Article: Maine soap-making business began with daughter's need for gentle soap.

By Darla L. Pickett, Morning Sentinel, Waterville, Maine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 25--CORNVILLE, Maine -- When her infant daughter developed eczema -- a skin disorder characterized by inflammation, itching and scales -- Tracey Smith set out to find a solution.

Little did she know that her search would pull her and her mother, Ruth Craft, into a full-fledged O-Nature-L soap-making business, a venture that appears poised to expand well beyond their current, kitchen-counter enterprise on Molunkus Road.

From a small batch of chemical-free laundry detergent six years ago, the two women now make a line of all-natural household ...

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