The Ryn of Ryn and Ram - Meet Kathryn!
Hi there! I'm Kathryn/Ryn!
I've grown up in Northern Virginia my entire life, falling more in love with the beautiful nature in the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge Mountains every day. I am passionate about sustainability and do what I can to preserve the environment around me. I graduated from George Mason University with an English degree and also learned a bit of American Sign Language! I absolutely love all animals and have danced/done color guard for the majority of my life. Additionally, I have extremely sensitive skin and it's difficult for me to find commercial soaps that don't irritate my skin. When starting this business it was crucial for me to make a soap that wouldn't dry out my skin, like many bar soaps do. I test every bar we make to ensure that I, and others with sensitive skin, would be able to use our soaps. While some of our soaps are definitely more suited for sensitive skin, even our most fragrant and colorful soaps have yet to bother my skin! We are constantly looking for new sustainable, local, and sensitive skin safe additives to include in our soaps so that we can expand the range of benefits in our bars!
If I'm being honest, I never imagined myself owning a soap business. Soap videos were literally something I listened to as I fell asleep, and while I love Royalty Soap's videos on Youtube, I never watched her because I was wanting to make soap. The way the soap changed colors was pretty and how it was poured in different swirls was satisfying, but I was more or less just absorbing this random information about soap. I thought maybe it would useful for a random game of trivia, or on the off chance someone asks me what my favorite word is and I get to say Saponification. What I thought would be completely useless information has instead allowed me to build a business, entirely centered around my core values. While we are only making soap, we are still constantly striving for ways to make our business more sustainable using local ingredients that will benefit the users skin. I never imagined our business to grow to the point it has, and I am forever grateful for anyone that has given us advice, support, or bought from us - we simply couldn't have done this alone and I am so excited for our future plans to make more products! I am also extremely honored to have a business that is donating to different organizations and charities, despite still being a small business ourselves. Even though I never planned for this business to happen, I can't imagine my life without it now.
Thank you for reading my bio and I you enjoy the soaps!
-Ryn :)