{"id":11806,"date":"2022-03-20T11:34:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T11:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/madly-in-love-with-lesotho-skin-products"},"modified":"2022-03-20T11:54:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T11:54:24","slug":"madly-in-love-with-lesotho-skin-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/madly-in-love-with-lesotho-skin-products","title":{"rendered":"Madly in love with Lesotho skin products"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>THATO Nkaota produces and sells skin products that have found a market in South Africa. The National University of Lesotho (NUL) student\u2019s collection includes skin repair creams, a glycerine soap, a lemon soap and essential oils.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe products are designed to work together to produce the best skin you can have,\u201d she said. They are called Slick Products. South Africans are mad about Lesotho products for reasons not clearly understood.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there is a feeling among many South Africans that products from Lesotho are of high quality,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have experienced this not only with my own products. I\u2019ve experienced it also with products that I used to export from other Lesotho producers. \u201d<\/p>\n

She thinks we just have to increase quantities of our produce because South Africa is ready. One other good thing about the South African market is that, Oh Boy! Are those folks willing to pay.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Africans don\u2019t complain about prices!\u201d Now, let\u2019s get into the story of the self-made entrepreneur, Thato Nkaota, and how she got here.<\/p>\n

She considers herself a born entrepreneur and her history bears that out. \u201cI loved entrepreneurship right from when I was young,\u201d she said. She had no sooner started her Standard 3 than she was already organising her peers to sell sweets and share profits at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Every time she was asked, \u201cwhere do you want to work when you grow up?\u201d, her answer would always relate to entrepreneurship. Later, she would also learn and share the importance of saving with others.<\/p>\n

For instance, when they got pocket money from their parents, she realised that buying one pack of snacks at a time was more expensive than buying in bulk.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo me and my friends would buy in bulk, just so we could make savings!\u201d Come high school and she was already a Project Manager of a project called Savings and Accounts.<\/p>\n

In this project, the school gives accounting students seed money once at the beginning of the year. At the end of the year, the student groups are expected to have created profits by engaging in businesses.<\/p>\n

Then there is a competition to find those who excelled. One of the things they learned from such projects were the ability to keep records of debits and credits.<\/p>\n

All these experiences kept building in her the love for business. Fate would see her attending School in the Roma Valley, NUL. Guess what she wanted to do in there? Accounting.<\/p>\n

The entrepreneurial spirit was still burning in her. \u201cI could see that NUL students loved good clothing (ba ja lesela). \u201d She saw an opportunity. \u201cI bought and sold them clothes.<\/p>\n

\u201d She saw another opportunity.<\/p>\n

Having learned about the love for Lesotho products in South Africa, she started exploring that market by buying Lesotho products and re-selling them there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe performance of that business was beyond expectations!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

However, just when things were so good, lightning struck. It came in the form of Covid-19! That meant exporting to South Africa was no longer easy. Then the lockdown stamped it all by putting her in isolation.<\/p>\n

However, she used the lockdown as a time of thinking and reflecting. How on earth could she come out of this? Ideas started streaming. She finally settled for the business of producing her own skincare products.<\/p>\n

In her experience selling other people\u2019s products, she had realised that skin products were popular and profitable. It was time now to explore. She learned as much about skincare as possible, \u201cin fact, I even took up an online course on production.<\/p>\n

\u201d Fortunately, she had accumulated good savings during the good ole days before Covid-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used that money as seed funding for my new business,\u201d she said. She bought raw material and equipment and hit the ground running.<\/p>\n

Since she had skin problems herself, she experimented with the products on her own skin. Then tried them on family and friends. When she was happy with the results, it was time to try the general public and the reception was good.<\/p>\n

In the end, she would find herself back to the exporting business. \u201cAlthough I was earlier exporting other people\u2019s products, now I am also exporting my own.\u201d<\/p>\n

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