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The Examiner - April 25, 2008

LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!

PBS/Maryland Public Television- February 21, 2008

Made in Maryland: Biggs & Featherbelle

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Girls Life - March 28, 2008

CHEAP 'N' CHIC: Eco Cheap!

"Gotta love B & F’s cute packaging (it’s recycled!), but their soaps smell super-good, too. Toss in the fact that the ingredients are natural and they’re handmade by a team of sisters (awww!) and you’ll be snappin’ these bars up by the boatload. We recommend the sunshiney Beach Bar and Barbados."

LA2DAY.com - Feb 13, 2008

What’s Love Got To Do With It? The Best Gifts to Give Yourself this V-Day
By Marisa Lynch

I SAID I LOVED YOU BUT I LIED
"Be minxy with Biggs & Featherbelle's homemade soap BARLESQUE made with hazelnut oil, ylang ylang, and patchouli essential oils. You'll have your own Velma Kelly moment singing ‘All That Jazz' as you lather up in the shower."

The Wave Magazine

Raising the Bar
New, organic bar soaps may give liquid a run for its money.
By Jo Abbie

"It may not be as popular as its trendy new cousin – liquid body wash – but old-fashioned bar soap could be on the verge of a renaissance, as natural-loving, green-leaning consumers begin to favor pure, organic and cruelty-free bar soaps over their plastic-clad liquid counterparts.
These beautiful bars are a far cry from the ubiquitous cakes of Dial that sat in many people’s soap dishes growing up. Packed with natural ingredients rather than chemicals, and made using vegetable instead of animal fats, this new breed of soap is actually made using an ancient method."

"Making soaps on a much smaller scale are Kasey and Kelly Evick, the sisters behind young line Biggs and Featherbelle. Their handmade, natural soaps are made using botanicals, vitamins, vegetable and nut oils, and various herbs and spices. They are also free of synthetic fragrances, dyes and additives, and are packaged in recyclable paper. Adding to their appeal are the quirky names its makers have given the various bars, including Bar-tender, Bar-lesque and Granola Bar."

Daily Candy - December 14, 2007

Clean Up Your Act
"If cleanliness is next to godliness, you’re in need of a little religion.
Your path to enlightenment: Biggs & Featherbelle all-natural handmade soaps.
The cleverly named, colorful bars are chockful of interesting ingredients like cleansing pink kaolin clay, exfoliating adzuki beans, and cedarwood essential oil (a natural astringent). What’s missing? Synthetic fragrances, dyes, and additives. (Who needs ’em?)
For smoother skin, try Barbados, a bright orange-yellow bar made with pore-tightening grape seed oil and toning pink grapefruit. Be a bathing beauty with the eucalyptus- and sea salt-infused Beach Bar. Their bestseller is the lavender Momma Bar (made as a gift to the founder’s mother), which moisturizes without clogging pores.
The soap’s creators, fueled by an interest in alternative medicine, designed their products to nourish and heal.
For you, that’s a small miracle."

Lucky Magazine
December 2007

Local Breaks

Baltimore Magazine - November 2007

"They can thank Martha Stewart, Sisters Kasey and Kelly Evick found an article on the how-tos of soap making in her magazine and gave it a whirl for the holidays. They were such a hit-"some people still have that soap" cracks Kasey, 31-they decided to create their own soap company, Biggs & Featherbelle. (As for the curiously Dickensian name? "It's nonsensical." they admit.)
We didn't take a big business loan," says Kelly, 33. "Each time we made a sale we put it back into the business. We're still broke."
Their "lather lab" is in the guest suite of their parent's home in Gambrills, but they hope to soon move their business to a warehouse in the city. (Cuts down on the commute, they say, but they'll miss the home cookin'.)
All products-11 soaps, plus lip balms, bath soaks, a belly balm, and body butter bars-are handmade and natural. Each soap is a play on a recognizable use of the word "bar"-from handle bar to granola bar-with the exception of Momma Bar, which is a shout-out to their hard working mom/product shipper. Last October, Whole Foods came calling and their goods now grace shelves at 26 grocers-in addition to yoga studios and indie health shops across the country.

City Paper - Best of Baltimore 2007

Best Soap
"In the personal list of dirty little secrets we don't say in our out-loud voice is the preference for Kim songs over Thurston songs, favoring instant mashed potatoes over the real thing, and an addiction to pretty-smelling body and face soaps that borders on fetish. Local sisters Kelly and Kasey Evick started their health-conscious body-care line in 2003, turning out lip balms, body butter bars, belly balm, and bath soaks, but it's their handmade soaps that really lather our loofahs. Sporting perhaps too-precious names such as "Bar-lesque" and "Granola Bar," Biggs and Featherbelle's soaps nevertheless are luscious treats for bathers who like to make their skin feel good while making showering a treat for the nose, too. We probably have an unhealthy need for the Polar Bar--with its tingly avocado and olive oils and nose-tickling peppermint--and we reserve the macadamia nut and almond oil with cocoa butter and goat's milk Goodie Bar only for special occasions. These bars come packaged in totally cute polka-dot cardboard wraps that we--don't tell--keep after we've finished with the soap in the medicine cabinet just to smell whenever we need a little "me" time."

The Urbanite - September 2007

Bath Time …
"Kelly and Kasey Evick’s four-year-old business began with a Christmas gift. “My sister and I read a Martha Stewart article on soap-making around the holidays,” explains Kelly. The bars became so popular among family members that, within months, the Anne Arundel County natives started a full line of natural body care products under the name Biggs and Featherbelle. Their soaps, lip balms, belly balm, body butter bars, and bath soaks are now available at both specialty and large chain stores such as Whole Foods Market. Try the exfoliating Beach Bar and the Polar Bar (made with peppermint and petit grain essential oil). Also available at Body & Soul Hair Salon & Spa (6423 Harford Road; 410-426-8680) and other stores throughout the state and country. To order or find a store near you, call 443-928-4724 or go to www.biggsandfeather.com."

Lionel Foster

Lucky Magazine
September 2007

"Baltimore-based sisters Kasey and Kelly Evick handmix their rich balms and bath products using all-natural vegetable oils, nut butters, and fragrant botanical oils, including marjoram and clarysage."

Elle.com Magazine Newsletter - June 26, 2007

"Goodness on the inside and outside: Biggs & Featherbelle (mini bar sampler pictured, $22, at www.biggsandfeather.com) is a line of handmade, natural body care created by sisters Kelly and Kasey Evick with bubbling, colorful packaging. From head to toe, these women have you covered with soaps, lip balm, bath soaks, and body butters. After all, inner and outer beauty should always be this natural."

Natural Home Magazine
Fresh Finds - Spring Splash - March/April 2007

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FOX45 Morning News - December 14th

Biggs & Featherbelle was featured on FOX45 Morning News!!!

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The Baltimore Sun

Dollars & Scents
Baltimore sisters have made a splash in the natural soap business

Abstract:
" Baltimore sisters Kelly Evick and Kasey Evick smell like an intoxicating mix of eucalyptus and peppermint, and a bit of lavender.

They thought they'd just create a bunch of cool Christmas presents to give out. But the sisters' artsy backgrounds -- Kasey has a degree in graphics design from Maryland Institute College of Art and Kelly has hers in fashion design from New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and the University of Delaware -- helped them a little too well."

October 10, 2006
Tanika White

Time Out - New York

Chill Out
Wellness for body, mind & spirit

Critic's Pick
"Scrub rosa Even skin-care minimalists,who shrug off the need for scrubs, masks and moisturizers, need a good, old fashioned bar of soap. The soap sisters behind Baltimore based company Biggs and Featherbelle make ten different bars with ingredients such as adzuki beans, gots milk and carrot-seed extract. Some even exfoliate or moisturize while they clean. Each $5 bar is free from synthetics, dyes or additives, and is packed with various scented essential oils-except for one, which is unscented for all you simpletons."

September 14, 2006
Jane Borden

Page Six - New York Post

"WE HEAR...THAT Heidi Klum and Maggie Gyllenhaal beautify their bulging baby bumps with Biggs & Featherbelle Belly Balm, which helps erase stretch marks..."

September 5, 2006
Paula Froelich

Soap Story
"I'm cursed with skin that doesn't take kindly to experimentation with lotions, creams or soaps; it quickly makes its displeasure known with unsightly rashes and bumps. Since listlessly lathering up the same old soap day after day or hiding my aggravated skin beneath layers of clothing as the weather heats up weren't options I cared to live with, I was thrilled to come across Biggs & Featherbelle at a recent crafts extravaganza. Started in 2003 by sisters Kasey and Kelly Evick, Biggs & Featherbelle offers an array of deliciously scented, synthetic-free bar soaps and body butter bars. Although the quirky packaging first caught my eye, it was the addictive scents (courtesy of essential oils) and then the approval of my finicky skin that hooked me.

A friend of mine is similarly smitten with Biggs & Featherbelle. After experiencing a persistent breakout on her chin, she tried the exfoliating Granola Bar Soap. "It cleared up my skin without drying it out," she reported. And my massage-therapist sister, a stickler when it comes to any products that she uses on clients, was pleased with the "nice glide" of the lavender-and-bergamot-scented Relaxing Massage Bar. And for those of us who are fans of summer baths, good news: Biggs & Featherbelle recently introduced full-size jars of their popular bath soaks (also available in a four-pack sampler)."

July 21, 2006
Heather, senior copy editor
www.shopetc.com

"Take some time off and pamper yourself with hand-made, all-natural bath and body products from Biggs & Featherbelle, a family-owned company created by a dynamic duo of sisters in Maryland.

Their products range from luscious soaps and delectable massage bars to fantastic lip balms that keep lips silky smooth for hours. And when it’s been a crazy day at work or at home, indulge yourself in one of their luxurious bath soaks to melt your worries away (at least for the next half hour or so).

The best thing about Biggs & Featherbelle is their prices. You can’t beat $4 for high-quality soaps or $3 for great lip balms. So be good to yourself and try a little bit of everything. Make it easy by trying one of their fabulous Gift Sets."

Wed May 10, 2006
Farah Silver
www.shefindsmom.com