Entrepreneur Profile: Sun Putty

Most people are probably wondering if the public needs one more sunscreen but scrutinize most labels and you’ll see the answer is most definitely yes. The family-owned business, Sun Putty, is run by a husband and wife couple, each of whom hold down full-time jobs while raising three children. After moving from the Los Angeles [...]

Tilda Does Beauty: A Look at an Indie Celeb Scent

There are few celebrity fragrances that are not trendy, flashy, or playful. While those are all fine auras, most celebrity scents seem predictable and fleeting. The first is a labor of love, but the rest seem hasty follow-ups, the beauty world’s counterpart to a great article rendered old, simply because of the spirit of the [...]

Healing Probiotic Tea

High Country Kombucha might be the small beverage company that could. While there are many Kombucha tea companies that offer sexy packaging and trendy ingredients, we trust High Country. They have everything covered, from the new age-style packaging and the organic and Fair Trade certifications, to the “amber” bottle meant to “preserve the life of [...]

The Good Caffeine

Tammy Olsson and Anne Yeo were acquaintances until a chance conversation led to a new business idea. Both Vancouver residents, Olsson worked in a tea shop and Yeo was in advertising. The duo joined forces and created a Matcha tea product, Domo Tea, which they push as a way for coffee addicts to get used [...]

The Supplemental Beverage

The Dirt: The latest in beverage trends isn’t another malt variety but the merging of low-calorie juices with homeopathic-type supplements. One of our favorite companies in this sector is a United Kingdom outlet called Firefly, which is widely distributed all across the U.K. and Ireland, and gaining wider distribution in the United States. While the [...]

All Natural Exotic Soaps

LaRee DeFreece is the brains behind Herbaria, an independent soap company founded in 2000 out of the necessity for soaps sans chemical and synthetic dyes and fragrances. Is it so hard to find soap that is all natural and both cleans and moisturizes? Now, maybe not, but eight years ago there were fewer options. Now, [...]

Kid-Friendly Sanitizers A Natural Alternative To Alcohol-Based Germ GelsWhat: A Bay Area company enters the sanitation sector with an all-natural proprietary blend.

Kid-Friendly Sanitizers A Natural Alternative To Alcohol-Based Germ Gels What: A Bay Area company enters the sanitation sector with an all-natural proprietary blend. The Dirt: CleanWell is a natural hand sanitizer and soap collection that was not tested on animals, is biodegradable, and kills about 99.99% of germs, including Staphylococcus, E. Coli and Salmonella, through [...]