Stress and fatigue are the #1 reasons why people develop cold sores and canker sores. It’s a high need category affecting over half the world’s population. These remedies are topical, appear to be more effective than anything else available, are non-toxic and safe enough for a toddler.
Cold Sores Begone®
Prevents 100% of the eruption. There is nothing a sufferer wants more, aside from a cure. When applied at the early warning tingling symptom, the infection is aborted prior to the sore’s eruption. It is Not a seasonal condition as most people think. Cold sores have an uncanny ability to occur at the worst times, usually because there’s stress involved. Cold Sores Begone® has saved many a disaster for brides, job seekers, those in the public eye or making important presentations, attending reunions, singles, outdoor recreation or sports enthusiasts, and travelers (over-exposure to sun and wind is also a common trigger).
Canker Sores Begone®
This formulation is specific to canker sores triggered by stress, fatigue, oral irritation (ie dental work, teething), and cancer therapies. It’s not intended for canker sores caused by acidic food, and would be ineffective. The ingredients are known for their anti-viral properties opposed to using anti-bacterial agents as do other products. Canker Sores Begone® typically heals within 24 hours to 4 days. Without its use, 1-4 weeks is what’s common.
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Both remedies are considered lifesavers by users, food grade ingredients, pocket-sized bottle to tuck in pocket, purse, gear. Anytime money back guarantee, including the shipping fee if purchased from our website.
From adolescence, was plagued with cold sores 3-5 times a year. They’re quite painful but I was more miserable because of how they looked. No way to hide it, displayed prominently in full glory on my lip, close enough to be immediately noticed when there was eye contact so there was NO missing it. In fact, I noticed some people avoiding making eye contact. It was lovely experience enjoyed by all.
Years later, I was working in a non-clinical department of a major teaching medical center in Los Angeles. At that time, medical centers and hospitals across the United States were going through difficult financial times, resulting in massive hospital layoffs. All employees were worried about losing their job, and many acquired additional responsibilities due to those who had been layed off.
The stress was triggering cold sore infections, not made easier with a boss that caused nightmares. On a few occasions, due to a fever, overwhelming fatigue, and feeling flu-ish, I called in sick only to find by the end of the day, flu symptoms were gone, but a painful swollen bump had erupted on my lip.
I was worried about the stress triggering more viral infections, the perception of excessive sick days, and that I could lose my job.
So, with fear as a motivator (haven’t we all heard that it’s the BEST motivator), I researched what herbs and healing methods might diminish or shorten cold sore infections. With no science background, I am resourceful and tenacious, and found clinical studies from Germany indicating certain herbs had promise in the early treatment of herpes simplex infections. The herbs were easily obtainable, and I created a topical concoction in my kitchen to have ready for the next occurrence.
When I next felt the early warning symptom, without any optimism, I applied the homemade remedy. Typically after the warning symptom, my cold sores appear within 20 minutes. After an hour, after a day, no eruption. I didn’t think, “Hey, it worked!” I thought, “Hmm, I must have mis-read what I thought was the early warning symptom”. To my disbelief, each subsequent episode produced the same result.
Over time, on a few of occasions, I was slow to apply the remedy, and a cold sore would start to develop. I discovered applying the remedy a few times a day significantly reduced the severity and duration to 4-7 days instead of two weeks.
Inventor: Robin Barr
I was born in 1951 in New Jersey, and at three years old, my family moved to southern California where I’ve lived since. Our family, including a new brother, Steve, lead a typical suburban life, including divorced parents in 1963. I graduated from Van Nuys High School with several awards. Because I felt so unhappy at home, at that time living with my father and the quintessential wicked step-mother, I could not move out on my own fast enough to have my independence. College could come later. However, basking in my freedom, getting into the routine of jobs I liked, always of a secretarial nature, and a meaningful social life, I wasn’t up for disrupting it with starting school, which I felt would represent a loss of some of that freedom I was still enjoying. College never happened, and can’t say I’ve really regretted it. Over time, I did well financially as an administrative assistant and similar positions, often with diverse responsibility that kept it interesting and challenging. Although I’ve had a few long time relationships, still friendly, haven’t had my wedding or any children. This was a source of regret in my 20s, 30s, and 40s, but as you move through the decades and stages of life, it’s amazing how needs and even some values can change. Now, I don’t feel regret or any sadness that I haven’t (yet!) experienced the married life or children that I had always envisioned. In fact, it’s what I attribute to looking younger than my age (according to the feedback) that some people jokingly, yet serious, ask for my driver’s license to prove it. I live with my happy, healthy little dog, Molly, who I adopted December 2008, have good friendships, pleasant experiences and adventures, and own a condo which I always love to come home to. Life hasn’t been without its challenges, heartbreaks and loss, but it has still been good and I expect it to continue, regardless of outside circumstances.
Well, this is more than random, it has turned into a somewhat lengthy account of the start up of my business, but most people seem to enjoy the story. It includes the synchronicity of how things happened that made the following steps in my progress possible, so I’ll share it with you.
Here I was, an employee of 14 years working in a non-clinical department of a major medical center in Los Angeles, single and in my mid-forties, when the floor came out from under me. My closest friend of 20 yrs died, the relationship with my boyfriend of six years ended, and because that wasn’t enough, I was layed off. Grieving, lost, and scared about my financial future, I decided to market my home remedy for cold sores. Why not? I learned over half the population suffers with cold sores and I knew from personal experience that products on the market couldn’t do much about an outbreak except to numb it or apply a petroleum based product to keep it from pulling as scabs developed.
I had absolutely no experience in starting a business, manufacturing, or sales, nor did I have a mentor or anyone I knew with this kind of experience. An amazing synchronicity of events helped me along the way.
For one, shortly after I left the medical center, I was at home sitting at my desk. The phone rang, and a woman was on the line who had dialed the wrong number, and for some reason, we started to chat. The caller was a member of a trade organization comprised of small business owners in the cosmetics industry. We spoke for 45 minutes and she invited me to be a guest at that night's meeting which was being held only a short distance from where I lived. I was reluctant, but accepted.
There I met the owner of a local contract lab who accepted smaller minimum orders than most other labs, and with whom I still work with to this day. The lab's product development staff took my "recipe", and keeping the core ingredients intact, improved the taste, and assured compliance with the FDA monograph for cold sores. The lab provided me with a list of suppliers I might need for packaging, labels, product displays, and bottles.
A product name had not yet been chosen, and I wanted it in some way to memorialize my dear friend, Peter, who had died, and because he had left me some money, it provided enough for my start up costs and to live on for a little more than a year until, hopefully, I could generate enough sales to pay for my living and business expenses.
Peter was a collector of pewter wizards, in part, because he had an uncanny way of making things happen, often like magic. And there it was, the solution how to memorialize Peter - choosing a wizard as the product icon, this decided upon even before a product name had been selected. Shortly after that, at a small dinner party, a friend jokingly threw out the name 'Cold Sores Begone!' It clicked. Now the product had a name.
When the first commercially produced product was available, I took it to a few neighborhood health food stores, who agreed to try it on consignment.
Eventually, I recognized the need to have my product available through a trade distributor that served the natural food industry. Most health food stores prefer to purchase from distributors rather than from the manufacturer which provides them the ability to deal with only a few suppliers rather than hundreds or thousands, receive quantity discounts, and place orders electronically.
I had made a presentation with product sample by mail to a major health food distributor on the east coast, and after subsequent follow up calls and letters over the following ten months, had not received a response. One day the buyer felt a cold sore coming on. There on her file cabinet collecting dust was a bottle of Cold Sores Begone. The buyer applied it, and was so thrilled with the results, she approved Cold Sores Begone®, and placed their first order. With this important distributor now a customer, it opened doors, and became easier to obtain product approval from other distributors.
Store buyers were asking me about a remedy for canker sores because customers were asking for it. I was also a canker sore sufferer, and had noticed a pattern of having an outbreak when I was under stress, over-tired, or having dental work.
I learned many canker sore sufferers, though not all, experienced the same triggers as I had prior to an outbreak. I did my research, and went to work hoping to develop an effective, yet non-toxic formulation. In 2001, Canker Sores Begone® was launched. The remedy contained herbs well known for their antiviral properties specifically for oral ulcerations.
One day, the alternative health editor at PREVENTION Magazine, a cold sore sufferer, had used Cold Sores Begone®, was happy with the result, and advised she would be writing an article about her experience in an upcoming issue. My website was initially created to provide their readers with store location information, and the ability to order online or by phone.
Today, my company is still very small. Early on, I had decided to go this alone-no partners, no investors. Consequently, I never had enough cash for an adequate advertising budget to bring awareness to retailers and consumers. I don’t know if this was the best decision or not, but it is what it is. Most people are unaware of Cold Sores Begone® or Canker Sores Begone®, not knowing there’s something out there on a store shelf, or on a website, that will improve the quality of their lives, just waiting for their discovery. Customers find my remedies by searching online, as an impulse purchase at a store, word of mouth, and repeat customers.
The process that what I have gone through from the time I created my home remedy has provided one of my life’s greatest lessons, that I could, and did, create something from nothing, from an imagination that previously could never have conceived of myself as a business owner or selling anything that someone might want to buy. Didn’t I learn my lesson about that in earlier brief stints as an Avon and Amway representative years earlier? But I put one foot in front of the other and continued to move in a forward direction.
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