REXBURG – A Wilford family recently started its own soap making and gluten free food mix business. In less than a month’s time, it’s proven so successful that the entrepreneurial family is happy to find it a challenge to keep up with it all.
Kaissa Gurvine, her daughter Kayleigh Gurvine and her mother Chris Zandonatti recently started the business called Gurvine Family Farms.
They initially set up shop on Facebook and after seeing a brisk business there, the family opted to set up a booth at Saturday’s Experience Rexburg. There, they sold their soaps and meals to an interested eager crowd.
It all came about rather suddenly after Kayleigh Gurvine recently expressed an interest in selling the products.
“She said ‘Mom, I can make lots of this. I can do this on Facebook,’” Kaissa Gurvine recalled.
Shortly after, the Gurvine family launched their business. It didn’t take long before orders started pouring in.
“We were able to sell within moments,” Kaissa Gurvine said. “We shipped out 20 shipments of soap.”
Kaissa Gurvine had been making the soap for quite a while but had no intention of ever selling it. At the time, she mainly focused on her and husband Joel Gurvine’s soccer business that they run via the internet.
The family started it while living in Tucson and, thanks to the web, they’re able to do so from Rexburg.
“We’re soccer enthusiasts, I started it over 12 years ago,” Kaissa Gurvine said. “It’s my baby. We have 1,000 players playing. We run from here. It’s doing well.”
Gurvine Family Farms is also doing well. Kayleigh Gurvine says she enjoys the process of making and selling the soap. She also likes being her own boss.
“I enjoy being in charge,” she said.
And it’s enjoyable to involve her mother and grandmother in the project, Kayleigh Gurvine said.
“It really is all of the family helping,’’ she said. “It’s so fun.”
While it’s fun, it also provides an extra income and that always helps, Kayleigh Gurvine said.
“We don’t necessarily live off it, but I love doing it,” she said. “I hope to have it get bigger.”
Kayleigh Gurvine plans to attend Brigham Young University-Idaho in January where she plans to major in physical therapy. She likes helping people and says that’s one way of doing so.
The Gurvine family says that the soap business is another way of helping people. The family makes its soap out of 100 percent coconut oil and later adds a single fragrance to the mixture.
“A lot of soaps add blends,” Kaissa Gurvine said. “We wanted one. If you get an orange scent, that’s all you’re smelling.”
The soaps do everything from lifting a person’s mood to fighting acne, she said.
It’s vital to take care of skin and only put things on it that will help the whole body, Kaissa Gurvine said.
“Our skin is the (body’s) biggest organ,” she said. “We need to be putting the best things on it to be absorbed into the blood stream.”
Anytime a soap causes itching, that’s an indication there’s a problem with it. The family promotes what it calls “The Healing Soap” that’s made of lemongrass and poppy seeds. On the family’s Facebook page, it reports that “Lemongrass oil promotes healthy, smooth skin and reduces the appearance of scars and blemishes. The scent has grounding and uplifting properties. The added poppy seeds exfoliate and nourish skin.”
While it’s important to use the right kind of soap on the skin, it’s also vital to eat the right kinds of food to help the digestive track, says the Gurvine family.
Kaissa Gurvine says that often people assume that certain foods will make them sick and that they must live with it. It doesn’t have to be that way, she said.
“Many people feel their uncomfortableness is normal,” Kaissa Gurvine said. “If we are digesting properly, we should feel good.”
The family’s gluten free mixes help with the digestive track. The mixes come dairy and sugar free, but they still taste great, she said.
“You ought to taste the cake,” Kaissa Gurvine said.
As Rexburg transplants, the family moved here recently because of what the Upper Valley region provided.
“It seemed like a beautiful place, and we wanted a change,” Kaissa Gurvine said. “It just spoke to us.”
The Gurvines have six children ages 5 to 22 years old. They live on a mini-farm where Joel Gurvine is currently building a home for the family.
In the meantime, the Gurvines keep busy with the family’s new business. Despite being in business just a short time, the family has experienced great success. If it got any busier, Kaissa Gurvine says she couldn’t keep up with it.
Kaissa Gurvine says that Kayleigh Gurvine brings a youthful spirit to the family’s entrepreneurial spirit.
“She’s the youngness,” she said. “She comes up with design ideas of what the kids will like. She’s doing a lot of the manual labor. We’re all really doing it together.”
For more information on the family’s soap and gluten-free business, follow them on Facebook at Gurvine Family Farms.
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