Kevin, like you I was active in the Junior Clowns of America Organization, from the time I was 13 years old until I was 19. I work as a full time floor manager at our local Target now, but still moonlight as a clown at kids birthday parties on weekends. The chapter in your Natural Cures book about how the skin is our largest organ and we should never put anything on our skin that we would not eat or drink has made me re-evaluate using all the face paint and colored makeup that I used to use as a clown. I'm guessing that even though you were a former President of the Junior Clowns of America, you no longer put on the old clownface! When I clown around for kids now, I just use gag wigs and rubber noses, but no poisonous color dyed makeup. Thanks for opening my eyes.p.s. I'm always looking for new tips on clowning, so if you have any, please throw them my way;)