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One man’s childhood accident sparks a life-changing innovation.
One hot summer day, a 4-year-old boy was playing in the sandbox outside the kitchen while his father was in the house making French fries for dinner. The boy heard his dad yelling and started to run inside. Before he saw anything, he felt it—a blur of heat, a flash of pain, and a feeling of confusion overtook him. His father, who’d accidentally started a small grease fire in the kitchen, had run to the yard to throw out the hot grease and didn’t notice that his small son was there. The father grabbed his son and immediately drove him 20 miles to the nearest hospital.
Third degree burns covered 45% of the boy’s body. At the time, there weren’t any special burn units nearby, so he received his care at the local hospital. Over the next three months, the nurses and doctors in that hospital would become his best friends, helping him through painful daily baths and bandage changes. Three skin grafts and two plastic surgeries later, the boy was allowed to go home.
Rough times were just starting for this little boy. Scars covered his left arm, the inside of both legs, and much of his right side — shoulder, chest, back, neck, and ear. He also had a bald spot where no hair would ever grow. In school, the children would always stare, making fun of the kid who looked different.
This story, if you didn’t figure it out by now, is about me.
In the end, the scars would be the thing that brought some kind of purpose to my life. My skin was very sensitive to commercial brands of soap, which made it dry and itchy and caused me pain. I started to do research to see what was in soap and how it was made. After many months of learning, and many batches, I came up with the perfect soap. Now I’m doing much better. I married the most wonderful woman in the world. She’s a hairdresser and does a great job cutting my hair to cover my entire bald spot. We have two little boys. Being a father, I can only imagine what my father must have gone through after I was burned. I still get a lump in my throat whenever I think of this and quite often shed a tear. My father is the greatest man in my life. He taught me the meaning of hard work and sticking to something to the end.
That’s what inspired me to start my own company. We now have 31 kinds of soap — with 7 vegetable oils that help the skin. I find it ironic that such a horrific event could lead me to a business that can help other people with similar problems. Every chance I get I try to educate people about the largest organ of the human body —their skin.
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