First Orders Shipping Out

Well, now that we've completed the online shopping (website and Etsy), we get to establish some new systems. We actually have to get these delicious lip balms and heel sticks into your hands! Orders should go out on Wednesday! Thanks so much for shopping with us! We look forward to you enjoying your products and we hope you come back for more!

First Newsletter Delivered at 2AM

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New Facebook Page

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We’ve have a shiny new Facebook page! On Sept 6th, we had zero Likes and (update) on Sept 26th, we have 19 Likes! Thank you friends!

Pinterest Getting Ready

Our Pinterest account showcases our product photos and beautiful images around the web.

Sarah has been uploading our product photos to our new Pinterest account. It's amazing what it takes to get all this together! She's done a great job sticking with such an uninteresting task.

Etsy Shop Ready

Wow, someone is home again in our Etsy shop!

I’ve set up the first newsletter (with a coupon code!) to be delivered Sunday at 2am. I have a list of what needs to be completed and we are SO close! I’m excited to say that I plan to start this evening posting listings on Etsy…wow, that means we’re moving out of the planning stage and into the shipping stage! I get bubbly inside thinking about getting our first order! Well, that’s not entirely true, because my hair stylist who has her own darling salon, did place a wholesale order in August. I also have an idea to pitch wholesale to a shop we visit once a month, I think our lip balms would make a great point of sale product for him. We’ll see!

Website Ready

Getting the store ready is tedious work!

Wow, we’ve got a website! Daniel has turned out to be the “Web King”, uploading and editing so many of our products! He’s done a fantastic job and he’s really fast!

Making Lip Balm

Here we go! Making lip balm! So fun to be doing this together! Daniel set up the lip balm tubes and I did the pouring while Sarah cut labels-assembly line! Then we set up to peel the stickers (Dan), apply the labels to the tubes (Dad), fit the shrink bands (Sarah) and finally use the heat gun (Me)! They look so nice!

Photo Edits

Morning Coffee Nearly All Natural Lip Balm

This one turned out to be one of my favorites! This and the Black Cherry turned out really nice! Really eager to start populating the website! I'm frankly astonished at the HOURS it takes to prepare labels, photos and products for the 40+ lip balms and two sizes of 11 different scents of heel sticks not to mention preparing the perfume oil along with packaging and photos, etc!

Endless Photos

Yes, the Weber grill makes a great platform for our photo shoot!

I made an executive decision to make five “dummy” balms of each flavor for the photo shoot. I like the idea of having these ready at all times, no worries about product inside, no worries about what is in or out of stock, no getting our real inventory messy during photos. The grill provides the PERFECT location for our photo shoot and the 12″x12″ colored paper works awesome! I took four poses of each scent, so 4×42=168 just for the basic shots of the lip balm. I crop, size, adjust and edit each photo in PicMonkey for beautiful image perfection! Getting the photos ready to upload on Etsy and the website will give me a strong foundation for moving forward.

More Labels

I wrote a tutorial on how to do lip balm labels, get it for only $15!

We’re flying through ink and full sheet sticker paper! I love how the colors turned out and Sarah has been deemed the “Label Queen”! She is doing such a great job getting the labels cut properly, I’m so proud of her!

If you want to know how to do nearly waterproof square labels of just about any dimensions, you can find my Label Tutorial PDF Instant Download at BalmMom.etsy.com for only $15.

Flavors Decided

John is really excited about our custom Raspberry Lime flavor!

We've finally decided on all our lip balm flavors! We started with 15 but have blossomed to 40+! Here's what's coming:

 Black Cherry
 Blueberry Blast
 Caramel Apple
 Chocolate Caramel
 Chocolate Coffee
 Chocolate Lavender*
 Chocolate Mint*
 Chocolate Orange
 Chocolate Peanut
 Chocolate Raspberry
 Cotton Candy
 Crisp Green Apple
 Cucumber Melon
 Frosty Root Beer
 Fruity Punch*
 Grape Lollipop
 Hazelnut Latte
 Hot Vanilla Chai
 Icy Peppermint*
 Juicy Watermelon
 Lavender*
 Lavender Rose
 Lime Sorbet
 Market Fresh Peach
 Masala Chai Tea
 Moonberry
 Morning Coffee
 Pink Lemonade
 Pumpkin Cheesecake
 Pure Anise*
 Raspberry Lime
 Rich Chocolate*
 Root Beer Float
 Sea Salt Caramel
 Sugared Lemon Drop
 Sweet Strawberry
 Unscented*
 Vanilla Ice Cream
 Vanilla Rose
 Warm French Toast
 Wild Raspberry
(*100% All Natural)

Supplies are Here

June 2014 first supply box grand opening!

We’re finally ready to unpack boxes!

Two problems:

1) we received the wrong shipping mailers, we ordered kraft, but got white plastic

2) there are several ingredients I forgot to order all together!

After figuring out what else I need to order, we’re going to have a second round of boxes to open! Sigh.

A Pleasant Return - First Post

Our old logo with a fresh font!

I haven't been here in awhile.


Hi, I'm Michelle. I started selling soy candles and bath & body products online in 2005. I started with a website and an Etsy shop. That began a wonderful little adventure that lasted about seven years. Then we closed down our website and Etsy shops and left it all behind in 2011.

As a family, we've recently been talking about creating a family business that we can operate together. Last summer, we considered growing Japanese Maples, but for many reasons we didn't move forward. Just the other day, my son suggested we sell our lip balms again...and as a family, we decided to do it!


Over ten years ago, I made these moisturizing heel therapy lotion bars for Christmas gifts and it was suggested that I sell them. We perfected our "No-Ick Heel Stick" formula over many years and we're excited to offer them again! I created a lip balm for my son when he had dry lips in the winter and my husband fell so in love with the consistency that he begged me to promise I would make him more when he ran out of his stash! We've had a lot of positive feedback about these products through the years, so we're looking forward to reviving these favorites and offering them again!
Please visit our website and Etsy shop. Thanks for visiting and come back soon!