About Grace’s Green Garden

I have been manufacturing natural skin care products for over 10 years and have 3 distinctive skin care lines.  The first line I designed was Truly Namasté Natural Skin Care Products.  I developed that line for my yoga student at my Lights of Yoga Studio.  The label has a peaceful looking Eastern image on it in keeping with the yoga inspired essential oil aromas and names of the products.  I started selling the products in my little yoga shop in the year 2000.  My happy customers told their families and friends about my creations.  By word of mouth, the business began to grow and I made the products available online at Truly Namasté.  A few years later, I had the opportunity to move to Tucson, Arizona and work with a natural chemist.  While in Tucson I learned that my brother had contracted esophageal cancer.  I spared no expense and made an all natural lotion and balm for him to relieve the burns he suffered from the radiation treatments he had to endure for 7 weeks.  That product is Ultra Skin Ease and the label is a garden green and happy yellow.  I figured the illness that requires one to have to go through radiation treatment is depressing enough and wanted the person using the Ultra Skin Ease products to feel good about reaching for the Ultra Skin Ease containers.  Those products are available in the Skin Ease 4 U section of this site.

My newest label is the Grace’s Green Garden label.  The label designs are inspired by nature and the exceptional skin care products, like all of my products, are made with wholesome natural ingredients.  The Grace’s Green Garden skin care product line is an aromatherapy skin care line and, as with my other skin care products, natural essential oils are used for scent and healing instead of chemically produced fragrance oils.  Over the next several months I will be planting the Truly Namasté line and the Ultra Skin Ease line into the Grace’s Green Garden web site.  This will make it more convenient for my valued clients to shop between all three lines if they desire.  I will also be adding new products that I have developed and tested over the last two years to Grace’s Green Garden and expanding out beyond natural skin care products to add some health promoting goodies that I like to use and share with those nearest and dearest to me.

I was recently asked, if I had to describe myself with just one word, what would that word be.  Although, I am many things, as we all are, my descriptive word would be “gardener”.  I was raised on a working farm.  My parents instilled in me a profound love for nature and all of its bounty.  From a young age I was taught to work the earth and learned about the healing power of plants and their use in folk, holistic, alternative, and integrative medicine.  I no longer live on a working farm, but I love gardening.  I spend almost all of my free time in the garden from early Spring to the first heavy snow.  I live in Ohio and our winters last about 4 months.  As soon as the snow melts and the ground thaws, I don my warm clothes to go outside and work the earth, pulling up left over weeds, spent plants and debris, clipping back winter kill and getting each section of the garden ready for spring growth.  As I immerse myself in the preparation of the garden sections, I visualize the stages and transformations the bare earth will go through as each seed and plant makes its life climb from the first sprout to the flushing out of lush greens, deep reds, happy yellows, vibrant oranges, sensuous purples, soft blues, and sparkling whites.  I lovingly nurture my plants and enjoy the rich, ripe harvest of beautiful flowers and tasty vegetables like fragrant tomatoes, fleshy eggplant, and aromatic herbs.  Then, finally, while the days grow shorter and the weather colder, I prepare the garden beds for a much deserved quiet rest as the green leaves of my plants turn to fall color and then brown.

I look at my entire life as a garden.  I call it my Life Garden.  Over the years my Life Garden has gotten quite large.  As I have evolved and expanded, I have added many sections to it.  Some sections overlap, blending into each other, while others stand alone.  One section is called ‘mother’, another section is ‘sister’, yet another is called ‘daughter’.  Some of the other sections are called friend, business woman, yoga teacher, student, manufacturer, employer, employee, nature lover, environmentalist, homeowner, and many, many others.

While pondering this I realized that everyone has a Life Garden.  We all plant many sections in our gardens.  As we change, grow, learn, and evolve we all pull up weeds and dead plants and clip back winter kill.  Sometimes entire sections are laid bare to make room for new plantings.  Other times we rearrange or add new plantings and materials to an all ready existing, healthy section in our ever evolving Life Gardens.

Over the years my skincare business has grown, changed, and evolved.  Through study, research, and experience I have planted new and effective ingredients into my all ready wonderful garden of products.  I have become a pretty good gardener in the natural skincare industry.  I love what I do.  I am very excited about the evolution of my company and the marvelous changes that have come with it.  Once you try Grace’s Green Garden products, I think you will be, too.

Thank you for visiting my web site.

Warmest Regards,
Grace Vitale