We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Shigh Burns. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Shigh below.

Shigh , appreciate you joining us today. What was it like going from idea to execution? Can you share some of the backstory and some of the major steps or milestones?

I started ShighClassBawdy Essentials in my mothers kitchen during the pandemic. I like other Americans were out of work and confined to our homes. YouTube became my teacher, as well as joining groups on Facebook in search of how to make soap. Finding out the natural and organic ingredients to add. I decided to make my soap especially for women and their sacred place, the Yoni. I began to research Yoni steaming, and invested in an online course to learn more about the different herbs and botanicals to create effective and healing concoctions for Yoni steams.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I am Shigh, the owner of ShighClass Bawdy Essentials. I provided Yoni Care Products, as well as oils and beard products for men. The type of products I create are all organic and made with skin nourishing ingredients. I began this journey after finding out that I, like many African American/ Black women suffer from fibroids. Instead of being offered solutions to prevent and or shrink them from growing and continuously causing me heavy periods I was told that a hysterectomy was the only solution to the problem. I had just turned 28, so I definitely had more time to meet a mate, and or have more children, so why was that the only solution they offered to me? I then began to do research on how to get rid of fibroids, and I came across Yoni Steaming. I immediately immersed myself in the research of herbs and botanicals and the healing properties they have on certain organs and infections. After trying a few Yoni steams, I began to sell them in hopes of helping other women who weren’t exactly, heard or helped by the doctor they seen.

We’d really appreciate if you could talk to us about how you figured out the manufacturing process.

When I first started making soap I purchased tea tree oil melt and pour soap from Amazon, It was organic and had wonderful anti-fungal and anti inflammatory properties, which are great things to have in a Yoni bar (soap). One day I went to order it again, and it was out of stock. I did not find another manufacturer, I instead learned how to make MY OWN SOAP! I researched different skin nourishing oils, oils good for cleansing and relieving different skin and or fungal infections. There was a lot of trial and error, I messed up a lot at first, but I found my groove and began to create unique skin nourishing body bars. The lessons I have learned along the way is to be patient to perfect your craft. I stayed up countless hours watching Youtube videos, on different websites learning different formulas, and what equipment to use to make soap products.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

Everything I was taught, I had to unlearn. I had to teach myself what oils and herbs were good for my skin, instead of purchasing items sold in the store that don’t cater to me and my body. I had to learn what foods were good for my skin, and or to maintain the pH balance in my skin as well as Yoni. I came to this realization once I began to make my own products and by reading the labels on products to find out how they are being made what was in them. This also helped me to formulate and create products by seeing what was being used in other products.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.Shighclassbawdy.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shighclassbawdy
• Youtube: www.youtube.com/shighclassbawdy