{"id":23,"date":"2011-09-23T22:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T22:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humblebeeandme.com\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2025-01-25T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T01:34:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.humblebeeandme.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Marie Rayma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m obsessed<\/em> with creating my own skincare and hair care\u2014lotion, shampoo, eyeliner, you name it.<\/h2>\n

Understanding how ingredients and products work keeps me up at night (in a good way, I swear).<\/h2>\n

I started making my own skincare products back in 2010 when my cheap student self decided she was done paying $5 for a tube of lip balm.<\/p>\n

I spent about $50 on ingredients and promptly made a ginormous batch of lip balm that used up all my ingredients and positively reeked<\/em> of wet sheep (dangit, lanolin!).<\/p>\n

Stinky start aside, I kept at it.<\/p>\n

I launched Humblebee & Me in late 2011 to share the things I was making with my friends & family (thankfully my creations smelled a lot better by then).<\/p>\n

In the years since I\u2019ve:<\/p>\n