With a Little Pixie Magic, a Seasonal Hobby Takes Flight Into a Profitable Business

Santa Cruz, CA, March 18, 2003 — Theres good news for those of us who believe in pampering our body, minds and spirits with natural and aromatic herbal products. Pixie Vision Botanicals combines the best Earth has to offer with handmade soaps and bath products and concern for sustainable, and healthy personal care. Launched on February 1st, 2003 as an online store, www.pixie-vision.com, Pixie Vision Botanicals is already making its mark in the handmade toiletries industry. By focusing on natural ingredients made in small custom batches, these high quality and fresh products are delighting customers across the country.

Owner Carrie Duncan never thought her independently owned handmade toiletries company would be such a success 5 years ago. Believing that natural elements can help achieve a higher level of consciousness as well as healthy, beautiful, and radiant skin, she started making handmade soaps and bath salts as personal gifts for the holidays. Botanicals provide natural beauty, clean the air we breathe, provide healing properties for both mind and body, and basically are a necessity for life to survive. By using natural properties from plants, we can help heal irritated skin, relieve head and muscle aches, and even clear congestion.

Pixie Vision Botanicals pride themselves in creating natural products. They use the highest quality ingredients possible while paying close attention to be environmentally conscious. Pure essential oils are extracted from plants, shrubs, trees, flowers, seeds, roots, and grasses. They create their products in small batches to ensure the luxury of freshness and balance in each product without being wasteful or excessive.

Currently all products are made in the mountains of Santa Cruz County over-looking the Monterey Bay. Goats roam the fields on the property and dear run freely during the dawn of morning. It is a very inspiring environment to create it in. It gives me a calming energy that I try to invoke into every product. There is nothing like opening a fresh bar of handmade soap. Just knowing you are applying such rich nutritional elements onto your body vs. stale, dehydrating, commercially mass produced soap that is out on the shelves today."

Pixie Vision Botanicals is currently being sold in numerous gift shops, natural cosmetic shops, and day spas around California as well as offered through www.pixie-vision.com. While visiting the website, register for a free monthly newsletter about health, beauty, relaxation and aromatherapy. Look for their products in upcoming art and craft shows during 2003 in the California. Pixie Vision Botanicals will also be featured in the upcoming printed publication of The Herb Companion as well as many other featured health and beauty web sites and mail order catalogues.