 When I would come into my kitchen and bring all my things together to start making soap, I guess you can say it was almost like my meditative state. Just watching everything melt together, smelling everything. It was almost like everything else didn't matter. My name is Madeline, and I'm the founder of By Madeleine. The first time I made a bar of soap, just taking it to my mother-in-law. I went over to her office, and I shared a bar of soap with her and everyone started talking about it, started asking me for more. When was I gonna make more? That's how I got started. We're starting off with my liquid oils, and these are my melted down solids. So this is coconut oil and share butter. One important thing that I offer in my soaps is the infusion of my oils. It's the aromatherapy behind it, the whole goodness of the plant. I'm just gonna put on my protective gear. The benefits that I receive are more of a luscious touch to my skin, a coin. Doesn't feel like there's a lot of buildup on my skin. I used to call it practically magic, because for me, putting all this together, it was like magic. I never thought it was gonna be a business. I just grabbed something that I liked and I loved and it just grew. I had this fear of possibly taking on too much than what I can handle, and it was a tug-and-pull. Go Daddy! It makes things a lot easier. It's just one space, one place to look at. I'll click in, review what it is that they have purchased, and start picking out the items. Steven, my husband, he has his camera and he's like, hey babe, why don't you just use the camera and set it up and started getting lights and just wanting to create this whole photography studio for me. My older daughter, Alyssa, likes a lot of media and she was helping me, you know, navigate certain things on the computer. I'm not very tech savvy. It was a family effort to create what it is now. I do have some customers that are repeated customers and I've actually had the opportunity to meet them in person just recently at different markets. Not being able to have my storefront, this is my mobile storefront. Showing and teaching the community that we can take care of ourselves and our skin naturally, something that everyone can benefit from. Being an entrepreneur for me is sharing my passion with others. It doesn't even have to like work. This feels like I'm playing all day long.