Mission Statement

And Brief History

Grace Harbor International is dedicated to producing high-quality skin care products with unwavering integrity and exceptional customer service.

We do this with the following principles.

• We ask the Lord to guide us in producing products with natural ingredients, reliably sourced, and helpful to people.
• We cherish our employees, fostering an environment built on respect, support, and mutual growth.
• Guided by our faith in God, we strive to make a positive impact in the world, serving others with helpful healthy products, compassion and good deeds.
• Our mission is to enrich lives, with the products we produce and acts of kindness.
• Through prayerful management we seek the Holy Spirit’s guidance in keeping our business profitable, reliable, and sustainable.

Brief History

In 1999 we wrote a simple goal; Make lots of money and give it away– under the direction of the Holy Spirit both in how we generate the funds, and how we disperse them.

At that time we had purchased two goats as part of Y2K preparations. By the time the commerce of the world did not come to a screeching halt at the end of the millennium, we loved our goats and all the things we could make from goat milk. We started by selling goat milk soap at farmers’ markets. We also made lotion with goat milk.

People asked us where they could find us at the end of the farmers’ market season, so we moved to a kiosk in a mall. Soon we had goat milk and lotion kiosks in three Northwest Washington malls. People begged for cheese, so we built a grade A dairy with six goats, and started making goat milk cheese.

When 9-ll happened people stopped shopping in malls. We closed the kiosks. We continued to sell soap and lotion from our farm store and online, but people asked us for goat milk. There was such a high demand for bottled goat milk, that we stopped making cheese.

Washington State is one of the few states where raw milk is legal. People begged for it, so we bottled raw goat milk. We produced the only raw milk product in the northwest grocery stores at that time. We bought a couple of cows and bottled their milk, raw.  Then, two children whose families had been buying our milk got sick from e-coli. By the grace of God they both recovered, but we were devastated. Testing from the state health department proved that the e-coli 157 had come from our farm, even though it had never been found in any of our products. We immediately stopped bottling raw milk.

We continued with pasteurized milk products—bottled milk, yogurt and kefir, and we were still making soap and lotion.

About this same time, 2004, my (Grace’s) feet collapsed. I could not walk on them at all. I was in a wheelchair for six months. Again, by the grace of God, someone told me that I should be taking MSM to help my feet. He told me that I could buy it at animal feed stores. I did not know what MSM was, but with a little research I learned that MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane) was given to horses for pain and join problems. I also learned that a company in Oregon was making an ointment with MSM. “Well, I am a cream maker,” I thought. “I can make some MSM cream.”

I used the skin care cream formula I had already developed, which had proved helpful to lots of people. I added as much MSM crystal as I could to the formula without making it feel grainy. But as a disciple of the Most High God, I also asked His Holy Spirit to tell me what else to put in it. I believe He gave me the ingredient list, and how much of each essential oil to add to the MSM cream.

Now, more than 20 years later, our MSM cream products have helped thousands of people. We sell it primarily on our website and Amazon. We have a few faithful wholesale buyers, massage therapists and chiropractors who buy it from us also.