About the Sisters

Moody Origins

Moody Sister Jess, born first, grew up roller skating on the streets of Southern California. At the age of 12 her parents moved to the middle of a forest in Washington State. Roller skates don’t roll well on pine needles, but there she found her love of nature. In college she discovered her inner nerd and majored in Mathematics. After college, she married a giant, bearded man and they created one awesome daughter. A stressful job in I.T. led her to aromatherapy and she began dabbling with essential oils. One day her sister called complaining about her skin issues and Jess jumped at the chance to spend some time with her little sister in the kitchen with her essential oils. What started as a hobby and way to reconnect would become so much more in the years to follow.

Moody Sister Whit, born 10 years after the smart, well behaved, first born came out solely to annoy her sister. Wild and crazy from birth -- and never wanting to miss out on any fun-- she followed and adored her older sister Jess. After Jess left for college Whitney traveled with her parents doing art shows and learning how to sell her family's pottery. She found her love for business {and her husband} in high school. Married and dabbling in entrepreneurship and cosmetics at 18 she had never ending ideas for owning her own business.... but those lofty dreams didn't find focus until the birth of her first daughter, a history of horrible skin reactions and reuniting with her sister.

Read how the Moody Sisters began.

How It All Began

Older sister Jess had resigned herself to a life of oiliness, acne and rosacea-- deciding it would be better to live as a hermit than to pay such exorbitant prices for skincare.  Younger sister Whitney had worked as a beauty skincare consultant for five years, but still found few products that wouldn’t flare up her eczema or cause a severe allergic reaction with her dry sensitive skin. 

After hundreds of dollars spent on doctor’s visits and harsh chemicals that failed to calm their skin woes, the sisters had had enough!  They turned to nature for their remedy. Thus Moody Sisters Skincare was born. The sisters began creating products to find the perfect skin solutions.

They spent months researching, learning and testing how to make their own products -- all while balancing their home life and other jobs. Every spare minute was dedicated to perfecting techniques and recipes to find what natural ingredient blend worked best for their moody skin.

When the idea of sharing their products came up, the sisters knew they wanted to keep it real, fun and fresh. They opened an Etsy Shop in 2010 as a hobby, but instantly started selling their handmade goodies. Their mission was one out of necessity -- finding natural alternatives that worked just as good as the chemical ones, but grew into so much more: natural, effective products, that smelled amazeballs and simplified their moody lives.

Here’s a video we made about Moody Sisters in 2014!

the brand grew…and things changed

In 2013, Jess and her hubby had a mid-life crisis after a stressful career in IT, and fled Washington State for the theme parks and sunny beaches of Florida. In Florida, Jess was finally able to focus on Moody Sisters full-time. Jess started shipping products out from her home and focused on customer service, while Whitney stayed home with her young daughters and focused on marketing, creating labels, and product development.
As demand for our products grew, we completely outgrew our small kitchens. We now work with several other small businesses to create our products for us so that we can focus on intention, quality, and customer service.

What are the sisters up to now?

Where are they now

In 2025, with her daughters now in middle and high school, Whitney stepped away from Moody Sisters to follow one of her dreams. The sisters are still very close and try to video chat often to keep caught up with each other’s busy lives! Jess took over all of the Moody Sisters day to day work (with some occasional help from her daughter Quinn, who is an artist living in Colorado). She remains committed to keeping Moody Sisters a small, family-run business with quality products that work for our family’s moody skin.

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