About Brigid Trading Company
Brigid Trading Company - Celtic-Inspired Nature Based Living, Handmade In the Northwest
Thank you for taking the time to find out more about us. Now in our second year of business, Brigid is a tiny two-person operation based in Kitsap County, Washington State. We handcraft all of our crafting Celtic-inspired artisan goods with pure, natural ingredients, fragranced with our own unique, house-blended clean scent blends. Our goal is to make nature-based living and natural self care available to all.
Why We're Here - Our Path to Nature Based Living
We started Brigid in the autumn of 2023 because we believe the old ways still matter, perhaps now more than ever. In a world flooded with synthetic solutions and mass-produced garbage, we found ourselves in need of a return to the dignified strength of nature-based living and traditional remedies, such as goat milk, herbs, resins, and oils, gifts the earth has offered since time immemorial. One day, we found ourselves surrounded with our own creations and realized that we wanted to share them with the world.
Our work is rooted in the conviction that the most effective ways to heal ourselves don't come from a lab, and that self care works best as an act of devotion to ourselves and our most positive intentions towards others. We look to the elusive ways and cultures of our ancestors, deeply devout people who lived in rhythm with the sun and the stars, who saw no division between the spirit and daily life. In honoring them, we hope to bring a little reverence back to the everyday, to create objects that aren't just useful, but meaningful.
Who is Brigid?
Brigid is one of the oldest and most enduring figures in the mythic imagination: a goddess of the light of dawn, of healing, poetry, hearth, and the sacred flame. Honored by the ancient Celts and celebrated on Imbolc, the First of February, particularly in Ireland, she was the bringer of spring, the protector of livestock, the keeper of the well and the forge. Despite her association with the Celts, linguistic evidence suggests that is even older than that and may be one of the original Indo-European gods.
She symbolizes many things, but is especially associated with the creation of light itself. By embodying the resilience necessary to create light when times are dark, she is associated with fire, the sun, and the end of winter or darkness. The goddess of blacksmithing and crafting, her focus is on creating solutions to roadblocks in reality and humanity's natural innovative spirit. She combines the practical with the fantastic and enables ones' dreams to become reality through logical application.
Over time, her worship spread and shifted, syncretized into Saint Brigid by early Christians, yet retaining her roots in older pagan traditions. In Scotland, Wales, and even parts of continental Europe, echoes of her linger in folklore, in candlelight vigils, in the quiet ritual of tending flame. She is even found in vodou as Maman Brigitte, a powerful blend of Brigid in her saintly role and an ancient West African goddess.
At Brigid Trading Company, Brigid's presence is not just symbolic. Indeed, it is foundational to our way of life. In a modern world thick with noise, distraction, and chemical quick-fixes, we look to Brigid as a guide: a reminder to seek clarity, beauty, and warmth in the everyday, to guide us on the path to nature-based living.
Brigid's message reminds us that dawn always follows night, that tending the hearth is a sacred act whether literal or not, and that healing often comes not from force but from gentleness and care. Her light inspires us to make things slowly, seasonally, and with real attention. We're here to offer not just products, but touchstones of ritual in a culture that has forgotten how to pray with its hands.
Meet the Makers
We are a small, two-person team, driven by a desire to create authentic, tangible goods in an increasingly digital world.
Kelly (Lotioncrafter, Perfumer, and Co-Owner)
After years in corporate digital marketing, Kelly decided to step away to pursue her creative passion—crafting real-life goods for real people in her community, using her skills in the process. She also doesn't enjoy discussing herself and graciously requests that you read the rest of the page instead.
Matt (Candlemaker, Soapmiller, and Fragrance Artisan)
With a deep background in tech and AI, Matt ran screaming from the corporate world in search of something more fulfilling. This led him to his surprise role as Brigid's original perfumer, crafting many of Brigid's most popular fragrances personally. After stepping away from a major AI company, he rediscovered color, scent, and creativity, reinforcing his feeling that he was on the right path. His favorite fragrances are:
Individually and together, we pour our hearts into every product we create. We hope to inspire positivity, comfort, and empowerment in others.
The Brigid Difference
At Brigid, we take living naturally seriously. For thousands of years, our ancestors cured and nourished themselves with natural plant extracts and raw materials from the world around them, not industrial chemicals and buzzy additives. We embrace this way of living, and want to make it easier for you as well. That's why we craft everything we sell in small batches ourselves, using ingredients free of parabens, plastics, and pthalates. Let the light in with natural living products by Brigid Trading Company, handmade in Kitsap County, Washington.
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