Before you even try YAMERRA's 100% organic shea butter products their amazing smells will get you interested. Touch and rub and smear and bask and…forget about it, this is potent stuff. And in the run-up to Valentine's Day next weekend, we offer you this week's Vendor of the Week: Yamerra.
A&F: Where does the word Yamerra come from?
YAMERRA:YAMERRA is a self-created word that means "glorious." It was essentially derived from client feedback that the product made them smell delicious and feel glorious. And it is a direct re-structure of my name, "Maryam".
A&F: Tell us about your products
YAMERRA:Yamerra is a 100% Organic Skincare and Hair care Product line designed for the earth conscious, fashionable (positive) trendsetters. Yamerra is built on Organic Shea butter, which is infused with restorative herbs and essential oils to give the Shea certain healing and rejuvenatory powers.
Yamerra offers an assortment of handmade organic products that fill the skin and hair care needs of a growing group of males and females, as well as children, and for all skin types. We have three product lines, a 2-1 hair and body butter, luxurious body soap and a whipped body soufflé. They come in four varying scents: Lemon Fire Bliss Lemongrass, Sultry Mango, Home Sweet Home Honey Vanilla and Be Bodacious Tangerine Grape.
Yamerra also carries a line for mothers-to-be, nursing mothers and newborn babies (6-12 months), plus unique seasonal creations.
A&F: How did you get into creating skincare products?
YAMERRA: I first got into mixing my own skincare and hair care products out of the need to improve my own skin and hair with affordable, natural raw materials. I discovered, after much research, that Shea butter is extremely restorative and healing for the hair and skin. Shea butter has many useful properties among which are protective and emollient properties that are valued for skin and hair care. Shea butter has been a mainstay of African pharmacology for centuries. I decided to mix pure Shea with essential oils and herbs, to even enhance it more provide variety for sale after 3 years of using it personally and also with friends and family.
A&F: What inspires your creativity?
YAMERRA: My friends and family, and especially, my clientele. Yamerra is primarily designed with them in mind. I try to provide organic skincare that will nourish their hair and skin, naturally, without an chemicals added to the products. it is also very important to me to also create and provide a product that is Eco friendly. The making of a new scent or product within the line is stimulated from specific client requests and needs sometimes, others from a driving need to create an earth-friendly, affordable alternative to destructive skincare and haircare products out there.
A&F: What do you like about selling at Artists & Fleas?
YAMERRA: I really enjoy the fact that I get to connect with such a diverse crowd of personalities from all over the world. Most significantly, these customers/clients that buy my products from Artists & Fleas carry my bigger message to their final destinations of using more earth friendly products as a means to a healthier and more sustainable living.
A&F: What's in the future for YAMERRA?
YAMERRA:I hope to continue selling at Artists and Fleas and sharing my products within its community. My plans in the near future for the company include opening a functioning online retail store- so as to have a world-wide outreach, and also to garner more product placements with organic retail stores and Earth conscious establishments in New York. My long term goals include owning my own product retail store and funding workshops geared towards sharing knowledge about recycling, sustainability and the incorporation of Eco friendly products in our daily lives.
A&F: Tell us something we don't know…
YAMERRA: Yamerra is extremely luxurious and earth friendly and has been made primarily to nourish the body and hair, you. We are thankful to have a place like Artists & Fleas in which to share it with all that visit! Stop past and grab your "Pot Of Luxury" now!
