BALANCED ESSENTIALS - Key Persons
Cheryl Gilbert is the owner and creator of balanced essentials and has a background in traditional medical care. She believes a balanced approach to health and lifestyle are the key ingredients for a successful and happy existence. She recognized that to facilitate true healing we must address the emotional, physical and spiritual needs of the individual.
With this in mind and using an intuitive approach to the blending and a skill for creating appealing fragrances, she created this unique range of aromatherapy and essential oil products designed to activate and enhance wellness that also had a wonderful aroma. Cheryl also believed through her own personal mixing of the oils and experience that the majority of people wanted to purchase aromatherapy that was "user friendly" and that took the guess work out.
Using only the highest quality therapeutic essential oils blended together, Cheryl's potent products will delight the senses and empower the body's self-healing abilities. In April of 2005 Cheryl appeared on A Current Affair which featured her products' BE Relieved and BE Sport as "The Miracle Oils". Her research using Thermal Imaging validated her product claims that pain & inflammation were significantly reduced after just 3 minutes of application.
Cheryl's many years of television appearances on the Shopping Channels have confirmed her reputation and her deep understanding of the importance of nurturing people in order to facilitate the healing process emotionally, physically and spiritually. The shows have also attracted a large audience of customers and their comments and testimonials are evidence to the incredible effectiveness of these products.
Garry Duncan began painting full time in 1997 and lives with his family on a property overlooking the Murray River in South Australia's Riverland. Garry sees his art as a product of the environment without taking from or destroying it.
At the exhibition one of his very large portraits, "Australian Sienna" hanging on the wall had captured the essence of Cheryl Gilbert without either of them having met before. Cheryl was so taken with the portrait (which came from Garry's imagination) that she purchased the painting which then became the "Face of Balanced Essentials".
This very large painting which Garry named "Australian Sienna" was the first that he had done which was not of an Australian landscape. He sees his art as a product of the environment without taking from or destroying it. This painting also looked very similar to Cheryl Gilbert as she had naturally curly hair at the time and Garry felt he had captured something unique in this painting without having met her before. It also reflected what Cheryl felt was an Australian version of Mother Earth.