This is actually what you pay for, Water If You Can't Pronounce It, Why Put It on Your Skin? ​A customer recently reached out asking if I offered samples of my skincare line. As we were chatting, she pulled out her latest haul—about seven bottles from a high-end commercial skincare brand. She had just spent a small fortune on them, but funny enough, that big company hadn't offered her a single sample, either. ​Curious, I asked if I could see one of the bottles. I flipped it over to read the...

Baa Moo soap for overreactive skin I caught myself saying that a little too sharply to a young woman in town earlier today when she said I was told Tallow and goat’s milk soap would cure her psoriasis. The nurse in me took over before the craftsman did, and while I regretted my tone, the message remains critical: there is no magic cure in a jar, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling snake oil. Understanding what your skin is actually fighting is the first step toward finding real...

​When you run a small business, it can be tempting to fudge details or toss around flashy claims just to close a sale. But I’ll be completely straight with you: I will never do that. Your trust means everything to me, and the second I start making wild promises just to get money out of your pocket, I’m lying to you. ​That commitment to truth starts way before a jar ever hits the shelf—it starts with how I source my raw ingredients and what my products can and can't do. ​When a small business...