We love this shout out to Bug Soother from Dr. Laura Jesse Iles, an entomologist with ISU Extension and Outreach and director at the ISU Plant & Insect Diagnostic Clinic!
Focus At Noon- Halloween Safety Tips on KADN
Lafayette Moms Blog and Women’s and Children’s Hospital dropped some Halloween Safety Knowledge. From glow in the dark shoes, to general stranger danger knowlegde, they have you covered when your ghouls and witches go trick-or-treating.
Tailgating with Bug Soother
Moms know that tailgating is better with Bug Soother!
https://www.klfy.com/news/local/lafayette-moms-blog-offers-tips-for-tailgating-with-kids/1479102877
http://www.wafb.com/video/2018/09/13/community-red-stick-mom-tips-kids-while-tailgating/
Bad year for gnats leads to run on bug spray
By Phil Reed, KCRG-TV9 News |
Posted: Fri 5:53 PM, Jun 01, 2018
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) — Store director for the Edgewood Road Hy-Vee in Cedar Rapids Tracy Kading had to act fast when they ran out of Bug Soother. He says it wasn’t just his Hy-vee that was out.
Kading says, “Normally if we run low on something, we’ll call other stores, but I’ve noticed most all of the stores were out of it.”
So he got in his truck and drove an hour to the Bug Soother headquarters in Columbus Junction to pickup 300 cases. Kading says it’s the first time he’s had to make a bug run…
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Simply Soothing founder uses position to promote women in the workplace
COLUMBUS JUNCTION — When Freda Sojka founded her business in 2003, she never would have expected it to be as successful as it’s become.
“We kind had a fairy tale beginning, but that doesn’t happen often,” Sojka said.
Sojka, now 66, founded Simply Soothing, a natural product manufacturer in Columbus Junction. With the help of the company’s most popular product — Bug Soother, a bug repellent developed by Sojka — the company has made about $5.5 million in sales over the past four years, Sojka said.
Made in Eastern Iowa: Bug Soother’s ‘natural’ rise in business
COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) — Freda Sojka looked around at her unfortunate position during the Flood of 2008. She lived at the confluence of two rivers that were both bursting out of their banks — the Iowa and the Cedar and where they meet near Columbus Junction.
“I wanted to make a bug repellant for a grandson, my 5-month-old grandson, that didn’t have DEET in it,” said Sojka, who worked at Monsanto during that time. “I researched a few ingredients, threw it together and we used it. They were measuring for the flood water on the Cedar and my sister had flooding. So I loaned her a bottle to try and it worked.”
Sometimes the best ideas get shelved before they dominate store shelves. That is what happened with Sojka’s idea for Bug Soother, from her Simply Soothing operation in town.
