diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index e5d5bfc..36ab204 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ inlinestyler - Making Styled HTML Email Easy
 
 `inlinestyler` is an easy way to locally inline CSS into an HTML email message.
 
+test
+
 Styling HTML email is a `black art`_. CSS works, but only when it's been placed
 inline on the individual elements (and event then, not always) - which makes
 development frustrating, and iteration slow. 
diff --git a/inlinestyler/converter.py b/inlinestyler/converter.py
index 80895a6..6676afc 100644
--- a/inlinestyler/converter.py
+++ b/inlinestyler/converter.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.supportPercentage = 100
         self.convertedHTML = ""
 
-    def perform(self, document, sourceHTML, sourceURL, encoding='unicode'):
+    def perform(self, document, sourceHTML, sourceURL, encoding='unicode', remove_origin=True):
         aggregate_css = ""
 
         # Retrieve CSS rel links from html pasted and aggregate into one string
@@ -36,10 +36,13 @@ def perform(self, document, sourceHTML, sourceURL, encoding='unicode'):
                         parsed_url = urlparse.urlparse(sourceURL)
                         csspath = urlparse.urljoin(parsed_url.scheme + "://" + parsed_url.hostname, csspath)
 
-                css_content = requests.get(csspath).text
+                # Get css file. Don't verify SSL certificates. It's just a css.
+                # Cloudfront does not have correct SSL certificate and it fails.
+                css_content = requests.get(csspath, verify=False).text
                 aggregate_css += ''.join(css_content)
 
-                element.getparent().remove(element)
+                if remove_origin:
+                    element.getparent().remove(element)
             except:
                 raise IOError('The stylesheet ' + element.get("href") + ' could not be found')
 
@@ -48,7 +51,9 @@ def perform(self, document, sourceHTML, sourceURL, encoding='unicode'):
         matching = CSSStyleSelector.evaluate(document)
         for element in matching:
             aggregate_css += element.text
-            element.getparent().remove(element)
+
+            if remove_origin:
+                element.getparent().remove(element)
 
         # Convert document to a style dictionary compatible with etree
         styledict = self.get_view(document, aggregate_css)
diff --git a/inlinestyler/utils.py b/inlinestyler/utils.py
index 4259de8..e7a871a 100644
--- a/inlinestyler/utils.py
+++ b/inlinestyler/utils.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from lxml import etree
 from inlinestyler.converter import Conversion
 
-def inline_css(html_message, encoding='unicode'):
+def inline_css(html_message, encoding='unicode', remove_origin=True):
     """
     Inlines all CSS in an HTML string
 
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ def inline_css(html_message, encoding='unicode'):
 
     document = etree.HTML(html_message)
     converter = Conversion()
-    converter.perform(document, html_message, '', encoding=encoding)
+    converter.perform(document, html_message, '', encoding=encoding, remove_origin=remove_origin)
     return converter.convertedHTML