Farrah Low is going to have a nice ‘what I did this summer’ story to tell her classmates when she heads back to school in a couple weeks.
Farrah, 8, started a body scrub manufacturing company this past May called Flow Aqua and has spent the past four months making and selling the $5 bath products to needy customers through her mom’s (Arlene) and the Davidson Buy and Sell facebook pages. The business achieved almost instant success and the young entrepreneur has already accumulated $300 in sales, which she is donating to the new Davidson Swimming Pool fund.
“I’m very happy,” said Farrah, who is entering Grade 3 at Davidson School this September. “I’m proud that people love my scrubs and they’re buying them and I’m very thankful that they do that for me.”
Farrah learned how to make the body scrubs by watching a YouTube video on the products and decided to enter some of her creations as silent auction items at the Davidson Optimist Dance Club spring recital in early May. The hand-made body scrubs proved so popular at the auction that the emerging business guru decided to turn the idea into a company called Flow Aqua.
She said the scrubs are made from sugar, coconut oil and food colouring as well as a “very special ingredient” called essential oils. Farrah explained these oils are medicines that come from the earth.
“They always make you do different stuff,” she said about the various scrubs she makes with the help of her mom and grandma. “Be Balanced is like a grapefruit kind, Be Reflective is a spicy kind, peppermint is Be Peppy and we have Be Lazy. That is a lavender one. My favourite is probably either Be Balanced, the grapefruit one, or Be Refreshed, a lime one.”
Creating the body scrubs is only one aspect of the finished product, however, as Farrah also decorates their containers. She said once the jars are filled up she ties a ribbon about the container, attaches a spoon to the jar and then goes to “this special funky website” where she designs her own label for each one.
“Then we wrap them all up in bags,” said Farrah. “We take the order and we (hand-deliver) them.”
Flow Aqua’s main customer base in Davidson, Lake Diefenbaker and Rosetown shouldn’t fear an end to their body scrub supply when Farrah returns to school in a couple weeks, as the industrious eight-year-old plans to keep the company running for the foreseeable future. The only difference is she is planning to realize a better profit for her company now that her goal of raising $300 for the new swimming pool has been met.
“I’m going to keep the money,” she said about the new business plan.