Samantha Skyring

So they skid to a stop.

We're like, what do we do now?

And they were heaving from the breath they had been running for quite a long time, and there was steam coming out of their nostrils.

We could smell them.

But because we didn't look human, because we had this umbrella, it was a blessing.

And then they ran off as friends.

So that close encounter to them, which was literally, yeah, about nine feet away, when seven years later, a colleague was selling the salt in bulk to Germany, and he didn't want to create a product for South Africa.

He felt that the South African market was too small.

And I had firstly just had a son.

And I'd also just come out of a project called 20,000 Drums.

I had an NPO for seven or eight years, doing facilitated drumming events around South Africa as a transformation through celebration project.

But then 2007, 2008 was the financial crash.

And so there wasn't money for feel good, happy, make a difference projects.

And so I was kind of looking for something.

And so that was when I created the product.

So it was seven years later and this beautiful masked creature was what came to mind when I thought of creating a logo.

And because they're endemic from the Kalahari Desert and this beautiful salt comes from the Kalahari, it was a perfect fit.

And in fact, I found out even a couple of years after choosing them as the logo,

that they can apparently go their whole lives without drinking water.

Some of them go years or months without drinking water.