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June 4, 2008 - Skin Sake Announces Upcoming Trade Shows Skin Sake will be attending the Gulf Coast Home Care Conference and Exposition from June 9 - 11. Stop by our booth to learn about Home Care and Hospice patients are benefiting from Skin Sake Bed Patient. We will also be at the McKesson Pharmacy Strategies Conference in Las Vegas July 6 - 10. Skin Sake will be in Booth 532, and will be discussing how Skin Sake and Booty Goo can benefit your customers!
December 7, 2007 - Win a free tube of Booty Goo and Bib! Baby Let�s Shop blog is running a contest for a free tube of Booty Goo and a free Booty Goo bib. All you have to do is leave a comment on the blog--it's that simple! Hurry, contest ends December 19th! Click here to enter contest.
In another contest, win a tube of Booty Goo simply by registering at "Moms on the Move". Click here to enter contest.
December 2007 - Booty Goo is Featured in the December 2007 Edition of "Beauty News" To view article Click here.
August 16, 2007 - Booty Goo is featured in the "Best Products" Media Guide! Orca Communications Unlimited, LLC presented the Fall 2007 Best Products for Parents Media Guide. This Media Guide was designed to provide a convenient and easy reference to 15 of the most outstanding and practical products for parents found in the market today. See the full article by clicking here
May 7, 2007 - Booty Goo is featured in the "Sports Guide Press"! See Booty Goo in the Sports Guide Press clicking here
March 24, 2007 - Saturday Daybreak Feature Jeff and Bain Foote were featured on �Saturday Daybreak� on March 24th and discussed the history of the company as well as information about Booty Goo and Bed Patients. Sales are increasing and we continue to hear positive feedback on the effectiveness of the Booty Goo and Bed Patients product! If you are a nursing home, home health or hospice agency and are interested in ordering, you can order through First Choice Medical Supply, Gulf South/PSS, or directly through us. Feel free to contact us for additional information on these distributors or to place a bulk order directly through us.
September 7-10, 2007 - ABC Kids Expo We will be attending the ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada September 7-10. Please come by and visit our booth if you will be attending. We would love to meet you and give you some samples of Booty Goo. 
Foote Feature Hamburg pharmacist Jeff Foote, who has prepared specialized ointments for over 30 years, has now expanded his operation significantly. Until a little more than a year ago, he had marketed the ointments only from his store. Now, he has distributors in Mississippi and Texas as well as two web sites to sell the products.
About 30 years ago, Foote recalled, he started making a cream for the treatment of diaper rash and similar ailments skin for children. The ointment was initially based on a formula devised by a pediatrician in Monroe, LA, but Foote enhanced the cream by increasing the strength and adding new compounds.
The ointment for infants, called Booty Goo, provided the base for a stronger formula designed for adults. About ten years ago, Foote began preparing the adult formula which is marketed under the trade name of Skin Sake. Skin Sake is an ointment for bed patients to soothe, treat and prevent rashes, skin irritations and chafed areas while the Booty Goo emphasizes treatment for diaper rash and helps in protecting the skin. Ingredients in Skin Sake include white petrolatum, Peruvian balsam, Vitamin E, aloe, zinc oxide, boric acid, mineral oil and castor oil. Booty Goo ingredients are zinc oxide, Peruvian balsam, Vitamin E, aloe, boric acid, mineral oil, castor oil and white beeswax. Initially, Foote prepared one-pound jars of the ointments in his pharmacy and then divided those jars into one ounce jars. Now, however, the ointments are sold in individual tubes which are prepared in Memphis. In 2002, the local pharmacist started the process of meeting federal guidelines for the preparation and distribution of the ointments. Even with the help of an experienced consultant, it took about three years to get those approvals, he said. Now, a Food and Drug Administration-approved company in Memphis formulates the ointments according to his formula and does the packaging into the individual tubes. Foote believes that his products are virtually unique. He said that one other company prepares similar ointments. However, he said, "People who use both say that mine is better." The similar product, he said, is "weaker and stains the clothing more." The process of federal registration of the two names as trademarks is underway and should be completed this year. The Skin Sake ointment has proven especially popular with nursing homes, hospices, and home health agencies. However, it is also effective for home use.
Uses for Skin Sake include protecting the skin in patients with incontinence, bed sores, minor burns, skin injures and reddened or cracked skin. The moisturizing, emollient nature of the ointment maintains a superior environment for the healing process.
One user said in a testimonial on the Skin Sake web site, "We have had nothing but success with the use of the product and it has helped tremendously with the prevention of skin breakdown in our facility." The director of nursing at another facility said, "Other characteristics about this product we love is that it decreases friction, decreases redness, it smooths on easily and with minimal pressure, and we do not have complaints of burning or discomfort that we often see with other creams. But best of all, we are seeing a decrease in breakdown related to incontinence! What more could we ask for?" Another user said that she used Skin Sake cream on her husband's jock itch. "It was absolutely wonderful. Within 48 hours, you could hardly tell he had ever had the jock itch, so now he just puts some on when he knows he is going to get sweaty. Another person wrote that the ointment had cured a case of poison ivy in only two days. Other tributes on the web site are for rashes from chemotherapy and bedsores in a cancer patient bedridden for a year and a half.
The Booty Goo formula works fast and cleans off easily. In addition to diaper rash, it is effective for treating scrapes, cuts, abrasions, and even minor burns. Adults can use Booty Goo to protect the skin and in cases of chafed areas, incontinence rashes and other skin irritations.
A satisfied user wrote on the web site, "We have used several other diaper rash ointments and the redness was never completely gone, so we thought that was how it was supposed to work. Until we used Booty Goo and the redness was immediately gone. It worked fast and therefore we had a happier baby. We highly recommend Booty Goo to all parents and we will continue to use it on our baby." Another customer said, "I was amazed at how quickly Booty Goo worked! It was immediately effective on my baby and it has a great, clean scent. It also wipes away easily and gently. Of all the diaper rash creams I have tried, this is the best and only diaper rash cream I'll ever use."
Foote said that his product is so stable that it is open dated with no expiration date on the tubes. He said that the compounds used are stable, and the ointments contain germicides to help make it even longer-lived.
Individual tubes of the ointments are available at the Foote Super Drugs in Hamburg as well as in some other area pharmacies. For larger orders, Jeff's Foote son, Bain, helps in distribution, and there is a distributor in Oxford, MS, to help in the Memphis and North Mississippi areas. There are also distributors in the Dallas, TX, and Jackson, MS, areas. Chains carrying the ointment include the USA Drug chain in Pine Bluff and Little Rock, Ike's Drugs in Memphis and Super D Drugs in Missouri and Mississippi, as well as a lot of independent pharmacies in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The Jade Super Foods chain also carries the ointments.
The Hamburg pharmacist has confidence in his product and in the growth of the market for the two ointments. In the first year of the mass distribution effort, the company sold about 40,000 tubes of ointment. This year, Foote believes, will be much better. He ordered 120,000 tubes of Skin Sake ointment and 26,000 tubes of Booty Goo prepared this year, and those stocks are already declining due to good sales. For additional information about the two products or bulk orders, see the Internet web sites at www.skinsake.com and www.bootygoo.com.
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