In the skin-care market, there are hundreds of products that bill themselves as “natural” and “eco-friendly,” and only a handful of products that actually are.
One of the good guys: Sumbody, a line of products created right here in Sonoma County.
The company is the brainchild of Sebastopol resident Deborah Burnes, who started the company by making all of the products by hand. Today, she’s got help, and produces a wide array of items ranging from moisturizing body scrubs to facial masks. Check out the company’s Web site and you’ll find soaps, bath salts, even stuff for babies.
You’ll also find specially-crafted soaps, lotions, shampoos and conditioners in a bunch of swanky (and romantic) Wine Country hotels, such as the Farmhouse Inn in Forestville (another SoCo gem) and Solage Calistoga just over the Mayacamas Mountains in Napa County.
While Burnes won’t reveal the specific recipes for her wondrous skin-care products, she does admit what some of the ingredients are: mango, avocado, sea salt, herbs, clay, milk, rice and honey. She adds that Sumbody never uses parabens, animal oils, sodium laurel, artificial preservatives or synthetic chemicals of any kind.
This is the kind of entrepreneurialism we here at Green Sonoma admire.
