On Park City TV's "Mountain Morning Show"!

Here we are talking to the nice peeps in and around Park City about our products. We had such a blast! The crew loved us (we gave them free bars, mind you) and they kept saying their studio smelled sooo good! We were honored to be on the show and can't wait to come back.

Remember to watch all the way through for a very special surprise ;-)

Calantha Organics Boutique Sign

Handmade by Calantha Organics founder, AKA my very own dad. Everyone who comes in LOVES this giant bar; they can't wait to check out what's inside!

The Calantha Organics Boutique

This month has been a joyous one for our family. Not only did Annie graduate from college, but we've also opened Park City, UT's newest (and only) all-natural organic soap boutique.



You can find the boutique at 6436 N. Business Park Loop Road, Suite D (84098). And feel free to check out more pictures from our Facebook page.


Not only does our boutique feature individual bars of our soap, but also adorable gift ideas inspired by none other than our soaps and our customers' suggestions.


In addition, we're also working on developing a Calantha Organics Vendor Program through which those interested can feature our offerings on their own establishments, so stay tuned for updates on it. We're very excited!

Customer Love - "I love the wood!"

I couldn't resist and bought all four varieties. The wood one reminds me of a fragrance I bout in France that I had NOT been able to find in the US for so long! I love them all so much, I sometimes go into my bathroom just to smell them.

- Maureen from Salt Lake City, UT

Customer Love - "Great for my hair!"

I love the soaps! Especially the citrus one. It smells really good! I've been using it to wash my hair as well. It's amazing how good my hair looks since I started using it.

- Diane from Berwyn, IL

Customer Love - "It's Genius!"

I think that the box [your soap] comes in is great; it has the little opening to allow one to 'sample' the aroma one wants before buying. That was a stroke of genius!

- Dorothy from Bellingham, WA

The Calantha Organics YouTube Channel

Yes, we just launched our brand new adorable channel on YouTube! With it, we hope to teach you more about organic skin care, the Art of Aromatherapy, and our all-natural organic soaps. We hope you enjoy it and wish for the site to become a very cool avenue through which you can learn more about us.


Find our channel here.

Lovely Garden

In case you haven't noticed by now :-), we are a very nature-loving family who not only makes all-natural soaps, but also recycles and conserves energy. So as Utah weather becomes more being-outside-friendly, we realized we needed what in Spanish is called a "huerta," or a garden where you grow crops. We used to have one in our backyard, you see, but Utah's seemingly bipolar weather made it tough to upkeep our tomatoes and cucumbers. So we decided it wasn't the best time for it.


But my dad Julio recently took up composting, which has been giving him great fertilizer for future crops. Not only that, but he's also considering building some low-key "refuge" for these crops, which will give them the much-needed safety they deserve to withstand most of our seasons. I canNOT wait try them when they're ready!


I'll be uploading pictures soon of our new yummy foods so be on the lookout for them :-)

Customer Love - "I Want More!"

I am just down to a little sliver of your soap and it has been perfect! It is the best thing I have ever used on my face and I would just love to have more!

- Lesli from Park City, UT

"Musing Mainiac" Wants Y'all To Try Our Soap!

Update: This contest's winner has since been announced and we were beyond thrilled to reward her with one of our products.

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How's this for amazingness?

Turns out MusingMainiac, a site by Maine-based Beth, just published its review of one of our soaps and she LOVED it!

It actually kind of reminds me of going camping in Maine after a rain storm.  I found the Leafy Green Face &  Body Bar to be completely refreshing and earthy, a great way to start off my day! My skin felt clean and soft after my shower too!

In fact, she loved it so much, she suggested we held a contest. So from now until Feb 12, you will have the chance to win our yummy Citrus Face & Body Bar! All you have to do is send MusingMainiac a blurb about what you learned from visiting our site (yes, this one!).


For more info, check out her full review (by clicking on the quote).


Good luck --and thanks, Beth, for the love!

Eat.Sleep.Beauty. Raves About Our Soliflore Bar!

On our family: 

"I love small companies, and I love stories like theirs, and how they came to be Calantha Organics."

On our soap:

• "... Upon receiving this soap the first thing that I noticed was the smell.... I love this bar a lot...."
• "... Not only does it work good on the body, it works great on the face." 
• "The number one thing I like about this, aside from the yummy smell, is the way it leaves my skin feeling. Even the most natural of bars, still leave my skin dry. This did not. I loved that about it."
• "I used it on my daughter. She said she smelled like a flower, and she said she liked it. She now requests the 'flower soap' when she gets in the shower." (How adorable is that?!)

Three Reasons for Why Fragrance Logos Work So Well

This article is about the art and science of developing a smell-based brand image, which is an effective tool to call attention to its uniqueness and distinguish it from competitors. 

(Think of how IKEA makes some sections of its stores smell like cinnamon rolls, or other essences that play with the nature of each showroom/environment. Another example is Crayola and the great smells embedded in each box of crayons. And even Abercrombie & Fitch stores, whose super [almost uncomfortably] strong smell can be perceived from mere feet away its entrance and thus help it stand from the "crowd" of apparel shops nearby.)

Indeed, as the article states, "... people who work in both the marketing and the production of perfumes have researched how to use the unique power that fragrances have of bringing out emotions in people by acting on the centre that governs them, the limbic system. This research is then to be used in order to influence the purchasing habits of consumers."

But why are "fragrance logos" so effective? According to the article, there are three reasons, though it doesn't enumerate them this way:

1. Our inherently great memory for smells: Our first memories of smells are not only the easiest to trigger off, but they also go back to when we were kids. This makes them the most powerful at recreating pleasant feelings. This memory never disappears and the ease with which we associate smells to certain situations depends on the importance of the event in which we perceived the smell during the learning process.

2. Our survival instincts: The sense of smell is the first and most primordial sense of all living organisms; in essence (no pun intended), our instincts tell us what is bad/potentially dangerous from all that is good/beneficial.

3. They can "spread": This type of logo has the advantage of being able to occupy the entire area in which it is diffused, which something traditional forms of advertising cannot do. Diffusing the scent during events in which a company is involved lets spectators associate that smell to the emotion of the event. In turn, this lets them recall that particular moment when they come into contact with the product later on or even go into shops to buy it.

The truth is that every company and marketer can develop a fragrance logo, but this opportunity is a significant one for makers of natural personal-care products, as we have to convince consumers that non-chemically-based products are the way to go. And letting them remember their first memories in which they came into contact with an ingredient of ours could significantly impact our efforts.

I hope my post taught you a bit more about fragrance marketing. As always, feel free to ask me questions and thanks for visiting.


- Julio

Customer Love - "Dry Skin"

I am very impressed with these soaps. I have been using them for a couple months now and they work well on my dry skin. I will definitely continue to use them.

- Bill from Bellingham, WA

Some Facebook Love

As a Marketing professional in the making, I dream of taking our lovely Calantha Organics to the top. This past summer, I worked in the PR department of a local Marketing agency, an opportunity that taught me, among other things, the DOs and DONT's of dealing with media personalities. Honestly, I didn't get much practice per se (I mostly researched their contact info); instead, I studied and studied the industry's best practices.


Having said that, you can imagine my surprise when I found that a leading blogger with whom I had recently established contact regarding Calantha Organics shared this on her blog's Facebook page:

Needless to say it MADE MY DAY. I wasn't expecting it and it made me soo excited for the prospects of our company. (Patting myself on the back.) Thanks, Sara, and to all have a great night and a wonderful New Year's!

So what are you waiting for? I'd love for you to become our fan. And you'll love being our fan too, with all the updates, exclusive offers and goodies we pass along to you! Seriously, as the leading source for natural organic soap in Utah, we'd be honored to call you a fan.

We're now live!

I'm very excited to announce that our new website is now live! Designed by my daughter, CalanthaOrganics.com features all that our family intends for our company to have and feature: Purely real ingredients for the best skin care products for the most deserving people in the world: you. Hope you enjoy the site and as always, I welcome your feedback and appreciate your visit.

This is a good article by Britain’s Professional Beauty. In it, the author writes about market researcher Datamonitor’s latest study, which reveals that despite the near exponential growth of this industry, some consumers are still unsure of its products; they wonder whether the ingredients used by makers of natural personal-care products are truly efficacious. Most importantly, they disfavor the high prices that are very common in the industry.


So I must ask the following: Would you rather pay a low price for a toxin-full product with no quality? Or instead paying what a healthful product of very high quality is really worth?


Here’s the article: http://www.professionalbeauty.co.uk/international/belief-in-natural-ingredients-drives-natural-personal-care-products-market/5017941.article


What do you think?