We recently connected with Amber Hopkins and have shared our conversation below.

Amber, appreciate you joining us today. We believe kindness is contagious and so we’d love for you to share with us and our audience about the kindest thing anyone has ever done for you?

The kindest thing that anyone has ever done for me is that they believed in me. I started out by only selling sugar scrubs and bath soaks; at first I sold them just to fundraise for a program that I was in, but then people began telling me how well the scrubs worked for their skin because they were made with shea butter & other oils. People also would talk about how nice the bath soaks were, so from there I had a desire to grow my business and make different products to help people with sensitive skin. In high school I had a teacher who gifted me a bunch of soap making supplies and I began to practice and made soaps & bath bombs. Another teacher who believed in me gifted me ingredients for bath bombs. My mom tirelessly went out her way to help sell my products with me and taught me how to talk to customers. The belief that these people and my customers had in me took me far.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

As a curious child, diagnosed with eczema at a young age, I began to question why my skin behaves the way that it does and why it was sensitive to everything unlike most people’s. But as she grew up and came across many others with her same condition, she began to wonder how she could provide more fun and appealing cosmetics for people with sensitive skin. With this passion I also want to become a dermatologist to better understand how to take care of everyone’s skin.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

A lesson that I had to unlearn is being a customer while owning a business. I mean that as in I would often make my prices satisfy those of customers as I myself would find pleasing. I realized that even then despite what people may say about anyone’s prices, you have to have personal faith in your product and charge it how it should be priced. I would be spending hundreds on inventory and barely making a profit because I’m “just starting out”. But I had to switch from the mindset of a customer to a business owner.

Okay – so how did you figure out the manufacturing part? Did you have prior experience?

I just began manufacturing so I’m excited to see what it brings for Bubble Castle. I came across someone at my church that is an Amazon seller -and I trust her and have seen her other manufacturing work and so far everything looks great.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BubbleCastleBPC
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/bubblecastle?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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