What is a natural product? Well, the folks at Expo West can tell you. I was invited to the Natural Product Expo in Anaheim, CA this weekend by my friend, and fellow Gadget Panelist, Jeffrey Schiller. We had a great time looking at cool food, products, and… well, we went to a fashion show (second one in as many weeks) as well (pictures to come on my wordpress blog). I learned a lot about some of the amazing conventions that Jeff has put on in the past. I hope soon that we’ll be seeing some of them again soon!One of the things that I was thinking about was whether I was going to find a cool “product” or not. See, most of the stuff at the Natural Product Expo is food related. Now, I could write about the chocolate… mmmm, chocolate… for ages. In fact, I could have an entire publication to chocolate. Wait! There IS a magazine dedicated to Chocolate!

I found some really cool products there. For example, there is this shower filter that de-chlorinates your water. This means that I’m not going to get prune hands from being in the shower, and hopefully it will help my itchy scalp. Maybe I’ll even grow some hair back (crossing fingers). My concern was that the water pressure was going to get squashed when I installed it. Well, no problem there! Checkout the video!

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Where can you get one? Well, that was the only problem I was having at this expo. Most of the companies there only sell wholesale. However, some quick sleuthing brought me to the product on Amazon. 40 bucks is a nice price for this product.

There were a few more non-food innovations that I’m going to write about later. I’m even going to setup an interview with the founder of the Fartless Factory (yes, the Old Fart himself). Yes, he doesn’t have much of a website, but I guarantee you will get a chuckle and maybe find yourself some sixteen bean chili that won’t make you blow a gasket in his online catalog.