What flavor are your lips?

Chris and Lee are baking up a storm in the back today.  And the flavor is Berry, which is our GM's favorite flavor!  They will make enough Berry flavored lip balm to fill 267,000 lip balm tubes waiting in the production area. With QC watching over all like guardian angels, tubes get filled and Then the filled tubes will be Labeled and racked and out the door to one of our clients. 

The hypnotic effect of our automatic filling lines is remarkable. Soothing in a noisy kind of way.

 If our production is any indication, we have had the busiest December in a long time.  Running full tilt, adding people.  Let's hope this is a sign that the economy has turned the corner.  Amen Brother.
The Pied Piper

Stake out your territory

Did you know that the average Human body is covered by 20 Square Feet of SKIN?  Six pounds of skin in fact.  And that we shed or lose of wash all of that skin off every 27 days.....dead cells drift away.
You need a lot of lotion to keep that much skin supple and moist and healthy.  Fortunately, I have a lot of lotion so I am gooooood.  And it is good lotion so I am in fact, great!

And lips.  Lips are very important to me.  Kissing is one of the more enjoyable practices I know of.  Did you know that you will spend 336 hours in your life kissing?  That is if you are average.  And I know some people who are not so average!  Science has proven that our brain kicks in when seeking a lover's lips in the dark to facilitate finding them.  True.

So, keep lathering those bodies and lips and find a little time to overachieve in the kissing department.

The Pied Piper

An Ode to Hyperglycemic Crashes

We welcome Alyssa M today as a new lab technician with a cornucopia of baked goods. 
What she must think seeing cookies at every turn, a cookie tree, spiced nuts and raisins, chocolate candies and a frosted yule log!  I am sure things were different when she interviewed.  So i anticipate the post cookie eaters early afternoon crashes. Fortunately we have Peppermint Lip Balms floating around so we can use them as a pick me up!  To bad we don't make burner balm yet (has caffeine), that would get people moving..
The Pied Piper

You butter watch out, you butter not cry

Butter, it's whats for dinner.  In light of butter shortages in Iceland or Greenland, we thought we better make some butter lip balm and ship it over so they can remember what it tastes like.

 In our plant as we make various flavors and add scents and essences to our products, you can walk through production and think you are in a bakery on some days.  Today Chris and Lee cooked up some butter lip balm followed by Key Lime Pie lip balm and segued into ........


Pumpkin Pie lip balm and Pecan Pie Lip Balm.  You could smell the toasted pecans!

One of the unwritten perks of the job is to find out what the "menu" is and take an olfactory walk around the plant.
The Pied Piper

Cancer Scare!

Facts to think about

Skin Cancer Facts

• More than a million people will be diagnosed with skin cancer this year
• One in 5 Americans will get skin cancer in the course of a lifetime
• More than half of all newly diagnosed cancers are skin cancers
• One person dies every hour from skin cancer, primarily melanoma
• Melanoma kills more young women than any other cancer
• Nationally, there are more new cases of skin cancer each year than the combined incidence of cancer of the breast, prostate, lung and colon.
• More than 90 percent of all skin cancers are caused by sun exposure, yet fewer than 33 percent of adults, adolescents, and children routinely use sun protection.
• The risk of developing melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, has more than doubled in the past decade.
• One in four person who develop skin cancer is under the age of 40

So think about the products we make that feature SPF!

The Pied Piper

Albert Hall

In a serendipitous turn of events, the Pied Piper visited the Angels ball park last month in SoCal.  With a tube of our retail lip balm, we salute the new Albert Hall!  Out of the National Central and out of the hair of the Brewers...Pujols struck it rich.
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