00:00Lilliam in Shrewsbury and Nisa hello how you doing? I'm good thank you, how are you? I'm good thank you.
00:06So we're here at the market hall and you've been based here as a trader for how long now?
00:12Just under a year. Yep and fill us in what is your what is your shop your store what are you
00:18what's your products? So I basically make skincare and soaps it's like the main products we've got
00:23the soaps here but we also do like shower steamers, lip balms, diffusers, candles,
00:29hand wash, hand lotion, stuff like that. And do you make them yourself? I make everything yeah.
00:33Wow well you it's quite a small unit here you're not you're not making them here are you? No no
00:38so I make them over at the parade. Yeah oh the old hospital? Yes I make them over there and then
00:44yeah just bring them over here and then this is the main sort of selling shop. So how did you
00:48get into this world of soaps then? Just really I started off with the skincare products yeah so
00:53I've got really bad skin so I just wanted to create like a routine to help myself feel better
00:59myself more confidence but also to help soothe the eczema that I had on my face at the time.
01:03Yeah so yeah started off with that. So you came up with a product you thought hang on this is working?
01:09Yeah yeah so originally it was the starter box and then we've just kind of grown from there really
01:15from the skincare to the soaps to the hand wash and hand lotion and then just branched out to
01:20other bits and pieces. So it's not just about pretty smelling soaps there's a there's stuff
01:25to help you like say if you've got certain skin issues going on? Yeah so I'm more for sensitive
01:29skin or we the brand um sort of like tag is delicate essential so yeah they're essential
01:35products that you know most people use every day like the soaps and your skincare for men and women
01:40yeah but they're delicate on the skin as well so help to sort of soothe it. And what's what
01:45are people of Shrewsbury buying then? What's kind of the the big the big thing that people? I'd probably
01:49say the most popular would be the lemongrass bergamot and tea tree hand lotion. Which one's
01:53that then? It's this one here. Okay yeah and you've even gone um you're tailoring it to the time of
02:01year just fill us in on what we've got there next to the label. So we've got our new pumpkin spice
02:05soaps so this is a blend so all the soaps are made of essential oils um and then we've got a
02:10blend of cinnamon nutmeg and clove and then I've put turmeric um turmeric powder in there as well
02:17just to that's fantastic make it it's natural colour but it's kind of orange as well. Yeah and
02:23those ingredients all just help with that that issue if anyone's got sensitive skin? The turmeric
02:27is good for sort of like brightening the skin um and then the clove cinnamon and nutmeg will help
02:32with um any dark spots irritations and stuff like that just help to soothe the skin more.
02:37Yeah and obviously because they're essential oils you've got those aromatherapy benefits as well.
02:42Yeah so do you if I mean you've got the halloween that you know the pumpkin one does that mean
02:46there'll be a christmas kind of special coming out? Yeah so I always do a christmas soap the very
02:50first year I did four christmas soaps. Yeah um I kind of have scaled it back now because uh doing
02:57four christmas soaps is a bit stressful. That's full on yeah. Um so yeah we'll just do we've got
03:01two christmas soaps coming and then I'm also going to do two bath bombs as well um in that
03:05in a christmas scent. So it's a nice little christmas gift for people let's plant that seed.
03:11So where would you like to be in five years from now then do you are you kind of at the scale you
03:16want to be or would you like to kind of keep growing? I think um yeah I definitely want to
03:20keep growing the brand um I see myself on the high street as a high street brand um and then
03:27the premise is where I can make it all as well so yeah something that is that's the goal. So how
03:33do you juggle your time then because I mean it you know you've put in enough hours here I'm sure
03:36so do you have set days in the week where you're kind of doing the production? Um the reason why
03:41the market hall like stood out to me and I kind of went for it was because it's open Tuesday,
03:46Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays so my making days where I go into the braid on Mondays and
03:51Thursdays so they're the main days where I'll make all the soap skincare and just stock up
03:56the shelves really so everything is made within like everything's made weekly so it's all really
04:02like fresh. Oh great so we look forward to um seeing where you take it on that new Christmas
04:07soap coming out. Yeah definitely. Thanks ever so much Nisa. Thank you. Nisa we've got a fantastic
04:12little box here what what's fill us in what's this all about? So this is our new um Christmas
04:16advent calendar yeah um it's my first one I've ever done for the business um so it was a big sort
04:22of pinch me moment when they all arrived um cool and yeah so it's 12 days of Christmas
04:29and what we got in here then is it soaps is it a bit of a mix of products? It's a bit of a mix
04:34but they're also all handmade so I've made them all myself um some business collaborations as well
04:41yeah um and they're all new products so you won't anything that's on the shelf here won't be in the
04:47box apart from the two products that I sell which are our best sellers and the rest of it is all like
04:54sort of unique and limited edition exclusive to the advent only. Fantastic.
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