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“We’d been friends for about seven years,” says company co-founder Maxine Gomez, referring to her business partner, Vera Lund. “The idea was hers because she and her husband used baby wipes after their intimate moments.” And baby wipes just weren’t doing the trick.
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SAFETY GIRLS SWIPES LOVIN WIPES, POMPANO BEACH At the risk of forging ahead into an area of TMI (too much information), the Swipes Lovin Wipes idea, which are hygienic sex wipes, came about when girlfriends—two heterosexual girlfriends—started talking about, you know, sex.
They smelled like a baby-changing station. They weren’t biodegradable. And nothing about them was sexy. Not the packaging nor the scent nor the feel of them, Gomez recalls. They began researching some alternatives, and discovered...
the very beginning that whatever we did, it had to meet the entire list,” Gomez explains. The list? All natural. Hypoallergenic. Clean, fresh smell. Flushable. And after a few years of researching manufacturers, along with the rules and laws that apply to introducing a new product, the friends found someone to make them, right here in the United States. “The hardest part was finding a manufacturer,” recalls Gomez, who says they were adamant about American production because the water regulations in the United States are so much more stringent than they are overseas, and water would be used in Swipes production.
Well, they discovered nothing. “Baby wipes have chlorine and alcohol and we were like, ‘There has to be something better out there,’”
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They incorporated in October of 2009 and received their first environmentally friendly product a year later. “We’re very big in the adult market,” says Gomez, pointing out that they intentionally keep their product affordable. (A pack of 42 wipes costs $4.99, plus shipping, online.) “People are finding that green can be sexy.”
– Maxine Gomez, co-founder of Swipes Lovin Wipes For more information, visit swipes.com.
Gomez says. “And the more we looked, the more we realized there wasn’t.” Maxine Gomez
The two women—who had met because their husbands are business associates—sat down and made a list of attributes their wipes would have to have. “We agreed from
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PAINTS THE TOWN NUDE MK ARTS AND DESIGN, POMPANO BEACH Sometimes, brothers can be a pain in the neck. And sometimes they can be brilliant—even if it’s slightly by accident. For Marcio Karam, a guy who dabbled in art all his life, it was definitely the latter. Upon much urging, Karam body-painted his brother and his brother’s girlfriend for a bar costume contest about a dozen years ago. When they—his brother and girlfriend—won $500, Karam painted himself and his girlfriend for an-
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“These books are for every store owner so they can see, feel and touch how much love, passion, attention to detail and care has gone into the past couple of years,” he says.