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Found it on Etsy: Mango Butter & Oats Moisturizing Soap Bar

A local artisan/mother is driven to produce natural products by her love for her daughter and a desire to take care of her super-sensitive skin needs.

Are you looking for a new way to fight dry winter skin?

Then, perhaps I can introduce you to Bolingbrook’s Kim B., owner of ButterDuckFarms, an online Etsy store that first opened three years ago. She is selling a Mango Butter & Oats Moisturizing Soap Bar for $4.50.

And I Found it on Etsy.

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Kim B. creates all of her for-sale items from scratch, using natural products while admitting she is “driven by a love and desire to provide relief to my daughter from her super-sensitive and dry, itchy winter skin.”

She says her Mango Butter & Oats Moisturizing Soap Bar is made from olive oil, coconut oil, castor oil, Karanja oil, sustainable palm oil, mango butter, avocado oil, organic oats, tupelo honey, Neem oil and lavender EO.

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“My love for creating anything handmade began years ago, when I was just a little girl,” Kim B. says on her Etsy profile page. “For 20-plus years, I have been a seamstress by trade, specializing in custom made formal wear and costumes.

“In 2010, I began a new chapter in my life when I started Butter Duck Farms, making natural and organic skin care products.”

Check out her complete line: www.butterduckfarms.com.





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