Lydia’s Spa Collections
lydiasspacollections.artfire.com

Specialty items:
Exotic body butters

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Lydia’s Spa Collections are handmade body products made from natural ingredients and scented with fabulous essential and fragrance oils. Lydia’s strive to provide customers with body products that will moisturize, nurture and enhance the skin without harmful chemicals and preservatives. Lydia’s is all about pampering the total person: mind, body and spirit.

Tell us a little bit about you and your background:

My name is Davida and I am the face behind Lydia’s Spa Collections. I am a single mother of one teenager. I live in the Peach State-Georgia. Currently I work for a private insurance company while secretly dreaming of opening my own little “bathtique” selling my natural body products.

What made you start and why did you get started creating your handmade crafts:

I love body products but every time I would use a major chain of bath products, I would break out into weird patches of skin and itch really bad. Also, I have a young niece who suffers from eczema. So to give both our skins some relief, I began to research natural ingredients for body products and began to experiment and share.

Once I began to share my story and my product, those close to me began to make requests, place orders and tell their friends. That was the start of my small bath and body biz over a year ago. The passion for creating products has not stopped; it has intensified and has been fueled by great customers.

What makes your handmade crafts unique:

I am not so sure if my products are so unique. I believe that the passion and the thought that goes into each product makes each item special. I am inspired by benefits that the ingredients have on the skin and the great compliments that I get from my customers when they tell me they now have a new favorite item from my store.

What do you enjoy most about being an artist:

The thing that I enjoy the most about being an artist is serving my customers by pampering the skin that they are in. This small biz has allowed me to connect with some new people who I hope to remain friends with for years to come.

Where do you sell your crafts:

I primarily sell my products online (personal site, Artfire, etc.) and by word of mouth locally. I hope to get into craft fairs and flea markets in the very near future.

Is there anything else, you would like to share:

The only other thing I would like to share with readers is the story behind the brand name. I chose the name Lydia because of the female in the Bible with that name who is called the “Seller of Purple” (Acts 16). She is said to be the first female entrepreneur of the Bible. Lydia used specimens of the sea to make a purple dye. The dye was then used to color the cloth to make fabric that was sold to the wealthy.

With Lydia’s Spa Collections, I use natural ingredients scented with essential and fragrance oils to make body products that will moisturize and nourish the skin while giving you a spa like experience at home. Lydia had a few of the characteristics that I have today. She was generous, hospitable and faithful. She was willing to share and provide for the needs of others.

I don’t want my business just to be one of sales and promotions. I want to be able to connect with my customers and quite possibly connect them with others in my circle while pampering the skin they are in.

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