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After years of making her own soaps and lotions at home, Robin Feltner turned a well-honed hobby into an eco-chic bath and body company that relies on high-quality, natural ingredients.

No, your weekly Soapbox is not getting into the beauty care industry. However, two sisters chose a great name when they started their own premium, natural soap company after designing soap at home to battle dry skin problems. They now have two shop locations and travel to festivals around Greater Cincinnati selling their bath and body products.

Encompass Workplace Solutions, a business spin off of the non-profit Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services, offers the corporate world a proactive solution for helping employees improve their mental health.

A Cincinnati area family with a love of healthy food has created a line of frozen and refrigerated gourmet vegan foods that mix flavor, nutrition and whole ingredients.

Nature's Garden delivered is a 21st Century spin on the food co-op movement, delivering fresh organic fruits and vegetable to doors across greater Cincinnati.

Local businesses who want a big bang on the Internet look to Blue Kaboom.

For young adults looking for sports and fun, Cincinnati Sports Leagues offers plenty. The ball got rolling in the summer of 2001; today, about 30,000 Cincinnatians attend a CSL event each year.

Vine Street Interactive web firm moves from basement to Gateway Quarter

The Wolf Group is a one-of-a-kind business that started out in the founder and president’s home in the late 1980s. Today the business is home to a 17,000 sq. ft. facility in Blue Ash where dozens of trained palates taste, as well as touch, smell and test a host of food, personal care and other products for companies who want to make them better.

Beacon Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine was founded in 1996 by a team of doctors looking to provide top-notch, sports-related medical care. Today, the Sharonville-based company has offices also in Cincinnati and Batesville, Ind., and is planning a major expansion and renovation project for late 2009.

In only a few short years Cincy Chic grew from an online women’s lifestyle publication to a way of life for a collection of Cincinnati's most hip, professional women.

London Computer Systems’ responsive solution to a property management problem has turned it into a multi-million dollar, high growth business.

Mindbox Studios started in 2005 as a web design company created to fund other web-based business projects of founder and CEO, Joshua Johnson and his creative, entrepreneurial partners.

Girlfriendolgy gives new meaning to the phrase "tech support" with a web site based on celebrating female friendships