While in Kansas City, I had a wonderful day, night, and morning with my dear friend Marla Svoboda. Marla’s younger daughter, Hattie, invited us to visit her work place. I love getting to see how things are made inside factories, but the experience Hattie shared with us was way more than that.
Hattie works at Indigo Wild a Kansas City owned and operated soap company. When we arrived at the factory on Saturday morning workers were already socializing outside. That’s the first thing I noticed about Indigo Wild–every one seemed happy to be at work!
Here is the outside of the factory.
Inside the factory there is also a little shop where you can purchase soaps and other lovely things.
And here is a peak about at what is happening behind the doors of this rather regular old red brick building.
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- Hattie is a soap labeller by day and a civil rights activist by night. Seriously, last year, this kid attended college full time, worked to jobs, and held down an internship working towards futhering LGBT rights. I know someday I am going to turn on C-SPAN and Hattie will be there testifying before cngress of the United Nations.
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- Not that is an amazing bar of soap!
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- This is what one half of the Indigo Wild staff meeting room looks like.
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- I do believe these are magical ingridents.
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- And this is what the other half looks like.
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- One of the many fun office spaces.
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- Indigo Wild’s tag line is “Any More natural and You’d be Naked.”
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- So there were some areas where I could not take pictures.
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- This is my dear friend Marla Svoboda and her daughter Hattie.
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- Goats are a popular motif because Indigo Wild uses goats’ milk to make their soap.
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- A very handsome staff photo.
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- The Men’s Bathroom.
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- The Ladies Bathroom.
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- The staff kitchen
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- More funkiness
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- A view of the lower lower from up high.
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- Another exterior shot complete with picnic table.
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- Gotta love the Goat.
Indigo Wild staff regularly bring their dogs to work, play D.J. on the sound system, make each other fancy teas and coffees, and have a very good time while working. I must say seeing all of this was so inspiring. How good it must feel to be part of creating such an amazing work environment for your employees.
I hope you enjoyed this photo tour of Indigo Wild. If you want more, check out this great video on their website. And if I was unemployeed in Kansas City, I think I would be running down to 3125 Wyandotte Street, Kansas City, Missouri to apply for a job.
perfect, maria! i will miss the way hattie makes my home smell when she comes home from work after she goes to college in st louis in the fall…
Marla- It has been such a pleasure to watch your two girls grow up into beautiful women.