Our Story
Welcome everyone! My name is Candace Young and I am the owner and creator of Melrose Botanics. Take a seat and let's chat for a bit.
Approximately 5 years ago I started to notice that I had eczema. I had these dry, itchy and extremely painful patches on my skin. I kept looking for products to help soothe my skin but I just couldn't find anything, so I decided to make my own soothing balm. I made so much of the balm and I knew it would take me forever to use it up. So I decided to take it to my hair salon to sell the rest of the jars just to get rid of it and I figured every time I made a batch that was too much I would just take it to the salon and retail it.
To my surprise, what I thought would be a product that I would advertise for skin shortly became a product that I would advertise for skin and hair!
Story time:
One day I was doing a client's hair and I noticed that I ran out of hair grease. I looked over at my jar of soothing balm and said to myself this is shea butter mixed with essential oils and carrier oils. These products can also be used on hair so I put some on the client's hair and to my surprise I was wowed at how even more moisturized her hair became. I started selling jars to people and about 2 weeks later I started receiving calls and text messages saying hey I need some more of that product or hey I let my mom try it and she's asking for a jar or hey I took it on a trip and my whole jar is gone I need more.
So I thought to myself hmm what do I have here. I mean what I made for my dry and itchy skin has now turned into something that I was using for hair as well and people are loving it. What should I do? The day that I had the final stamp of ok you should make this into a business is when my brother came into the salon and asked for lotion. Instead of giving him lotion I gave him some of the product. He put the product on, left the salon and called back minutes later and his exact words were "Whatever you gave me you need to sell that". I started making jars every week, then came the hair oils, then the scrubs and so much more. Over the years I've tried different business names, logos, label layouts but nothing was ever concrete until now! I am so happy to finally have a space to share my handcrafted products and also build a community around self care!
Our Mission
Our mission at Melrose Botanics is to help individuals cultivate an ongoing relationship with self care. We are dedicated to using the most natural ingredients for our hair care and skin care lines. We also believe in hand crafting small batches at a time to ensure fresh products for our customers.