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Recent additions to the 'Over the Hill Hippy Chick' & 'Nakomas' line of products:

Sweet Grass soap

Smudging herbs

Soon to be added:

Unique dream catchers and leather wall hangings

"What's it all about, Man?!"

    Check out the ingredients in your favorite bar of soap, the face cream you use every day.  Are you asking yourself "Man, what IS all that stuff?!"?    If you're not, you should be.

    Like, I bet you've heard of nicotine patches, hormone patches and cardiac patches.  Those are transdermal medications.   They work because our skin absorbs chemicals which are then distributed throughout our body. 

    Same thing with all the other chemicals our skin comes in contact with..... Each time you use a commercially prepared soap or cream, your body is absorbing all those things you can't even pronouce on the ingredients label.  Who needs that?!  

    Over the Hill Hippy Chick creates all natural soaps, creams and other products using only the finest oils, butters, essential oils and herbs.  There are NO artificial stabilizers, NO artificial preservatives, NO harsh chemicals, NO toxins.

Sodium Lauroyl Isethionate

Stearic Acid

Sodium Tallow

Sodium Palmitate

Lauric Acid

Sodium Isethionate

Sodium Stearate

Cocamidropropyl Betaine

Sodium Cocoate

Sodium Palm Kernalate

Sodium Chloride

Tetrasodium EDTA

Tetrasodium Itodronate

Titanium Dioxide

   It might surprise you to learn that these are the ingredients of a very popular 'beauty bar'... it's called a beauty bar because they can't legally call it soap.  Some of these ingredients are known irritants and carcinogens. 

The following ingredients are what goes into Over the Hill Hippy Chick/Nakomas soap:

Pure virgin olive oil

Vegetable shortening

Distilled water

Aloe Vera Juice

Coconut oil

Sweet almond oil

Herbs

Beeswax

Essential oils

No carcinogens, no toxins, no irritants, just all natural ingredients given to us by Mother Nature.

   The Over the Hill Hippy Chick and Namokas are one and the same. Judy Bayliss started a business named Over the Hill Hippy Chick in the fall of 2000.

   A couple of years later her interest in her native roots became stronger and before she knew it, she was making Native-themed products and vending at powwows: Native American Festivals.

Where did the name, Nakomas, come from?

   Judy's mother, who was descended from Cherokee Indians who chose not to sign any of the Native American census rolls, was named Naomi. 

   Naomi's grandmother always called her Nakomas, a Native word meaning 'grandmother'.

   When Judy started making and selling Native products, no other name would do except 'Nakomas', to honor her mother and all the Native women who came before her.

   The Nakomas products are a joint effort between a man in Texas and a woman in Pennsylvania. 

   Dave gathers the cactus flower stalks in Western Texas, strips off the needles, sands them until they're smooth, cuts them to size, sometimes burns designs onto the sticks, then painstakingly puts several coats of finish on them that allows the natural beauty to show through.

   Next, he packages them and ships them to Pennsylvania where Judy adds leather, feathers and beads to create unusual one of a kind walking sticks, smudge fans, talking sticks and wall hangings. 

Many hours of work go into each stick, which in addition to their beauty and sturdiness make them a bargain at these prices.