It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since I sat in my attorney’s office with my friends Rob Conboy and Jason Pelletier and created what is now TrueBody Products. The origins of TrueBody go back to a series of “water-cooler” conversations way back in 2003-2005 between Rob, Jason and me when we were colleagues [...]
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Tagged 5 year, anniversary, beauty, Business, entrepreneur, green business, natural, natural products, personal care, small business, soap, socially responsible company, Start-up, sustainability, true, TrueBody, vermont
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Launching our True Community Project by Birgitta Polson, True Community Manager If someone had told me two years ago at this time that I would now be working for a soap company in Vermont, I would have had a lot questions about how I got here—questions framed by an overarching sense of relief that at [...]
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Tagged CSR, donation, fundraising, green business, Nepal, philanthropy, refugee, soap, socially responsible company, sustainability, True Community, TrueBody, vermont
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February 3, 2012 – 4:25 pm
My new co-worker, Birgitta, asked me the other day if I knew anything about phenoxyethanol. Said she’d seen it in a lot of personal care products that claim to be natural. A little research showed that phenoxyethanol is the “new darling of the chemical industry” as it is increasingly being used as an alternative to [...]
January 6, 2012 – 7:05 pm
Instant Karma by John Lennon is one of my favorite songs. I was reminded of it today when I received not one but two signs of instant karma – good karma, for sure. First, when I picked up the TrueBody mail this morning, I found a lovely card from a woman who lives here in Richmond, [...]
November 13, 2011 – 5:04 pm
It’s the time of year when people think about giving and sharing – and I’m thinking especially hard about it right now. TrueBody has always been about making natural, good for you and the planet, products at a price that makes them widely accessible – our way of sharing with you and our fragile planet. [...]
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Tagged Capital, entrepreneur, Financing, green business, natural products, socially responsible company, Start-up, vermont, wacky stuff
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As some of you may have guessed from the launch of our TrueTunes Tuesday campaign, I love music. And some of my favorite artists got their start in our little state of Vermont . Of course I’m talking about Phish and Grace Potter & The Nocturnals. They started small and local (my husband used to [...]
Just over one year ago, The Story of Cosmetics– a short animated video about toxic chemicals in personal care products — was launched. If you missed it the first time around, I strongly recommend taking a few minutes to watch. It’s well done, informative, and gets even those of us who consider ourselves savvy to [...]
In my quest for balance, I treated myself to another hike this morning. I’ve been stressing a lot about finding the last $85K of investment capital to close the current round of financing and figured I could use some head-clearing. My hike today was to Libby’s Look, a 3-mile loop that takes you to a [...]
I’ve been trying hard to schedule exercise time into my life and with a full-time business to run and two young daughters, this usually takes the form of 20 minutes of hopping around my living room to some exercise video at 5am. Some mornings I just can’t get out of bed that early and today [...]
We know from market research and personal experience that the women in the family tend to do most of the purchasing, especially when it comes to soap. But, we get a lot of true love from our men friends too! In fact, my husband, Chip (pictured here with our girls) was a big part of [...]