Walk into the new Real Good Bath and Body store at 118 South Broadway next to Widman’s Candy and the nose is greeted by a variety of scents. 
The new shop has its origins in a Christmas gift and got its start on Facebook, went international and has come full circle right back to Crookston. “This started as a hobby in my kitchen and I’d take my son to the library for story hour and I saw this book on making soap,” said Real Good Bath and Body’s owner Carol Simmons. “Many years later when we moved to Crookston, my husband gave me a great Christmas present of a soap making kit and I started from there.”
Simmons’ hobby left her with more soap than she needed at home, so she posted to Facebook that she was looking to sell some of what she’d created. Not long after, a friend from her time in China contacted her about shipping her products to China and thousands of Simmons’ products have been shipped overseas since then.
Real Good offers a variety of nature-based products using high-quality ingredients. “We have bath bombs, our biggest seller, we’re working on a new one that will shoot out a rainbow in the water and a build your own bath fizzy bar,” said Simmons. “We also have all-natural bath bombs, soaps scented with essential oils, lotions, shower steamers, and natural deodorant.”
You can expect to pay a bit more for these high-quality natural products than you do with your generic brands in a store. “Many soaps are really just a detergent that uses chemicals to pull the oils off of your skin,” said Simmons. “Using coconut oil, olive oil and shea butter in our soaps cleans your skin, but also nourishes it by leaving some of those oils on.”
Read Good Bath and Body besides their products making you feel good, you also feel good by doing good, so they donate to worthy causes such as the local food bank, women’s shelters, United Way, Humane Society, and refugee camps. Read Good Bath and Body products are created in the store and is open Thursdays (11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.), Fridays (11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.) and Saturdays (10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) in addition to anytime the lights are on.
Bath Bombs being created and the final product Fizzy bar to create your own mix
