Many could be surprised at the way Guylaine Audet, president of Les Soins Corporels l’Herbier, started off. Indeed, native from Beauce and mother of two children, she succeeded at launching her business from her house’s kitchen, in Montérégie. Trained in naturopathy, the 28 years old woman had worked for several years in the natural products field as an adviser, and then a naturopath-consultant for service and new products development for a well-known natural products chain of stores. Pregnant with her second child, she decided to take some time off and take care of her family. A year later, she chose to start working again as a naturopath-consultant in a physiotherapy clinic. This is where the adventure really began…

Following the demands of clients and professionals around her, roughly installed in the charming kitchen of her country home, the young woman concocted her first recipes based on wild plants and simple natural ingredients.

That is how the Les Soins Corporels l’Herbier products were born…

Guylaine Audet then created, with meticulous care, innovative mixtures of organic ingredients: massage balms, ointments, creams, soaps and other skin delights. Sales then progressed with word of mouth and via the physiotherapy clinic where she worked, with growing success.

Faced with this popularity, she decides to create her own enterprise. “I had a revelation!, she says with enthusiasm. Obviously people liked my products and asked for more! It was time for me to leave my kitchen!”

She found a commercial site at the heart of the charming village of Mont-Saint-Grégoire and opened her own boutique, next to the production facilities of her lines of products. Following this move, she convinced her life partner, Alexandre Deslongchamps, to join her in this great adventure. Two years later, Les Soins Corporels l’Herbier products are sold throughout the province of Quebec and several growth projects are underway!

To crown its success, the enterprise received the Prix Félix-Gabriel-Marchand in the category Démarrage d’entreprise (Prize for enterprise launching) and the Prix Coup de Coeur, following the public’s vote, at the 42nd Excellence Gala of the Chamber of Commerce of the Haut-Richelieu region, in April 2006.

To believe in one’s dreams, to fulfill passions, to reach for support and sound advises, to surround oneself with competent colleagues, to pay attention to clients’ needs and to share one’s vision and determination with others are the ingredients of a infallible recipe to bring an enterprise to success! Guylaine Audet has applied them with talent!