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UN Global Consultation on Personal Lubricants
UN Global Consultation on Personal Lubricants
By Wendy Strgar
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Resilience: Four Steps to Emotional Intelligence
Resilience: Four Steps to Emotional Intelligence
By Wendy Strgar
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It’s painful listening to VP Harris being interviewed on CNN about Biden’s performance, saying it was a “slow start” but a “strong finish”. She’s in…
It’s painful listening to VP Harris being interviewed on CNN about Biden’s performance, saying it was a “slow start” but a “strong finish”. She’s in…
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Elizabeth Edward's is tuned into some of the most influential and important medical influences in women's health. I would love to share our work at…
Elizabeth Edward's is tuned into some of the most influential and important medical influences in women's health. I would love to share our work at…
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Today, we’re shining a spotlight on Tamara Cook 🙌 Tamara brings 25+ years of experience in financial management, shepherding companies of all…
Today, we’re shining a spotlight on Tamara Cook 🙌 Tamara brings 25+ years of experience in financial management, shepherding companies of all…
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Experience & Education
Publications
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Sex That Works: An Intimate Guide to Awakening Your Erotic Life
Sounds True Publishing House
“Thoughtful, well-written … inspirational … Strgar makes very good points about how we confuse sexual freedom with sexual license, resulting in a hookup culture that has us faking orgasms like porn stars. Authentic sexual freedom, she writes, means ‘taking responsibility for our own sexual needs.’ This book shows us how to do just that … Strgar argues persuasively that sexual pleasure, however you define it, is not a luxury but a necessity.” - NY Times Book Review
"Strgar’s writing glows…“Thoughtful, well-written … inspirational … Strgar makes very good points about how we confuse sexual freedom with sexual license, resulting in a hookup culture that has us faking orgasms like porn stars. Authentic sexual freedom, she writes, means ‘taking responsibility for our own sexual needs.’ This book shows us how to do just that … Strgar argues persuasively that sexual pleasure, however you define it, is not a luxury but a necessity.” - NY Times Book Review
"Strgar’s writing glows … it’s relatable and honest … Her personal story, along with the many helpful exercises in Sex That Works shows that it is possible to keep evolving sexually. There is always something new to learn, and Strgar offers the tools to feed that sexual curiosity." - Foreward Reviews -
Love That Works: A Guide to Enduring Intimacy
"Wendy has an empathetic soul and exuberant voice; while reading her book, one is filled with the sense that she is not just talking to us, but listening as well" - Ian Kerner, Ph.D. & author of She Comes First
"Wendy Strgar has given us a road map to more satisfying, sustainable relationships. This is an excellent book that anyone who is partnered or married should own… One of the best books I’ve read about the hard but rewarding work of what it means to love." - Debby Herbenick, Ph.D…"Wendy has an empathetic soul and exuberant voice; while reading her book, one is filled with the sense that she is not just talking to us, but listening as well" - Ian Kerner, Ph.D. & author of She Comes First
"Wendy Strgar has given us a road map to more satisfying, sustainable relationships. This is an excellent book that anyone who is partnered or married should own… One of the best books I’ve read about the hard but rewarding work of what it means to love." - Debby Herbenick, Ph.D. & author of Because It Feels Good
Patents
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Systems and methods for bio-matching gels, creams and lotions
Issued US 10195169
A method of bio-matching a topical gel, cream or lotion includes selecting a vagina of a living body, identifying a secretion of the selected vagina, identifying a composition of the identified secretion, and formulating the topical gel to match the identified composition of the identified secretion.
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Topical fertility promoting product and manufacturing method
Filed US 20190083429A1
Vaginal lubricants that have salts which are biomatched to salts that are naturally present in the vagina facilitate intercourse without toxic effects. Topical substances that have a low buffering capacity to promote fertility by providing lubricity while minimizing disturbance to the natural pH levels present during intercourse. A low buffering capacity reduces the extent to which a product interferes with natural pH and buffering capacity of fluids that are present during intercourse.
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Salt balanced vaginal product and method
Filed US 20190083428A1
Topical substances that have a low buffering capacity to promote fertility by providing lubricity while minimizing disturbance to the natural pH levels present during intercourse. Vaginal lubricants that have salts which are biomatched to salts that are naturally present in the vagina facilitate intercourse without toxic effects while maintaining reproductive health of a user. Salt content that is matched to the salt content of healthy vaginal fluid minimizes disruption of a natural state, and…
Topical substances that have a low buffering capacity to promote fertility by providing lubricity while minimizing disturbance to the natural pH levels present during intercourse. Vaginal lubricants that have salts which are biomatched to salts that are naturally present in the vagina facilitate intercourse without toxic effects while maintaining reproductive health of a user. Salt content that is matched to the salt content of healthy vaginal fluid minimizes disruption of a natural state, and promotes iso-osmolality of a lubricant.
Honors & Awards
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Top 200 Impact Companies 2022
Real Leaders
Real Leaders recognizes the rise in purpose-driven businesses that prove that businesses can thrive and help build a better world.
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The Top 100 Healthcare Technology Companies of 2021
The Healthcare Technology Report
The pioneering companies selected for this list have one thing in common: they are revolutionizing the way we live, and the way we navigate one of the most important factors for us all: our health.
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The Top 25 Consumer HealthTech Executives Of 2020
The Healthcare Technology Report
The awardees of The Top 25 Consumer HealthTech Executives Of 2020 have excelled in their field not only through deep expertise and determination but through the power of imagination and testing the limits of what is possible with technology.
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100 Fastest-Growing Inner City Businesses
Fortune
Every year, the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City identifies, ranks, and spotlights the 100 fastest-growing businesses located in America’s inner cities. These companies are experiencing rapid growth—and making a meaningful impact on their cities and communities.
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Top 100 Impact Companies 2019
Real Leaders
The Real Leaders 100 Top Impact Companies, in collaboration with Big Path Capital and B Lab, is the first ranking of positive impact companies. The Awards rank the top companies applying capitalism for greater profit and the greater good. These companies are driving a dynamic segment of the economy, bearing a new vision of capitalism that demonstrates that every transaction is an opportunity for both growth and a better world.
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Game Changer Award
Oregon Entrepreneur Network
The Game Changer Award honors a for-profit or non-profit company with a novel solution to a social problem. Good Clean Love, the winner for OEN’s 2017 Game Changer Award, was determined by an audience vote, with input from our judging committee. Good Clean Love is a woman-owned, B-Corporation that offers organic lubricants and feminine hygiene products. The sexual health product industry has been largely controlled by a handful of large CPG companies that have not invested in any innovative…
The Game Changer Award honors a for-profit or non-profit company with a novel solution to a social problem. Good Clean Love, the winner for OEN’s 2017 Game Changer Award, was determined by an audience vote, with input from our judging committee. Good Clean Love is a woman-owned, B-Corporation that offers organic lubricants and feminine hygiene products. The sexual health product industry has been largely controlled by a handful of large CPG companies that have not invested in any innovative product development or formulations for 40 years. Good Clean Love has been a primary disruptor in this space for the past six years, first leading in organic and now leading in patented, scientific advances and testing.
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Compassionate Business Award
PETA
Good Clean Love has worked with PETA scientists to save rabbits and guinea pigs from the painful experiments required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This work has paved the way for all personal lubricant companies to ask the FDA to skip using these archaic experiments on animals. For its vision and commitment to getting federal approval for this humane approach to product testing, PETA is happy to announce that the company is a recipient of its prestigious Compassionate…
Good Clean Love has worked with PETA scientists to save rabbits and guinea pigs from the painful experiments required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This work has paved the way for all personal lubricant companies to ask the FDA to skip using these archaic experiments on animals. For its vision and commitment to getting federal approval for this humane approach to product testing, PETA is happy to announce that the company is a recipient of its prestigious Compassionate Business Award.
Languages
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French
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