Indigo Wild Speaks at International Association of Business Communicators Summit
Posted by: indigowild on: February 5, 2010
Betsy, Nick, Mandy, Myrrhy & Jak
We were excited when asked to be guest speakers at the International Association of Business Communicators Summit at the Uptown Theatre!
Here’s a little something Betsy (Indigo Wild’s very 1st employee) shared with everyone who attended the event:
“Any more natural and you’d be naked. That’s our slogan. Internally, it’s more like, any more fun and you’d be dreaming. Plus, no cubicles, doors (unless hanging beads count), no titles, no dress code and we can bring our doggies to work. Employees pretty much set their own hours, enjoy a fully stocked fridge, free lunches, smoothies, homemade cookies, chair massages, free soap every month and employee discounts. Of course we offer all the traditional benefits too. Everyone has their hands in R and D. If someone has a whim for a whiff, we test it on ourselves. Happy employees = happy products = sales.”
It’s time for the 69th annual Valentine’s Day Box Competition!
Posted by: indigowild on: February 3, 2010
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Roses are red
Valentine’s is a day
We don’t care if you are gay
So go buy some shoes
But save the box
It’ll be a place to store your…
Valentines of course!
Valentine’s Day Box Competition Rules & Violations:
1. Your box must have at one time been a shoe or boot box.
2. No dead or living organs unless they are packed with dry ice.
3. Please send or drop off your Valentine’s Day box along with contact information to:
Indigo Wild
Attn: Poodle Pie
3125 Wyandotte Street
Kansas City, MO 64111
4. All entries must be submitted by 10:00am on February 14th, 2010.
5. Judging will be done by JFed (our hot FedEx guy) and the winner will be announced on the 15th.
6. The winner will receive a $100 Indigo Wild gift certificate.
8. This ain’t grade school folks, the twisted the better.
Good luck!!
ZUM TUNES 2010
Posted by: indigowild on: February 2, 2010
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Listening to music is mandatory at the soap factory! We’ve all got different tastes but here’s some songs we just can’t get out of our heads…
1. Say Hey / Michael Franti & Spearhead
2. I Can’t Go for That / Daryl Hall & John Oates
3. Use Me / Bill Withers
4. Cheap Sunglasses / ZZ Topp
5. It Happens / Sugarland
6. Toes / Zac Brown Band
7. Acid Tongue / Jenny Lewis
8. Lola / The Kinks
9. Stand Tall / Dirty Heads
10.I Was a Ye Ye Girl / Doing Time
11.Jive Talkin’ / Bee Gees
12.Party In the U.S.A. / Miley Cyrus
13.Hard Sun / Eddie Vedder
14.Mystify / INXS
15.Had To Be You / The Slowdown
16.Home / Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
17.L.E.S. Artistes / Santigold
18.Detachable Penis / King Missile
19.Paper Planes / M.I.A.
20.Best of My Love / The Emotions
21.Move Your Feet / Junior Senior
Betsy Medina’s Red and Green Salsa ~ HOLIDAY
Posted by: indigowild on: November 23, 2009
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Betsy Medina’s Salsa
Red and Green just in time for the Holidays!
1 large can diced tomatoes, not drained
1 bunch of cilantro (cut stems from bunch)
1 small white onion, quartered
1 lime
2 – 3 jalapeno peppers (remove stems)
3 cloves of garlic
Salt to taste
Serve with corn tortilla chips
In a food processor: add onion, garlic, jalapenos, cilantro, and juice from lime, salt to taste. Process until sauce consistency, add tomatoes and process again for about 1 minute.
Note…this salsa is also good using fresh tomatoes but that’s not so easy here in the mid-west when they aren’t in season. However I find that it’s most consistent when using canned.
Here’s the skinny on jalapenos. I buy at least 3 jalapenos because sometimes the peppers are really hot and sometimes not hot at all. So if you want start with 1 jalapeno with seeds. Most of the heat is in the seed, so remove the seeds for less heat if desired. Once you’ve made your salsa and before you remove it from your food processor, taste test the salsa for your desired heat and add more if needed, and if it’s too hot add a small can of tomatoes to help dilute. In my opinion the taste of the jalapeno is what makes this salsa so good. If you don’t care for heat at all, you can remove all the seeds from the jalapeno.
The more you make this recipe the better it gets! Be prepared you and your guests will become salsa addicts!
Of course this salsa is GREAT all year!!!!
Enjoy!!! Betsy Medina
Something smelly this way comes…ya know…in a good way…
Posted by: indigowild on: November 19, 2009
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Be on alert for Indigo Wild’s Black Friday Deals!!! While you are pining away in retail-land we will be making all of our goodies by hand. OH a rhyme!
How about a Haiku? Do you do Haiku? Well we certainly do do..Haiku that is:
Black Friday Shoppers
Aromatherapy helps
Come relax with us!
Stay tuned for more Zum Savings and Black Friday specials online or at our place at 3125 Wyandotte Street, Kansas City, MO just off of 31st Terrace between Broadway and Main.
Sherlock Holmes and Case of the Missing Bum Spray
Posted by: indigowild on: November 18, 2009
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It was a dark and moist night-mainly because I sprayed too much Rosemary-Mint Zum Mist in anticipation of my romantic engagement with a soft and smooth Zum Bar of Patchouli-Orange-when I heard the pounding coming from my back door. Assuming that yet again it was my arch nemesis Smelly Butt’s Baskerville, I quickly blew out all my Zum Glow candles to aid in my camouflage and reached for my Bum Spray…it was gone!
beginning to feel helpless, I grabbed a jug of Zum Joy Laundry soap and flung open the door with my sweetly smelling weapon in hand…
It was not my enemy, but my lovely neighbor from down the street, Emily. Emily was a ravishing blonde with cinnamon-vanilla hair and a backside that went on for days. I had startled her with my assassination attempt and apologized:
“I’m so sorry Emily! I thought you were someone else,” I soothed.
“Oh my!” Emily said in surprise, ” I was just wondering if I could borrow a cup of Zum Tub to relax away my stress of the day.”
“But of Course,” I said eagerly wishing I may join her in the tub, “is it bath for one…or two?”
“Mr. Holmes”, Emily blushed as she nudged my side, ” You’re such an animal!”
Indeed, I am an animal. A goat in fact. Which is why after plenty of complementary conversation we did enjoy a soak together in which we explored every part of each other’s body.
It would have been a perfect night if it were not for the fact my Bum Spray was missing…it was much-needed.
Foster Dog Happy Endings – Alabama
Posted by: indigowild on: November 16, 2009
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If you know Indigo Wild, you know we love us some dogs around here! Thanks to Kansas City Sheltie Rescue, we’ve had the opportunity to temporarily house some amazing foster pups. As much as we loved having them with us, we’re always delighted when they find happy, loving forever homes. We checked in on some of our foster alums and will post their stories here to keep everyone up to date on where our little foster friends are wagging now.
Alabama:
Sweet little ‘Bama came to Indigo Wild after some time roaming the streets. We were instantly in love with this spunky, gorgeous little guy. He spent hours chasing his friend Bishop around the soap factory. Like all of our rescue pups, he had tons of love to give.
His adoptive family came all the way from Wichita, KS to pick him up, and he immediately bonded with them. The first thing he did was walk up to their 3 month old baby to give him gentle kisses. Yeah – we pretty much melted and knew it was meant to be.
Here’s what his family has to say about ‘Bama: 
From Alabama’s mama: Bama has been a wonderful addition to our family. He is full of energy and loves to play. He has made great strides with his behavior and listens well most of the time. He always wants to be the center of attention and involved with us. The best part about Bama is how much Cody, our son, loves him. Cody will laugh hysterically at Bama, well we all do, when Bama chases his tail. Once he catches it he holds it in his mouth for a few seconds then lets go and chases it again. Bama tolerates all of Cody’s love and affection without any repercussions. I have seen Cody grab hand fulls of Bama’s hair and use it to pull up on to stand. Bama does nothing. It is awesome. We couldn’t ask for a better pet for Cody and our family. I think Bama is very fond of Cody too. Especially since Cody “shares” so much of his food with him. Bama happily waits under the highchair. It is so fun to watch them play together. It won’t be long before Cody is chasing Bama around the house. I am sure it will be a blast to watch.
From Alabama’s papa: Me and Bama went through basic and intermediate obedience training and he did very well. He’s learned a bunch of commands and is quick to respond to them. He loves to play fetch and tug. He can also entertain himself pretty well by chasing his tail. He also goes through periods where he chases shadows. He likes to go for walks and rides with us in the car. We never have done anything with Flyball, as we’ve just been too busy, but I think he would be great at it and maybe some day in the near future we can check into it if there is anybody still doing it around us. In the mean time, he loves chasing the tennis ball. Every couple of weeks I trim his nails and feet and brush him real good. He usually gets a bath once or twice a month. I try to brush his teeth at least once a week and he does really good with that. He has such nice teeth we want to try to keep it that way. He loves to run in the back yard and he is VERY fast and agile! He has also become more protective of the family by letting us know when someone is around the house. He is friendly to other people and dogs. He loves treats and really enjoys rawhide chews.
We’re sure Alabama’s baby, Cody, will have lots to say about him soon, too! In the meantime, how cute are they in that picture?! What a lucky dog and a lucky family. We love happy endings!
Zum Cleaning Tip – Wood Floors
Posted by: indigowild on: November 10, 2009
Want to clean your hardwood floors without the usual chemical ick? Try this little recipe we whipped up in the Zum Factory. It works wonders and has no toxins!
Mix 2 tsp. of your favorite Zum Clean Laundry Soap, 8 oz. of vinegar and 8 oz. of water. Blend with a little elbow grease and scrub away the funk!
Pumpkin schlumpkin.
Posted by: indigowild on: October 27, 2009
Who doesn’t love pumpkins? Great in a pie or for scaring kids off of your front porch, but not so great in body care products. The trick here is – there’s no such thing as Pumpkin essential oil. So to all who encounter pumpkin-flavored soaps, candles, bubble bath and more . . . . BEWARE!!!
Yeah, there’s pumpkin fragrance oil, but not a pumpkin pure essential oil. There might be some essential oil in its fragrances, but they’re tricked out with synthetic fragrance oils.
Here’s the really scary part: lots of fragrance oils and perfumes contain more than 100 components, including skin irritants, and they’re trying to dress up as 100% pure essential oils, when they’re actually partially synthetic and could possibly contain phthalates – Booooo!
Words to Lather By
Posted by: indigowild on: October 20, 2009
Here are our Words to Lather By – we’d love to hear yours! What did we leave out?
- We believe we learned the truth at 17
- We believe Monday morning meetings should go away
- We believe that good juju is the secret ingredient
- We believe we can make people happier by using our products
- We believe in dogs in the workplace
- We believe that Zum Bum should be in every bathroom
- We believe in extendable forks
- We believe measuring is overrated
- We believe that having to shout “we’re green” means you’re not really green
- We believe artichokes may be nature’s perfect food…actually we believe cheese dip may be the perfect food
- We believe plants make the best perfumes
- We believe in traveling in packs
- We believe in McDonald’s ice cream cones in the afternoon
- We believe in vegetarians and carnivores
- We believe the louder the music the better the soap
- We believe in afternoon delight, shahi paneer korma and full body massages
- We believe trial sizes are cool
- We believe that real and saggy are sexy
- We believe humans could live on bread, cheese, wine, chocolate and avocados
- We believe in warm wet places
- We believe Zum Bars are best when used with a friend
- We believe pumpkin is not an essential oil
- We believe in not wasting a single ounce of soap
- We believe melt and pour is for amateurs
- We believe in wearing flip flops to work
- We believe in your mom
- We believe in the kiss & make-up club, not the fight club
- We believe camo shorts are the new black
- We believe in 3:00 snacks
- We believe plants heal
- We believe in bringing your i-pod to work
- We believe that vampires really like Zum Bars
- We believe in talking about our “shows” on Monday
- We believe in long, hot baths
- We believe in wearing black turtlenecks in the winter every day
- We believe the best ideas come from meetings in the masturbatorium
- We believe in Christopher Guest movies
- We believe in pure bred dogs, pound puppies and rescue pooches
- We believe cowboy boots can be worn with any outfit
- We believe in good, good, good vibrations
