Inspired by her own sensitive skin and personal need for body care products that weren’t irritating, Amy Kjara Carlson started taking herbal courses and studying plants and herbs at The Herb Pharm in Oregon, Viittakivi International Centre in Finland, and at Friends of the Peace Corps in Jamaica, in addition to other places. Soon she was experimenting with plants and oils and creating recipes to make soaps (practical and decorative bars in fun shapes and sizes), body butters, bath salts, bombs and oils as well as body spritz, healing salves and facial masks.

Carlson makes all products for her company Sound Botanicals by hand with the majority of the herbs coming out of her garden (she plants, grows and harvests them all herself) and out of the Olympic Mountains and only uses organic essential oils and base oils. Careful choosing equates to unique combinations that can cleanse and restore, while others take away pain, promote healing, or ease   stress.



Keeping in mind how plants interact with one’s body, the Pacific Lutheran University graduate uses only herbs that will create an appealing, safe, pure and effective product. So inviting, you hardly want to use them, the decorative soaps look like mini cakes or pastry treats. Body butters smell delicious and soothe skin. Sharing that almost all of her sales have been through word of mouth, “My friends love my products and recommend them to their friends and clients,” Sound Botanicals will soon be available online and at retail spaces in the Puget Sound. Pricing varies with the product.



Contact Sound Botanicals at 253.272.6293 for product lists and orders.