Today we’d like to introduce you to Jason Childers
Hi Jason, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I came into natural products out of necessity. I developed skin issues, and my dermatologist told me I couldn’t use pretty much everything on the store shelves. Due to this, I took it upon myself to make soap that I could use… soap without any synthetic ingredients. This soap turned out fantastic and was great for my extremely sensitive skin.
As I let others use this, they loved it and kept coming back for more. After a while, I realized I was spending a lot of money to keep people clean, so I started selling it. This has made leaps into other products, such as essential oil perfumes, beard products, natural bug sprays and more. The theme that has stayed constant is once someone tries our products, they come back.
Now, we are slowly growing into retail and starting the trade show scene, so we have our fingers crossed to find the right buyers and customer. We love the concept of a shop within a shop and hope to find some partners with existing businesses to develop an Us shop in an existing store.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
There have definitely been bumps in the road. Funding is always something we are figuring out. There is truth in that you’ve got to spend money to make money. Sometimes it can become a nervous situation when trying to figure out the best way to spend, especially when your funds are limited. You want to spend smart!
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
What we do at Us is make products without the junk and make products that can truly be called “natural”. There are a lot of products out there from large and small makers that use the word “natural” to describe their products, and it just isn’t honest. Body products that use synthetic fragrances and colors should never use he word “natural” when using synthetic ingredients.
We specialize in using only ingredients from the earth. All of our fragrances are always essential oils and our colors are clays or dried vegetation. We take this seriously. Honesty in ingredients is huge, because ingredients truly matter! We want to create products that nourish and do it using whole ingredients.
There are a lot of people out there that want to use products without the artificial junk and we are providing the soap, beard oils, and perfumes that truly fit this bill. We care about our customers and it shows in the ingredients we use… ingredients from the earth.
Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
Being honest and hard working. The work is never done when you are a small business, so we are always on the move. We are always creating, making, and trying to get the word about our products out there. As far as honesty, that is all about our ingredients. We use ingredients from the earth and nothing else. We would never use synthetic ingredients and call our products “healthy” or ” natural”.
Pricing:
- Soaps $8
- Beard Oil $18
- Essential Oil Perfume $17
- Hemp Seed Lotion $19
- Natural Bug Spray $16
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.ussoapandbody.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ussoapandbody/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ussoapandbody/
Image Credits
Muse Marketing