 Hi, Longmont! My name is Karen Stallard. I'm the Membership Director with the Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce. The Longmont Chamber has been working hard to support our local businesses and connect the community during this challenging time, because we don't think that being physically distanced means that we can't still socially connect and support one another. So I'd like to tag in Jessica Wanasek, the Chamber Event Director, to tell you a little bit about what we've been up to. Hey, everyone. So the Longmont Chamber of Commerce has been hosting daily Facebook live events Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. over on our Chamber Facebook page. We are featuring a local business or a non-profit, while having fun interactive activities, giveaways, and just connecting with our community. We wanted to share the fun with you after the facts, so we are airing all of our episodes from last week with you here now so you can enjoy. And we hope that you see some familiar faces from around Longmont. And remember, if you ever want to see the live thing, just tune into the Chamber Facebook page at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Or check out a themed list of businesses over on our Chamber website www.longmontchamber.org forward slash llama is open. And find a business that you would like to support. Enjoy the show. Well, hello, everybody. Hello, hello for another edition of Your Mindfulness Monday. We're just going to let the audience come in and build here for another second or two. So we are so happy to see you guys with us again today. We're on our second week of our Longmont is open for business live events that we're doing every day. So we're having a great time and we're happy to have you guys here. So we're just going to give another minute or two. I'm starting to see a few people popping in. If you are watching today, please let us know that you are here by commenting saying hi. If you have any questions for our guests while they're on, please put those in the comments as well and we'll try and get to all of them. So as I said, we are in our second week of Longmont is open for business, even though it's not business as usual, but there's some amazing businesses out there doing some pretty cool things. So we're really happy to be bringing those to you. My name is Jessica Wanasek. I am the event director over at the Longmont Chamber of Commerce. And again, thanks for tuning in. Each day at 4 p.m., we are highlighting and featuring businesses and nonprofits right here on our Chamber Facebook page at 4 p.m. And just kind of sharing what businesses are doing and how they're running operations, sometimes modified, obviously, with what's going on in the world today. So this is why we are doing this. If you want to see the list of businesses that we are working with here in Longmont, go to our Chamber website. And you can reach that at www.longmontchamber.org forward slash Longmont is open and it'll take you to, we have businesses in themed lists that you guys can check out. So make sure you do that. So as I said, today is mindfulness. I always forget the nest mindfulness Monday. And I would like to invite our guest to join us here in just a second. She has some amazing products that help with some self care and maybe even help reduce some of the stress that we are, you know, feeling today. So I would like to bring in a wonderful, wonderful woman. And this is Dr. Cindy Jones with Colorado Aromatics. Say hello, Cindy. Hi, Longmont. How's everybody doing? I know I'm a little stressed. I know, right? It's crazy. Well, Monday, you know, we're excited to have you on today for our second ever mindfulness Monday. And I'm feeling like some of us need need some destressing or to help kind of get some of our anxieties and stuff under control. And besides that, you have some fun products and stuff that you're going to be introducing to us here, really, right? Yes. Well, I always like to start out with our businesses. Tell us a little bit about you. How long has Colorado Aromatics been open for business? Well, you know, we kind of grew out of a hobby, so it's hard to say a specific date. But we started selling our products 12 years ago, I think at the Longmont Farmers Market. And we opened our store at third and last week, six years ago. So, so now that for a while, yeah, I know, I didn't realize that you were over at the the farmers markets. Yeah. Yeah. Well, in this summer, I don't know how that's going to look so far. It's not looking good. So I know seeing customers there and seeing customers in my store. Yeah, I think we're all going through. I know you and I were talking a little bit about how we're kind of going through people withdrawal. I like my people. Yeah. So I know you just touched on it real briefly. But where can you tell us the or tell the audience where you are located where your store is located? Our store is at the corner of third and last week. So we're on the east side of Longmont. So probably about five blocks east of Main Street. Okay. I don't know third. That's a Main Street. So there's a complex of about three buildings on the corner here. Very good. Awesome. Okay, so I know in the way the world looks right now, can you share a little bit of how you have adapted your running of your business, how you're running operations these days? Well, we tried to help customers and do what they need. And one thing that we've been able to do is to now produce a hand sanitizer. So that's been something very difficult for people to buy because people are holding it. So we've got a hand sanitizer on our website that's available for sale. But we've been focusing a lot more online since the, you know, face to face sales avenues are diminishing. So yeah, used to be, for instance, at Lucky's, which didn't have anything to do with COVID, but they went out of business. But other wholesale accounts are kind of doing not so well either. So we're really focusing on online. We actually this past Saturday, we did a Facebook live on our website. And we want to try to do that more often so we can have some kind of better interaction with our customers too. Yeah, that would be good. I'm sorry. Besides, we are packing and shipping packages from our online site, but we also allow customers to come for door pickup as well. Okay, so you're doing like a curbside, they order online curbside pickup? Or they can call the store, they can call the store and say a time that they want to come pick up and then we can process their credit card and just leave it set outside for them. Okay, cool. Cool. Tell us now I was on your website kind of poking around. Can you talk a little bit about what is this farm to face or farm to body aspect of your business? So besides our store and our production kitchen here at Thurden Lashley, we also have a farm where we live north of Longmont. So we grow a lot of herbs there, about 30 different kind of herbs that we use in our products. And this is important because these herbs provide a lot of benefits for skin, primarily antioxidants that can help repair damage that you get from the sun and being outside as we all love to do. But I brought one of the main plants that we grow is lavender. So I brought this lavender bundle here. So this summer when we have this is a dry bouquet from last summer. When we have fresh lavender this summer, I'm thinking, I don't know, we might sell it off the farm for pick up. And then a lot of the herbs, we will make extracts. jar of calendula extract. So we dry the calendula, put it in a jar and then extract it in olive oil. So you're getting a lot of the beneficial components of the calendula coming out in that oil. And then we'll strain and we'll use that oil in our products. So we use that in a lot of products, it helps to stimulate epithelial cells. A face care product, it helps to stimulate collagen production, which is something we all want. And then I showed this thing of hops to this is hops that we grow on our farm that we're doing an oil extract up here too. So those are just fun. And we also distill or to make these aromatic waters. So these are this is like a aromatherapy paradise. This is lavender that we distill on the farm. And you basically spray it on your face. You take a deep breath. So besides toning and hydrating your skin, it kind of takes you away and helps you relax, de-stress. Just this is where I wish we had like smell of vision. I was like, do me, do my face. I can only imagine how yummy it smells. Even Karen, we're getting a few comments. Chris McGrath says I bet that lavender smells amazing. And Karen says, I can smell it. So even though we don't have smell of vision, we're all imagining it. Right? Well, so if you guys are all tuning in or if you're just coming in, get comfortable. Dr. Cindy Jones is going to show us some fun products that she's got straight from her farm. Make sure you're commenting because one lucky viewer's comments, we're going to have a little quiz towards the end of our live session today. And some some lucky winners going to win a fabulous prize that Dr. Cindy has brought with her today. So tune in, let us know you're here. Say hi. If you have questions for Dr. Cindy, also put those in the comments as well. And I'll try and get those to her while we are chatting here today. So I don't know lately, I don't even know what day it is, let alone if there's a major holiday on the calendar right around the corner. And I know that there is one. So with that, Dr. Cindy, I am actually going to turn it over to you. And you can maybe share a little bit about here, there's Mother's Day is right around the corner. So I'm going to take it, you're going to take it away. And I'm going to try and hit the right button here and go for it. Okay, so yeah, believe it or not, Mother's Day is this Sunday. And because self care is so important right now, I thought I'd talk about some of the gift sets that we have that mom might like for self care. The first of these is our foot spa. So the foot spa consists of a sugar scrub, an herbal foot soap, and a sole pleasure foot butter. So this herbal foot soap is great. You would put it in a tub of water, hot water, let it infuse in that hot water for a while, and then soak your feet in there. The herbs that are in there are herbs that can help with stress and anxiety, as well as help just help you relax and help improve mood, as well as a little bit of disinfecting from the feet. Then the sugar scrub here. This is a nice sugar scrub. And we'll see it again in our hand spa. But for this sugar scrub, you want to put that on your hands or your feet. You can see that and just rub it in. What it's going to do is exfoliate. So you can rub it up your arms. And then I have a wet washcloth here, but you could just do this under the faucet too and just rinse that off. And you're eliminating all of those dead skin cells. So it helps the skin to glow. And it also helps skin care products to penetrate a little better. Then after doing that, you would apply the foot butter. So this foot butter is a pretty firm butter. We use confreement and calendula in here. So they're really good herbs to help with dry cracked heels, for instance. Put that on there. And it's got shea butter, cocoa butter. I think I'm opposite. So that's really nice. If you've got dry cracked heels, it'll help that right away. Especially now coming into hopefully sandal season, right? That would be great for your poor feet. Yeah. And it's just nice to, you know, some people have a little bit more time now because they're home or some people have a little less time because they're trying to take care of children at the same time. But no matter what, you need to have a little bit of self-care to get through this crisis. Agreed. Then this is our hand spa, which is very similar. We've got the same sugar scrub that you just saw. And then we've got this knuckle balm. Knuckle balm is just such a really good general product that's good for so many things. It, again, is an oil-based balm. It's made primarily with calendula. It's perfect for those cracks and fissures you get on your cuticles and knuckles. So you want to just massage that in. And I kind of like to do this if I'm, oh, you know, sitting at home watching Netflix or something. Yeah. Massage this into your cuticles and knuckles. What else are you going to do? Now, I have a question. What is, for those people who don't know, what is is it calendula? Am I saying it right? Yeah. So, I showed you that big jar of calendula flowers. Yeah. It's an orange flower that grows. It's an annual. One of the common names for it is pot maribold. It's a very resinous flower. So, even when we're picking it, after you pick for a little while, your fingers start sticking together because the resin is so sticky on there. Good. But we pick that. It blooms. We haven't planted it yet. It needs to be a little bit warmer to plant. And we start harvesting it in August and harvest it clear through frost. And then we dry that and we'll make these oil infusions like I showed you. Oh, good to know. But it's a great herb. I didn't even know. Good. Good. And then I wanted to show you when this gets set is the lotion. There's a four ounce lotion bottle. This mountain mist lotion is a very soft, silky lotion. It won't leave your hands feeling greasy. We use calendula in here, too, as well as green tea extract and a Colorado blue spruce extract. So, it's a really unique Colorado product, too. Now, that smells good, too. I was gonna say yum. I wish I could smell it. I'm using the lavender right now, but it also comes in a citrus. So, you use either one. And then speaking of lavender, this is our best-selling gift set, the Lavender Lovers Gift Set. So, what it has is a bar of lavender soap. Our lavender soap is a nice soap made from shea butter. It's a hard bar. Some people complain that a lot of times handmade soaps will sort of melt right away in the shower. This one won't. It's a nice hard bar. I mean, it really moisturizes skin. It's got the lavender lotion. It's got this lavender spritzer. And then it's got these dream pillows. So, the dream pillows are filled with herbs to help relax you and help you sleep at night, which I know some people are having trouble with that. But it's got hops in there and lavender, chamomile, lemon balm. Some really relaxing herbs. Nice. And then the next gift set I want to show you is our athlete care kit. Everybody's trying to get their exercise in now and sometimes maybe doing a little bit different than what we normally do. You might be sore. We've got this joint jam here. I'll show you the joint jam. It too is a balm. It's got arnica, comfrey, and menthol and a blend of essential oils that really penetrates well and helps relieve pain in the joints, the muscles, the tendons. So, you can use this after workout for sore muscles. You can use it for arthritis and you know it smells good. I have a who used to work here that used to say it was her favorite smell and she would put it on for perfume. I don't like it that she did. Then there's this body powder which is great to put in your shoes. It's also, I don't know if you can see this or not. There you go. So, in this body powder we put some very finely ground herbs and some essential oils that are good for relieving odor. So, you can use this under the arms as a deodorant. You can use it for a little bit of a connector. Yeah, you can use it in your shoes and that's primarily why it's in the athlete kit is to use it in the shoes to decrease the smell. And the other thing that's in here is the foot butter. So, this shows that the foot butter comes besides that it comes in this tin or it comes in this smaller tube. That's kind of like a lip balm tube so you screw it up to make it push out. And then bath salts. So, the bath salts have epsom salt in there. This is just a fun thing we keep in the store. So, we always pour a plate of bath salts and then you can take your little rake and rake it and get real zend out there. Nice. I need one of those for my desk. Those are so cool. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good good meditative kind of thing to do. No kidding. No kidding. Yeah. Oh and then I'll show you what our prize giveaway is. Is this face and body mist set. So, these are five different spritzers that we distill. These are all I didn't tell you how we make these. They're distilled on our farm. So, we take our fresh herbs like our fresh lavender. We put them in a still and just so you know it's against the law to distill alcohol and we do not distill alcohol. But we put these herbs in the still and the still collects all the aromatic molecules that are in that plant. So, we've got lavender. We've got cucumber. We've got rose, clary sage, lemon balm, and mint. So, some people call these hydrosols. So, they're really good like I said before for toning and hydration of the skin but they're wonderful for mood as well. So, they can really improve mood. I showed you the lavender before. The mint is a really good one for kind of a pick me up. So, if you're you know it's that time of day where you're starting to get a little tired. So, it's a little mint on your face and look right up. Ready to go. So, Chris McGrath just put he says he are interested in all these products. Please be sure to post the link to her website. So, I will. We do also have the link to Colorado Aromatics. It's scrolling across the little ticker. I know it kind of goes by fast. I've tried to slow it down a little bit but um yeah we will Chris we will definitely get the website information out there so you guys can check out all of the fabulous products. Um now Dr. those are amazing. So, do you I have kind of a dumb question um when you were talking about distilling your products on the farm do you offer like tours can people come to see the actual stuff in motion or is that kind of a no no off limits? Normally in the summer we do offer farm tours. We'll do private groups for a fee and then once every summer towards the end of summer I do a free farm tour for customers and we've done farm tours for some for the Longmont Senior Center as well as other senior centers but I don't know how that's looking for this summer. Yeah and I also have a well I have a class scheduled with um the Boulder Earth School to teach them how to do distilling and I was planning on doing a few workshops like that on the farm this summer too and again we might have to push that off till next summer. Yeah maybe just have to hit pause on that but revisit it because I think that would be neat for me. I'm anything that has to do with any sort of farm or how it goes from you know once it's growing to the next steps I think is always kind of a neat thing to see. Yeah we have a class I'd like to teach. I normally teach on making herbal teas and we actually got that class in March just before everything closed down. Yeah oh that would be cool too the teas very cool. Well um I love these ideas. I think I want one of each and especially for um the viewers who are watching you know if you guys are needing maybe um Mother's Day gifts you know Mother's Day is next Sunday it's May what 10th I think is the day um yeah so it's it's coming right on us I know even though it you know we may not all be able to be with mom that day or our loved ones that we consider our mothers um you know maybe may purchase a gift or a gift set would be a really cool way to go. So um Dr Cindy I'm gonna have you help me with doing the giveaway so okay okay so for those of you guys who have been viewing and commenting I see you out there um and thank you for for commenting and letting us know your hair so in the in the beginning of the the stream today I asked Dr Cindy Jones where her shop was located in Longmont now without cheating no cheating where is her storefront located in Longmont where is Colorado Aromatics located in Longmont and the first person who comes in with the correct answer will get can you hold that up again Dr Cindy hold what up oh the gift the giveaway yep you're gonna get a set of uh spritzers so let's see let's see who wrote the spritzers in the waters right now while we're waiting for uh the correct answer to come in people are thinking hard out there um Dr Cindy is there anything else that you feel um that the audience should know well besides the products I showed you we've got a full line of face care product body care bath and shower and we have handcrafted soaps that we make as well oh very cool yeah okay so important right now to wash your hands absolutely get some good soap to wash your hands I know the soap and the lotion I think because I wash my hands so much my hands are like oh they're not happy I need some of that lotion okay so we have uh Chris McGrath is working really hard and it's so close to a little bit more information a little bit more east of Maine is correct and five blocks east of Maine is also correct um you're zeroing in what could that be that it's kind of a a main east and west road that brings you through a long lot let's see like Chris is cracking me up now they're going what what help all right okay Dr Sandy should we just give oh there third third I don't see it I don't see it on there she said Chris McGrath says on third so we're gonna we'll give it well I think what do you think Dr Cindy should we should we know the actual address is on lashley right third and lashley was the correct answer but uh Chris you are working really hard at that so we're we're gonna go ahead what do you think Dr Sandy you think it's a good try okay yeah congrats Chris McGrath you are the proud winner of today's prize giveaway it's a set of the body spritzers in all those yummy yummy flavors so um I will if you could email me at jwanasek uh at longmontchamber.org and let me know uh your email address or what's the best way maybe your address and I could run those over to you just let us know how to get in contact with you if you could do that um so that's that's awesome Chris we're laughing too with you laughing and thank you so we're glad that she got a hold of that Chris um and you know it's been such a pleasure Dr Cindy to have you on today um to let everybody know where you're located what you're doing that the amazing products that you guys are working hard um you know getting out there during this crazy time so we really appreciate everything that you were doing uh and keep up the the good work thanks it was fun to be on thanks for having me on oh good and everybody swing on by uh her website it's WWW well actually it's HTTPS forward slash coloradoaromatics.com so just put in coloradoaromatics.com and go say hi to Dr Cindy and check out all the the yummy products that she has so with that Cindy I am going to say bye-bye to you and thank you so much for joining me wash your hands yes wash your hands and sanitize she also has sanitizer available over there as well um we want to now that you feel maybe hopefully a little less stressed a little bit less anxiety ridden um just watching her do the spritzes I kind of I want to go get one now too so um we're so glad that you were here today thank you so much for joining and commenting we have fun doing these we're going to continue to keep doing these uh each week every day we want you right back here on the chamber uh Facebook page at four p.m join us tomorrow we have a really exciting um Tuesday tunes and art so really come back at four p.m tomorrow check in what we're doing um we have a little bit of surprise in there for you too so uh with that enjoy the rest of your day and everybody please please be well we'll talk to you soon see you bye bye