 Hey Gems, welcome back to my channel again. So if you watched the previous video, you know what this video is all about. But if you haven't, go check it out. However, if you're here because you're not interested in that previous video, that's cool too. But this video is all about me finally introducing to you the business that I am starting. So I finally got my logo. I am going to try and put it somewhere on the screen. I will put the link to the person who did my logo in my description box below if you're interested in getting her up for any work of your own in terms of a logo or business card designs or whatever. So that's my logo. So as you can see, the name of my business is going to be Gems Holistic. Let me tell you guys how I came up with the name. For those of you who don't know, my very, very close friends call me Ja. My name is JaHila, but they call me Ja. My fiancee calls me Impress. I can't tell you the last time I've heard him call me by my actual name. All when we upset with each other arguing, he still calls me Impress. Like that's just my name for him. That is why my Instagram handle is JaImpress. It's just two of my, I guess, nicknames together. So when I was coming up with what my business name would be, I was just basically brainstorming and I was like Gem, Gem Holistic. And Gem, it was just kind of me putting Ja and Impress together, the J from Ja and E.M from Impress. And then I am also a Gemini. This may be corny to some of you guys, but listen, it makes sense to me. So I was like Gem, Gem as in Gemini, Gem as in something precious, a jewel, gemstones. It all fits because at the end of the day, aren't we all Gems? And that is why I always say hey Gems, because we're all gemstones. We're all something precious and valuable to ourselves, to other people. And that's pretty much the meaning behind the name of my business, is that it's something of value, something to cherish, something to hold to high standards. So Gem Holistic is going to be a natural skincare product line. So if you know me, like really, really know me, you know I'm always doing some kind of DIY something in my kitchen, whether it's body butters, lip balms, stuff on my hair, it doesn't matter. I'm always doing some kind of DIY something. And although I don't have a lot of DIYs on my channel, like I've been doing DIYs for years. I was back in college in my dorm room making lip balms. Who does that? When I was living home in my parents' house, like I was always coming up with some kind of hair mask recipe. I was whipping up body butters for like years. It's always been like a little hobby of mine. And when I was trying to come up with a business idea, I was like, what do I love to do that I can do for money that I can make profitable? And I started thinking and thinking. I was like, I am so big on natural products, so big on it. I spend tons of money on it because I rather buy something that's toxic free and as natural as possible to put on my skin and hair than to buy something that's cheap and full of chemicals and toxics that's basically gonna enter into my pores and enter my body anyways. So part of me living a healthy and vegan lifestyle has a big part of what I put on my skin as well. So that is why I'm very, very, very particular as to what I buy in terms of what I put on my hair and on my skin. I was like, I already have a passion for it. So why not do it beyond just a hobby? So I started doing research and I want to say research. I mean research. I bought books now. Like let me show you. Yeah, I bought books. I've watched tons and tons of videos. I read tons of articles. I'm still learning. However, I'm learning as I go. And I decided that my natural product line is going to start off with handcrafted co-processed bar soaps, body butters because who doesn't love a good body butter and body scrubs. And I want it to be different. Like I didn't want to be just someone whipping something up that isn't of substance and has no benefits. So I really, really did my research. Like I bought, I bought three books on co-processed soap making. I've read through all of them. I've bought books and I still have more books in my card because like I feel like you can always learn more. I'm forever learning, forever growing in everything I do. And this is just another thing. So I am actually going to be inserting clips because it's been a journey y'all. Like for the past few months, I've basically been creating recipes, creating formulas and testing them out, making small batches, tweaking them, remaking batches. Like it's a process, but I don't feel like it's worth. When I'm making a batch of soap, I'm, I'm good. I'm at ease. I'm just doing my thing. Even when I mess up or do something wrong or make a mistake, like it's not stressful. It's just like, okay, let me find out how I can fix this. And that's pretty much what I've been doing literally since I got back from St. Croix January 12. I came back. I was like, okay, this is what I'm going to do. I decided that my tax refund this year, I'm just going to invest it and go all in for this business. So that's what I did. And I'll probably insert some clips of the, all of my supplies that I've been ordering and you know, all of my natural oils and butters. Like it's the investment. Like for some people, they need a good 20 grand, 15 grand, just to start a business as a startup. But for this, I'm not saying that I need that much or have spent that much. I have not at all, but it still takes money and I'm doing this with my own money, the little that I have and the little that I'm making. So I took my tax refund and I ordered bulk of everything. I nearly started getting my supplies. I thought these jars came with covers. It doesn't. Got to order the cover separate so now I have to wait for the covers to reach. Bulk oils, bulk butters. I bought all of my soap molds, containers, bowls, my stick blender, like every all the supplies that I needed to make co-process soap and body butters and body scrubs. I bought all the supplies. I did my research. It was intense, but I did it. I remember the day after I received all of my bulk oils and supplies, like I had this down feeling like, what did I just do? Did I really just spend all that money on this stuff? I'm tripping. Why do I think I can do this? There's so many other people doing this. Why do I think that I can just come into this field and do this? And I felt really, really down and literally the next day, I got a text, well, I got a message on messenger from a girl I know from back home asking me to make her some body butter and that she would pay me. And it's just so ironic that she did that at that moment, not even knowing that I wanted that I was in the process of starting this business. So she's not knowing anything. Just contact me and ask me to make her some just based on a video I have on my channel of me making my own body butter. And she had a special request to add like aloe vera gel to her batch. So I was like, yeah, I can do that. And my confidence immediately boosts. I got into my kitchen. I was excited. I whipped up this body butter and it was literally one of the best batches that I ever made. I kept some from I made enough for myself as well because I was running low anyways. And when she got it, she loved it. Like the thing with that is that I told her to be completely honest with me, like let me know how I can make it better. She messaged me saying she loved it. Her skin feels great. Her skin is glowing. Anyway, the cold process soaps. I made batch after batch after batch. And I'm going to insert clips. I actually record videos of me making my first batch of each soap that I'm going to have on my product line. And they all came out really good. Like I created these recipes from scratch just based on my research. I tweaked them, basically put my own twist on them so that they're uniquely mines and it's not a copy of some other recipe that I saw. But I wanted to make every single recipe my own. So I made sure of that. The soaps that I have so far are my signature soap is going to be called Sacred Gem. And it's a turmeric and honey soap scented with lavender and orange essential oil. And so far that has been my biggest seller. And yes, I've been selling soap already. I've been selling it like well my fiance has been selling it for me. He's way more social than I am when he's ready or when he has to be I should say. I have packaging everything for my soaps. The only thing I don't have yet is labels. Now that I finally have my locals, I just started designing my labels. So this next batch of soap that I'm making will have to be even more official because they'll have my labels on it. Listen, y'all. Throughout this video, you're probably seeing clips of different things. So you'll be seeing for yourself what I'm talking about. So yeah, I'm starting off with full process bar soaps, body butters, body scrubs. And I'm also going to be doing lip balm soon. And then as I get started and start like generating sales, have my website up and generating sales, I'm going to add face products to it. So I'm going to have face wash, face scrub, face moisturizing cream, toner, and face mask. That's the next five products I'm going to add to my line. So I'm not just going to be the co-process so body butters and body scrub like that's just what I'm launching with because I find it to be better to launch with something small versus have all these 10, 12, 20 products and can't keep up or don't have the means to make all of them and trying to put myself into debt, trying to make and buy the ingredients for all of these products. So I'm starting simple to get myself going and to basically raise enough money to do my website. I don't have my website yet, but that's the next thing I'm going to be working on. But I want it to be legit. I want it to be able to, people to be able to go on and order no matter where in the world they are. I'm not just trying to be the local. I want my products to be accessible to everyone everywhere. So that's why I'm going to be doing my own website. I've considered starting to sell on Etsy and I'm still thinking about that one. I may start on Etsy. I don't know yet. However, right now I'm just, I have just been selling it local and that is the purpose of this video to put myself out there and let you guys know what I have. Honestly, my first set of soaps that I've made, they're almost all sold out. I probably have a few of each kind left except for the turmeric. The turmeric is completely gone. It's sold completely out, but I have a few of each of my body butters. So my body butters are going to be a creamy mango body butter, a shade, creamy shade aloe body butter. And then I have a royal rose body butter, lavender body butter, shea hemp. And my signature body butter is going to call be called sacred gem body butter, which will be in scented with Jasmine and Ilan Ilan essential oil as well as have a little bit of turmeric in it just for added benefits. And that one has like four different butters in it. It's going to be the only one with four butters. It'll have shea butter, mango butter, cocoa butter and cocom butter. So I'm going to have all of the stuff listed on the screen just to make it easy. And did I finish naming my soaps? So yeah, I have my signature soap called sacred gem turmeric and honey. I have a shea aloe soap scented with lemongrass and eucalyptus essential oil. I have a shea hemp soap scented with sandalwood and cedarwood. And I have a coconut charcoal soap scented with a natural coconut fragrance oil. I have a coconut almond soap and a charcoal tea tree soap. So those are the six soaps I'm starting off with. And then once I get started every month, I'm going to make a specialty soap. So my specialty soap is going to be a batch of a soap that I've never made before, that once that's gone, that's it is not coming back. And I'm going to record myself making that every month so that you guys can see the process. I feel like that's what's going to set me apart too is that I'm actually going to be sharing my journey with you guys. Like you guys going to have a look inside of my business to see how the products are being made, what are being put into them, because there's a lot of natural product companies out here that are claiming to have natural products. But there's tons of crap in their products. And I think that's what's going to set me apart because I feel like there's so much little natural product companies out there selling natural soaps and body butters and stuff. Why do I think I can do this? There's a lot of competition out there. And they have five, 10 years ahead of me. But I cannot let that stop me. Like I said, I cannot let fear stop me anymore. I cannot keep convincing myself out of doing things that I want to do. So I'm just putting myself out there. I'm taking a leap. I'm taking risks. And there's no other way to live. You just got to put yourself out there and take the risk. Because 10 years from now, I do not want to be looking back and be like, if I had started this, if I had really do this, I would be so far by now. So I'm starting this little business. And although I don't have my website up yet, you guys can still order things from me by hitting me up on my Instagram page. I am going to make an Instagram page for my business called gem stylistic. But what I'm going to do is, if you guys know, I do have two Instagram page. I have my personal one where I share my yoga journey. Well, where is mostly sharing my yoga journey called jot underscore and press underscore. And then I have this next page that I created for my YouTube channel called jot and press underscore yt for YouTube. I'm actually going to turn that page into my business page because it's already set up like a business page. So I'm just going to change the name to gem stylistic because let's be honest here, I could barely keep up with two different Instagrams. There's no way I'm going to keep up with three. So that's going to be my business page. I'm going to make a Facebook business page. And then I'll be sharing things on this YouTube channel because I'm not I'm not creating a second YouTube channel right now. It's not necessary. I'm not that big to be having two different YouTube channels. So I'll be sharing things pertaining to my business on here as well as on my business page of Instagram and my Facebook page. So you guys can hit me up on any of those platforms. I'll also have my business email address in the description box below. So if you wanted to order some soap body butters or body scrubs, you guys can do that by hitting me up. And I also will take special orders. Like if you want a body butter formulated based on oils or butters you want in it, you can hit me up and just let me know. Once I already have the oil and butter in stock, I can make that for you special order. And it will be a small special order fee, but it would be formulated just for you, scented with whatever scent you want. All of the information for that would be in the description box in terms of how to contact me. And all of this is just temporary because like I said, my next step is getting my website. I was actually going to wait until my website was up to even put my business out there. But my fiance was like, that's not a good idea. Like just put yourself out there and let people see you grow. I am already starting to remake these soaps because like I said, they're the first batch that I made are selling out. The crazy thing about it is that copathis soap has a cure time of 46 weeks. So these batches of soaps that I'm making now will not be available until the end of May. Anyways, so yeah, gem solistic. My slogan is treat your body like the gem it is. And I love the slogan treat your body like the gem it is. Gem in the slogan is actually spelled G-E-M because of the actual meaning of the word. They just have to be cut in the grass right now. I hope you guys can hear me. But yeah, my slogan is treat your body like the gem it is because I truly, truly believe that you should treat your body like a gem. Your body is literally a temple. And what you put on it goes in it. Our skin is the largest organ on our body. And although people think that you're just is not going in your body, it is. It goes through your pores. So all of the toxic lotions and soaps and deodorants and everything that you're using for years on top of years, all of those toxic ingredients are going into your skin. And then we wonder why we have issues while we're getting breast cancer, the deodorant you're using, you've been using for years, is full of crap. We're putting crap on our body. We're putting crap in our body. We're using crappy feminine products in terms of pads and tampons and so forth. Like we're putting so much crap on it in our body that of course we're going to get these health issues and so forth. And I'm not trying to sound like any doctor because I'm not because there's tons of other cause. So my camera stopped recording at some point. I'm not sure where it stopped recording. So this is just the introduction of my business gem stylistic, providing natural skin care. And in the future, hopefully hair care as well. Like I said, hit me up if you want to make any special orders or if you want to purchase any soaps, body butters, body scrubs, lip balms, all of the information is in the description box below. And I just want to talk about this real quick in terms of pricing. When I was thinking about starting this, I was very under, I was on the fence about how much I would charge people for my products. And I'm being very frank right now because I just want to be transparent throughout this whole process. I buy natural products all the time. And I don't mind paying the price for it because it's important to me to put natural products on my skin and in my hair. In terms of my hair products, I always try to get that on sale and that's because I'm a low-key hair product junkie and I have way more than I need. If I'm going to keep my hair products, I need to not always buy them at the full price. And that's why I always try to save some coins on my hair products. But when it comes to my skincare products, like I buy that when I need it and I spend nine times out of ten full price for it. And I don't mind that because it's important for me to put natural products on my skin. I haven't bought natural products, I haven't bought skin products in a while now that I'm really making my own on a consistent basis. But I'm just saying that like a lot of people prefer not to because of the price. However, it's just basically what your priority is and what's important to you. So what's important to me is putting natural and toxic free products on my skin in here. But for the people, they might spend a hundred bucks on a name brand bag and them name brand bags more than a hundred dollars. So I'm just being nice with that price. But I would never spend that much money on a bag. I don't care if my bag is a knockoff, I don't care if my bag is from Ross or Marshalls. Those stuff don't phase me, but I would spend fifteen dollars on some body butter or ten dollars on a natural bar of soap. And I'm just doing prices out there. So I was on the fence in terms of how much would I charge for my products because I really want to get more of people like me to buy natural skincare products without saying shit. That's too expensive. I really sat down like I have a whole spreadsheet and this is I guess where my accounting background comes into play. And I literally break down the cost of every single ingredient in my products by ounce and grand. So the cost per ounce and the cost for grand and I come up with how much it cost me to make each batch of my products and then I price it based on that. So I'm not pricing my products by just throwing a price on it. I am literally finding out what it cost me to make it and then pricing it so that I can at least make a profit. So I'm not somebody that's coming out there to sell you overpriced products. However I am using quality natural organic ingredients. So to give you the best quality products. So based on my costs I have to price it where I can still make a profit. And I think that's something that we forget a lot even for people who go out and buy a shirt for twenty five dollars. One like a simple shirt with a print on it from somebody that's selling making and selling shirts for twenty five dollars. Now I don't know how they came up with that price but I know it's twenty five dollars and when you're a small business or somebody just hustling trying to make some money at the end of the day you want to make a profit. So you have to price your products in order to make a profit. Now some people might go and support somebody that's selling twenty five thirty dollar shirts but won't support somebody that's selling natural handmade products because they think that's too expensive but a thirty dollar shirt isn't. So it's all about priority and what's important to you. So if you do decide to support me just know that I'm not out here to overcharge people and I've done my research. I've really done like there are people out here selling you four ounces of body butter for twenty five dollars and I think that's ridiculous. No matter how natural or organic your your oils and butters are like a four ounce bottle for twenty five dollars is pretty insane and I've been reading ingredients for months. Like I've just been looking up different natural product companies reading ingredients seeing their prices and like because I really really want to have my products priced at a fair price. I don't want to overcharge anybody for anything. So just know that I am launching with the intentions to attract more of us into that natural world. So anyways let me wrap up this video again. Jim's Holistic is coming to a website near you soon but right now follow us on Instagram, Facebook, follow my personal Instagram. You can follow my Snapchat. I'm going to start posting stuff on there as well. All of the information is in the description box below. The email address everything. So contact me for your natural skin products and just know Jim's Holistic is on its way. Jim's Holistic is on its way and treat your body like the gem it is because we're all gemstones right. Anyways I am so corned. Don't forget to like comment and subscribe. Share this video. I don't really ask you guys to share videos but share this video to your friends, your family, everyone because I really really really want to get this out there and I really I'm really putting my all into this and I'm really passionate about this. So yeah share this video with everybody. Spread the word Jim's Holistic and my website will be coming soon. Watch me grow on this journey. Watch me take this hobby into a business and I hope this inspires you to do the same to whatever your hobby is or anything that you've been wanting to do but too afraid to. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I will see you. Well you will see me in my next one. Peace.