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For a few days this week, here in Pennsylvania, we had a small taste of the approaching Fall weather. Cool mornings that required long sleeves and jeans, the sweet crispness to the breeze and the ability to eat outside and not sweat into your meal!  The temperatures will rise again over the weekend, summer is not over, but there is the promise of Fall: baked apples with cinnamon, stacking firewood for the soon to be constantly burning fireplace, watching the horses coats grow thicker, pulling in the hummingbird feeders until next year, ACC football, etc., etc.... This also means the...

If a child of the 70's/80's can learn to love sunscreen then you can too! Oh how I remember those sweaty summers on the coast of GA/SC flipping through ALL the magazines: Vogue, Bazaar, Fashion, Glamour, People, US, etc....looking at white straight teeth, skinny bodies, clear faces and TAN skin! Flipping and lingering on each page, imagining yourself in these fabulous clothes and stunning locations only to go look in the mirror and see a pubescent body, braces, short frizzy curly hair, acne and very fair skin passed down from my ancestors who roamed the British Isles and maybe were...

Question I receive often:   Favorite and least favorite product to make:   You don't pick a favorite child, so I would never pick a favorite (or least favorite) product but some manufacturing recipes provide instant gratification during the process and some are challenging and/or time consuming.   Let’s start with our most labor intensive product to make:  Polished Cleanse    Polished Cleanse is I think one of the most unique products on the market.  An oil based cleanser and exfoliator that is gentle enough for face but also effective on the body.     The base of this amazing...

I have had many of you congratulate me on this "assumed collaboration” to make woodsy, citrusy and floral candles, since Kindred Skincare Co. sold products into Terrain for six years and into Anthropologie for a time as well.  BUT THIS PRODUCT IS NOT FROM KINDRED SKINCARE AND IT IS NOT A COLLABORATION!   I was stunned and completely shocked when a Kindred Skincare Family member sent me a photo from the Anthropologie store!  And how embarrassing to have to say that I had no idea about this….   Our legal team immediately reached out to request that these products no longer be sold in connection with a mark so...