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Thank you editors of the Equine Wellness Magazine for featuring our bestselling Leave Me Be All Natural Fly Spray and the Leave Me Be Fly Spray Concentrate in the Heads Up section of the June / July issue.

According to the Horse Journal Magazine, an independent product review publication; citronella based fly sprays prove to be the most effective natural repellents. Leave Me Be is packed with citronella, one of the most powerful natural bug deterrent; and a blend of peppermint, lemon and cedar wood oils, which are all known for their superior repelling properties. Glycerin conditions coat and eucalyptus & lemon oil help to soothe and heal already bug bitten skin. Both horses and people enjoy the fresh scent, but bugs not so much.

Leave Me Be packs a punch and is free of any nasty chemicals of pyrethrins. It is a repellent you will want to use on yourself. And you can. It’s all made with 100% natural human grade ingredients.

Available at www.ecoliciousequestrian.com or at one of our vendors. See “where to find us”:

Ride Green,

Team EcoLicious Equestrian
Your Horse. Your Earth. Your Choice.

Check out our full line of EcoLicious equine care & grooming products at www.ecoliciousequestrian.com

Spring is in full swing and we are finally experiencing those longer sunny days shared with our equine companions. Unfortunately, the warmer weather also brings pesky mosquitoes, black flies, ticks and fleas. What a perfect  time to launch our latest addition to the EcoLicious product family : Leave Me Be All Natural Fly Spray Concentrate. One bottle of concentrate makes five liters of fly spray, so a little goes a long way!

EcoLicious Special: Buy 1 Leave Me Be Concentrate and get 1 regular Leave Me Be bottle 50% Off (retail price: $29.95). Enter “FREElmb Facebook” into the `Notes`section while ordering). Order now. May 2011 only.

Why should you opt for chemical & pyrethrin FREE fly spray?

When you spray your horse he can inhale it. If he rubs his nose or scratches his leg that’s covered with pesticide-laden bug spray, it absorbs into his system. Not to mention what you’re exposed to when you’re applying it. Leave Me Be All-Natural Bug Spray saves your horse, your health and the environment from common pesticides and pyrethrin that are the key ingredients in other insect repellents, and replaces them with pleasantly scented all-natural ingredients that not only smell good, but deliver natural protection and “beauty” benefits. EcoLicious Equestrian uses a natural and pleasant blend of citronella, lemon oil, peppermint, eucalyptus for a scent that smells great to us, but turns off bugs. Our customers love it because it is safe for their horses, it conditions and shines their coats, and they can use it on themselves too without worrying about pesticides and other nasty chemicals that many people prefer to avoid. It is now available in concentrate form, so a little goes a long way when mixed with water.

Ride Green!
The EcoLicious Equestrian

Let’s talk a little today about various benefits of regular grooming routine.  There are many and they reach far beyond the “looking good” part.

Health & Beauty

A good grooming session cleans & massages the skin, improves circulation, and more oxygen means a healthier horse. It also allows you to keep a closer eye on your horse and see if anything is out of the ordinary. Bad scrape on his leg, lost shoe…you get the idea. It also helps to warm & relax tight muscles. And we can’t forget the BEAUTY part!

combing through Lisa's tail after application of De-Stress Intensive Treatment

Relaxation & Bonding

Horses usually love to be groomed. Between horses, mutual grooming is a sign of affection, friendship & trust and it is a great way to bond with your horse. You’ll make your horse feel good and he’ll learn that it’s good to be around you. But don’t let him return the favor by nibbling on you. You wouldn’t enjoy it as much as his pasture buddies. When he turns his neck to you, gently push his head away to make him understand that this grooming session is just about him. No need to return the favor!

Tune into him, get to know him, learn where he’s ticklish or sensitive and let him help you find that ooh-so-sweet spot he loves rubbed so much. Soon your horse will show you what spot is itchy and where they need to be scratched. My horse lifts his hind leg when he needs my belly scratching services.

mutual grooming between horses is a sign of affection

Adjust the pressure of your touch to the horse’s sensitivity. Some horses love to be curried hard some need a much gentler approach. They’ll let you know. You just need to listen. Sympathetic grooming makes horses relax and more
willing to work and it is great “foreplay” before riding time.

Coming Soon :  more about grooming as an opportunity to train your horse & teach him patience. Stay tuned!

Ride Green!
The EcoLicious Equestrian

Check out our full line of delicious, natural and green equine care & grooming products at www.ecoliciousequestrian.com

I’d like to share with you a latest testimonial from one our customers – Shauntelle from the Harding Heights Ranch in Trail, BC. Here we go:

“My Mom and I run Harding Heights Ranch Ltd. and we strive to provide the most natural/holistic care possible for our herd of 15 horses.  I came upon EcoLicious Equestrian while reading my online subscription of Holistic Horse.  I was immediately captured by the fact that they were a Canadian company but more so that they were All Natural.  So, I decided to try them and I ordered a couple of their products.  The De-Stress Intensive  Mane & Tail Treatment quickly became my favorite!  Not only did it work and smell wonderful, it lasted!!  Yay.  I had been struggling with other products that did a good job at first but after awhile the manes were far worse than they had ever been!  Ugg.  I try not to touch my horses manes too often but every once in awhile they do need to be managed… this for me happens about once a year.” 

Harding Heights Herd - courtesy Harding Heights Ranch Ltd.

“I was so in love with the smell of the products and so were my horses!  My Stallion, Rowan, who is a Suffield Horse from the Suffield Military Block in Alberta and came from wild stock is a fussy creature who would rather flee, while at liberty, then see me coming at him with a bottle in my hand!!  So, armed with my newest product, Comfort Me Healing Balm, I approached him to tend to a surface wound on his neck only to have him bolt away to the other end of his paddock.  What a brat!  So I quickly put some Comfort Me on my fingers and tucked the bottle away in my pocket and proceeded after him with caution!  I gently approached, keeping my distance with my fingers extended for him to smell.  He stretched his head out to sniff my hand.  As he sniffed his eyes started to calm and his body relaxed as he stepped towards me with his head down!!  Wow, I was so excited!!  He loved it!  Yay again!!  I proceeded to fix his scratches and did everything I could find searching up and down his legs to find any excuse to use the product.”

“I now have the Hoof Therapy Serum which will be a great tool for all of our barefoot horses.  I am very excited about its antibacterial and anti-fungal properties and once again it smells amazing!  I was spoiled at Christmas as one of my very thoughtful friends bought me and two of our other horse friends the Hands On which is amazing and so silky.  And all because I had been raving so much about the EcoLicious line!”

“I love the products so much that I gave it as a Christmas gift to another one of my dear friends who is also an all-natural girl with her herd of horses.  I wanted her to see what awesome products they were and I knew that she would be just as thrilled with them as I am. She now has all the products that I do!  I have added EcoLicious to my favorite web links on my website as well as continuing to promote you on my Facebook page.”

“I have dealt with the customer care team twice now, once on the phone and once via email and they were so polite and helpful that it makes me want to support them even more!!”

“Thanks for developing such amazing products that work for all of us green horse people!   I am looking forward to getting and trying the Leave Me Be this spring.”

Cheers,

Shauntelle (Harding) LeRose

Harding Heights Ranch Ltd. (Trail, BC)

Thank you for sharing with us your EcoLicious experience Shauntelle! We are excited to be part of the holistic horsekeeping approach on your ranch.

Ride Green!
The EcoLicious Equestrian

Check out our full line of delicious, natural and green equine care & grooming products at www.ecoliciousequestrian.com

Believe it or not, horses do enjoy a nice lager. Racehorses in Ireland enjoy a pint of Guinness regularly.  It’s good for them and helps them to relax. Hops - the active ingredient - is known to soothe anxiety,  relax muscles and relax spasms of the digestive tract. Don’t worry – you won’t get your horse drunk. You’d have to have your horse finish at least a six pack.

Mix together:

• 8 cups of bran
• 8 cups of oats
• Pinch of sea salt
• Hot water
• 1 can of dark bear

Add enough water to thoroughly moisten the ingredients, add salt, mix and let it steep until cool enough to feed.

Ride Green!
The EcoLicious Equestrian

Check out our full line of delicious, natural and green equine care & grooming products at www.ecoliciousequestrian.com