Saskatchewan gift shop creates unique application for berry products.Granted, when you're known as Canada's Bread Basket bread basket an agricultural area, such as the U.S. Midwest, that provides large amounts of food to other areas. [Am. Hist.: Misc.] See : Farming , it's hard to think of Saskatchewan's agriculture sector as anything but a food supplier to the world. While this may well be the case for a vast majority of Saskatchewan agricultural products, there are other less traditional, non-food uses for some Saskatchewan crops. One Saskatchewan company, which prides itself on Saskatchewan-made products, sports a shining example of a non-food, value-added product in a new line of skin care products called Exotic Prairie Berry Lotion lotion /lo·tion/ (lo´shun) a liquid suspension, solution, or emulsion for external application to the body. lo·tion n. 1. and Milk Bath. Creative Compliments Gift Baskets A gift basket, or fruit basket is typically a gift that is delivered to the recipient at their home or workplace. There are different varieties of gift baskets, some which have fruit only, some with dry/canned goods only (such as tea, crackers and jam) although the standard , with locations in Saskatoon Saskatoon (săskət  n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. and Regina, has partnered with a Saskatoon lotion manufacturer
to bring in this unique lotion on an exclusive basis.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "It's an exclusive blend of our own prairie berry fragrances that we've had specially designed," says Creative Compliments Gift Baskets founder Ellie Richardson. The lotion moisturizes skin with its exclusive blend of prairie berry fragrances, which is combined with an unscented cream base with jojoba jojoba (h  ·hōˑ·b coconut, sweet almond oil Noun 1. sweet almond oil - pale yellow fatty oil expressed from sweet or bitter almondsalmond oil, expressed almond oil oil - a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water and soybean oil Soy´bean oil n. 1. an oil obtained from the soybean (Glycine max), rich in protein, fats, sterols, and phospholipids, used as a food and in paints and varnishes and in various industrial applications; - . "It's a very soothing, berry-type of fragrance that we found through its testing stages that most people are really quite happy with it," Richardson says. "People are very excited to see that there's something other than the jams and chocolates and things like that--that there's something else out there." "We make up nice gift boxes with the lotion and the milk bath and saskatoon berry tea with a candle and soap in it," she adds. "They make great gifts for people who are in for conventions, and if they're flying home somewhere they can take a gift home with them to showcase what Saskatoon and Saskatchewan are all about." "We're really excited about it," she concludes. "It's been something that's been on my mind for a while and it's taken a couple of years just to get the right blend." Due to its overwhelming popularity, Richardson says plans to expand the line into other products, such as candles and soap. |
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