Aromatherapy Scent-Sation Comes to Chicago, Cincinnati, Evansville

Irie Star Designs, the business brainchild of Saint Louis, MO entrepreneur Julie Longyear, brings a full line of delectable aromatherapy creations to three additional Midwestern cities during November 2004.

St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) November 9, 2004 -- The Irie Star product lines include Glow Aroma soy candles and Eco Essentials natural skin care products. Both product lines are made by hand in Saint Louis, MO at the Irie Star studio with the guidance, vision, and expertise of Julie Longyear. Her father, Henderson, KY native David Wicks is the Vice President and business manager.

Longyear began making soy candles in the fall of 2000, when soy wax was unknown to most candle consumers. Today Irie Star creates a wide range of candle sizes and scents to please any palate and the soy candle market is growing at a rapid pace. Longyear has never faltered in her choice to create only 100% vegetable wax candles. The Eco Essentials herbal bodycare line was released on a national basis in 2004 to satisfy consumers increasing demands for gentle and natural skin care products. Eco Essentials products are made from exclusively botanically based ingredients.

Irie Star has expanded steadily within the Saint Louis, MO region and will now bring decadent natural concoctions to markets in Chicago, IL, Cincinnati, OH, and Evansville, IN. Enthusiasm from consumers is expected to be strong.

According to a report issued by SPINS in October 2004 the market is ripe for just such the types of products in which Irie Star specializes. Their report indicates that natural products represent an approximately $14 billion industry just within the USA. The Natural Foods Merchandiser Magazine reports in their June 2004 market overview that natural product sales as a whole reached $42.5 billion overall in 2003. Sales growth percentages in the natural products industry are in the double-digits.

Customers of Irie Star rave about the signature aromatherapy blends of essential oils that scent their products. Longyear uses her training in chemistry to create tantalizing and therapeutic aroma blends. Customers delight in blends such as Peace, a deeply soothing combination of Frankincense, Palmarosa, Elemi, and Lavender essential oils. They say the scents are unlike most available on the market today and offer a higher level of purity and quality to the discerning scent connoisseur.

Irie Star aromatherapy creations add pleasant aroma to any home during the holidays and make personal, thoughtful, affordable gifts. The range of products offered includes votive candles, travel tin candles, pillar candles, handmade soap, herbal lotion, body and linen mists, bath salts, and massage oil. Prices range from $3.50 for votive candles up to $32 for the Bathtime Bouquet gift set.

The full range of Irie Star products are available at www.iriestar.com and Holiday Market dates including:

* The Chicago, Illinois Junior League Gazebo Holiday Market -- November 12 and 13, 2004

* The Greater Cincinnati, Ohio Holiday Market -- November 19-21, 2004

* The Evansville,Indiana Junior League Holiday Market - November 19-21, 2004

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