BUSINESS
Wallowa County Chieftain
A6
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Soap made from ‘love, art, herbalism’
BIZZ
BUZZ
PEAK FUSION
STUDIO
What: Bath and body
business
By Bill Bradshaw
Who: Terra Snyder
Imnaha woman
off ers unique
bath and body
products
Where: P.O. Box 45, Imna-
ha, OR 97842
Phones: 541-577-3079
Email: peakfusionstu-
dio@gmail.com
Instagram: peakfusion-
studio
I
MNAHA — Do you
like bath and body prod-
ucts with a distinct aroma
derived from naturally occur-
ring products in Wallowa
County? Well, Peak Fusion
Studio of Imnaha has what
you’re looking for.
“I predominately make
handcrafted soap. I also make
bath bombs, perfume, lotion
bars and salve,” said busi-
ness owner Terra Snyder, who
runs the business out of her
Imnaha Canyon home. “My
motto is we create in the spirit
of love, art and herbalism.”
And she’s not alone in the
venture.
“It’s a family-run business,
for sure,” she said. “Every-
body helps out.”
The family includes hus-
band Jason, who runs Jason
Snyder Construction, and
their four children, ranging in
age from 15-25.
The Snyders have been
living in the canyon for 21
years come June.
“We both moved back
after being gone from home
for years,’ she said. “We both
were really in love with the
Imnaha area, the people, the
river, the life style.”
Special ingredients
“What makes my products
Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
Terra Snyder, of Peak Fusion Studio, shows some of the soaps and other products her Imnaha-based business produces. She
was displaying them during the Holiday Bazaar at the Joseph Community Events Center on Friday, Nov. 26, 2021.
special are a few diff erent
things,” Snyder said. “Every
bar of soap has hand-ren-
dered lard in it.”
She said she gets the lard
from pigs raised at Square
Mile Ranch in Lostine. Soap
also can contain beef tallow,
which she may use in the
future, but for now, she sticks
with lard.
“I can do vegan soap and
will make it if asked,” she
said.
The family also keeps
bees, which go into the mix.
“We raise bees and put
our own honey and hand-ren-
dered beeswax in our soaps,”
she said. “It’s really special
stuff . It’s really good quality.”
Then there’s the plants and
herbal ingredients.
“We love to wild-harvest. I
predominantly will wild-har-
vest invasive species,” she
said, emphasizing that she
avoids native species. “I do
not wild-harvest any indige-
nous food sources for profi t.”
These may include bis-
cuitroot, camas root or
huckleberries.
“I may harvest them for
my own use, but I will not
profi t from it,” she said. “It’s
a way of showing respect for
the Nez Perce people of this
land.”
Snyder also infuses her
products with botanicals.
“I wild-harvest and grow
fl owers and herbs that I then
infuse oils with and then I
make my products from those
oils,” she said.
Infusion is the process of
pouring an oil over plant mat-
ter and waiting anywhere
from four to six weeks to a
year for the oil to soak up the
essence of the plant matter.
“The oil will smell like
that plant matter,” she said.
“If I infuse olive oil with lav-
ender, that olive oil will smell
like lavender.”
She also adds cocoa but-
ter and shea butter she gets
from a company in Northern
Ghana that uses the proceeds
to help women and children.
“Those are wonderful but-
ters to have in soap,” she said.
“They’re very moisturizing.”
She keeps busy
Much of Snyder’s busi-
& Skylight
Gallery
ness is online, although she
does off er her wares at var-
ious outlets in Wallowa
County and she recently was
at the Holiday Bazaar at the
Joseph Community Events
Center.
She said that right now,
she’s making about 30 bars of
soap a day, fi ve days a week.
Fall and spring are the busy
seasons for production, while
she devotes winter and sum-
mer to sales.
Beyond Wallowa County,
Snyder said she has custom-
ers from New York to Los
Angeles.
But it’s not all about mak-
ing money, she said, adding
that 10% of her proceeds go
for “indigenous reparations,”
which goes along with her
love for the original inhabi-
tants of the county.
“I have very much a heart
for the indigenous commu-
nity,” she said.
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Bill Bradshaw is a
reporter for the Wallowa
County Chieftain. Have a
business tip? Contact him
at 541-398-5503 or bbrad-
shaw@wallowa.com.
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