Bishop develops flavorful lip scrubs

While spending her summer traveling in England, senior Amanda Bishop found inspiration in boutique shops to create her own lip scrub business, Sugar Dip.

She has eight flavors of lip scrubs that she sells, ranging from “dulce de leche” to “raspberry cheesecake.” Bishop uses several natural ingredients, most notably sugar, and a few secret ingredients to make her vegan lip scrubs. After creating a website, Bishop officially opened the business in 2015. She tries to attract a younger audience and advertises towards people of her own age. She has invested close $3000 in her business.

“The hardest part was getting the flavor perfect and keeping it consistent throughout every batch that we made,” Bishop said.

Although owning a business is time consuming, Bishop plans her time accordingly.

“The most time consuming part was actually making all of the lip scrubs and getting the recipe right,” Bishop said. “That was really tedious and took a lot of time.”

Bishop considers this business endeavor a great learning experience. As of now, Bishop is not sure if she will expand the business, but she plans to see where the business takes her.

“I really liked coming up with unique flavors that people would like because there are lip scrub businesses out there, but their flavors are normal ones,” Bishop said. “It was really fun finding ways to make different unique flavors.”