HELPING  OTHERS  TO  HELP  THEMSELVES
 

TEACHERS  LEARN  HOW  TO  BALANCE  THEIR  LIVES!

Jenn’s great, great grandmother Esther Spitz used to teach rug hooking, and make soap and homemade noodles on the ancestral farm in Wisconsin.  The whole family grew up learning things about life and love from Grandma Spitz who was blessed with the gift of teaching and knew about the “balance in life” before it was a buzz phrase.

One day Jenn and her mother (two former teachers who were burned out with the corporate world), mixed up a batch of soap while “thinking outside the box.”  They had been looking for some way that they could work at home and still be good wives and mothers.  So they had started with Grandma’s soap recipe, but substituted plant oil for the animal fat in the recipe and they were very pleased with the result. 

The main ingredients in their soaps are olive oil and soybean oil (a Wisconsin cash crop) and they found it lathers well and is so gentle for their skin that they also developed a hand and body cream.  And one of my favorites is the “Ah! 24-7 Relief” cream.  It soothes my minor aches and pains as well as my tendonitis.

Jenn Kane and Jillayne Waite went on to create their all natural line of products for  “bath, body, backyard and beyond”  They named their company Cedar Creek after the creek that ran through the farm where Jenn grew up.  The farm was a place where wonderful childhood memories were created as they wandered in the woods, played in the hayloft and learned to ride.

But most of all, the farm was a place where everyone learned about life and what it means to be a family and where they learned about values and work ethics.  These concepts carry over into their workplace and at Cedar Creek everyone works part-time (including family and employees) so they can balance their work and family lives just as Grandma Spitz did - and everyone gets benefits.  The entire group works together to plan the monthly schedule and no one has a title. 

At Cedar Creek, they believe that making a quality product will ensure their future and maintaining a quality work environment will assure the quality product!  They know also that their business depends on their creativity, flexibility and integrity – a winning recipe!

Along the way the mother/daughter duo realized that they were creating a lot of soap waste when they trimmed the ends of the soap molds.  Still “thinking outside the box,” they ground it up and sprinkled it around the garden to keep the deer from eating the flowers!

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