Blue Lotus Soaps, Jessica and Niki Wise
Jessica and Niki Wise are the artists behind Blue Lotus Soaps, LLC. By day, Jessica is the Executive Chef at Corner Mercantile where she has been for the past three years. Throughout her over two decades in the culinary field, she has worked in various areas of the industry from fine dinning to family cuisine. Jessica has a degree in trumpet performance, a passion for music, and a deep love of being outdoors in nature. Niki is an early childhood educator inspired by the Reggio Emilia Approach. With degrees in Psychology and Sociology, she carries the idea of celebrating the many languages of love and learning through various forms of creative expression.
Together they live in Brookline (Pittsburgh), PA with their daughter Emma. Since her birth, these holistic mamas have been creating products to benefit the various allergies and needs of their child with consideration for sustainability, local/community connections, and homegrown ingredients (a value that carries through to their work in the culinary and education fields as well). From this grew a love of creating products with these same values in mind. Thus leading to the creation of Blue Lotus Soaps, LLC
Jason, Primal Biologics
Jason lives in St. Petersburg, Florida and has devoted his life to serving, protecting and advocating for our natural world. He has a background in cellular microbiology and single-celled organism physiology. He studied and developed techniques in the mass-cultivation of beneficial marine phytoplankton, founding a company that supplied such entities as NASA and the USDA Honeybee Laboratory with live cultures for scientific research. After many successful years growing terrestrial and marine plant life, Jason once again fell in love with another form of life on earth - fungi. Combining a knowledge of microbiology with a passion for experimentation, he devoted his time to creating easy-to-use solutions to common home mycology pitfalls. Primal Biologics was formed in 2023 with a single purpose: to share a love of mushrooms with the world and to help everyone benefit from home cultivation. The ultimate goal is simple; heal the earth and heal its people. Primal Biologics will continue to evolve and push forward towards this goal, spreading spores of love and health along the way.