Hi! We're Judith & Justin Sweeney...
...and since 2014, our purpose has been to comfort dry & sensitive skin like ours.
Our home has multiple sensitivities...eczema, allergies, chronic dry skin, sensitivity to lights, noises, and crowds, emotional sensitivities, reactive skin...the list goes on!
Our sensitivities have caused a lot of discomfort, but they never had to. By being attentive to our skin, honouring our sensitivities, and listening to the people we help, we've made planet-friendly solutions that will have you feeling comfortable (& confident), in your dry & sensitive skin!
OUR MISSION:
To help bathers emerge with confidence in how they feel, how they smell, and how they care for their dry & sensitive skin each day.
BEFORE EVERYTHING CHANGED
This is us in our first shop...we knew how to make soap and body butter, had an antique cash register that dinged, and were ready to take on the world!
We opened on December 3, 2014.
We'd started making products months earlier when a painful eczema flareup was aggravated by dry mountain air and no local source for the types of whipped butters Judith had been using on the east coast.
While recovering, baths were limited to damp face cloths. For a bath lover like Judith, it was insult on top of injury.
We decided to be proactive. So, we went to the local library to gather every book available on natural skincare.
The answer we found was simple - minimal ingredients with lots of raw butters and oils. A bonus was that the butters and essential oils didn't trigger Justin's fragrance allergies!
We blossomed over the next 4 years. Our community supported us. We attended two schoools of aromatherapy and created hundreds of custom products and essential oil blends for our customers and clients.
Amazing smells became our 'thing.'
AFTER EVERYTHING CHANGED
Everything changed in 2018, when our daughter was born. The last memories of our first shop were days spent handing it off to dear friends with a newborn in our arms.
No choice is easy as a parent, but we both cherished time with our grandparents as kids, and wanted our kids to grow up with lots of those same memories.
We moved to our home province of New Brunswick and launched our first branded boutique in Saint John on December 3, 2018.
With our second location in sight, 2020 rocked all our worlds while we were 5-months pregnant with our son.
We moved entirely online that year, and continued operating. These were exciting and hard times. We held on and hustled, but ended up going from a team of 6 to a team of 2, having to do layoffs for the first time. It was heart-wrenching.
But, with resilience, programs in cosmetic science and product development, and new partnerships in beauty tech, we continued building the brand we'd dreamed of...one that makes the best-smelling daily care for dry & sensitive skin!
So, our search for comfort is done, but a new chapter in the journey is always just a turn of the page away 💜
