Wild-N-Wander Mercantile

09/10/2026

🖤💀 Something wicked is brewing in the Wild-n-Wander workshop… 💀🖤

🎃 WILD-N-WANDER: AFTER DARK 🎃

A slightly twisted little Halloween collection for grown-up wanderers who like their self-care with a side of sarcasm. 😂

💀 Dead Skin Walking — because some things really SHOULD stay dead. A hardworking sugar scrub for rough hands and feet.

🍏 Poison Apple — a wickedly delicious fall sugar scrub without the whole eternal-sleep inconvenience.

🦶 Rest in Pieces — a foot soak for when your feet are absolutely DEAD after a long day.

🦴 Working to the Bone — hardworking balm for hands, knuckles, elbows and other dry spots that have clearly seen some things.

🧙‍♀️ Witch Please — body powder created for the completely normal sweaty places nobody likes talking about.

🌲 Haunted Woods — shower steamers inspired by dark forests, crisp fall nights and wandering somewhere you probably shouldn't. 👀

🧛 Love at First Bite — a dark berry-inspired seasonal WanderBalm.

And because we're Wild-n-Wander…

🕷️ HAUNTED HENNA 🕷️
Bats • webs • ravens • moons • snakes • skeletons • pumpkins • witchy florals & more.

No shame. No boring. No pretending grown-ups deserve Halloween too.
Some strange creations for strange humans. 🖤

🎃 Wild-n-Wander: AFTER DARK
🌿 Live • Love • Wander 🌿

Not all who wander are lost… some of us are just looking for the cemetery. 💀😂

09/10/2026

🍂🎃 A little fall has wandered into Wild-n-Wander! 🌿

We are taking some of the products you already know and love and are giving them a cozy fall makeover.
From warm fall favorites to a few spooky surprises, the workshop is officially starting to smell and look like autumn. 🍎🎃🍁

Made with love, a little chaos & just the right amount of weird. 🫶

🌿 Live • Love • Wander 🌿

09/02/2026

🌿💚 WELL… THIS MADE OUR DAY! 💚🌿

One of the absolute BEST parts of creating something ourselves is hearing back from the people who actually use it.

Today we received a pretty amazing compliment about our Wild-n-Wander Wanderbalm. 🥹

A customer told us they normally use Carmex and it typically takes about a week for them to get the results they're looking for…

Their experience with Wanderbalm?

✨ TWO DAYS. ✨

Their words—not ours! 🫶

When we started making Wanderbalm, we wanted something simple and nourishing that we would feel good about using ourselves and sharing with our families and customers.

So hearing someone come back and tell us that our little handmade balm became their preferred choice is a pretty darn great feeling. 🌿

We're still a small family operation—creating, experimenting, learning, pouring, labeling and packaging things ourselves—so feedback like this means more than people probably realize.

Thank you for trying our creations, trusting our little family business and, most importantly, coming back and telling us how they worked for YOU.

Keep the feedback coming—the good, the bad and the “holy cow, this actually worked!” 😂💚

🌿 Wild-n-Wander
Live • Love • Wander 🌿

Individual experiences may vary. Wanderbalm is a cosmetic skin-conditioning product and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease.

08/28/2026

Yesterday was a difficult day. Our family doctor of many many years retired. Tears were shed, hugs were had and hands were held on the way out. To show our immeasurable amount of thanks and gratitude we brought her a basket of our most favorite items we create here at Wild-n-Wander along with a baby Aloe plant.

Mrs. Iris is the reason our daughter Jersey has hope. She is the reason Jersey was referred to the amazing Children's Hospital and the world renowned Specialist she is seeing soon. We are so incredibly blessed. She saw our kiddos when they were itty bitty and now our youngest just graduated. She witnessed some of Jersey's first "polka dots". She paved the way for her testing and what eventually led us to start Wild-n-Wander.

Her shoes will be most difficult to fill but she promised that now she is retired she will come visit often and find us at her local Farmers Market. We are forever in debt for her services. Per the circumstances we have never had a babysitter for our children only a select few family members and friends. The unknown with Jersey is scary. Putting our daughters and family's lives in her hands was not an easy decision. She handled it with grace, confidence and tough love. Exactly what I, mom, needed. She will be missed and thought about in every stir, mix, pour, sprinkle and sale.

Thank you Iris for everything you have done for us, through all the years. But most of all, Thank you for saving our daughters life. You will be greatly missed.

Enjoy your retirement. 💚The 6 Pechas

Live🌿Love🫶Wander✌️

08/26/2026

Not all that wander are lost. 💚

Live🌿Love🫶Wander✌️

08/24/2026

God Bless The U.S.A. ♥️🤍💙 and thank you New Freedom for inviting us back to face paint for year number three.

It was definitely the Spidey-Senses🕷️🕸️ that caused smiles to become contagious. If only they helped the littles to sit a tad more still during transformation. 😉 However that's impossible when cupcakes are involved at Grandma Helen's birthday party. 🎂

A great weekend at Wild-n-Wander 🌿🫶✌️

Happy Birthday Mom! Thank you for being you and supporting me in all of my endeavors. We love you soooo much. 💚

Not all that wander are lost. 🖌️

08/22/2026

🌿✨ A busy weekend at Wild-n-Wander… just the way we like it. ✨🌿

Around here, busy usually means the tables are covered, somebody has an idea, somebody else says “Ooooh, what if we…” and before we know it, we've created three more projects than we started with. 😂💚

🎨 Today is a create-and-wander kind of day.
We're putting our imaginations to work designing and creating new signs for our market tents and displays, while also beginning the bases for our brand-new Wild-n-Wander Fall Collection. 🍂🌻 There's just something about fall that makes the creative wheels turn a little faster, and we can't wait to show you what's growing in the workshop!

⛪🎨 Sunday we're trading the workshop for paintbrushes as we head out to paint lots of smiling little faces at a local church picnic—for the third year! 🥰 Being invited back year after year is something we truly treasure.

🐝 Somewhere in between, I'm hoping to wander over to our local beekeeper and bring home some of her divine beeswax for a few things we're dreaming up in the workshop. There's something extra special about knowing an ingredient came from bees right here in our own community. 🍯💛

And then we'll finish the weekend in one of our favorite ways—gathered with family and friends, celebrating my mom's birthday. 🫶 The woman who continues to show up, cheer us on, support our crazy ideas and stand behind all of us through every adventure.

Creating. Painting. Supporting local. Celebrating family.

Really, that's Wild-n-Wander in a nutshell. 💚

🌿 Live • Love • Wander 🌿
Not all who wander are lost.

08/19/2026

When my kids have mozzarella sticks they look for something called "the cheese pull". That and of course flavor is how they grade the quality of their order.

Now when it comes to slime, aside from removing the toxins like borax the goal is to make it a parents dream and not a nightmare. Meaning it is not the kind that will result in ruining your carpet, couch or clothing.

But most importantly it's kid tested. It has a perfect quality, smell, texture and of course "slime pull". Here at Wild-n-Wander we have a very qualified staff of creators, testors, inspectors, and control operators. They review products for days and weeks not just during creating day.

Here at Wild-n-Wander all things are put into consideration when creating. When it comes to our slime the "SLIME PULL" is in the top 3.

*This one shown is to Mimi's Chocolate chip cookie dough however if you look closely the chocolate chips are actually footballs. Add your favorite team's colors and you are ready for the season. Stress relief in hand. 😉

08/18/2026

08/16/2026

Arrowroot is AmAzInG and I can't help but love it. The dark and dirty outside hides pure and beautiful red streaked insides. 💚🌿

BUT it is my arch NEMESIS. 😵‍💫

To make the powder from the plant that hides it's beauty deep within, it is a process that feels like days, no, weeks actually years... (It's really only days and I'm exaggerating. BUT the process it's... It's sooooo time consuming, so so so much!!! BUT in the long run SOOO worth it.

Back when our daughter Jersey first needed drastic lifestyle changes and I needed to change products to.. I was clueless. I had a hippie friend that inspired me but didn't know where to start.. I even went looking for this specific "ingredient" at the craftstore. Well now we are years in, lessons learned, products tested, trials taken and Wild-n-Wander has bloomed.

What I've learned is,

1. If you are purchasing a product from the store that says organic there is a out a 99% chance it actually isn't organic and only one ingredient is. I know right! I fell for that too. I learned from the leading dermatologist, DO's and nutritionalists. The FDA regulations state it can be labeled so if it has an ingredient in it that is.

2. There are very few actual Organic products on the shelves. The list we were provided was less than a computer paper.

3. There is a reason true blue organic products are slightly higher in cost and that is because of the effort and other ingredients included. But with that said it should also last longer, go further and in the long run do it job and keep you here on this planet healthier and happier.

Now back to the Arrowroot I have a love hate relationship with and why we choose it for our products.

🌿 Why We Love Arrowroot 🌿

Sometimes the simplest ingredients are the ones that do the most work.
Arrowroot powder is a fine, plant-based starch made from the roots/rhizomes of tropical plants. In natural body-care products, we love it because it can:

✨ Absorb excess moisture — helping skin feel drier and more comfortable without relying on talc.
✨ Reduce that greasy feeling — when added to balms, butters and oil-based products, arrowroot can help give them a softer, silkier finish instead of leaving skin feeling overly oily.
✨ Help with friction & chafing — because it absorbs moisture and gives products a smooth feel, it can be especially useful in products designed for sweaty or high-friction areas.
✨ Create a soft, silky texture — arrowroot can improve the feel of body powders, deodorant-style products and body butters.
✨ Keep formulas simple — it gives us another plant-derived option when we're creating products with straightforward, recognizable ingredients.

🌱 And one important thing: arrowroot isn't an antifungal medicine or a treatment for an infection. Its job is primarily moisture control, texture and comfort—and sometimes keeping an area dry is an important part of keeping skin happy.
From sweaty feet and work boots 👢 to thighs, skin folds and those everyday places nobody likes talking about—we believe body care should solve real-life problems without making anyone embarrassed about having them.

💚 Live • Love • Wander
🌿 Wild-n-Wander