Harmony Wellness Products – Technologies for Healthy Living

Welcome to the Wellness revolution! Here you gain access to powerful, innovative and affordable technologies for Preventive Health Care, Personal Health Care and Home Environmental Health. Drawing on data from more than 50 definitive databases, our Personal Health Care listings provide four significant product safety and cruelty-free indicators. Each item is then pre-shopped to point you to the best unit price offered on the internet. Expanding from the personal to the global, Amazon Green 3™ gives you a toe-hold to a customer community creating the most authoritative list of "Green," "Organic," "Eco-friendly," and "ENERGY STAR-qualified" products available for purchase on the Web. And for more in-depth food for thought, check out Michael Pollan's books on food or get a taste of Pollan's "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." manifesto by watching a few videos here »

Home Wellness Medical Devices

Powerful, Innovative and Affordable Technologies for Preventive Health Care

The Original Chi Machine uses precise oscillating motion that naturally re-aligns the spine and oxygenates the cardiovascular system. The Far Infrared HotHouse utilizes thermal far infrared rays to detoxify the body's accumulation of environmental toxins. And the Electro Reflex Energizer employs electrical stimulation that also detoxifies the body and restores vital electromagnetic balance. These three machines together, give unprecedented access for personal home health care.

The Original
Chi Machine

passive aerobic exerciser

FDA Class 1 Medical Device

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Far Infrared
HotHouse

radiant thermal therapy

FDA Class 2 Medical Device

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Electro Reflex Energizer

detoxifying electrotherapy

Reflexology via Electro Stimulation

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Personal Health Care

Making Informed Decisions on Your Personal Health Care Products

Drawing on data from more than 50 definitive databases, these Personal Health Care listings provide four significant product indicators: a Hazard Concern Rating (HCR), a Data Gap Rating (DGR), whether the manufacturer is a signer of the Compact for Safe Cosmetics (SCS) and whether it is known if the manufacturer Conducts Animal Testing (CAT). Harmony Wellness has pre-shopped each category and only offers those products with the lowest Hazard Concern Rating.

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Hazard Concern Rating (HCR): represents a synthesis of known and suspected hazards from more than 50 definitive databases. The hazard rating of a product can be higher than for its individual ingredients — it adds up the hazards of all ingredients, and is scaled higher if the product has penetration enhancers or other ingredients that increase skin absorption. Hazard ratings span a range from 0 (low concern) to 10 (higher concern). Harmony Wellness Products only offers those of the lowest concern, with a rating between 0-2.

Drawing on data from more than 50 definitive databases, these Personal Health Care listings provide four significant product indicators: a Hazard Concern Rating (HCR), a Data Gap Rating (DGR), whether the manufacturer is a signer of the Compact for Safe Cosmetics (SCS) and whether it is known if the manufacturer Conducts Animal Testing (CAT). Harmony Wellness has pre-shopped each category and only offers those products with the lowest Hazard Concern Rating.

The "data gap" rating is a measure of how much is unknown about an ingredient. Not all ingredients have the same amount of safety data. For example, some ingredients may appear to have low hazards, but this may be due to the fact that they have not have been studied or assessed completely. Other ingredients may appear to have low hazards and have been thoroughly studied or assessed. This score helps differentiate between ingredients and products that have been studied to different degrees.

The hazard score calculation does not account for data gaps. The two scores are separately calculated. So now you can see both what is known about the safety of an ingredient, and how complete the available science is behind that safety score.

Compact for Safe Cosmetics Signer (SCS)

What does it mean when a company is a Compact for Safe Cosmetics signer?

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a coalition of public health, educational, religious, labor, womens, environmental, and consumer groups working on the ground in communities, in the halls of lawmakers, and directly with cosmetic manufacturers to encourage reformulations and safer ingredients. Over 500 companies have voluntarily signed a pledge called the campaign's "Compact for Safe Cosmetics," a pledge to formulate products that do not use ingredients that are known or suspected to cause certain health harms within three years of signing. Read the Compact document or see a complete list of the signers. If you're a cosmetics company, find out how to get involved.

Conducts Animal Testing (CAT)

Animal testing is a complex issue with many ramifications. Harmony Wellness Products endorses and supports the Environmental Working Group efforts to strike the appropriate balance for all concerned.

Environmental Working Group:

"Ideally, a consumer could find safer products that were not tested on animals. Unfortunately, research shows that many products use ingredients that are linked to cancer, birth defects, and other disorders and health hazards, posing risk for people, pets, and wildlife. Our research also reveals that over 99 percent of products contain ingredients that have not been assessed for safety by the government, the cosmetic industry's safety panel, or any other publicly accountable institution. It is an important question — how do we protect human, environmental, and animal health, while reducing unnecessary testing?"

"EWG supports uses of non-animal testing methods where available and effective. We also support initiatives to fund research on alternative, non-animal health and safety testing. Unfortunately, for now there are safety studies crucial to measuring the safety of chemicals that harm the environment, wildlife, pets and public health, for which there are no reliable alternative study methods. Until scientists develop alternatives, EWG supports reduction of the overall numbers and impact of unnecessary or duplicate animal testing across the industry by advocating greater transparency and sharing of science already conducted for regulatory or other purposes by private sources. We believe it is possible to achieve dramatic reductions in the number of animals tested, while improving protection of the health and safety of people and other animals, through more efficient and humane testing protocols, reduction or elimination of unnecessary, duplicative or archaic tests, and by developing policies to improve sharing of animal test data across companies within the chemical and personal care product industries."

"Consumers concerned about animal welfare should be able to access information on how public health safety data and animal testing positions overlay in the cosmetics industry. We incorporated companies' animal testing pledge information from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and we update our database according to PETA's lists annually."

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HCR	DGR	SCS	CAT
0	33%	yes	no

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Amazon Green

What is Amazon Green 3™?

“Green 3” is a challenge to Amazon’s customer community to help others go green by creating the most authoritative list of eco-friendly products available for purchase on the Web.

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Home Environmental Health

Safeguarding our Home and Workplace Environments

Dehumidifiers | Air Purifiers | Reverse Osmosis Water Filters

Our environment is everything around us - the air we breathe, the water we drink and use, and the food we consume. It's also the chemicals, radiation, microbes, and physical forces with which we come into contact. Our interactions with the environment are complex and are not always healthy. But we can have some control over the places we are in most often. Here are a few appliances to consider in safeguarding the health of your home and workplace environments.


Dehumidifiers	A dehumidifier is used to remove excess moisture from the air. Some of the most common indications that you may need a dehumidifier are: • Wet stains on walls and ceilings • Stuffy feeling in a room • Rotting wood • Condensation on windows • Musty smells • Allergies (if the air in your home is too moist, it will encourage the growth of bacteria and mold, common allergens) View All Dehumidifiers »

Air Purifiers	Using a HEPA air purifier is an essential component to maintaining an allergen free and healthy home. High Efficiency Particulate Air Filter technology catches 99.97% of particles as small as .3 microns (smoke is .5 microns, about 167% larger). UltraViolet light tends to break down organic compounds extremely well. Air purifiers employing UV light sanitize bacteria, mold, and many virus types in the air. Ionic purifier technology releases charged ion particles into the air that cling to particulates and form larger masses. These (still dust-sized) particle clumps fall from the air and away from your lungs. Particles can be kicked back up, but enough ions are released to quickly ground them again until they are vacuumed or dusted away. View All Air Purifiers »

Reverse Osmosis Water Filters	Household drinking water purification systems, including a reverse osmosis (RO) step, are commonly used for improving water for drinking and cooking. Reverse Osmosis produces "high purity" drinking water by removing virtually all types of unwanted contamination. These include organic chemicals (such as trichloroethylene (TCE), pesticides, and all other carbon-based materials), inorganic salts (such as sodium, metals, lime, nitrates), radioactive materials and biological growths such as bacteria. View All Reverse Osmosis Water Filters »

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Healthy Eating

Eat Right and All Else Will Follow

Blenders | Juicers | Rice Cookers | Books

"Let your food be your medicine," said Hippocrates. We highly recommend participating in your local community-supported agriculture program. We do, and weekly receive a box of freshly harvested, delicious organic fruits and vegetables. Good for us, good for the farmer, good for the planet. A few kitchen aids useful in food preparation are offered here, including blenders, juicers and rice cookers. Plus, books on food featuring Michael Pollan.

Blenders

Chop, dice, mince, shred, grate, grind, blend, puree, whip and liquefy. All in 10 seconds or less. Powerful enough to crush ice like the pros. Here are some efficient, easy to clean blenders, blender/mixers and blender/food processors for your every need in making the fastest, tastiest meals ever.

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Juicers

Get the most out of your favorite fruits and vegetables. Juice extractors make the process easy with quick cleanups. Put in whole veggies and fruits, no need for chopping. Juicers separate out the pulp and concentrate enzymes, vitamins and trace minerals. This results in a dark, rich colored "live" juice with a sweet, full-bodied flavor.

Drink to your good health!

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Rice Cookers

Restaurant-quality rice at home is a snap with easy to use & clean rice cookers.

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Books for Healthy Eating

"We’re just at the beginning of something that’s going to be very big. And I think if we look in our food supply in 10 or 20 years, we’re going to be very surprised at how much change has come about. The problem is our current food culture is pretty lousy. You could call it the culture of fast food.

Not everyone is going to change their diet. Many people can’t afford to. Many people are happy eating that way. Industrial food is not going to go away, but it’s going to get smaller. As organic rises, as local rises, all these things are going to get bigger, and there will be more alternatives. I’m not arguing that there’s one single kind of food chain that’s going to solve all our problems. We need a great many food chains. We want to have alternatives, just so we have choice.

As people are exposed to more fresh foods, you will wake up to the beauty of well grown produce and the tastefulness of it. You will take more care with it because it’s such gorgeous stuff, to treat it carelessly in the kitchen seems a crime. So you’ll start cooking. And cooking real food is really the beginning of health and happiness around food. When you cook, you’re not going to want to cook for yourself, you’re going to want to cook for other people. So you’re going to eat a meal with other people at a table. And that’s the beginning of a real revolution in our culture." —Michael Pollan

Books by Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto	The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals	The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World