Shopify x Wary Meyers | Shower Thoughts Soap

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Handcrafted by indie brand Wary Meyers, our Shower Thoughts Soap features clusters of colorful soap pieces floating in a white glycerin base. Inhale the invigorating cucumber mint fizz scent, lather up, and let your creativity flow.

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Meet your makers: Wary Meyers

Introducing our Shower Thoughts Soap collab partners, Linda and John Meyers of Wary Meyers. This husband-and-wife team first started making soap in 2010 and turns scent, color, and nostalgia into usable art. They work side by side, hand-pouring every piece out of their home in Cumberland, Maine.

Why did you decide to start Wary Meyers?

Linda: As artists and designers, we were doing a lot of traveling and designing interiors for our friends in New York. When we moved to Maine, our installation and esoteric work fell to the wayside and we needed to figure out how to make a living here. My sister suggested that we make soap because it was easy. Meanwhile, it took us a year to figure out how to get our stripes to stick. It was the most opposite of easy that it could have been.

How do you handle work-life balance while living and working out of your (incredibly cool) house in Cumberland, Maine?

Linda: We have been working side by side since 2004, and I guess we've just gotten used to it. We have little things like a schedule. Even if you don't follow it, you have to have a schedule. And try not to look at clutter in the house, leave it behind if the workday starts.
Wary Meyers founders, Linda and John Meyers, at their home soap studio, posing with a cat during production.
Handmade soap workshop tools and aprons hanging above a soapmaking work area.
Linda Meyers smiling at a workbench in her home soap studio during behind-the-scenes production.
Have a lean crew in the beginning, because then your vision and your focus stays very true to what you want.— Linda Meyers
Gloved hands cutting a loaf of handmade Shower Thoughts Soap with a colorful terrazzo-style pattern.
Linda and John Meyers measuring and mixing ingredients for small-batch handmade soap in their studio.
Stacked terrazzo-pattern Shower Thoughts Soap bars on a tabletop, showing the handmade design.

Why did you choose Shopify as your business platform? Any favorite features?

Linda: The analytics are amazing. You can really hyper-focus on who's on your site. It's so fun to launch something and then see where people are looking. We will never leave Shopify!

We’re so excited to launch our Shower Thoughts-themed soap with you. What’s a recent shower thought you’ve had?

Linda: I love collecting skincare products, and I have a billion of them in the shower. So, usually I am testing out all these products and studying design. Or thinking of new ideas, a recent thought was doing soap on a rope!

John: For me, it's things like "If I add more fragrance to this soap, I'm gonna need more pigment, but I don't want the pigment to run."

Any advice for small business owners just starting out?

Linda: Be lean and don't overextend yourself. I think back to all the stuff we purchased, the pounds of fragrance oil that went to waste. Also, have a lean crew in the beginning, because then your vision and focus stay very true to what you want.

What about married business owners just starting out?!

Linda: Multiple rooms and headphones to start. Just because we work in the same house doesn't mean we have to be together all the time. We used to have walkie-talkies to communicate; now we text! We also rarely fight, and we really do get along very well together, so it does help if you start out being compatible. We've been married 21 years and have worked together the whole time.
Linda and John Meyers packaging handmade Shower Thoughts Soap bars at a worktable in their small-batch studio.
Gloved hands wrapping and arranging colorful, terrazzo-style Shower Thoughts Soap bars for shipping.
John Meyers smiling in his workshop, behind the scenes of handmade soap production.