Cooking with Essential Oils Over the past several months as I have driven around our community and I am seeing more and more references to classes offering to teach people how to cook with Essential Oils. As an aromatherapist, I was a bit dismayed to see this type of promotion. First, the general public is being […]
Saying No to Plastic Shrinkwap
With the consumer ecological interest at an all-time high, I realized I missed an opportunity to showcase how we take eco-packaging seriously. For our retail customers, we use brown kraft paper bags to package our soap and identify the content. The paper we use is made of 100% recycled and free of chemicals. On the […]
Pluses & Minuses of CBD Oil in Skincare
Why use CBD Oil in Skincare? For the last several years, essential oils have been all the rage. As is typical when a new “natural” ingredient comes on the market, people jump in with both feet. Enthusiasm to live a more natural life is great, but must be tempered with deeper knowledge of exactly what […]
Essential Oils with IFRA Restrictions
With the raging popularity of essential oils, some retailers lead customers to believe that “more” is better, in an attempt to drive sales. For those of us professionally practicing aromatherapy, we attempt to educate consumers on the safe use of Essential Oils and what that means in total. In addition, we are respect and adhere […]
Upcoming Education Series with RX Integrative Solutions
We are partnering on a series of short educational seminars for the benefit of our customers, families and the general public. We are pleased to announce that Dr. Cathy Rosenbaum of RX Integrative Solutions will be joining us in presenting this Health & Wellness Series. These will be 1.5 – 2 hour small group classes […]
Farm & Store Visits
As we have said many times, we love our customers. You have helped us achieve record growth and success. Part of this success is obviously tied to the goats and the little rascals definitely find their way into everyone’s hearts. But because of their popularity, we have need to take a moment to help customers […]
Meet “Viking Hearts on Fire”
The next member of our team is a pretty doe born on October 29th, 2013 in Ocala, FL. Steve and I were in Florida visiting my sister outside Orlando in November, for Thanksgiving. Many times on trips, we will conduct business either by pursuing out-of-state wholesale store accounts for our products or visiting other goat […]
Research Supports Turmeric in Skin Care!
Turmeric in Skin Care Turmeric is a plant and the root has widely been used in medicine for hundreds of years. It has a warm, yet slightly bitter taste and is also used as a colorant for curry powder, mustards, butters and cheeses. Turmeric is actually the main spice that is found in curry powder. […]
Postage Planning & Promos
One of the biggest costs is shipping expense, especially for products that are “heavy” such as soap and lotion. In today’s world, it is a challenge for all small businesses to compete with Amazon’s “prime” free shipping. Due to their size, they can negotiate rates that the rest of us cannot compete with. So we […]
Our Does achieved their Milk Stars!
On Tuesday, April 9th we performed what is called a One Day Milk Test, which is a performance program sanctioned by the American Dairy Goat Association. Due to the time required for our Soap Business, we do not participate in the FULL year (305 day) milking test program. We do participate in the 1 Day […]
