I stumbled into formulating and creating skin care formulas quite accidentally. A little innocent research into the benefits and uses of Frankincense essential oil led me to researching other essential oils, which rapidly progressed into creating a few balms and body butters for myself, family and friends. It snowballed from there and eventually, with the urging and encouragement of family and friends, I opened my first Etsy shop, White Dove Skincare. I have since changed the name of that business to Dorea Votani (found on Etsy as doreavotani). As my knowledge and experience grew, I began branching out into more and more formulations and products. From soaps, sugar scrubs and body butters I moved on to lotions and face moisturizers. Then learned to formulate shampoos, conditioners and cleansers. The solid shampoo and conditioner bars became a fast favorite of mine. I learned a lot about surfactants and how to make true solid shampoos, unlike so many you see that are sold as "shampoo bars" but are actually a soap (bad for skin, worse for hair! Avoid those at all costs! Ask me if you want to know how to recognize the difference).
I felt more and more of a pull towards creating more environmentally conscious products, especially when it came to packaging.
I wanted to create a new brand of exceptional products that not only used safe, natural ingredients as I have done with my Dorea Votani brand, but to also make every single product as Earth-friendly as possible. Only biodegradable or reusable, Plastic-free packaging and sustainable ingredients. And so, after much thought, EarthSparked was born!
Recently, I have decided to take it one big step further. We are now partnered with the reforestation organization called OneTreePlanted. For every product sold, we will sponsor the planting of 1 tree. Each month we will choose a different region to focus our efforts.
Imagine the difference we can make together!

Thanks for reading!
Have a blessed day!
Kim