How do I make the “savours” sweet?
Last Saturday night I was in Wal-Mart and had a
conversation with a friendly gentleman.
He was looking for hair care products for his daughter and asked for my opinion. I told him I couldn’t give much advice about
the hair care products but I could give advice about the body care products. He asked what I knew about body care
products. Ha! I told him I make body care products and as his eyebrows raised, he
asked me questions about how I make them. The big question he wanted answered
was what makes my SweetSavours products so different?
Now, I didn’t go to Wal-Mart intending to talk
business but the opportunity presented itself. I told him a little about my
skin care history and that I consider body care products as “outside-in” care,
much the same as when we take vitamins and supplements its and call that “inside-out"
care. We think about our health and take
vitamins and drink smoothies. We also
consider the food we eat; how it looks and smells and especially how it tastes.
These details help us make the choices
of what we buy and use every day. The SweetSavours
thinking is that we should take the same care and consideration when we buy the
products that we put on our body’s largest organ, our skin. Don’t you think about how your lotion feels
or what it smells like? Do you think
about what it will do when you rub in onto your skin? Will it sooth irritated
skin? Will it soften or moisturize dry
skin?
This man I was speaking with asked
what was different about my products. I
explained that many companies that offer lotions and creams like the ones on
the shelves in front of us. Only offer a product that is from one formula of
lotion and then they add different fragrances and colors. I told him that SweetSavours products begin
with the intent to meet a specific need. I used SweetSavours' coconut
oil, cocoa butter lotion as an example.
I told him that I needed to treat my extremely dry, scaly, damaged skin
and I researched natural oils and butters whose properties and benefits offered
cleansing, healing, soothing and moisturizing.
When I have chosen the ingredients I'm going to use, I take my time and
check with the FDA and other resources for ingredients the may cause health
issues. I know that all ingredients are
not the best to rub onto our skin.
The next question he asked was how I put the
ingredients together to make a lotion. I
asked him to imagine baking a cake in the kitchen. With baking there are the
dry ingredients and the wet ingredients.
I told him I have to put together a product formula the same way a cake
recipe is made. With lotion making there
is the water phase and the oil phase and these two phases make the whole batch
of lotion. Like we do with baking, I put
the formula together, heat it up and blend all the ingredients together. When the formula is well combined, I allow
the mixture to cool before I put it into the containers. Once the container is cool enough, I each put
the labels on them and call them "done."
He looked a little shocked and asked about the
time it takes. I told him that I love
making my “savours” because I know the people who use them will be pleased. I
explained that yes, it takes time and detail to make a great product and that
dedication is at work when I make each SweetSavours' product. I shared with him that I work by the
SweetSavours Natural Body Care Apothecary standard “love infused, small batch,
handcrafted, natural body care products.”
I put my heart into every aspect of making a
product. That is the infusion of love.
Just like with cooking, your food doesn’t taste as good if your heart
isn’t “in” what you’re cooking. Small
batch handcrafted is just that. I make
each SweetSavours
product in small batches. Because I
don’t use large production machines, making any product in a small batch of
eight to nine containers gives me the opportunity to focus on the details of
production. The “natural” of the
SweetSavours products is are the ingredients that I use to make the “savours.”
I care about the people who use my products and I will not use an ingredient
that may cause them harm.
When I research ingredients, I look for those
that are list "as existing in nature" but I also use ingredients that
don’t contain chemicals known or strongly suspected of causing cancer, mutation
or birth defects. In keeping with the Food and Drug Administration's quidelines
and following its good manufacturing processes each ingredient I use when I
make a product is listed as GRAS (generally recognized as safe).
These are the details that make SweetSavours Natural
Body Care Apothecary’s products different from what you might find on the
shelves in a store. I hope my care and
love I have are evident in the products I make.
I do have samples of lotion available and I’m willing to put one in the
mail to you. You just need to send me you address. Send it to me via convo at my Etsy site.
I you have any questions or would like to share
a comment, please don’t hesitate. I'm
looking forward to hearing from you. It
would also be great if you would share what you’ve read about SweetSavours Natural
Body Care Apothecary with your friends. Thank you!
I’ll be bloggin’ again soon. Have a “sweet” day!
Sherri
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