Stacey Hamalis

Apothecary.

Yes, I am.

Yeah.

So typically a good skincare base starts with good soap.

And a lot of the soap in the market today is full of chemicals and it's full of, you know, animal fat, not, not things that you typically want to wash your skin and face with soap.

I trained under a retired chemist, learned the secrets of traditional soap making in Greece.

And then I've just recently branched out into other natural skincare products that are very trendy in Europe and I'm bringing them to the States.

So body oils, body balms.

Can you grab, you have some behind you.

Yep, just a second.

So this is the soap.

And turn it a little bit so we can see how thick it is.

Yes, yep, sure.

And I'm having, we're getting the body oils too right now.

This cost me about two bucks to make, and I retail it for nine.

The bar soap seems expensive or the cost to make?

So the ingredients are, first of all, they're mostly all organic.

The Greek olive oil comes directly from Greece, from a family.

So we're using better ingredients, which do cost more.

A lot of the products in the market cut corners, and they use cheaper fillers.