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About Dantell
Hi, I’m Dantell, nurse, forager, formulator, and the heart behind Gypsy Soul. I’ve spent nearly two decades in healthcare as a Registered Nurse where I learned that healing is as much about presence and intention as it is about medicine. Outside the hospital, you’ll find me wandering the woods with my dog Isaac, gathering mushrooms and wild herbs, or tucked into my studio crafting small-batch products with deep respect for nature and the body. Gypsy Soul isn’t just a business to me, it’s a way of life rooted in ritual, reverence, and reconnection.
Rooted in Resilience:
The Story Behind Gypsy Soul
Gypsy Soul began a few years ago as a creative way to share the things I loved making, soaps, lip balms, sugar scrubs, lotion bars. I’ve always believed in crafting products that feel good, smell beautiful, and actually work. That part hasn’t changed.
But my story, and Gypsy Soul’s, did.
After I lost Ella, my soul dog, everything stopped. She wasn’t just a pet. She was a part of me. The grief was overwhelming, and for over a year, I stepped away from creating. I didn’t know how to keep going. It was nature that carried me through that time, slow walks with Isaac, my gentle King Charles Cavalier Spaniel, through the woods and fields, and quiet nights with Ripley, my Devon Rex cat, curled beneath my head like a purring heartbeat. Nature held me. It reminded me that even in death, something sacred still moves and grows.
That’s where the new Gypsy Soul was born, not just as a maker of good products, but as a way of honoring life, loss, and the healing power of the wild world.
Now, everything I create is infused with intention. I grow many of my ingredients myself using clean, controlled techniques, and source others from ethical, trustworthy places. I never use wild foraged plants in my products, foraging is sacred to me, and I keep it as a personal practice, a way to stay connected to the land and the turning seasons.
I work in small batches, using a mix of traditional methods and modern tools: ultrasonic extractions, vacuum distillation, gentle infusions, and a whole lot of heart. Each formula is designed to be part of something more than just a routine, a ritual, a reconnection, a reminder of your own inner wild.
Gypsy Soul is a love letter to the forest, to the ones we’ve lost, to those still finding their way. It’s for the dreamers, the feelers, the ones who heal through their hands.
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