The Drive: What challenges have you overcome?
The tremendous attitudes towards us as “just cleaners”. Women with kids have to work twice as hard as anyone else to prove themselves, and for a long time we were not being taken seriously.
For better or worse: What are the pros and cons of running your own business?
The pros are definitely why we started the business. Flexibility of time, to work our lives around our children. We are all self-driven and love that what we put in, is what we get out. The cons are that you sacrifice a lot of time – the job doesn’t stop at 5 pm. We are always within phone’s reach, we never really get a holiday. Cleaners don’t stop! We are also always broke as we are constantly reinvesting in our product and the next plan.
Women with kids have to work twice as hard as anyone else to prove themselves, and for a long time we were not being taken seriously.
Hopes and dreams: What next?
We are looking to spread our company nationwide, allowing people all over NZ to refill their cleaning bottles with our products. This will save a LOT of plastic from going to landfills. We also have new branding coming out shortly which looks amazing.
Alongside that, we are just launching shampoo bars; laundry powder; fabric softener; toilet bombs; Himalayan sea salt and coconut soap; activated charcoal, hemp oil and frankincense soap; Neem and tea tree soap for nit control; goats milk, blood orange and poppyseed soap; and also a pet care soap! All palm oil free with loads of good things in it for you and your family.
Keen to give chemicals the old heave-ho, but still want to be using effective cleaning products? Shop now at Dream Eco Products: www.dreamecoproducts.com.
