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October 17th, 2011We Mean Business.
August 17th, 2011
We knew when we stood up to the $17 Billion chemically-based deodorant industry that we were taking on a David and Goliath sized challenge. We were prepared for a fight and protected ourselves, our products and our Duggan Sisters® brand in every way possible. What we didn’t expect was to be undermined in our efforts by those who say they want green businesses, want women-owned companies, want healthy products for their family, want jobs for Americans.
Yet, some of those very folks have been spreading the most damaging misinformation about us. Read on to hear Mary’s response to this ethical dilemma and to learn more about why WE MEAN BUSINESS.
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Dear Jenn,
Guess what popped up on a Google search of bloggers talking about lifestinks® deodorant? You! Hey, I remember meeting you at one of our retail spa partners. You were getting a manicure while I was there working and I took quite a bit of time with you, explaining how our deodorant works. You identified yourself as a blogger and you promised me that if you decided to write about the Duggan Sisters you would let me know. Hey, you didn’t. No problem. I guess. I have read what you had to say and despite the compliments and links to our site you have given us a not quite fair shake. So, here’s some setting the record straight for your readers. Read the rest of this entry »
From #11 to #11: I need your voice!
July 29th, 2011I don’t often play the baby sister card, but being the 11th of 11 children makes me a member of an elite group of big babies. Another card-carrying member of this Irish Catholic Last in a Long Line of Siblings Club is the 
inimitable Stephen Colbert. So, in this post Duggan #11 is asking Colbert #11 to give the Duggan Sisters’ message some much appreciated attention.
Isn’t attention getting what baby sisters are supposedly all about?
Mr. Colbert, are you listening?
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Dear Mr. Colbert,
This past spring I watched as you impaled the Dove/Unilever body image damage machine. It was brilliant and I thank you. I implore you to use your acclaimed voice to take it one step further.
Please consider the story of two sisters on the South Side of Chicago fed up with corporate greed and ineptitude who started making natural deodorant by hand in their basement and selling it to their neighbors. Hear their remarkable story of an endeavor that has captured the imagination Read the rest of this entry »
THAT’S WHY WE CALL THEM JUNKIES
July 21st, 2011By Mary Duggan
Everyone seems to be buzzing about a story in the Los Angeles Times entitled, “Access to grocers doesn’t improve diets, study finds.” It references a study that confirms what I have long said about healthy eating – access to grocery stores is not enough. Yes, food deserts are immoral and problematic. Yes, economics figure largely into obesity. But, apparently from the results of this substantive study, proximity to fast food seems to be the big determinant in being too big. If it’s there and it’s cheap and it’s fast and it’s delicious who can say no to fast food. WHY? Because fast food is addictive, just like cigarettes, and so we need to call this bad boy by its real name DRUGS, and JUST SAY NO! Read the rest of this entry »
ZUCCHINI WITH INSTRUCTIONS!
July 20th, 2011by Mary Duggan
I just love Jamie Oliver. There are so many voices in the discussion about food; and I admire what many of them are contributing to our national debate. But nobody does it better than Jamie Oliver when it comes to taking it from discourse to the main course. Check out this Jamie O quote from a recent and fascinating Los Angeles Times article entitled, “Access to grocers doesn’t improve diets, study finds.”:
“If you go into most grocery stores across America, the majority of the store is chock-full of processed food calling out to you from the packages, ‘Pick me! I’m tastier and more convenient. And ringed around all this are good old veggies, with no instructions.”
I couldn’t agree more. I hear this CALL FOR INSTRUCTIONS all the time from sincere folks who really want to eat healthier and go to the produce aisle only to be overwhelmed by the wide array of fruits and vegetables available Read the rest of this entry »
Lots to be said about armpits!
April 3rd, 2011The wonderful Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune opened a conversation about women and their armpits in her Friday article.http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-04-01/news/ct-met-schmich-0401-20110401_1_underarm-armpits-unilever opened a conversationAs the Duggan Sisters, we clearly have lots to say about armpits! We implore you – our lifestinks deodorant users – to reach out to Mary Schmich at mschmich@tribune.com with your armpit stories! You’ve shared so many of them with us, please share them with her! We’ve shared Mary Duggan’s response below…
100% Committed to a Judgment-Free Living Foods Lifestyle
May 14th, 2010Mary Applauds Victoria Boutenko’s Message
Victoria, thank you so much for this article. I think this is such an important concept for the raw foods community to embrace. I maintained a 100% raw lifestyle for 22 months, lost 65 pounds and experienced extraordinary improvements in my health. I was inspired to do this as I had seen my sister Annie saving her own life with a strict raw regimen. By the end of 22 months we were in high demand to teach others how to make the same changes in their life with raw foods – so we added raw foods classes to our already rigorous work schedule. It was rewarding and completely exhausting. And then we crashed. Why?
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MARY CAN’T SURVIVE SUMMER WITHOUT…
July 23rd, 2009WATERMELON TOMATO GAZPACHO
3 cups watermelon, seeded and pureed in a blender
1 cup seeded watermelon, diced small
1 cup seeded tomato, diced small – (about 2 medium tomatoes)
1 cup peeled, seeded cucumber, diced small – (½ English cucumber or 1 or 2 whole Kirbys)
½ cup red or green bell pepper, diced small
2 TBSP lime juice
1 small handful cilantro leaves
1 teaspoon minced ginger
1/3 small jalapeño, seeded and minced
1 green onion, white and 1 inch of green, minced
1 teaspoon sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Okay, we got this recipe from the incomparable RAW FOOD REAL WORLD restaurant owners and cookbook authors Matthew Kenney and Sarma Melngailis. We plain and simply do not know how anyone survives summer without this soup. We agree with the authors that you need to do your best to steer clear of the seedless/tasteless watermelons (or seedless anything for that matter) as the recipe hangs on the balance of the sweet watermelon and the summer fresh tomatoes.
I DOUBLE THIS RECIPE EACH AND EVERY TIME I MAKE IT. I use a really large bowl and quickly dice each of my ingredients and throw them into the bowl. I hate to measure, so I just use the juice of 2 limes. Do not skimp on the fresh ginger (actually I go a little heavy-handed on it as it makes the soup.) Being Irish and all, Annie and I like our double recipe to still include only 1/3 of a jalapeño. But, hey if you are a hottie, go for it with the jalapeño.
I fill my entire Vitamixer with the chunks of watermelon. Once my chopping is completed, I give everything in the bowl a really good stir. Then I pour my watermelon puree over everything. We enjoy it two ways: warm from the Vitamixer and nicely chilled for hours.
I find that a single recipe uses one half of a small watermelon – we love the organic sugar babies as they tend to have a fair number of seeds in them even when they are labeled as seedless. I take the other half and make a smoothie with Romain lettuce and ½ of a lime.
QUICK NOTE HERE ON watermelon/romaine SMOOTHIE: I was recently perusing Dr. Karyn Mitchell’s 4-3-2-1 Diet pamphlet and was fascinated with her advice on which greens to use for smoothies; namely, folks with kidney challenges (that would so be me) need to take it easy on the kale, spinach and chard as they build up oxalic acid. Instead these folks should consider substituting romaine and other lettuce greens. Alarms really went off for me with this news as I have really weak kidneys and there was tremendous urgency to my need for my spring kidney cleanse (more on that in a future blog entry). Anyone who knows Annie and I know that we are Boutenko Smoothie freaks and lo and behold, we do use LOTS of these kidney-challenging greens. I have found my weak kidneys love the romaine and watermelon combination. Thanks, as usual, to the extraordinary Dr. Mitchell and her 4-3-2-1 Raw Diet guidelines.