Patrice Mousseau likes to do things differently. When the doctor prescribed her eight-month-old baby topical steroids for eczema, Mousseau—who is Anishinaabe and a member of Fort William First Nation—bought a $15 crock pot on Facebook to make a safer, simpler, botanical-based solution.
“I looked at existing medical research, I looked into different studies that have been put out by different universities, as well as anecdotal evidence from traditional medicine,” she recalls. The process took months, but the outcome was bigger than she ever anticipated: Mousseau's product started selling well at farmers’ markets arounds B.C. (the first one being in Port Moody in 2013) and culminated into her first official business venture, Satya Organic, at the end of 2015.
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