Southern Magnolia Minerals consist of 4 people:  Barbara (me), my husband Todd, our daughter Rachel and our wonderful assistant Karina.  We have all worked together manufacturing the SMM Product line.  Between the 4 of us we all work at mixing, filling, labeling, packaging your orders and getting them out the door in a timely manner.. 

My husband Todd is a carpenter then comes home to do photography and packaging and shipping. My daughter Rachel helps label, pull orders and helps with packaging as well. I have a great assistant Karina who does all the filling, puts the kits together, and tells me I need a vacation everyday!  I create all the makeup, answer customer questions while running the day to day operations of website, our eBay store, design & print labels, daydream, research, and create more colors!  

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Our business started in 2001, but was a dream of mine since I was a teen growing up Kentucky.  I was not allowed to wear makeup and I always felt like I was an ugly duckling in school.  I was athletic and played sports, but deep down I just wanted to be pretty.  I went shopping with my mother one time, I sneaked and bought a makeup kit in which she and my father found. My punishment, I could not play in our next basketball game. My father told the coach what happened! And after that, my coach started calling me "Cover Girl".

Off to college I went! I would stop at a friend’s house on the weekends before coming home to take my makeup off because I knew my parents would be angry.  But during the week, I wore makeup and LOVED it.  I experimented with colors, I would put it on, and then make my friends sit down and I would put it on them!  Every dime I earned in college was spent on every makeup brand I knew! Makeup was fun and beautiful. 

Then came the breakouts.  I knew it had to be the makeup as I was lucky enough to not have breakouts in high school.  So I started doing research about how to clear up acne and stumbled across some information about making your own makeup and skincare.  And that is basically how it started for me.  I kept it too myself until I met my husband.  When I met him in 1999, he was selling antiques on eBay. He grew up working in his father’s pawn shop, and an antique shop. So he naturally had a knack for business.  We put our heads together and my makeup business was born!

Many people have asked how we got our name Southern Magnolia Minerals.  First of all, being from the South was a start!  I love everything about the South.  When I was growing up, I remember seeing this huge tree with deep green leaves and these huge creamy white flowers on them and thought to myself, God, that is beautiful.  I never told anyone how beautiful it was, it was just one of those moments you keep to yourself.  I blinked my eyes as if to take a picture to remember it forever. Then my Mother surprised my brother and I one night and took us to a fair, I was sooo excited!  It was called the Magnolia Fair.  That is when I learned what the name of that beautiful tree was called!  And that is how my makeup came to be called Southern Magnolia Minerals!

I love what I do and what my business represents to me.  It is personal, a testimony that you can do what you set your heart and mind to do.  My business is successful because I truly enjoy how it makes me feel, yes, I’m selfish in that way! But I can share my love for natural beauty with people from all over the world!  My husband and I have a mantra that we say daily, and I even have it written on my desk so I can look at it too….

I believe in God, I believe in myself, I believe in the future! 

This is why our makeup is phenomenal, this is why our commitment to our customers is #1, and this is why we are Southern Magnolia Minerals.