Board of Directors

Members of the Board of Directors of the Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetic Guild are elected for two-year terms. Three board seats come up for election on even years, and three board seats and the Presidency come up for election on odd years. Elections take place in the spring at the Annual Conference. Terms start on July 1 and end on June 30.

The HSCG President and Board serve as volunteers and are not paid. Those who have chosen to serve on the Board have shown their true dedication to the HSCG and the handcrafted soap and cosmetic industry through their selfless service to and for the HSCG.

Feleciai Favroth, President

Feleciai is the owner of Skin Care by Feleciai in Oakland, California. She has been a member of the HSCG since February 2008 and served on the 2009 Conference Committee, as well as other committees. She was elected in 2009 to serve a two-year term (2009-2011). In 2011 she was re-elected to serve an additional two year term from 2011 - 2013. Feleciai was appointed to the Vice-President's position in July, 2012 and elected as President in 2013 and re-elected in 2015. Her term expires in 2017.
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Charlene Simon,
Vice President

Charlene is the co-owner of Bathhouse Soapery & Caldarium in Hot Springs, AR and has been a member of the HSCG since 2012. She was elected to the Board of Directors in 2014, and re-elected in 2016.
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Beth Byrne,
Secretary

Beth Byrne, owner of Soap and Garden, in Rochester, New York, has been a member of the HSCG since 2009. She served as a member of the Public Relations Committee in 2010, and was subsequently appointed to fill a vacancy on the Board of Directors through 2011. Beth was elected in 2011, and re-elected in 2013 and 2015.
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Julie Koenig,
Treasurer

Julie is the owner of Kreative Kraftwerks near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and has been a member of the HSCG since 2008. She attended her first HSCG conference in Palm Springs in 2009, was on the 2010 Conference Ground Crew in Denver and served as an Assistant Coordinator at the 2011 Conference in Miami. Julie was elected to the Board of Directors in 2011 and re-elected in 2013 and 2015.
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Tricia Hoffman,
Member

Tricia is the owner of Scentability, LLC in Tomahawk, Wisconsin and has been an HSCG member since 2010. She was appointed to the Board in 2014 to fill a vacant board seat and was elected for a two year term in 2015.
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Barb De Los Santos,
Member

Past board member Barb De Los Santos was appointed to the board in 2015 to replace Holly Port who had to resign mid-term. Barb previously served from 2010 - 2014, and was re-elected to the board in 2016.
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Al Gerhold,
Member

Al is co-owner, with his wife, of Green Cow Studio in Moorestown, NJ. He's been a member of the HSCG since 2010. He attended his first conference in Burlington, VT in 2008, and has been on conference crew since Portlan, OR (2012). Al was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2016 to fill a vacancy, and was elected to a two year term in 2016.
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The following people have served on the Board of Directors of the HSCG*. Their dedication, participation and contribution has been greatly appreciated. They are sincerely thanked for all they have done to further the objectives and goals of the Handcrafted Soapmakers Guild. (* since 2003)