The store offers a number of its soaps, unwrapped. Here are the River Apple soaps.
Cerasee also carries an extensive line of both scented and unscented candles made in Jamaica. This is a lilac scented candle.
Shelly-Ann Josephs, Cerasee's store manager, as well as a partner in the business, speaks about the variety of products offered in the Kingston store.
These soaps look good enough to eat but they can double asdecorative pieces in your bathroom. - PHOTO BY Gladstone Taylor
Olive Oil soap, one of the first soaps offered in the line.
Whipped soaps look good enough to eat but don't ... they're actually soaps that can float in your bath.
The store also carries its own line of personal care products, some of which are therapeutic. From left is Unscented Shea Nut Butter, Fever Grass Shampoo and Moringa Face Cream.
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Sacha Walters-Gregory, Staff ReporterCERASEE, A local company which makes lathering up a sensory experience, has opened a new store in Kingston. "It's really a personal care line as well as soaps and candles," said Shelly-Ann Josephs, the store's manager as well as a partner in the business. The line's name, Cerasee, is reflective of a number of the products with ingredients common to Jamaica, which include fever grass, moringa and chocolate.
"Just trying to reach people's senses and give them that sensory experience," said Josephs. Founded on all-natural, paraben-free and sulphate-free soaps, Josephs says their clientele relish in taking a bath or shower.
This choice to go all natural with their products is built on the links between parabens, used to preserve the life of the soap, to cancers and artificial dyes etc. causing unwanted reactions.
"We don't know but studies have shown this, so you stay away from them," said Josephs. "You have to think about your health long term, what you're putting on and in your body."
formed out of necessity
The business arose out of a another problem.
"One of the founding partners Angela Chin-Hing had children with eczema and skin problems so it was really formed out of necessity. She couldn't find anything on the market that was good for her children and she always liked making soaps so she started out with the unscented soap line of four soaps," said Josephs. They then branched out into scented soaps like the Jamaican espresso, a coffee soap.
"We use real Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee to make it. Some people don't like the smell of coffee but they like the benefits. It's very exfoliating and very soothing. She created a Kimo Latte soap. It has the same benefits of coffee but the scent of coffee is extracted from it," she explained.