Rainforest Radiance
The truly lucky people in this world eventually find a passion in their lives. They find something that drives them, something that makes them eager to start their day. Actually they find a smile and it’s one that they can wear to sleep at night. Georgann Serino is one of those people. She didn’t only find her smile but she passes them around bar by bar!
Recently I had the pleasure of spending some time with Georgann at a two week long butterfly breeders convention in Costa Rica. I have known her for some time through butterflies but this was the first chance I had to learn about her second passion, helping people in the Amazon Rainforest.
For quite a while now Georgann has been traveling to the Brazilian Rainforest to study with Shamans and Healers. And we are talking about down it the trenches and swinging a machete through the brush type of studying. Together they would collect the oils, essences and exfoliates with centuries old methods that obviously haven’t hurt the environment over time. This is a case of just two people hand gathering only what they need and not a corporation with work crews. I know I have seen the photographs it is back breaking work. Everything they collect is taken back to the village and processed by hand. And after all of her hard work and self financed trips to the jungle, Georgann uses all of the money generated from the sales to build schools in the Rainforest. You don’t hear about her on CNN or Fox News but she quietly chances the world one student at a time. This ‘Jersey Girl’ has already built 3 schools and doesn’t intend on stopping. She has given back far more than she has ever taken from the jungle. If you would like to see for yourself you can even make arrangements to stay in the rainforest right where it’s done and in absolutely gorgeous accommodations.
So if you would like to do everybody a huge favor, and that is you, Georgann, the Rainforest Children check out her soaps, balms and lotions. Recently I bought a case of assorted soaps from Georgann for Holliday gifts and spent the whole next week standing at the box just smelling the bars one by one. They just smell so good. My favorite product is Jaguar Balm. For the Costa Rica convention I had purchased a pair of sneakers just for the trip. Unfortunately after only one day one of the shoes began to hurt the top of my foot. By the second day I couldn’t even tie the lace any more and by the third it was so uncomfortable I couldn’t even to put a sock on. Then Georgann told me about her Jaguar Balm. I rub a tiny amount, maybe a drop that was only the size of a match head over the entire top of my foot. Four or five minutes later I forgot all about the pain and didn’t realize it worked until I was walking down the hallway with my sneakers on. I was blown away! Recently I offered some to someone suffering from a painful Bakers cyst on the back of their knee. Bam! The pain was gone. It is good stuff that I know by first hand experience. But everything Georgann offers is amazing.
Don’t expect to find big flashy ads and all kinds of hype. That’s not how she rolls. Everything is made and wrapped by hand. I know because we like her stuff so much that we drive 3 hours to her home to pick it up and sometimes we have to wrap it ourselves. But that’s the beauty of it all. No big company profiting from the hard work of indigenous people. It’s just a hard working, rainforest loving, smile-spreading woman making the world better by turning soap bars into schoolbooks.
So if you think the world stinks (or someone next to you does) and you really need your smile, contact Georgann and buy a bar of “RAINFOREST RADIANCE” and do the world some good. Then everything will come up smelling like roses, or olive, or cocoa, brazil nut, or avocado, or coconut, or mango, or shea……..
Help the Jersey Girl help the Jungle.
Thanks
Rick Mikula
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