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I thought ‘I just made some scrubs, so maybe I should try some bath bombs, and see if people would buy them.’ That was in February, and then I just kind of went for it. I was scared to post it online because I hadn’t told anyone. I hadn’t told any friends or family; I hadn’t even told my husband! But I was having fun taking the photos and setting it all up, so I just went for it and put it online.
Casa London: Was there a particular reason you wanted to start making your own products? Was it just curiosity? Or were you fulfilling a lifelong ambition?
Charissa: Last Fall I was on my maternity leave and I was just thinking, I’m a full-time kindergarten teacher and I am at a school where sometimes kids won’t have the proper lunches, or sometimes they’ll have a big enough lunch but they don’t have any fruit or veggies. So I would give them an apple or a banana or something from my lunch, because we try to have the morning snack as something healthy, like fruit or yoghurt.
It was one girl in particular, who would come up nearly every day and tell me she didn’t have a healthy snack – it’d be like Oreo cookies or chips.