City: Kansas City, MO

Category: Shopping

Telephone: (816) 221-3480, (800) 361-5686

Address: 3125 Wyandotte

Description: This tiny company produces delightfully scented bath and beauty products made of good-for-you ingredients. The Zum bars, for example, include goat’s milk, pure essential oils, and herbal extracts and come in lots of yummy scents, such as lavender-mint and sandalwood-citrus. The bars, which look like tie-died artwork, with swirls and chunks of colors, come in fun, corrugated shapes. The company also makes soy candles, baby care products, body lotions, and all-natural lip balms in flavors such as tangerine. That’s Zum kiss! They’ve recently added all-natural household cleaning products such as sweet orange laundry soap (doesn’t that sound delightful?) and a sink scrub with ingredients you can actually pronounce. Now you can toss those rubber gloves. Products are available by phone, online, or through a clever catalog. Or stop in to visit; they’re open seven days a week. Just don’t be surprised if your greeter has a cold nose. Employee pets, usually rescued animals, are welcome.