((PKG)) SOAP LADY
((Banner: Luxurious Basics))
((Reporter/Camera: Hannah Kay))
((Map: St. Augustine, Florida))
((ATHENA HINMAN, CO-OWNER, ANTOINETTE’S BATH HOUSE))
Japanese cherry blossom. So, loosely these are not cherry blossoms on top. They are little roses but I made them pink and put glittery so they look kind of like cherry blossoms. I could pipe them but I didn’t do it this time.
((ATHENA HINMAN, CO-OWNER, ANTOINETTE’S BATH HOUSE))
My name is Athena Hinman and I am 33 years old. My current occupation is, I am a co-owner of Antoinette’s Bath House. So, I sling soap. My grandmother was very artistic. She actually dabbled in everything and she did a little bit of everything. When I was growing up, she actually taught me how to make bath bombs but not like they are now. We used to put them in ice cube trays and then I would use them obviously afterwords, but she taught me how to do that. And we would make little mountain pour soaps and scrap booking and making hair bows and stuff, and then I would sell it to the neighbors. I kind of really got into this artistic stuff and as I got older, you know, my grandmother passed away and she left me all of her crafts. And when my grandfather passed away, I felt like it was time to go ahead and start going through her stuff, and I started pulling out the soaping stuff and all the little recipes she had and started making soap myself. It has just kind of been one of those things I did it as a craft but I wanted to make more and in order to do that, I had to buy the products and I didn’t have the money to do that. So, I had to sell what I made. And then, you know I was able to buy more fragrances and stuff because who wants to use the same scent every single day.
((ATHENA HINMAN, CO-OWNER, ANTOINETTE’S BATH HOUSE))
These are my fragrance oils. I have a whole bunch. You see we have them alphabetical. That doesn’t always mean they are in the right spot. But I can pretty much make anything anybody comes in and requests because I am a fragrance hoard. I have collected so many.
Today, we have been making frankincense and myrrh bath steamers or shower steamers. And they have real frankincense and myrrh resin on top and that is actually just for decoration, nothing, you know, more than that. But it has frankincense and myrrh essential oils that helps relax the body. You throw it in the corner of your shower. It has menthol in it, so it cleans, clears your sinuses out, makes you smell great, really good for morning time when you are just getting up to go to work.
No matter who you are, you should have some kind of skill and be able to know how to make something of some sort.