We were lucky to catch up with Kyera Belton & Sonya Taylor recently and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Kyera and Sonya thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear about a time you helped a customer really get an amazing result through their work with you.
We have a customer that loves our Sweet Oatmeal cold process soap and the body butter. She had some dark spots on her face and after using our soap her dark spots cleaned up. All of our soaps have cocoa butter in them; cocoa butter helps lighten dark spots and soothes the skin.
Kyera and Sonya, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
Skin & Wicks is a luxury vegan self- care line that’s ran by a mother, daughter duo that believes that everyone deserves to take time out for their self. Skin & Wicks offers a spread of products for the perfect at home spa day. Skin & Wicks is bright, colorful and fun! We use high quality ingredients in our products to make sure that our customers have that luxury experience.
My mother (Sonya Taylor) and I started Skin & Wicks March 2021 because we tried some natural soap that we got at a market and loved the way it made our skin feel, so we decided to research on how to make it. After making our first batch we feel in love and wanted to share it with everyone. After perfecting the soap making process we decided to add body butter and candles and that’s when the name Skin & Wicks was created. Now we have over 100 hand crafted products.
What I think sets us apart is that we are dedicated. We both work full time jobs and I (Kyera Belton) also have a 4 year old son and we still push to get our brand and name out there. We believe in our products and that we have a little something that we think everyone will love.
Some of the things that we are most proud of is that we just recently started wholesaling our products on Faire.com. We have also been featured in Ladue Magazine, Voyager STL, Fox2 News and Show Me St. Louis.
Where do you think you get most of your clients from?
Our best source to gain new customers have been pop up markets and social media. Your customers want to see the face behind the brand. Pop up markets is the great for getting that one on one with your customers, they can smell everything in person and determine exactly what they like and what will work with their skin.
How’d you think through whether to sell directly on your own site or through a platform like Amazon, Etsy, Cratejoy, etc.
We sell our products on a website. We use Shopify as our platform. Shopify is excellent for e-commerce’s. They have so many apps that you can add to your site to help you build website and email list so that you can keep your customers up to date on sales, new products etc.
Contact Info:
- Website: skinandwicks.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skinandwicks/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skinandwicks/
Image Credits
Kyera Belton & Sonya Taylor