Five years ago, Mimi Barker, a young woman in her 20s, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her younger sister Lela, intent on understanding how her young sister could develop breast cancer, began researching possible breast cancer causes. What she found prompted her into reading ingredient labels of all the beauty and bath care products in her bathroom, and she was stunned to find most had the paraben ingredient researchers were suggesting increased breast cancer risks for women.

Lela advised Mimi to get rid of everything that contained paraben, and she did the same. Faced with the reality that the market did not offer many appealing natural and organic personal beauty care products, Lela began making her own in her kitchen. She shared what she made with her sister and her friends. Lela found she enjoyed creating soaps, bath salts and lotions that rivaled the commercial products in aroma and texture.

Kevin Sanders, who blogs Kevin on Fashion, has become a fashion designer success, dressing famous celebrities for the Oscars, Tony's, Grammy's, Golden Globes, SAG and People's Choice Awards. But sometimes, just sometimes, being a professional success can feel somehow empty when it does not include a deeper personal meaning of fulfillment.

Sanders felt unfulfilled, and this feeling frayed the edges of his fashion designing accomplishments, until one day, he realized what he needed to do. To honor Howard Lee Sanders, his father and hero, Kevin decided to launch a fashion company, Howard Lee, Inc., and donate part of the profits each year to the Leukemia Society. Howard Sanders, who was his son's greatest champion in life, who always believed in his son's abilities to succeed, died of leukemia before Kevin Sanders became a fashion designer success. Kevin hopes the donations will help lead to a leukemia cure so that no one else has to lose their hero.