SEASIIDE MAKERS COLLECTIVE : our new stores in Santa Barbara and Carpinteria, California

The Grapeseed Co. has opened 2 new shops with a whole new concept! We're bringing together our favorite makers and artists in one place,  called Seaside Makers Collective. 

Meadow Rose Photo Art Wood Prints - Carpinteria Shop

We opened both the CARPINTERIA and SANTA BARBARA shops right before the 2018 holiday season, bringing together beautiful handcrafted jewelry, bags, children's apparel, wood work, pottery and of course, Grapeseed Co. in one store!

Grapeseed Co. Scent Bar at the Funk Zone SB Shop

Stop by Seaside Makers Collective in Carpinteria at 961 Linden Ave. and in the Funk Zone in SB at 209 Anacapa St. Grapeseed Co. has a Scent Bar in both stores you can visit daily to create your own bath & body products, or host a Scent Bar Party in our event spaces at either store.

Carpinteria Shop & Garden Event Space 961 Linden Ave.

We will also be hosting workshops and events to learn different crafts, and how to build your own Maker Business!We can't wait for you to experience this incredible shopping experience, stop by and visit us soon.

We've Moved! Vist our New Store in the Funk Zone & now Open Daily in Carpinteria

 
I am beyond happy to announce that we are fully moved in to our new shop in the Funk Zone at The Waterline, 120 Santa Barbara Street! 

The Waterline • 120 Santa Barbara St. Santa Barbara, CA

 This is a super fun new location where you can sip, shop, eat and hang at Topa Topa and Lama Dog breweries, Fox Wine Co., and the Nook restaurant along with other great shops! We are psyched for this new chapter for The Grapeseed Co. in Santa Barbara.

New Shop at The Waterline • 21 W. Ortega St. SB

The downtown Ortega St. location is now closed, and our office has moved the Carp Store and Warehouse on 4193 Carpinteria Ave #6. We are excited to be open daily, later hours, and Sundays for your convenience, and to be surrounded by such cool and complementary businesses in both locations! 

This sweet lemonade was made from a big fat lemon of a situation...

 2017 ended with the largest wildfire in CA history, the Thomas Fire, ripping through our normally idyllic seaside towns, followed by the tragic Montecito mudslides causing loss and devastation beyond imagination at the start of the new year. This also cut off access between our two locations, and was one of the most challenging times in the history of our 14 year old company! Like everyone in the area, we are still recovering from it. We were nowhere near prepared for the next round of crazy that hit Grapeseed Co. in April.

Ortega St. Scent Bar (after-left, before-right)

Part of the charm of our downtown Santa Barbara flagship store was the old brick building that houses some great businesses on Ortega Street, starting with The Grapeseed Co. The extreme weather has been taking a toll on our corner of the large, old building. On April 9th, our Scent Bar came crashing down out of nowhere! 5 years mounted firm to the wall, and BOOM! Over $5K of glass essential oil bottles hit the floor.

The wall that starts the whole building The Grapeseed Co. occupied on Ortega had expanded and blistered, popping the shelves off the wall.

21 W. Ortega Street • wall blister

Why did this happen? After the last evacuation rain, we had a 90+ degree day... The roof had been leaking all winter, and that water had been dripping down into our wall, causing a wet sponge effect. When the extreme heat hit, the wall expanded and shifted.

We were super lucky no one was hurt; we had 25 kids in there less than 24 hours before for a scent bar party! We became quickly aware as experts checked out the situation that it was no longer safe for The Grapeseed Co. to occupy 21 W. Ortega Street and continue to run business as usual. We had to move.

So, in just a month we secured a new storage warehouse in Carpinteria and moved tens of thousands of bottles and jars out of our current warehouse. With the new found space, we built out a scent bar, opened up the storefront and made it larger, and reconfigured our production lab and shipping areas. We turned my creative loft space into the office for our entire team. This kept us functioning, orders shipping, and business running seemingly as usual while we figured out what the heck to do!

Our main store has always been Santa Barbara based, so we decided the best thing to do was expand in the Funk Zone. A few weeks before the fire hit, we opened a tiny shop at The Guilded Table as an "experiment" for the holidays... clearly Mother Nature did not agree with my holiday sales plan! But the space has amazing potential, and I'm hopeful for what our "normal" Santa Barbara sunny summer days will bring. We've been working around the clock the past week building out the new Funk Zone shop. We can't wait to share it with you, host incredible Scent Bar parties there, blend up your favorite creative scent concoctions and just be surrounded by great people, businesses, food + drink, bubbling ideas and more.

Scent Bar in the Funk Zone • 120 Santa Barbara St.

Please come visit us soon! The Waterline building is located right behind Michael Kate Interiors and opens at noon daily. There's parking at the end of the street. It's a fun place for all ages to hang, and dogs are welcome, too.

2018 has been a whirlwind in business survival, a lesson in resilience, strength and the endless learning that goes along with entrepreneurship. That which does not kill us makes us stronger... The Grapeseed Co. is standing strong, just a mile away from our sweet memories on Ortega Street.

Please help us spread the word about the move! we're looking forward to sharing the new stores with you, seeing your smiling faces and continuing to thrive, no matter what life continues to surprise us with.

Cheers to good things ahead, always keeping your chin up and persevering!

~ Kristin

SANTA BARBARA SHOP 
120 Santa Barbara St in the Funk Zone
Open Daily!
Monday - Thursday 11:30am-6:30pm
Friday - Sunday 11:30am-8:30pm

CARPINTERIA SHOP
4193 Carpinteria Ave #6 at the Warehouse Row
Carpinteria, CA 93013
Open
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:30am-5:30pm
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday noon-5pm 

Join Us SATURDAY! The Grapeseed Co. GRAND OPENING Celebration: 21 W Ortega St. downtown Santa Barbara

We can't wait to celebrate this beautiful new space with you all! We have closed both the Carpinteria Warehouse Store and the Carrillo Store to open this wonderful new flagship store, with everything in one place! Check out how we create your favorite botanical beauty from wine, from the grapeseed to the bottle.

See you there Saturday, cheers!

visit our new, improved scent bar & lounge in Santa Barbara

the new shop located at 21 W. Ortega St. in downtown Santa Barbara, CA

When we opened our first store on Carrillo Street three years ago, I had this idea of bringing the fun and endless possibilities of the creation process to all of you through our self scent bar. This has been a huge attraction to our shop, and we love sniffing your amazing custom scent blends. We also love hearing the stories of who you gift these to, and why you love to create and name the gift! Our new location in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara (across from Macy's at 21 W. Ortega Street) has a gorgeous new expanded scent bar and lounge!

 We invite you to come in anytime Mon-Fri 10:30-6PM or Sat 11-5PM to create your own custom blended organic bath products. You can relax with a cup of tea in our beautiful, sunny scent bar lounge and peruse over 100 essential oil and fragrance offerings!

we have added:

a dozen new essential oils and phthalate free fragrance oils

create your own shampoo & conditioner

PLUS, a brand new create your own SCRUB BAR 

 where you can pick your own herbs and extracts to blend in,
plus the scent of your choice!

Join us October 12th for the  

Grand Opening Celebration 

& save at our scent bar

Stop by and check it out, we have closed both the Carpinteria and Carrillo St in SB stores and moved everything to this wonderful new location.
We can't wait to share it with you :)

Grand Opening Party - - Saturday Oct. 12 from 12-5 pm

SAVE THE DATE!

join us for our new Store Grand Opening Party
Saturday October 12th
from  
noon-5 pm

We welcome you to join the fun at our beautiful new location in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara. We will be serving refreshments as you explore our new store. 

Show your creativity and test our some of our new scent bar products... we are introducing create your own hair care at our scent bar! Express your imagination as you name the product and choose your own scent, size, and packaging at our expanded scent bar and lounge. 

We also added a brand new “create your own body scrub” bar. Your skin will love our vinotherapy body scrubs created with crushed grape seeds from wine, sugar and salt with pure expeller pressed grapeseed oil. Create custom gifts for friends and family or treat yourself with our antioxidant-rich goodies!

***We will be giving out gifts with your purchase and will be having specials on some of your favorite products.***

Celebrate the autumn harvest season and look out for our exciting new fall releases:

    blemish buster toner

    cali harvest serum 

    vino lux hair oil

    harvest cider seasonal soap

You do not want to miss out... 

Come see what the new  
Grapeseed Company is all about!

We are located at:

21 W. Ortega St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101

*Across from the Macy’s
(next to 19 Blue, Nardone’s Pizza and The Wildcat)

*Plenty of parking in the lot on Chapala & Ortega under Macy’s

Grapeseed Co. at New York Fashion Week, The Emmy's + more

We have had an exciting month here at The Grapeseed Company! We participated in gifting at the New York Fashion Week GBK gift lounge #NYFW located at the Empire Hotel, across from The Lincoln Center on September 6th and 7th. Several lucky celebrities, models, stylists, and industry elites received our bath & massage oil and body lotion in our signature scents. 

Some of our lucky gift recipients included, Pat Field, costume stylist for "The Devil Wears Prada"and "Sex and the City", Hofit Golan from FashionTV, Producer Jay Manuel and iconic Runway Extraordinaire Miss J Alexander from CW’s America’s Next Top Model, Style Network’s ‘How Do I Look’ fashionista Jeannie Mai, and Anya Ayoung-Chee, Lifetime’s Project Runway Season 9 Winner. British Vogue, Fashion Daily Magazine, Fashion TV, Huffington Post, In Touch, Life & Style, Lucky Magazine, and OK! Magazine got to try out our wonderful vinotherapy products as well. 

In addition, this upcoming weekend we are honored to be gifting the press at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. This gifting includes our Chamomile Grapefruit Moisturizer and Lavender Infused Grapeseed Oil. Get the very same gift set for $35 here or come swing by our beautiful new store and pick one (or maybe a few) up there.

We have been blessed by some immense growth and have decided to close our Carpinteria and Carrillo St. stores to better serve our customers needs. We created a single, larger store in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara across from Macy’s and Paseo Nuevo! Come check out our new location at  21 W Ortega St. Be on the look out for our Grand Opening Party invite next week!

A QUICK REMINDER:

***The Grapeseed Company is now available at 
Whole Foods Markets! find us at:

Whole Foods Santa Barbara

Whole Foods Oxnard

Whole Foods Thousand Oaks

Whole Foods Pasadena (Arroyo)

Whole Foods Pasadena (Foothill)

Whole Foods Tustin

Whole Foods Glendale

Coming soon to select locations in NorCal

***You can also find our wine barrel displays at Lazy Acres Markets in Santa Barbara and Long Beach, California. 

The Grapeseed Co. wins Fastest Growing Company of the Year Award in New York

Award Winners pictured: (back) Emily Holdridge, Kristin Fraser Cotte, Shasta Nelson, Jessica Herrin, Savor the Success founder Angela Jia Kim, Payson Cooper, Allison Jagtiani, Alison Raffaele, (front) Amy E. Goodman, Michele Howe Clarke, Janice Hoffmann, Nika Stewart

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SANTA BARBARA, CA:  
The 4th annual Women Entrepreneurs Rock the World, hosted by Savor the Success, the premiere business network for women entrepreneurs, took place in New York City in May. The event was sponsored by Whole Foods Markets and American Express OPEN. The Awards Ceremony honored top and emerging women entrepreneurs. Jessica Herrin was honored as Woman Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 for Stella & Dot. She spoke to the audience about how women can "think bigger" before leading a private mentoring session with other award winners. The public submitted nominees and a panel of judges chose the winners based on merit, caliber, and growth in the past year.

The 2013 Award Winners are:

Fastest Growing Company of the Year Award 2013

Kristin Fraser Cotte for The Grapeseed Company

Conference of the Year Award 2013

Katherine Gordon for 3% Conference

Breakout Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2013

Nika Stewart for GhostTweeting.com

Trailblazer Award 2013

Shasta Nelson for Girlfriend Circles

Website of the Year Award 2013

Alexa Hirschfeld for Paperlesspost.com

Author of the Year Award 2013

Michele Howe Clarke for Face Forward

Product Company of the Year Award 2013

Alison Raffaele for Alison Raffaele Cosmetics

Savor Sister of the Year Award 2013

Payson Cooper of Marketing in the Morning

Mission-Driven Company of the Year Award 2013

Emily Holdridge for Everything Happy

Media Maven of the Year Award 2013

Amy E. Goodman of Wear This, Toss That

Coach of the Year Award 2013

Janice Hoffmann for Success is Sweetest

Food/Beverage Company of the Year Award 2013

Allison Jagtiani for Goji Gourmet 

Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2013

Jessica Herrin for Stella & Dot

Kristin Fraser Cotte started The Grapeseed Company out of a tiny Santa Barbara kitchen apartment as a hobby back in 2004 when she was teaching elementary school in Goleta. Today, The Grapeseed Company creates over 80 botanical beauty products from the byproduct of wine. In addition to selling at their two brick and mortar stores in Santa Barbara and Carpinteria, Grapeseed Co. products are available through spas and retailers all over the world.      

“We are incredibly honored to be recognized on this level,” says Cotte, 

“I am most thankful and proud of the humble but mighty team we’ve 

built over the past year to accomplish this type of growth!”

In the past year, The Grapeseed Company team has opened their second retail store, participated in celebrity gifting at the Oscars GBK Gift Lounge, released 16 new products, formulated a spa line and signature treatments for the new Spa at El Encanto by Orient Express, and will be launching over 30 products in Whole Foods Markets this June. The Grapeseed Company has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Health, Self, Women’s Health Magazine, and other major media outlets.  

Savor The Success’ Rock the World conference gathers America’s top, female entrepreneurs and executives to inspire and empower women to build a prosperous business and life. Attendees learn how to develop essential leadership skills, increase productivity and recruit top quality staff, all while networking with like-minded women. Notable speakers at the 2013 conference included Gilt.com co-founder Alexis Maybank, swimwear designer Malia Mills, MSNBC’s JJ Ramberg, Yummie Tummie founder Heather Thomson, and the author of Start With Why, Simon Sinek. Rock the World provides conference attendees with the nuts-and-bolts know-how, resources, strategies, and connections needed to succeed. 

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Press Inquiries:
The Grapeseed Company
Kristin Fraser Cotte or Rachel Nobles 805-456-3655
pr@thegrapeseedcompany.com  

Savor The Success
Meredith Bichsel, 407-620-5216
Madeleine Fawcett, 561-373-5584

We'll bring the shop to you!

The Grapeseed Company introduced at-home parties this holiday season (check out our blog post here), and we also began "at-business" parties too... 

 (photo taken at Summerland Winery)

We were recently welcomed by local tasting rooms Au Bon Climat and Summerland Winery, where we did mini spa treatments and sampled out various items from our skin care line.  Customers and staff members were educated on organic skin care and the benefits of grapeseeds.  These promos also make it possible to purchase The Grapeseed Company products on site, as we are equipped with inventory and a satellite register.  

This is a great event for businesses as it draws people in for a "spa night."  Customers enjoy products from The Grapeseed Company and products from the hosting business! It's a fun and social way to shop for the holiday season!

If your business is interested in having an event with The Grapeseed Company, contact us for more information.  
email: rachel(at)thegrapeseedcompany(dot)com
or call: 805-456-3655

Featured Retailer: Los Olivos General Store

This month we're proudly featuring Los Olivos General Store.  If you head to the Santa Ynez Valley to wine taste, you must stop by this adorable shop in the heart of downtown Los Olivos.  We caught up with owner, Christina Larner, to learn more about her business.

1. Tell us a bit about Los Olivos General Store...

Our store is located in the center of Los Olivos in a historic building that was built as a gas station in 1901. Our theme is “wine-art-home” and great effort is made to source locally produced items that celebrate the lifestyle of the Santa Ynez Valley. We carry a variety of unique gifts, home décor, jewelry, books, handbags, scarves, wine accessories, gourmet foods, olive oil, skin care products, garden goods and barrel stave furniture. 

2. What makes your store unique/different?    
We are also an art gallery. We feature paintings by local artists and rotate the exhibits every quarter. Currently we are exhibiting the art of Santa Barbara painter Jeremy Harper. He paints local landscapes and his work is striking.  

3. How have you taken initiative to become a greener business? 

We always strive to be a 'greener' business. We carry local products which help support local farmers and artisans. Many of our products are re-purposed such as a variety of items made from wine barrels and wine bottles- from lighting to drink ware. We also use 100% recycled paper bags and packaging. 

4. What is your best selling Grapeseed product?  

The Summer Crisp Chardonnay Wine Bar Soap is our best selling product from The Grapeseed Company. In fact, all of the wine bar soaps are popular. Our customers love that the soap is made with wine, the fragrance is delightful, and the packaging makes it a great gift!

 

5.  What is your personal favorite Grapeseed product?  

My personal favorite product is Sweet Lips. I use it every night before bed. It is so moisturizing and I never have chapped lips!

How to reach them:
2900 Grand Ave
Los Olivos, CA
805-688-8148
Store Hours:
Open Daily
10am-5pm
www.losolivosgeneralstore.com
email: info (at) losolivosgeneralstore (dot) com
facebook:  www.facebook.com/losolivosgeneralstore 
twitter:  @LosOlivosStore

New Carpinteria Store Hours for the Holidays

We're excited to announce that we will now be OPEN 
on Wednesdays at our Carpinteria Warehouse 
Location through Christmas!

CARPINTERIA STORE HOURS

MONDAY 10:30-5:30

TUESDAY  {CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC}

WEDNESDAY 10:30-5:30

THURSDAY 10:30-5:30

FRIDAY 10:30-5:30

SATURDAY 12:00-5:30
{CLOSED SUNDAY}

2 for 1 deals at The Grapeseed Co. Carpinteria Grand Opening this Saturday June 16

What: 

Grand Opening of

The Grapeseed Co. Carpinteria

When: 

noon- 5:30 
Saturday June 16, 2012

Where: 

4193 Carpinteria Ave #9 
Carpinteria, CA

fabulous goodie bags with purchase, 
free hand treatments, food, fun & incredible 
2 for 1 deals on different products every hour!

AMAZING 2 for 1 SPECIALS

every hour on our BESTSELLERS

noon-1PM 

chamomile grapefruit moisturizer

1-2PM 

summer crisp chardonnay body butter 

(and another surprise product!) 

2-3PM

mojito man aftershave balm

3-4PM

Dirty Dog Organics wash

4-5:30PM

Vine Eyes anti-aging eye cream with eyebright

(and another surprise product!)

yep... that means you buy one AND you get one free! 

Give it to a friend, save it for yourself, 
or stash it for a gift down the road.

THANK YOU for loving our products! We would not be opening store #2 without your support; thanks for spreading the word about what we do. June marks 8 years we've been bringing you the natural goodness of botanical beauty from wine, first online and now in 2 locations! Cheers- see you this Saturday.

xoxo,

heard it through the grapevine . . . The Grapeseed Co. is opening STORE #2

We are giddy with excitement (and maybe lack of sleep) about opening our second brick and mortar location in Carpinteria, California! A little less than 2 years ago, we opened our flagship store in downtown Santa Barbara...

You may remember this time, it was the summer of 2010 and the economy was tough (to say the least.) Brick & mortar stores were closing left and right, especially in downtown SB. I listened to countless people (from my nearest and dearest to total strangers) tell me I was crazy, I was making a mistake and I would fail. I'll be totally honest; I got really bummed out at times. I even broke down and cried on a few occasions because I was so sick of hearing "why on earth did you open a retail store?" or "good luck" with a sarcastic tone daily from some random person off the street. After a few months I bucked up, developed some thick(er) skin and pushed full speed ahead with my entrepreneurial headlights beaming. What's that saying about what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger?

I'm happy to say 22 months later the SB store is proving those passer-by's wrong and we are weeks away from opening our second store in the adorable beach town of Carpinteria, CA!

We have a new warehouse space on the beach side of Carpinteria Ave. right before you hit downtown. It's a pleasant spot with some great neighboring businesses like Chocolats du Cali Bressan, Carpinteria Wine Co. and Upright Paddle Sports. We moved our production to Carp in April and have increased our manufacturing capabilities in the new, much larger space.

We are thrilled to be in a spot where we can build-out a second store as well! It's in the works, but I'll give you a peek inside. Here's what we moved into...

 First order of business was getting the production kitchen up and running so we could continue to fill orders. The new space has allowed us to up our manufacturing capabilities big time! Here's what we can now produce in a day...

We've been able to turn around much larger wholesale orders, and are so excited that Grapeseed goodness is reaching many more of you around the globe!

We're smack in the midst of the build-out, but have designed a great set up where you will be able to watch us creating grapeseed goodies through these large french doors that join the store to our manufacturing area.

Those of you that have visited our SB store know that we love to show our creative side through store design. We're bringing that same love to the new Carpinteria store, and are spending this weekend refinishing upcycled furniture and building displays in our own green, grapeseed style.

 We hope you'll stop by and visit in June... you can find us by these great lime green chairs that will be outside 4193 Carpinteria Ave #9!

Remember, don't let the turkeys get ya down. Amazing things can happen when you stay true to your roots, take risk and truly believe in success. Everything else is a good learning experience; it's all in how you look at things!

xoxo,

Holiday Decor Grapeseed Style: DIY Grapevine Jingle Wreath

The store does not have the floor space for a proper tree this year, but we had a fun time coming up with other ways to decorate this holiday season! We created two beautiful wreaths for The Grapeseed Co. boutique today. First, I'll share directions for our Grapevine Jingle Wreath, created with upcycled grapevines, festive bells and a splash of creativity!

Grapevine Jingle Wreath

 You'll need:

bells (we used 2 different sizes)

a wire wreath frame

dried grapevines

decorative berries or beads

clear fishing line

scissors

DIY INSTRUCTIONS
~Wrap the grapevines around the wreath frame, weaving in and out for your desired shape and size. I worked on bending ours until it framed the Grapeseed Co. logo on our door perfectly. You can also buy a pre-made wreath created from dried grapevines at a craft store like Michael's.
~String the fishing line through each bell and attach in randomly spaced spots around the wreath.
~wrap the berries around the vines, filling in spots that look bare after adding the bells.
~Hang and enjoy! We love this on our entry door because it jingles every time a customer comes in!

Next week I'll share instructions for wreath #2.... 

 Lucinda turned a traditional green wreath into a 2-sided window display that looks beautiful outside the window and inside the shop!

scentual sandalwood giveaway | create your scent

1 year ago, we opened The Grapeseed Company flagship store in downtown Santa Barbara! I started The Grapeseed Co. 7 years ago to create premium natural skin care based on grapeseeds, an ecologically sound, antioxidant rich byproduct of our local region. Since launching the company I always dreamed of opening a store and setting up a Self Scent Bar™where customers could create their own signature blends. Shortly after opening the store, we launched the Virtual Scent Bar™at TheGrapeseedCompany.com Both Scent Bars have been a hit, online and in the store. So, what better way to mark a year than a  
Create Your Own Signature Scent Giveaway?!

you can enter for the chance to win a

Create Your Own Scentual Sandalwood Line 

~at our Self Scent Bar or Virtual Scent Bar~

You'll get a 15 minute consultation with Kristin about your favorite scents, essential oils, fragrance oils and suggested blends. From there, you will get a chance to blend your own signature sandalwood based scent into an entire body product line, and name it!

You'll receive:

8oz grapeseed hand & body wash

4oz bath & massage oil

4oz vinotherapy body lotion

4oz grapeseed room & body mist

perfume in a cobalt glass rollerball bottle

all wrapped up in our elegant fine vine gift box

(valued at over $120)

To enter, do any (or all) of the following:

1. join in on the fun on our facebook page by liking us

2. follow us on twitter

3. tell your friends about The Grapeseed Company by mentioning us on facebook

4. subscribe to The Grapeseed Co. Monthly News  
(15% off code, DIY spa recipes, promos & more!)

Tip: each thing counts as 1 entry, so do all 4 and you'll enter 4 times! Winner will be drawn at random in September.

Then, leave a comment below letting us know what you did. Easy-peasy.

The winner will get the chance to claim their prize at the store, 

by phone or virtual scent bar online, so this is open to everyone. 

Cheers, and thanks for making this one great year!
We would not be here without all of you :)
thanks,