Do you guys remember when slime swept the country, and everyone was making tubs of it? It was a few years ago, but young Maddie Rae jumped right on the trend. When Maddie was 11 years old, the trend was in full swing, and she loved it. Her whole business started when she went to the store with her dad and was looking for supplies to make slime. However, there was no glue at the store, which is an essential ingredient of slime. This prompted Maddie into action, and she decided she would make her own glue for her slime.

Maddie’s glue was different from other glue. Rather, the glue was made specifically for slime. This glue has a specific ingredient, polyvinyl alcohol, which is a “key slime-making ingredient” which makes it different from your every-day glue.

Maddie released her new glue, Maddie Rae’s Slime Glue, in 2017 and was selling it on Amazon and in the paper store. She found immediate success and her customers wanted more, so she continued to expand her business. Now Maddie has a full line of slime products that can be found on her website!

Check it out here: https://www.slimemaking.com/

Not only does Maddie haver her slime products, but she also hosted “slime bashes”. It almost is like a convention for slime. At her second bash, Maddie broke a Guinness World Record: The World’s largest Slime. These bashes were extremely successful, with all the tickets selling out.

Maddie is a great example of a young entrepreneur who jumped on a trend and took matters into her own hands. And was only 11 years old when she created a new product and started her own business. While the slime trend doesn’t have the fire it did a few years ago, it is still popular, and Maddie really took advantage of the opportunity that laid right in front of her.

Can you imagine working with you siblings and creating a business when you’re only 10 or 11 years old? I personally was not thinking of a new product and creating a business at that age with my little sister. But Caroline and Isabel Bercaw did just that. These two sisters started this all with a science project that they did together where they made their own bath bombs. They were obsessed with their creation and the fun colors and smells that they could incorporate, and from there decided that they could start a business with their homemade bath bombs.

They first sold their homemade bath bombs for a local art fair near their hometown in Minneapolis and on the first day they sold out of all the 150 they made. The next day at the fair they had tried to make as many as possible but sold out again. And from there a business was born.

With both girls still in school their parents took an active role in running the business, and today is a family run a very successful bath bomb business; so successful that the parents were able to quit their other jobs to focus on the bath bombs business.

Da Bomb Bath Fizzers is the name of their business and can be found in stores such as Target and Ulta Beauty. Sales have been good and steady, with the company making around 500,000 bath bombs a month. Caroline and Isabel knew they needed to make their homemade bath bombs different from their competitors, and they came up with having small surprises inside the bath bomb that would be discovered as it fizzes in the bath.

Caroline and Isabel are a great example of entering a market that already existed and making it better and different. Putting little surprises in the bath bombs was an innovation that gave them an advantage and helped them standout from their competitors.

Check out Da Bomb Bath Fizzers Website here: https://dabombfizzers.com/