your requests by calling and visiting as many
stores as we can to introduce ourselves and our products to
store owners and buyers. The stores who are represented on this
list
are, in our opinion, some of the finest stores in the country.
Our evaluation is based upon certain criteria that stores must
meet in order to best represent our products and to serve you,
their most demanding customers. We look for independently-owned
natural products stores and small chains, holistic spas and
natural pharmacies that are clean, well-lit, aesthetically pleasing
and in centrally located shopping neighborhoods.
The staff must be friendly and
above average in their quest for knowledge and the truth, with
concern for the health of our planet and planetmates. In short,
we look for good partners. People who are honest, interesting,
intelligent, environmentally-aware, fun and nice. If they offer
organic food and/or organic clothing - wonderful! We're sorry
to say that we do not have stores in every town and city - yet.
We want you to know, however, that it is our intent to improve
the world and to raise awareness of organic farming and organic
ingredients. We'd also like to begin a revolution against the
nonchalant, everyday use of common toxic chemicals, particularly
in body care products, and we are totally committed to our goal.
Every revolution requires people and the environmental revolution
needs your help. If you know of a good store that you would
like to see offering our products, please, tell them about our
company.
We
have found that store owners and buyers are much more interested
in hearing about new products from you, their customer. You
may also certainly tell us about a store that you really like.
We are always pleased to learn about new, good stores. We promise
you that, if you should tell us about a store, we will contact
the owner to introduce ourselves. Here's how serious we are
about finding stores and responding to your requests and suggestions:
since 1997 we have contacted over one thousand stores to introduce
ourselves and our products. One would think that a store that
uses the words "health," "natural" or "organic" in its name
would be thrilled to hear about our company and products and
would jump at the opportunity to have wonderful and unique truly
natural and organic body care products.
Not so! Many times the store
buyers are reluctant to offer products simply because they haven't
heard about the products before, or because they can't buy the
products at a deep discount from their convenient "one-stop"
distributor. Sometimes store owners and buyers are, to put it
bluntly, uninformed, and think that all of the body care products
in their store are "all natural" simply because the bottle or
their distributor's catalog says so. After all, doing research
takes time and isn't everyone busy? One store in California
told us that they couldn't offer our products because it would
make all of their body care products look bad by comparison!
Other stores base their decisions strictly on profit and won't
offer products from companies who can't afford to pay (or won't
pay) "slotting" fees for shelving space.
The reason that we mention these
issues is because we'd like to contrast and compare those stores
to the wonderful stores that DO offer our products.
Please support the stores that carry the TerrEssentials products.
These are good stores, good people who are committed to organics
and health, committed to learning and sharing knowledge and
to being truly environmental, committed to the ideals that WE
all share. They deserve your business and to be successful.
Following is the list of stores that carry TerrEssentials products.
Please be aware that not every store carries all of our products.
If there is a particular item that you are interested in, please
call them first to be sure they have what you'd like before
you drive there.
If for some reason they don't
have the item that you want, ask the manager if they would order
it for you. We don't impose minimum orders on our store partners
so they can order as much (or as little) as they'd like. It
is our goal to have histories, biographies, anecdotes and pictures
of as many of our store partners as we can. Please
bear with us as we add this information to our store locator.
Terressentials:
2650 Old National Pike, Middletown MD 21769-8817
FAX: 301 371-5577
terressentials@mailworks.org
http://www.terressentials.com
