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Essential Wholesale joins the fight for families and children’s programs with Hannah House, Robin’s Roses and the Schlessinger Foundation

 Essential Wholesale is active in helping organizations raise money by teaching and
supplying quality aromatherapy bath and body products for charities and businesses.

In October 2001, Essential Wholesale, a Portland based company, began private labeling for the Schlessinger Foundation My Stuff™ Store. The My Stuff™ Store was established to provide My Stuff™ Bags for rescued abused and neglected children who arrive at crisis centers nationwide, including Portland, with no belongings of their own. Essential Wholesale has agreed to manufacture Baby Care Packs and Teen Care Packs as well as giving back one dollar for each care pack donated to the Foundation for these children.

Essential Wholesale is committed to giving back to the community by using their unique business of custom made bath and body product manufacturing.  In September and October, Essential Wholesale donated a percentage of their total sales to raise funds for Robin's Roses, an organization headed by Handmade Toiletries Network president, Donna Maria Coles Johnson, Esq., who conducts Aromatic Beauty Workshops at battered and homeless women's shelters around the country. And to Hannah House, which provides structured, caring homes and supportive services for homeless women with and without children. They help residents build healthy families and work toward their goals, which may include life-long recovery from addiction, an improved sense of self, and independent living.

Essential Wholesale was founded in 1998 by Dennis and Kayla Fioravanti. It started as a small home business, initially manufacturing soaps, but their popularity demanded that they expand into other natural products. Now Essential Wholesale manufactures over 50 unscented natural source bases such as lotions, creams, bath products, massage oils and much more while supplying a large selection of raw ingredients, providing private label and custom formulation services. Essential Wholesale now manufactures for all size businesses, spas, massage therapists, aromatherapists, retails stores, large chains, foundations and charities. Essential Wholesale recently purchased and now manufactures the “Critter Soap” line found in stores like Made In Oregon, Stroud's, Finnegan’s and the Oregon Coast Aquarium to name a few. Essential Wholesale can be found at their Web site or their main office at 7817 SE Stark in Portland, Oregon.