WATCH: A 16-year-old from Quispamsis has started up his own business selling handmade soaps. At first Noah Donovan was simply hoping to make a few bucks on the side, but as Global’s Shelley Steeves reports, he may also have discovered his true calling.
QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – A 16-year-old went from struggling to find a part-time job to coming up with one on his own.
Noah Donovan of Quispamsis was fresh out of ideas of where to find work.
“I figured I’d make my own job which is soaps and sugar scrubs,” he said.
Noah launched his own line of handmade soaps called East Coast Bath Products. He says he got the idea after making a gift for his mom, Paula, who’s now his business partner and CEO.
“It sort of happened on its own,” she said. “He decided to make a sugar scrub for me for Christmas put it on Facebook and a lady said, ‘Oh, how much do you want for these?'”
“He said, well I don’t know I didn’t plan on selling them but I can make you some.”
That’s when Noah immersed himself into making and selling soaps and scrubs. Mom helps out with packaging and is teaching Noah how to keep track of orders and sales.
“Everything is on his own all of the stuff he makes it’s all his idea. He researches it all,” she said.
He’s now working on launching his newest product. A molding dough for playing in the tub that Noah markets to encourage kids to bath.
“I think it is just something I have natural in me,” he said. “I like to sell things so I go on Facebook and I sell these and I write these fun little messages for people to see and most times that’s what gets people.”
His Facebook page already has more than 1,300 likes.
His mother says six months ago when Noah started his company, he was not overly focused on the future.
“Up until he had started this he had no idea what he wanted to do.”
But now Noah says he knows what he wants to do with his future. Next year he’s going into grade 11, and after graduation he wants to take a business course.
He’s already becoming quite savvy, refusing to give away his trade secrets.
“If I give it away then everybody will start to do it and I won’t have a business.”
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