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Spray Patterns BY AVA CARIDADEditor The National Aerosol Association (NAA) has partnered with The American Cleaning Institute’s (ACI) 2012 Clean and Military Warriors Support Foundation, a non-profit organization, Healthy Families & Communities National Award was presented based out of San Antonio, TX, that provides support for U.S. to Carla Youree Bush, University of Tennessee Family & Consumer combat wounded veterans who are transitioning out of the military. Science Extension Agent, at the annual conference of the With industry support, the NAA will award a military hero a new National Extension Association of Family & Consumer Sciences home during its 27th Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX, (NEAFCS). With the cooperation of a local housing authority, she March 5-7, 2013. Visit: www.militarywarriors.org and then donate held a “get together” with friends and neighbors with the purpose at www.militarywarriors.org/NAA. of educating about the importance of a clean, healthy home and demonstrating simple, easy ways to clean, using ACI education materials. The housing authority director later reported that, as a result of the “Clean & Healthy Home” training, housing conditions improved for those who implemented the demonstrated cleaning techniques. The Clean and Healthy Families & Communities Award honors outstanding educational programming efforts that use many of ACI’s educational materials and promote the connection between cleanliness and health. Programs must demonstrate innovative outreach efforts that impact the local community and raise the awareness of the proper use and/or storage of cleaning products. Nothing conjures up memories of past holidays like the smells of grandma’s house, mulled cider and fir trees, but what about wrapping paper or wet wool? This year, P&G’s Febreze air care brand set out to uncover the best and worst smells of the holiday season. The Alliance for Consumer Education (ACE) teamed-up with Marvel The brand launched their Febreze Sentimental Survey and it was Comics to craft a brand new poster of “Iron Man & Ace Clean.” The learned that more than half of those surveyed (54%) said they like poster features the two action heroes, as well as their arch-nemesis smells that remind them of the holidays, even if they are deemed Professor Grime, accompanied with fun facts on germ prevention “unpleasant.” and games to entertain kids of all ages. To download a PDF of the Not surprisingly, 65% of respondents said that the scent of freshly poster, visit http://www.consumered.org/marvel-campaign/. baked goodies took them down memory lane, but interestingly, one in 10 said that the smell of an attic or storage room also conjured up the sentimental holiday memories. Another unique scent that Spray Digital now available. of wrapping paper and tape (43%). Nearly 60% of women agreedhelped jog nostalgic memories of those surveyed included the smell Free to all subscribers. that freshly fallen snow reminded them of the holiday season, but To sign up go to their least favorite scent? Wet wool. This year, Febreze is releasing two new limited edition holiday www.spraytechnology.com scents: Winter Magic & Glow and Holiday Bloom & Cheer to complement the popular Glistening Alpine and Cranberries & Frost holiday scents. 54 Spray December 2012


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