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On June 2nd, 2009 Sandy Said:

Ananda, we women are so susceptible to trusting the claims of the manufacturers, because usually we trust easily. I thought it was amusing to hear the term ‘greenwashed’ but I completely get why it was necessary to come up with a description. It seems that even in the natural and organic arena, where we’d like to think it’s all touchy-feely and trusty, there are opportunists who are out for the quick buck… sad, disgusting, and buyer beware, as ever.

Thanks for the info!!

Sandy

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vitale Reply:
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:45 am

Hi Sandy…sometimes we have to trust our own “natural instincts”. I, along with some other of my industry contacts couldn’t understand why the range was so inexpensive. Now we know that it is due to cheap, synthetic raw materials. Next time I will follow up my hunches.

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On June 3rd, 2009 Belinda Said:

Hi and thanks for writing this article. I appreciate your concerns, but congratulate you on making the decision to inform others.
As a person interested in purchasing products that have less chemicals, I am dismayed by Natural Instincts lack of integrity and will now avoid purchasing these products. I just looked on their website and the section for ingredients is “being updated”. Enough said really!!!!

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vitale Reply:
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:39 am

Thanks for your comment Belinda. It is such a shame that consumers have been mislead but on the other hand good that the issue was brought to light. Transparency is important.

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On June 5th, 2009 Connie Said:

Hi Ananda,

I have just received your Newsletter and was particularly interested in your views on “Natural Instinct” products.

I am very glad that you and Clean life have informed the consumer and exposed this Company for what it is.

I do promotions on my products at Health Stores in big shopping centers where they sell my products to mainly educate people on natural products and why my Hair care products are beneficial to the user and at the same time to make people aware of the existence of my product.

During my promotions, I come across ‘Natural Instinct’ all the time, its constantly in my face and unfortunately I have to compete with this product mainly because of it’s low price, (not quality of course as you know) therefore the consumer prefers to buy ‘Natural Instinct’ because to them its more economical, therefore for me and small companies like mine, miss out on sales and sometimes pushed out of the market because of ‘Natural Instinct” low price tag.

Very very annoying for me to see people being drawn to this product mainly because of the low price and nothing else. I often tell people when I can, (and I am not afraid to) that they are been misled by this Company because you can not possibly buy a real natural product for that price. One of my clients of a Health Store in a major shopping center in Victoria knowing how bad it is still sells it in big quantities and sadly he doesn’t seem to care if it’s harmful or not, as long as he sells it and makes money.
It’s all about money!

The staff who works there is not very happy to sell it to the consumer after discovering the real story behind ‘Natural Instinct’ but again there’s nothing they can do about it. I was at this very store on Tuesday to do a Promo and I did warn some people about the product. As a matter of fact a lady came in to look for a new shampoo to use because after using ‘Natural instinct’ her hair were starting to fall out, her scalp was in a bad itchy state and inflamed and she wondered why that was happening and when I informed her about how damaging this product is to one’s health, she couldn’t believe it because ‘Natural Instinct’ posters and all the other advertising material STILL says ALL NATURAL, NON TOXIC etc., etc., she could not believe it and became very annoyed, so I showed her mine and she bought it, and the next day I accidentally bumped in to her at another shopping center and she was so glad to see me and the first thing she said to me, “please don’t ever stop making your shampoo because I have only used it once since I bought it and its the best thing it could have happened to my scalp, look the redness has gone my scalp feels 100 percent better than what it was”.

Anyway I thought you may want to know what is going on here in Victoria with ‘Natural Instinct’ and now also ‘Natural Organics”. These Company is a cult they successfully brainwash the consumer in believing that ‘Natural Instinct’ is totally natural and keep making money out of their lies, where’s the justice?

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On June 17th, 2009 Lisa Said:

Hi

Sorry to disapoint Patricia but the claims NI made were never correct – they only removed the 100% organic logo because it was a “made up” logo and it drew attention from people in the industry that knew it was greenwash – their formulations have never been truthful from the get go.

sorry to bear bad news but I have been telling people this from the beginning of that comapanies inception – it is not something that can be blamed on new owners ( if indeed that is true)

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On July 3rd, 2009 sharyn Said:

I emailed a complaint to Natural Instinct following the articles I read about them and they never replied! I happily chucked both products in the bin but am very annoyed that they didn’t even respond. There are too many companies willing to lie and mislead, take your money and then not deal with the consequences but make a profit anyway. I look forward to more name and shame articles.

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