Self-Care and a whole lot of Love with Love Care Naturals

BY: LEANNE BENN

Self-Care is one of the most important aspects of our lives, whether we accept this or not. Love Care Naturals is a Toronto based bath and body company aimed focusing on helping clients start their self-care journey from the core essentials, such as soap, moisturizers and lip balms. 

The face and the name behind the brand is company CEO, Shenique Salmon who takes pride in managing and producing all of the Love Care products. All the items are all natural and handcrafted reflecting Salmon’s personal interests of spreading love and care towards her client’s busy lives.

“Love Care Naturals is like my baby right now and it really prides itself on all the products being hand-crafted with love, care, and natural ingredients, that’s where I got the name from and through the business, I would like to promote self-care and self-love.”

December 2018 will mark Salmon’s one-year anniversary since launching Love Care, but the idea and the concept was something she held on to for years. Salmon explained her personal interest in lip care, specifically lip balms. As she would look in the stores to find brands that would fit her needs, something was always off, some would have moisture but no shine or vice versa, generally products that left her feeling unsatisfied.

Salmon eventually decided on one lazy summer day last year to make her own lip balm. Despite it being a lot of work and testing various recipes, Salmon came up with a recipe and a resulting lip balm that she fell in love with and so did her friends and family. From there, the idea of her business grew, and Salmon was able to uniquely tie her profession as a social worker with her brand. Through her products Salmon hopes to cater self-care and self-love, it’s a similar understanding and flow of communication being a social worker and interacting with various people and is reflected in Salmon’s products. “It’s a lot of hard work and I feel like with a lot of entrepreneurs we see the glitz and the glam of the final product but we don’t see the hard work of what they put in.”

Salmon has dedicated herself to her work and to building up her products bit by bit. Currently, Love Care Naturals offers lip care and body care products. The all-natural lip balms are meant to repair and restore moisture to lips. There are three different scents available, Winter Bliss, Summer Kiss, and classic Cocoa lip balm. As the names would imply for the other two, Winter Bliss contains ingredients to help battle the harsh winter and the drying effects it can have on our lips. Base ingredients include beeswax, shea butter, coconut oil, and vitamin E. Summer Kiss alternatively add a splash of mango butter to its ingredient list. All lip balms are priced at CAD $2.50 and can make the perfect stocking stuffers.

In terms of the body care items. Love Care offers hydrating and exfoliating products which include a ginger-lime or a charcoal loofah soap, two different types of bath bombs, invigorating minty goodness and calming lavish lavender, as well as two body scrubs, exfoliating oats, and a refreshing lemonade body scrub. One of Salmon’s best sellers is her massage body butter that moisturizes the body and helps with scars and stretch marks. The rich texture of the butter also helps with dry winter skin and other skin issues such as eczema.

Salmon is continually coming up with more product ideas and refreshing scents for her customers. Love Care also offers the option of creating gift baskets and packages for special occasions and especially for the upcoming holidays. There are also bundles available on her site, which includes 4oz versions of her body scrubs. There are currently three pre-made boxes that customers can choose from: a Self Love box, including a massage butter, two lip balms, two bath bombs and a choice of a loofah and body scrub. The special Holiday box is suited for both men and women and includes all the elements that focus on self-care and well-being. It includes one 8oz version of a body scrub, a choice of bath bomb, one lip balm and a choice of loofah soap.

Salmon takes care in crafting these boxes herself and allows small room for alterations as well as custom basket orders given the appropriate time frame. The final Deluxe box is just that, deluxe and includes a bit of everything, ensuring that customers don’t miss out on all of her wonderful products.

Love Care Naturals is a great gift for the holidays whether to yourself or someone that you know is in need of a bit of self-care. Orders are usually shipped within 3 days and contact can be made on Salmon’s website, lovecarenaturals.com where you can send a custom message and explore the pricing of the various products and gift baskets.

So, indulge a little, live a little and take care of yourself a whole lot, because you always come first.