Welcome to Stambry's!

We started the Company over 12 years ago, because my daughter was allergic to most soaps and other products on the market.
We started trying to make our own soaps, experimenting and researching what would be best for her skin. In doing so we ended up with many different types of soaps, we gave out bars to our friends, neighbors and anyone else we could think of. After a few years, we had so much soap, that we decided to sell at farmer's markets. They sold well, still have repeat customers from those first days so many years ago!
In our research, we joined a few soaping groups on line, networked and learned how to make other products, soon I was making lotions, and salves. My daughter suffers from migraines, I developed Amber's Headache Remedy for her and it helped her! She could take it to school and use it when needed and not get in trouble for having "drugs" on her.
Liquid soap was probably the hardest for me to learn. Worked hard and tossed many bad batch!!!! Today it comes out flawlessly!!! Great for your hair! This was all while living in Vermont.
In 2007 while going through a divorce, I decided I really wanted to go back to NH! I have always loved it there, had a great circle of support, a fellow soaper (Naomi Funchion) I'd been befriended by and I decided since we were going to be living in the same area, that instead of competing against each other we would merge our two companies. We came up with the new name Stambry's Crescent Moon Soap Co. My company had been Stambry's Bath & Beauty Products, Naomi's was Crescent Moon Soaps. Our business plan was almost completed, we were pretty much all set, all we were waiting for was for me to actually move from Vt. to Derry NH.
Naomi and I were fast friends, spoke several times a day, shared recipes, (both soaps and food!), talked about the kids etc...
On August 7th 2007 I recieved a call from Naomi's husband Gary. It was a call that broke not only my heart but the soaping worlds. Naomi had been in an accident and had passed away.
Though I did manage to complete the merge of the two companies with the family's blessing. It was a good two years before I made soaps or any products again.
In the early spring of 2009 I met my new partner, in life and now in business. Steve got me excited about the business again. Though at first it was still hard, waiting for the phone to ring everytime I put the lye solution into the oils, and started the stick blender. Naomi had that uncanny knack of calling at that percise moment! I miss her so much.
Well Steve and I started making soaps and products again, well I did most of them, as over a year later he is still learning. We did some farmer's markets, and craft fairs. We even did the Topsfield fair in Topsfield Ma. We did very well.
February of this year, my job ended. I was taking care of a elderly woman who ended up needing nursing home care.
Steve and I put our heads together, along with our money, knowledge and more and decided that we would open Stambry's Crescent Moon Soap Co Inc. at 1359 Hancock St. Quincy, Ma. 02169.
We officially opened on July 17th 2010. We are doing well. But it's been a lot of work.