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What's good y'all, welcome back to another episode of Black in Aquatics Freedom Through Swimming.

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I am Tazaria, I'm the host and I go by Coach T on the internet.

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Today I'm here with Pearl of Beach Body Butter and I wanted to kind of introduce her product

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and her line to you guys because I met Pearl at a Surfing Niagara event, a local non-profit

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in Jacksonville Beach.

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So Pearl, how are you today?

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I'm good, I'm good, thank you.

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So can you tell the audience a little bit about yourself?

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Yes, like you said I met you at a Surfing Niagara event where I was attending with Sisters

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of the Sea.

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I bring that up because I learned how to surf a few years ago and I came down here and Gigi

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of Surfing Niagara told me about that group and I've kind of been hanging with them.

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I'm a technical writer, I'm a serial entrepreneur I like to say and this is my latest business

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and I enjoy this business as much as I did when I had my own publishing company.

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I get up in the morning and I work all day taking breaks but I work all day on my business

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and I enjoy it.

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It's a lot of moving pieces but once I get a task accomplished I'm really excited about

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it.

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That's awesome.

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And can you tell us because I know you're just starting up the business and you have

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two like one product but two versions.

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Can you give us a little bit more about that, the names and what not?

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So when I was surfing I did not enjoy the lotions and the butters that were out there

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that I tried because it either wasn't enough or I didn't like the fragrance.

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It's no knock to anybody's fragrance I just didn't like it.

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I'm not a fruity person I don't even really drink fruity drinks.

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So and a lot of it didn't moisturize long enough so I started like messing with butters

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of my own.

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I tried I'm not a fan of shea butter just because of the fragrance not because it doesn't

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work well because it does but I tried coconut oil.

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Coconut oil kind of it hardens and then it gets soft.

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I'm a huge fan of coconut oil.

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And then you can't really add your own fragrance to coconut oil because the coconut oil is

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strong.

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Yeah it's so strong.

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It's so fragrant so I'm just like okay.

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So I was talking to one of my other friends and we were all looking up butters and everything

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and we were talking about mango butter because we were looking at all the she was like there's

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a bunch of different butters out there.

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And so I went and got some store bought mango butter and I think the first one I got had

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a mango scent to it.

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But mango butter really does really make for scents.

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It's really nice it's actually really smooth.

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Yeah right it's scent free but the only one I could find at that point in time they had

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put fragrance in it already.

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So again I tried to put my own fragrance in there which I was using fragrance oil which

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is a little bit different from essential oils.

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I liked it but it you know wasn't I hadn't perfected it I'll say at that point.

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And then I found some I found some non scented which is the original for the mango butter

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and then I used that one of my other friends she uses a bunch of different butters and

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she was talking about how she melts it down and all this and so I tried that and then

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I would take the fragrance oil and I would put it in a different container and I would

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drop a few drops in one day and drop a few drops of something else in one day and because

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she was like oh I just wouldn't want to go there's too much like chemistry and I was

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like I actually enjoy chemistry.

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Yeah me too.

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I was like but you just have to be patient so like I didn't do it all at once it was

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like I would put a couple of drops in one day and another day and I would wait until

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I got to the fragrance that I was like this is what I want.

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Yeah and I added that to the mango butter and I messed up a few times.

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I think one time I did it and it smelled like blue magic.

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Walk around smelling like grease.

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You know but I tried it a couple of times and one time it was kind of hard and one of

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my co-workers she would try this and she was like yeah this is nice and when I finally

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got to a decent point my co-workers like you should sell this.

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I was just like I'm kind of doing it for myself that sounds like too much work.

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And then I went to another Sisters of the Sea event it was their 25th anniversary surfing

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contest which there is one coming up September 7th of this year but I was at that one last

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year and so this is fairly you know fresh.

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And I went to one of the ladies house because she lives like right there on the beach I

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didn't have to like drive all the way back home and I was taking a shower and I was oiling

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up and I was getting ready to come out the bathroom and I opened the door and she's like

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that smells good what is that?

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And I was like oh it's just some oil that I you know make up and she was like you should

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sell that.

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So I was like okay wow that's two people.

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So I didn't want to go through the research I remember I started my own publishing company

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it was a lot of research just getting started right?

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And so I had no clue about how to get started in like butters or making your own cosmetic

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product.

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But my hairstylist she makes her own shampoo and her own oil and so I was like I'm going

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to call Ari.

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So I called Ari and I was like hey you know can you just give me some directions that

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I'll you know I'll go do it or whatever.

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And so she told me where to search and what I needed to search.

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She was like does she want to make sure that the ingredients are da da da da and I was

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like yeah you know that makes sense because even the butter that I was making at that

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point in time it still was leaving like a small rash because fragrance oils break me

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out.

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I don't know about everybody else but it frees me out.

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And so I was like let me try essential oils.

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So I go in I search for the body butter I search for the fragrance oil because I used

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actually I think it was like 10 oils at the time.

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But she was like you need to make sure that you know they react this way and all you know

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so I had to research everything the reaction what they're good for what they're used for

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and I was like a lot of them were doubling well and some of them still double the supposed

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reaction you're gonna get but I wanted to make sure that I got the fragrance that I

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wanted.

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Yeah.

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So I ordered six of the fragrances and one of them I was like you know what and I still

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haven't used it it's in the cabinet now I was just like I'll use that for something

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else because I don't really and that was a chamomile.

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Okay.

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So I left the chamomile out I was using that for relaxation because I had muscle joint

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problems and you know I wanted to try to calm my nerves but I was already using lavender

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and jasmine was supposed to be good it was it really wakes you up some of the bergamot

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the lemongrass you know you always go to the spa.

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Yeah I love lemongrass.

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You go to the spa.

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It's like lemongrass.

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So like all of that I was you know using those fragrances and then I always like rose it

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just adds a softness to it right and so I made my first batch with the the essential

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oils and this is before I even add the butter because the the oil fragrance is the the key

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right and before I also had used like I tried olive oil I tried almond oil and I tried avocado

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oil.

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Avocado oil has no fragrance really.

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It has a little bit of fragrance if you know how you cook you know how olive oil smells.

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Almond oil doesn't have fragrance but people have nut allergies so I kind of left almond

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oil and and avocado oil out at that point in time because I was like I you know I'm

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fairly comfortable with olive oil.

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I had used olive oil on my hair for years I've been natural since 98.

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So I had used olive oil on my hair for years and so I was comfortable with the olive oil

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with that oil you know it was pride and truth for me.

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And so I made the fragrances up and I was like this isn't quite what I like.

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I said you know it smells good but it's you know a bit much for me so I said but other

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people might like it.

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And I wasn't gonna waste that oil it's just you know.

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Yeah well yeah yeah we don't like to waste around here.

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So I made a second batch and laid off on some of the you know oils that I figured made that

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because once you make the fragrance a lot then you know what adds what fragrance to

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you know the the mixture.

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It's kind of like cooking right.

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Yeah exactly.

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You know what it's gonna do when you add it to a meal so a dish.

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So I made that second batch and I was like yeah.

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This is the one.

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Nice.

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But I mixed both of them up and I took them and I let different people try them and it's

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I still get an equal response so I was like I gotta keep both of them.

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Yeah yeah so those both of those titles when you came Miami and Venice I have smelled both

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and I have actually tried both as well and I really like it and the reason why like people

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might be wondering why are you guys talking products.

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Okay so one we met at a surfing event.

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Right.

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Okay so we're two black women and there's not a lot of us in the space.

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It is getting bigger.

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Two when you think retail products for you know after you get out of the ocean you find

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like your basic like lotions and stuff like that and honestly I don't know of many yes

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there are many like black people doing the body butters and stuff like that and it's

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very but it's very hard to find and so when I found this and you told me about this I

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was like oh that's awesome because you can get out the ocean you can do use some butter

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a nice butter that smells really good that's made by us as well it's awesome and so that's

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why I wanted to have you on.

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And it's actually good if you put it on before it doesn't and I've been on in the ocean

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you know a couple of hours and my body is still moisturized when I get out of the ocean

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you know the ocean is salty so.

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Yeah yeah it is very salty.

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The salinity here in Jacksonville is unmatched.

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Yeah so you have Miami and Venice those are the names of the body butters and then do

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you want to tell us like what sizes you have you offer and whatnot.

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So we offer two sizes we offer the personal or travel size which is 0.5 ounces and then

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we offer the full size and that is 7 ounces and right now we're doing a pre-launch sale

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and after that that's you know to get everything make sure everything is working make sure

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the the website is working properly the shipping is you know and I have all the everything

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together so it's gonna be sent out to friends and family.

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Make sure everything is going smoothly.

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Yes yes because you know I even did that with Sisters of the Sea that allowed me to come

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out to one of their events they did a they do a breast cancer survivors surfing event

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and they let me come out and take my butters out there.

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Oh nice that's awesome.

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Yeah that was cool and I realized that I cannot sell my butters on the beach.

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Just because they will melt like we were out there early in the morning about the time

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we left at 10 you know I still had them on ice and they would still like you take them

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out of the you know this is floor you take them out of the it didn't take long but yeah

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it's melting so I realized then that selling on the beach would not be a good deal even

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though this is Beachbody but I can sell near the beach.

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Some of the shops around the beach hopefully inshallah but you can't yeah selling on the

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beach is yeah it's not not a really good thing for the butter and right now we will not be

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selling during the summer months but like April through September and we will start

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selling in October so it'll be October through I guess April so you know around that time

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the friends and family right now they understand that it might melt when it gets on so they

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understand the consistency might not be the same but I'd rather for my customers to get

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the nice whipped smooth even though it doesn't really separate I think because of the way

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that I actually process them it takes me I don't like add all of my stuff ingredients

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in it sorry about that it's okay it's okay I don't add all of my ingredients in at one

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time I it's a process for me and it take days to make so yeah that to me that's worth the

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price because it's handmade it's essential oils it's mango butter it's olive oil so it's

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not premium quality right premium quality even to the jars yeah they look nice yeah

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they look nice I mean when I made the fragrance and people started and it's like well why

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don't you try these jars and you can put labels on them and I was like you know this smells

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kind of it's it's perfumey it's yeah it's like an elegant smell so I was like I can't

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just put this in any jar yeah it would not do well you got a match yeah and so I have

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my I have custom made jars and people seem to enjoy the fragrance they enjoy the feel

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the texture of the butter they enjoy the jar the look so I'm hoping that'll continue that's

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awesome and then so with your you said you're going into pre-launch so do you have like an

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estimation of when you're gonna launch the product October October so that's all we have

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for now okay keep us in to pre-launch and then like October but in the meantime do you

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want to tell people where they can find you in the meantime oh yeah you can find me on

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beach body butter dot com I'll also be doing another podcast with GS1 US if you know GS1

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for those of you who makers or artisans of butters or skincare products okay GS1 is the

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global standard for barcodes yeah you can get barcodes anywhere but if you want to sell

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on Amazon I believe they request that you do use a GS1 barcode okay so GS1 can be scanned

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by retailers around the world that makes it easier on you I'm sure like using a universal

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standard yeah it makes you more visible and I knew that well I know that eventually I

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want to be able to sell global but I want to be able to sell year-round and the best

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way for me to do that is for me to find a retailer or something that would you know

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that could host my product and in order to do that it needs to be understand it so I'm

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going ahead and getting started and I will be on the GS1 podcast September 24th okay

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awesome and the workshop is to make 2D a reality steps to success and so so I hope you all

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can register and just you know just come find out more about GS1 especially if you have

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products and it doesn't have to just be skincare but if you have products and you want them

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to be sold in a retail environment you need to find out about GS1 you need to find out

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about the standards and it's accessible to small businesses it's really not a lot of

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money that's good you can get a stack of barcodes I believe for $200 okay or you can buy them

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individually for like 30 bucks that's good to know because I am gonna talk to other small

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businesses black businesses it's a lot going on out there and I do want to bring the people

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resources so that's great thank you for mentioning that is there anything else you want the people

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to know check us out start looking for us around the end of September online and again

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that's Beachbodybutter.com and I'll put a link in the show notes and Venice is they're

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both the scents are very pungent when you first put them on they hit you but they kind

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of wane throughout the day the scent stays on you but it's not as loud but they go on

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strong it'll definitely wake you up in the morning well thank you for taking the time

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out to talk with me Pearl I appreciate it thank you for having me I appreciate it this

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was fun