Exhibit 24

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned Rebecca Lee Steinfort hereby constitutes and appoints Richard Strulson, Stephen M. Bunker, and each of them, with full authority to act without the others, as the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact to:

 

(1)         execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a reporting person pursuant to Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules thereunder, of Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc. (the “Company”), Form ID and Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act;

 

(2)         prepare, execute in the undersigned’s name and on the undersigned’s behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

 

(3)         do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form ID and Form 3, 4 or 5 and file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority or organization; and

 

(4)         take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of any of such attorneys-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required of, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by any of such attorneys-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as any of such attorneys-in-fact may approve in the sole discretion of any of such attorneys-in-fact.

 

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that any of such attorneys-in-fact, or the substitute or substitutes of any of such attorneys-in-fact, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

 

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 27th day of January, 2015.

 

	Signature:	/s/ Rebecca Lee Steinfort
	Print Name:	Rebecca Lee Steinfort

 

State of Utah	)
	)	ss.
County of Utah	)

 

On January 27, 2015, before me, Sandra Farley, personally appeared Rebecca Lee Steinfort, proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that she executed the same in her authorized capacity, and that by her signature on the instrument the person, or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted, executed the instrument.

 

	WITNESS my hand and official seal.
	/s/ State of Utah Notary Seal

 

	/s/ Sandra Farley
	Notary Public in and for said State