![]() ![]() It has 15,000 square feet of space, almost four times that of their previous site on Fuller Road. RAD moved to their manufacturing facility at 8 Wolfert Ave. Customers will be able to try the soaps on the premises. The Stuyvesant Plaza store will be designed by Adirondack Studios, based in Argyle, which has worked with The Walt Disney Co., Universal Studies and Six Flags. Kerber said the products are all made of natural ingredients, do not contain animal products and are not tested on animals. Kerber went to a trade show in Las Vegas and ended up with 200 more retailers selling her soaps. Whole Foods found her at the Troy market. Her sons Zak, now 25, and Max, 22, now partners in the business, suggested she sell her soap at farmers' markets. It's one of 120 products now in their line, which also includes all-natural insect repellent, cleaning fluid and products made in conjunction with Death Wish Coffee in Round Lake and Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown. They still sell it as both a lotion and a soap under the name Toke. She did her own research and cooked it up on her stove using hemp, shea butter and borage oil. ![]() She had grown frustrated with doctors being unable to recommend a lotion to help son Zak. "I was doing it as a hobby to share, mother to mother." "I used to do it in my home," Kerber said. is the name of the rapidly growing business, which makes 10,000 to 20,000 bars of soap each month. Her family-owned business has plans for 19 more stores throughout the country over the next three years. Her products wound up at Whole Foods and other retailers, and now she is preparing to open her first store in Stuyvesant Plaza this fall.īut that's just the beginning. A soap-making business that started in her kitchen, as she was trying to make a lotion to ease her son's eczema, gathered steam at farmers' markets. ![]()
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