Tag: Stephen Bloom

Winter, new year and planning

Did you ever have a time when you have so much to do and it’s almost overwhelming? This part of winter after the holidays are over is always a time of planning, taking stock of the past year, paying taxes, planning the new year in 

Well Mate, It’s Tea Tree Oil!

Have you ever heard of Tea Tree Oil?  I first became aware of it appearing in shampoos several years ago. I did not know very much about it so I joined my husband in doing some amazing research to learn about this substance, how it 

Whats so great about handcrafted cold processed soap?????

Until the early 1980s almost every bathroom had a few bars of soap… commercially made, bought in bulk from the grocery store.  TV commercials advocated virtues to using these bars of soap, and fed us a myth that if we used that soap we would develop special qualities…. beyond clean and fresh.  It was the heyday of brands like Irish Spring, Dial, and Dove.  Bar soap dominated the market, and we all used them. Then it happened – the advent of the liquid soap movement, and the antibacterial soap movement saw the ever expanding shelf displays of bottled liquid soap, of antibacterial soap.  The media whipped a frenzy of thoughts about how much bacteria was out there, and how we need to sanitize, to bomb our skin with antibacterial soaps.  And we did.

Color Theory & Our Brand

Color evokes emotions and color should be a central consideration of your business brand. We are continuing the #Marchmeetthemaker series with a chat about color, and our use of sunflowers as part of our brand.