Chapter 3 Beeswax Lip Balm Sayings
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The Ithaca Soap and Beeswax Lip Balm story continues, even though lip balms do not have sayings printed on the labels. The bees and Andy empower every lip balm with goodness and love.
Lavender Lip balm
Lavender Lip Balm is associated with the Ace.
Ace symbolizes new beginnings gifted from the divine.
Saying: Listen to your intuition
As Andy and Wendy moved through the product development stages of bar soap and beeswax lip balm, they learned about bees and their amazing gifts of beeswax and honey. Wendy encountered her 1st swarm, as it flew over her when she was hanging laundry. Working around bees and using high quality wax, transforms a workday into a happy, peaceful experience. Click here to read about Bee and Beeswax Love
Made with the highest quality perfume grade Bulgarian Lavender essential oil, Ithaca Beeswax Lavender Lip Balm, will enhance your connection to the divine, activate feelings of accomplishment, and invoke serenity.
Clementine Lip Balm
Clementine Lip Balm is associated with the number 26.
The number 26 symbolizes being connected to secretly doing a good deed.
Saying: Knowledge is power
Andy and Wendy ran their business, attended to their lives, and did what they thought was best. Make the best soap and lip balm, proving something good for the Universe, Mother Earth and her inhabitants. They went to the Ithaca Farmers Market, shipped orders and stocked up their retailers.
When competition became fierce, Wendy realized she had to tell the story how much thought and goodness she and Andy were putting into their business. There was a growing amount of greenwashing going on in the world of soap makers, as detergent companies and non natural soap companies saw the move to natural soap was catching on.
Clementine Lip Balm helps you distinguish between knowing 3 things: When to keep knowledge to yourself, when to tell what you know NOW, and when to tell LATER.
Peppermint Lip Balm
Peppermint Lip Balm is associated with the number 27
The number 27 symbolizes the essence of planting seeds.
Saying: Reap what you sow
Throughout the years, Andy and Wendy were offered multiple opportunities to compromise their product integrity and ethics. The biggest compromise every company faces is to cut costs as expenses rise. The easiest and most common compromise is to lower ingredient costs by replacing high quality ingredients with cheaper, potential harmful personal care chemicals.
Essential oils could be replaced with fragrance oils. Organic coconut and olive oils could be replaced with synthetic surfactants, such as sodium laurel sulfate. Skin irritant additives, like limonene, could be added to lip balms to make your lips actually dry out with every use, causing you to use more.
These cost savings would be significant. How many times have you fell in love with a product, only to purchase it after years of goodness, only to find out, the recipe was changed?
Andy and Wendy always ran the soap business with the intention of sticking to their original intent of making personal care they want to use themselves.
Peppermint Lip Balm reminds you to sow the highest quality seeds in your symbolic garden, thereby reaping the best and most abundant physical returns.
Apple Lip Balm
Apple Lip Balm is associated with the number 28
The number 28 symbolizes the concept of home is where the heart is.
Saying: Love is the answer
Apple Lip Balm was an interesting project. Wendy was working with a salesperson, whose specialty was small Mom and Pop businesses. He got an order from an orchard, for an apple lip balm. Well that was great, except Ithaca Soap didn’t make an apple at that time. Wendy thought it was a great opportunity, but had to make the timing work, since orchards have a short season. Sometimes making a new product, even a new flavor, could take an unknown amount of time.
Needless to say, everything came together for the new Apple Lip Balm in a timely fashion, except for the label. Wendy made sure the labels would come on time, and then her label sales person went on vacation. The label production people bumped the Apple Lip Balm label and the sale was lost. The good news is that everyone else was looking forward to a new flavor. Apple Lip Balm was a smash hit, regardless.
Apple Lip Balm reminds you to put love into your project. When you put your heart into something, your project blossoms.
Clove Spice Lip balm
Clove Spice Lip Balm is associated with the number 29
The number 29 symbolizes starting at the beginning.
Saying: Manifest your dreams
A small business is a life force. Creating, managing, and living within a small business is all a manifestation of an idea. Drive, focus, and discipline are key ingredients to keeping a small business going. This is in addition to product development and sales. A collection of small businesses is what makes communities vibrant, interesting and attractive.
Being part of a small business community is having access to local fresh food, high quality goods, innovative ideas, art, music, friendship, trust, and a degree of community reliableness. It’s an advantageous symbiosis (usually) within a healthy competitive local economy. You come to expect that every bar of soap, every liquid soap, and every lip balm will always be available, and exactly like the last bar of soap, liquid soap and lip balm you just finished.
Clove Spice Lip Balm invites you to manifest one of your dreams and give it life.
Unscented Lip Balm
Unscented Lip Balm is associated with the number 30
The number 30 symbolizes planning ahead and moving toward your goals.
Saying: Teach yourself through love
Like any job, the day to day running of any business can bring up a feeling of being overworked or needing to work more than is necessary. Once a product line is developed, consistency is key. Every bar of soap, liquid soap, and lip balm, is empowered through love. This energy is then transferred to every person who uses these personal care items. It seems simple, but it is a cultivated discipline.
Settling into the seasons of an agricultural lifestyle, is the backbone of every farmers market. This changes your perspective, from being subject to what’s available at your grocery store to being an active participant in the growing cycles. These cycles are the root of everything. Sustainability, recycle, reuse, green living and greenwashing, are all concepts of living with cycles. Food, clothing, housing, and resources all revolve around these concepts and cycles.
Unscented Lip Balm is the basic idea of taking small steps to reach your goals. Meditating on the big picture, enables the goal of the moment to be completed.
Rosemary Lip Balm
Rosemary Lip Balm is associated with the number 31
The number 31 symbolizes creating the reality you desire
Saying: When in doubt, stick to the plan
For 10 years, Wendy ran the Ithaca Farmers Market booth. She got there at dawn, to get in line for the stall auction. During the wee hours of Saturday mornings, friendships were solidified. As members of a vendor owned cooperative, every business is required to put in a small amount of work hours every year. Everyone is encouraged to get on a committee or run for the board. Wendy worked on the marketing committee during those 10 years. At that time, the market advertised in many print publications on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis. Wendy took on the job of making a weekly ad schedule that dovetailed with seasonal produce and Ithaca events. “Festival on the Waterfront” was one of her better ad campaigns that coincided with Ithaca’s festivals.
Rosemary is known for assisting with concentration. Make a plan, so when things become too hectic or you think you may want to change things in uncertain times, look to your plan for guidance.
Vanilla Lip Balm
Vanilla Lip Balm is associated with the number 32
The number 32 symbolizes taking care of your home life
Saying: Make your home a sacred place
During the 10 years that Wendy ran the market booth, Andy made a manufactory schedule and the soap business hummed, becoming a solid family member. Along with vending at the Ithaca Market 40 weeks a year, they took on 11 craft shows and music festivals. Sometimes, Andy would do double duty and also be a monitor sound engineer, meaning he did the sound from the stage for the musicians.
Like any profession or skilled trade, the life of a small business and vendor is one of organization, schedules, and travel. Friends were made in different places. Some friends were seen at a few shows, while others were only seen once a year. It was a fun time of hard work and innovation. Going home turned into a sanctuary of a hot shower, peace and quiet.
Vanilla Lip balm offers personal power and vitality. When you are on the go, Vanilla Lip Balm can provide you with that extra burst of energy.