I started this shop because I grew up surrounded by all things natural.
For a third of my life, I lived with my grandmother whom provided everything we needed to survive by growing and making it all herself, 90% of what we used in our daily lives came from our farm and gardens. She had fruit trees, vegetables in the garden and even grew her own rice and other grains as well as raised her own animals. The nearest market to us was miles away and not accessible by automobile.
We were self sufficient; I learned to make everything from making threads out of cotton to making gourds. I loved being surrounded by nature and being able to learn how to use things that were provided to us by nature.
I wanted to make natural products mainly because of my family, my children, husband and I all have sensitive skin and our youngest child has eczema. It is difficult to find products that are gentle and natural enough for us to use.
About five years ago, our family moved to Hawaii and this has been the most amazing, life changing adventure of our lives since our children were born. Being surrounded by so much beauty and being so much closer to nature in the outdoors has been very healthy for us especially, for myself.
I work in the medical field and at my previous job I worked for Naturopathic Doctors, something I was not expecting but wanted to learn all areas of medicine to better myself. Working in this environment has been a great experience for me and has actually brought me back to my roots. The whole idea or goal for treating a person in the naturopathic field is to get to the root of the problem, not just make the symptoms go away as so many of us are used to seeing these days. This made me think about all of the times I have just ignored things that I should have been paying closer attention to such as all the skin problems I've had and just put some prescription or over the counter product on it and it came back time after time. I though about how many products I have purchased in the past and how I did not know what half of those ingredients in them were.
I started using my own homemade products with all natural ingredients such as Shea Butter and Olive Oil, I used it on my skin and hair and on my seven year old daughter's skin and hair and started seeing the difference almost immediately, within about two months I saw my daughter's hair become healthier, shinier, and longer. My hair and skin were also healthier and that's when I thought, why not share this with other people who want the same thing I wanted but might not be able to do it themselves? So I decided that if it was working for my family and I then I definitely wanted others to know about it and for those who are able to do this themselves, I hope I can add something to the learning process, feel free to contact me with questions about my products, I am not an expert but I am glad to share what I know and what has worked for me. For those who are not able to, you can feel at ease knowing that if I wouldn't use it for my family then I would not want you to use it for yours.