Allergy Products - Mercia's Personal Wishlist!

by Mercia Tapping, President, AllergyBuyersClub.com

We had a family wedding recently and my husband was at a loss at what to give a relative as a gift in a second marriage. We did not know their taste and knew they already had a house with most of what they needed. So we gave them a gift certificate to AllergyBuyersClub.com. I created a coupon code and inserted the code into an electronic card I chose from Blue Mountain Arts (http://www.bluemountain.com). As I told my husband, our store has some extraordinarily useful or beautiful things, so I could not imagine that they would not find something they liked. The bride and groom were thrilled with their choices which included Primaloft pillows. So if you want to give a successful gift this summer to friends and relatives consider a gift certificate to our store!

INFO LINKS Pollen and Hayfever Solution Guide - a quick buyers guide of the best recommended products to solve airborne allergen problems Mold Solution Guide - a quick buyers guide of the best recommended products to prevent and control mold allergy problems Cat Allergy Solution Guide - a quick buyers guide of the best recommended products to prevent and control pet allergy problems Dust Mite Solution Guide - a quick buyers guide of the best recommended products to prevent and control dust mite allergies

Like all good store owners, I use our own products. We added an IQAir Healthpro Plus air purifier to the office recently, for the benefit of a new employee who has severe allergies. I swear the air even smells better and our new guy is symptom free. FYI, we recently tested the IQAir as to its efficiency and could not believe it when the outflow registered zero on the particulate monitor. We have our IQAir purifier programmed to go on high at night during off office hours, and run on the third speed during the daytime. That way, we give it a heavy dose of air cleaning at night.

So what is on my own wish list in the store? What if I was getting married again? Our members are always asking what I use or want to buy myself. So here goes. One of my employees asked me if I want to sell her my Miele Red Star vacuum cleaner and buy the new Miele Silver Moon. This is called vacuum cleaner pampering. We have a Eureka central vacuum in the house which my cleaning lady loves, but I prefer a canister instead of all that lengthy central hose. The Silver Moon is the slickest vacuum that Miele has ever created. Yes, I do want it.

Also on my list is to install a whole house air purifier by Amaircare. There are rooms in the house where I simply do not have room for another object, but filtering the room would be really nice. The central air cleaner with hepa filter we have on our site also have great odor filters as well and with my husband grumbling about not opening the windows much in allergy season, I think that will freshen up the air. It gets installed next month and I will let you know how easy it was to install. My contractor thinks installing the central air cleaner will be simple.

My biggest wish list item will be a very special gift to myself.

Natural latex mattresses do not harbor dust mites, but better than that for light sleepers, is there is very little if any motion experienced your side if your partner is thrashing around at night. Since a natural latex bed molds to your body and gives perfect support I have heard rave reviews from customers who tell me that for people with back problems or arthritis that these beds are near miraculous. One person told me that her husband with osteoarthritis used to get out of bed all stiff in the morning and now gets up almost pain free thanks to a latex mattress. As an osteoarthritis sufferer myself this sounds mighty attractive.

We are doing a lot of testing here of different products right now. I am truly amazed at some of the little wrinkles we uncover in products. Sometimes, a product just plain does not work the way it should. Take the case of the nameless new air cleaner, that has whizzy bang lights which register when pollen (a large particulate), dust or odors enter the filter. So, during some of our plain and dirty testing, we took my largest, fat Siamese cat up to the 2 inches outside the air intake and ruffled its fur (what a mess!) the lights did not change! We then literally blew in a number of noxious odors into the machine and again no lights came on. What kind of a machine is this? Not one we want to sell for sure.

First Published: early June 2001
Updated: April 2007

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