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skinnyskinny

18-Feb-08

This Brooklyn, New York-based company makes organic soaps and body products that contain between 96 and 100 percent organic ingredients. The name, skinnyskinny, is derived in part from the fact that the company makes skin care products and is located in New York (skin + NY = skinny). “We also think that our products are [...]

Happy Herbert’s

05-Feb-08

As a sixth grader in Brooklyn, New York, Gary Plutchok noted that his fellow classmates tended to have snacks that were either delicious and fattening or nutritious and tasteless. At the time, Gary wondered why snacks could not be both appetizing and healthful. His classmates met his “groundbreaking vision with skepticism and even anger.”
Fast forward. [...]