EssencialDreams

We're a family business that began in 1988.
We make a lot of what we sell (except Stick Incenses of which we offer the finest quality not chemically dipped, and Incense Resins that occur naturally, as well as some of the plants we offer which are Wild Crafted or Organically grown by Farmer friends) and use the finest Organic Ingredients we can.
All our herbs and Body Care are made using Organically grown products as we believe we all get enough chemicals through commercially processed foods, produce and most of the times we eat out so we’d like to not add to that!

We do keep a fair amount of inventory on hand but do occasionally run out while waiting for re-supply to come it.
Our work is in our home and a full downstairs is dedicated to stock, shipping and making our products. It operates at pretty much full capacity and hope to have our own place some day with land and space for a separate building for the business.

Our Natural Organic Body Care is very gentle yet thoroughly cleanses, just doesn't strip your hair or skin of natural oils like chemical soaps do. We scent with Organic Essential Oils and also offer Unscented for folks that prefer no added essence. (if you don’t see a Body Care product unscented you can go ahead an purchase the scented offer and tell us in the note to seller to make it unscented. Since we make it it’s simple enough to leave out the essence!)

Our Body Care Products use Organically grown materials when ever possible and incorporate Aromatherapy within them. What does this mean? We use Essential Oils to scent our products and while Essential Oils are quite a bit more expensive than Fragrance Oils we prefer to use them for several reasons and benefits.
Essential Oils have therapeutic properties and this is one of the reasons we use essential oils. We also use a hefty amount to out products so that you get the Aromatherapeutic value from the Essential Oil not just a mellow scenting but something that leaves you with say Lavender..
Our customers are repeat customers which tells us we're doing something right!

The only time we use less Essential Oil is when the price of the Essential Oils is very expensive and we don't want to price it out of your reach, but since we do custom scenting it is always possible to have it stronger, with the price adjusted to just how strong you'd like it. Examples are Rose, Jasmine and Sandalwood.

Custom scenting not only to the strength you'd prefer but also Custom blending Essential Oils to any combination you'd like.

We Love what we do and are told it's evident in the quality of our products. Then again we use it all ourselves so..

Being a Family business we do things quite different than the Corporate World and Customer Service is very important to us.
We say we ship within 5 Business days, usually it's 1-3 days of cleared payment, since3 we make what we sell it can take up to 5 Business days. (weekends don't count). Sometimes we are away as we do attend Native American Pow Wows but and other Festivals (ever been to LEAF Festival?) to set up our booth and will fulfill orders that came in while we were away immediately upon returning.. We ship Monday - Friday.

Our environmental statement has been around since we began in 1988. All our packing material is recycled from local businesses. Reusing boxes from local businesses, printing on recycled paper and our catalog is our website.

Biodegradable body care ingredients and even our shrink wrap is from cellophane. But we do use plastic zip lock bags for products that do break down since we found cellophane bags for that is too fragile around wood heat (it’s our only heat source)

I’m sure we could do more and do the best we can and at least we doing something!

You may purchase herbs that show a header card on them (we sell to stores for resale) but receive the herbs with their name written on the bag rather than the header card. Again we do this believing that you want the product and not excessive packaging. If you want the extra packaging let us know in the note to seller and rather than the combined shipping of up to 50% we’ll offset it to 20% if combined shipping applies. The images we use are from our website.

If you email us and did not receive a response with 24 hrs it would be because we’re away at a festival. Our email computer is on no less than 12 hrs a day when we’re here.
Unfortunately we don’t have email via cell phone perhaps one day but again this is what we do for a living so it’s not in the budget at this time.

Skype us when it's on or email us we'll get right back unless we're away at a Pow Wow for the week end as we take our products to Native American Festivals, here, Ebay and our own website. Oh and if you're in Asheville where also at the Market on weekends.

Have a wonderful day and if we can be of service just let us know.

In Light and Love,
Louie, Denise, Adam and Andreas
Essencial Dreams
we make good scents!