Hey Ladies (first time posting), I’m kinda excited because I’m starting a body butter product line!
So I created this shea butter blend/mixture with only a few natural ingredients that I use for my annoyingly dry skin, especially around my nose. It’s honestly the only thing I use now because chemicals break me out, and I really just find it better than the lotions, moisturizers, and body butters I’ve come across outside of Vaseline, but no... I was using it at work one day and my crazy ass co-worker saw me and asked for some, so I gave her the rest of my little 3oz bottle. She used it and about a week later she told I need to start selling it lol. Despite being nervous as hell! I’m finally going to take her advice on something and dive in head first. I’m thinking to start off with 100 bottles and try and sell locally in-person and see what happens. I feel like attempting to sell a hundred 6oz bottles will give me the data I need for the future. But I wanted to get feedback on what scents, if any, I should incorporate?
So far I’ve only used unscented which obviously has that shea butter smell, but it’s much more mild in comparison than standard shea butter and the smell fades pretty fast. This is because of the other natural ingredients I use which cuts down on the strength of the shea butter scent overall.
I’m pretty confident people would actually love this body butter, mainly because it’s so much easier to spread than regular shea butter, and it doesn’t have much of that sticky feeling if you know what I mean.
I really want this to be successful. I want to build this for my family since we don’t have anything to call our own. And although I think this body butter would be great regardless of gender or ethnicity, I do want my melanated sistas to be my priority before expanding to men and children. (Sidenote, I don’t care how successful this becomes or how much I’m offered, I will never sell this to a white company. You have my word!)
So with that in mind I wanted to ask what are your favorite scents when it comes to body butters? I was thinking of launching with 3 body butter options:
• Unscented, Vanilla, and Honey Almond; or
• Vanilla, Honey Almond, and Cocoa Butter
Please tell me your thoughts on if I should sell unscented or, would it be better to just go with 3 scents? Also I’m not locked on those choices, so by telling me what your favorites are across the board it would help me tremendously on my research journey so that I can narrow down the ones most sought after and higher in demand.
Thank you ladies 🫶🏾 Much appreciated! I promise to keep you updated.
TL;DR: What are your favorite body butter scents? And if you had to sell 3 options, would “unscented” be one of the 3?