Cathy Holcombe was born to start Colorado Natural Balms. While she was still at the tender age of 4 years old, one of her favorite pastimes was to gather up her parents' leather shoes to clean and condition them. (It was then her parents started to suspect they did not have a normal child on their hands!). Also born with a lifelong love of horses but raised in the suburbs, as a teen she would condition anyone's leather saddles she knew that had horses, in exchange for riding time. As an adult, Cathy has always valued quality ingredients in her food and skin care products, but one day it dawned on her that there were no natural leather conditioners. In fact, many leather conditioners and cleaners had in their fine print things like: "Not for use on skin. Keep away from pets and children. If ingested call poison control." Yikes! After doing extensive research including studying what was used historically to keep leather conditioned as well as receiving training at the Leather Research Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati, Cathy came up with a formula that ultimately became Colorado Leather Balm and the latest, Hard Working Hand Balm. The formula is all natural and PH balanced, based off of ingredients used for 100s of years because they work: tallow, lanolin oil, beeswax and essential oils. These natural ingredients were abandoned by manufacturers after WW11 because of their higher costs compared to cheap petroleum and chemical based ingredients. Until now!