I have always loved art and doing fun, creative things with my hair and makeup. After high school, I became a hairstylist (I still have a cosmetology license, but I no longer work in a salon). Yay, my first real career as an adult! Well...I developed an allergy to PPDs in hair dye after a few years, which is fairly common among hairstylists. After my boss told me to keep coloring my hair, I quit. The rashes on my body led me to see a doctor, who diagnosed me with Contact Dermatitis. I was given a long list of things I can and cannot do. One thing they said was to lotion twice a day, but the lotions they recommended didn't work and irritated my skin, so I made my own natural, preservative-free lotions for years, which kept my rashes at bay and eventually calmed my skin. Eventually, I found premade PPD free dyes and used things like Henna to color my hair without PPDs. The story doesn't end there. Later on I developed another type of exsema triggered by a specific ingredient in soap. Finally, I found a natural lotion that helped. I started looking at the ingredients on all of my cosmetics after finding this strange ingredient, and what I found was appalling and gross. To replace the sheep hair-derived ingredient, different types of plastics, and an extensive list of preservatives, I had no choice but to make my own products.