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Ultimate Cleanse is a colon cleanser that appears to have been around for a while. Being sold mostly through retail stores, the website itself doesn't sell the product directly to the consumer (although you can still find the product for sale online through various retail websites). This review will give you a glance of the product itself and then take a more in depth look at the company that's behind this colon cleanser.

Ultimate Cleanse uses a 2 part cleansing process and has 2 different formulas to do this. The first blend is an herb based blend an contains 32 ingredients that make up the 640 mg proprietary blend. The blend is meant to support the digestive function. The second formula is a blend of fibers. This blend of 557 mg. is designed basically to "promote healthy digestion and elimination." All in the all, I see no reason why this ingredient profile shouldn't do it's job just fine.
Nature's Secret is the company that's behind Ultimate Cleanse. Aside from Ultimate Cleanse they do provide a couple of other related nutritional products. The Better Business Bureau had good things to say about them. They had two reports for the company. One for Nature's Secret and the other for what I'm guessing is the parent company, Irwin Naturals, Inc. They gave a C rating to the first one and an A rating for latter. There was only 1 complaint on the report for the first and only 2 complaints filed on the second. Both complaints showed that they had been resolved. This is obviously a good sign for Ultimate Cleanse as it appears the customers have generally been quite happy.
One thing you may have noticed if you've visited my site, is that in most cases when a colon cleanse company offers a free trial, it is in conjunction with a plot to enroll you into their autoship program. So what about the Ultimate Cleanse free trial? I searched and searched, and couldn't find anything wrong with their free trial. To the best of knowledge, it's legit and not designed to scam your money out of you. In addition to not finding any evidence of an autoship on their site, I also didn't see any complaints about such practices (which there certainly would be if they were doing it).
The price point for Ultimate Cleanse can be found ranging from $15 to $30. Compared to other colon cleansers, this is relatively inexpensive. One downside, however, is that Ultimate Cleanse doesn't offer any kind of money back guarantee. This is probably due mostly to the fact that they sell through retail, but I still think any good product should be backed by at least a decent guarantee.

In conclusion, Ultimate Cleanse appears to be a decent product at a decent price. The 2 step cleansing process is better than other one-pill products and the ingredients look pretty good. The company behind the product also appears to reputable with almost no signs of poor business practices at all. All things considered, I'd feel pretty safe buying the product.
Before you buy any colon cleaners online, make sure you check out Peter Wood's excellent complete review of the products. You'll get no-nonsense information and commentary.
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Well, here we are with Mr. and Mrs. Bufo enjoying the refreshing Spring weather. Time to clean out the kidneys and tune up the liver with a special "tonic". Now this mix is sort of propietory in that I never make it the same way twice. I think that giving you the basic recipe and letting you find your favorite tweaks is the way to go.
For a good body and system rejuvenator (general) I usually use fresh alfalfa and green oat straw with the heads just starting to form.
Next, for nourishing the nervous system I use St. John'sWort and Maca Root, the former because of it's anti-depression qualities and to give your body a special anti-viral boost. Maca is an adaptogen that is good for relieving stress, providing endurance and it makes you horny as a side effect. I always use Borage, just the flower tops and seed pods, a superb gland balancer(adrenal) and a good source of beta-carotene and Vitamin C. Always use some fresh Red Clover flowers to rebuild strength after prolonged illness or chemotherapy or just because they taste really good in the mix, slightly sweet and cooling. This is about as far as the basics go, if you want to uplift your spirits a little more, Lemon Balm is dandy, so are fresh Rose Petals. I usually add a little Yopo to get a little closer to Mother Earth and a little Blue Lotus to take the edge off of the Yopo. Wild Dagga also works well in combination with the others. Now mind you, I'm not suggesting you put these herbs in the mix, just letting you know what has worked well for other people in the past. Once you have everything together, you want to use one part of each (one ounce, one pound, one gram, whatever, just equal measures) except for the special additives at the end. Get this together and chop it up, macerate it, mix it up really well and dump the resulting conglomeration into a crock (ceramic) or a big jug or something that that you can cover and won'tbe soluble by alcohol. The reason for this is that you must put 4 parts of your favorite wine in the jug also. The wine can be red or white, I personally like a red table wine, Mad Dog 20/20 is just about perfect. This should be covered, corked or capped loosely and let sit for about 2 weeks for the wine to aquire all the benefits from the herbs. The longer you let it sit the more potent medicinally it becomes. When you really can't stand it any longer, pour the tonic through a filter (cheesecloth) into smaller containers. Make sure to mark the date and ingredients on it somewhere to avoid confusion down the road. There you go, Spring "Tonic" that is good for your body as well as your soul. Enjoy! Happy Trails 'till we meet again,,,,,,,,,,,,,Woodco

Easter is here again and usually signals the real beginning of Spring in my neck of the woods. Sure, there's still snow on the ground, but there's green showing on the edges and more every day.
Now's the time for a good tonic that will put "spring" into your step and get your blood moving and detoxed from the stagnant winter doldrums. Be kind to your liver, it does one hell of a job detoxifying your system from all the crap you and the environment put into your body. So, give it a break , a boost, a helping hand or whatever, just think about how hard it has to work keeping your funky ass alive.
A good way to help out your liver is by nourishing it. This can be done in a variety of ways, from buying very expensive and questionable detox treatments to sipping a homemade tonic once a day. Now, this "tonic" should consist of fresh ingredients but that is not always possible this time of the year. So you think ahead and stock up stuff in the fall and save some for spring, how tough is that?
Okay, let's start out by just eating some fresh local greens. Real local, like out of your back yard or garden. Dandelion greens, plantain leaves, asparagus shoots, early green onions and garlic shoots, alfalfa sprouts, are just a few spring greens that are really good for you. Also, how about some wintered-over dandelion roots, salsify roots, yellowdock and burdock roots? These are the real workhorses of liver detox, just about any herbal detox program involves these roots, their deep roots provide important vitamins and minerals and they taste pretty good too.
I'll give you a few tips and recipes for invigorating teas next time, until then, Happy Trails!

Student aid

Do you have problems getting going in the morning? Like, dumb question, eh? I do and here's a few things that I do to make the big break between the comfort and security of sleep and the normal chaos which is my everyday life.

Being a student, especially online, presents less intense criteria for an early morning public outing. I mean like, you aren't going to be seen by anybody if you don't want to be. More on student responsibilities in a later post, but you still have to be awake, mind and motor functions running smoothly and reasonably able to talk to someone on the phone or in the chat room.

I start off in the morning with a cup of custom tea, this is no flatland tea and this is no regular cup. The cup is a full pint, insulated mug, weighted on the bottom for less chance of tipping over. The tea is something special that I package myself in it's own teabags.

Ingredients;

• 500 mg. licorice root powder
  
• 500 mg. guarana seed powder
• 250 mg. ma huang, sifted
• 250 mg. "gunpowder" black tea
• 250 mg. ginseng powder
• a pinch of flavoring, either kola, tangerine peel, peppermint, fennel or Jamaican all-spice

This is one fat tea bag, for sure! The ingredients, being finely sifted, only need to be" infused" and not boiled. Infusing is merely pouring boiling water over the teabag and letting the goodies leech out as the water cools. A couple of squeezes and stirrings and your tea is ready in 10-15 minutes. With the tea I swallow 500 mg. rhodiola rosea, 500 mg. maca root, 500-600 mg. ginkgo biloba, 500 mg. bee pollen or royal jelly, and a squirt of sublingual B-complex vitamin.
Now, I tell you, when this cocktail hits your system you will wake up! But unlike double-shots at Star Bucks, this will stay with you all day and have no nasty jitters or caffeine come-down. Now get to work! Happy Trails to you,,,, Woodco