Judy Granger is the own­er/man­ag­er of La Grange Nat­u­rals, es­tab­lished in 2016. She is a ‘soaper’ as called in the in­dus­try and makes hand­made, nat­ur­al bath and body prod­ucts. Due to her own health com­pli­ca­tions, Judy sought to rid her­self of ex­cess chem­i­cals by cre­at­ing a line of all nat­ur­al skin care prod­ucts. Here is what she told Health Plus in a re­cent in­ter­view.

How did you get start­ed in the health in­dus­try?

I got start­ed in this in­dus­try due to my own health chal­lenges and be­ing my moth­er’s care­giv­er (she is nine­ty-five years old). I de­cid­ed to use my free time wise­ly and so, the idea to cre­ate a busi­ness that would aid all ages came to mind. A few years ago I was di­ag­nosed with first stage can­cer and I had a pro­ce­dure done—called a col­poscopy. Since then, I have de­cid­ed to take care of my­self by eat­ing and feed­ing my cells with prop­er nu­tri­tion. Every year I try to fol­low up with my pap smear and mam­mo­gram and it’s al­ways in the nor­mal range.

I have a pace­mak­er (for six years now) so I try to fo­cus on my health in a holis­tic man­ner.

What is your phi­los­o­phy on health?

My phi­los­o­phy on health is liv­ing a ful­fil­ing and mean­ing­ful life through con­scious and Bible di­rect­ed be­hav­iours, fo­cused on liv­ing to my fullest po­ten­tial. As 3 John verse 2 says: “Beloved I wish above all things that thou mayest pros­per and be in health, even as thy soul pros­pereth.”

Why did you choose Ari­ma as the base for your skin care line?

I chose Ari­ma as it’s my home away from home. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, I chose the bor­ough so that I can give my ser­vices to my aged moth­er who lives there and to help my com­mu­ni­ty live a health­i­er lifestyle while I man­age my busi­ness.

What im­pact have the soaps, scrubs and lo­tions had on the com­mu­ni­ty?

My store has im­pact­ed the lives of my neigh­bours, friends and oth­er peo­ple in the com­mu­ni­ty. By help­ing them to un­der­stand prop­er nu­tri­tion, en­vi­ron­men­tal is­sues and per­son­al care, they can use the in­for­ma­tion I share about my prod­ucts and thus I get a lot of re­fer­rals, which have helped me to in­crease aware­ness for my brand.

What are your plans for the fu­ture?

I’d like to ed­u­cate more peo­ple on us­ing all-nat­ur­al skin care prod­ucts. I’m al­so fo­cus­ing on get­ting it on the in­ter­na­tion­al mar­ket as a means of bring­ing aware­ness to health and well­ness glob­al­ly.

I con­sid­er my­self for­tu­nate as I get to do what I love, my iden­ti­ty is tied to the pas­sion and chem­istry in­volved. I do what I’m good at I can get paid for it. In turn, I’m do­ing what the world needs. This is the ful­fil­ment I get from my pro­fes­sion.