Shopify x Wary Meyers | Shower Thoughts Soap

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.

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.

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.

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.