(upbeat music) - Next on "You Oughta Know."

What do you get when you combine a night market with head-turning vendors and performers?

A witchy and whimsical experience you have to see.

Plus sustainable beauty products tailored for your specific skin type.

And she's the visionary and he's the builder.

Meet the Doylestown couple whose furniture is a work of art.

(upbeat music) Welcome to "You Oughta Know."

I'm Shirley Min.

Our first story is about two longtime friends.

Susan is the visionary, Bill is the craftsman.

And together, this pair from Bucks County is making beautiful pieces of furniture that are more like functional works of art.

(light string music) - [Susan] I have ideas, I can see it.

I can't make it happen.

I need Bill to make those ideas come to fruition.

- [Shirley] Susan Clark and Bill Hoehne have been designing and making wood furniture together for about 30 years.

- It's tough because I don't draw, so I have to what I call air drawing.

And Bill has the much more difficult job.

- It took a while for me to realize what it is that Susan wanted.

It's just so much easier now for me to understand what it is we're trying to create because we've been doing it for a while.

(light music) - [Shirley] Without any formal art training, Susan relies on Bill's decades of experience as a woodworker to translate her vision into something tangible.

It's a unique partnership with an unconventional process, and yet it works for them.

- We started doing really traditional stuff and then one day we went to a place that sold exotic wood and something happened.

And I always say I went from black and white to color and I was running around 'cause shapes were coming into my head and I'm saying to Bill, "Oh, we're not gonna be doing traditional stuff anymore."

- [Shirley] This cabinet is Susan's favorite piece.

She could see its lines and shape so clearly in her head.

She tried to get them down on paper, but when she tried, the idea would shatter like glass.

- Those legs, I knew those legs were supposed to be small.

And Bill did a whole mockup of that cabinet out of pine.

And when it got to the legs, he was making these clunky rectangular, and I kept going, I kept doing this small, small, small.

And he said, "It'll fall over."

And I said, "Who cares if it falls over?

It's a mock up."

Then we'll know at least that it didn't work.

And so finally he got it down to the way I wanted it.

- Once I understand what she wants to achieve or what we wanna accomplish, I go to structural.

Its strength.

It has to function and work as a piece of furniture, like it's not gonna break, it's gonna be comfortable.

(light acoustic music) - [Susan] It is almost like it's something that's out of focus.

Like if you have a camera and you're trying to get something in focus, it's almost like that 'cause when I see in my head, when it's in front of me, it's just like perfectly in focus.

And I go, oh, that's it.

- [Shirley] For Susan, inspiration is everywhere.

- I have a house in Doylestown and it's an old floor and there was a knot in the floor that to me looked like a bird.

So when Bill came over, I said, "Can you turn that knot into a bird?"

And he's like, "Yeah, I think I can."

I think it's artistic furniture.

You can leave it in a room and never use it as a table and it's still going to be something that is a focal point of the room.

It's functional, but it stands alone as a piece of art.

When you see people enjoying it, it's a pretty great feeling.

(light acoustic music ends) - There's something quite special about a summertime evening when the moon is glowing.

If you're looking for a family friendly outing where costumes are encouraged, check out the Lunar Faire.

It's a bi-monthly night market popping up in our area every new and full moon, and all are welcome.

(soft music) - [Speaker 1] It really just started simply me and my best friend and my sister were like, let's put a night market together.

And it grew into this gigantic community of like thousands of people that are here now.

It's really a place for everybody, it's a safe space and we're happy to welcome anybody here who wants to come.

What we say is it's for anybody but not for everybody.

People like doing a theme and it's really fun to have a reason to dress up.

So this particular one is the Fairy Faire.

- [Kryssy] We have many types of vendors at the faire.

It's all handmade crafts, anything from clothes to jewelry to candles to crystals and all of of the ilk of off the beaten path type of things where it's not something you would find going to any kind of normal shop.

So we really pride ourselves on the diversity of kinds of things that the vendors make and sell.

- [Speaker 1] It's really important for us to give people a place to support small businesses, like give them a market that will really support them.

- The Potions Lab is one of our main attractions.

We sell magical mocktails that have all unique elements to them.

Some have really cool different garnishes.

One has like a hibiscus flower, some have dry ice, so they smoke.

Right now we're doing Jupiter water and it's water that is charged the three days of the new and the full moon.

And we add that energy of that moon to our drinks.

- [Speaker 1] I think it would be really great to do some kind of community magic.

And Lorraine Henrich, the Lunar Queen, is the first person that I thought of and she's really, if you feel any kind of calm, peace, loving energy, it's because she set that energy here.

That's all her.

- Not only doing one Lunar Faire, but every single Lunar Faire that they've ever had, and I lead the moon ceremonies and I collaborate and invite other people to participate as well.

(crowd cheering) - [Kryssy] The drag show is a very fun time.

It helps to foster an environment of inclusiveness for everyone who wants to come.

- Lunar Faire is an initiative we took because we wanted to do some kind of mutual aid.

We think it's really important to give back to the community.

It's really a place that anybody who comes here can get resources, mental health resources, hygienic products, snacks, water, really a place to decompress, anything they need when they're here and they can reach out and be connected with other people who can help them.

- [Kryssy] The Magic Bubble Witch just puts on an amazing show.

The Drum Circle, they have like a really good ceremony going on.

(rhythmic drumming) We have like the fire show.

- [Speaker 1] I really hope that the guests who come to Lunar Faire feel a real sense of community, feel like they can belong somewhere.

- Embracing the spirit of it all.

It's a lot of really small craft vendors, a lot of good attention towards small businesses and towards the whole sort of lunar vibe, whatever that necessarily means.

- I'm here today to have fun and have a good time.

I love all the cosplays that people put together and all the makeup and the outfits and the vendors.

- There's like a lady with like giant bubbles and everything, and she handed everyone out these.

- [Speaker 1] Lunar Faire is a very unique experience, something that people like to come to repeatedly.

It's a really special energy in place and I think most people leave very happy.

(person laughs) - Come on.

- Mad scientist gone good is how a cosmetic chemist turned entrepreneur describes herself.

Her all natural brand offers personalized beauty care services that she says will improve your skin's health.

(soft music) - I call myself the mad scientist gone good because I like to think of myself as so obsessed and so excited, so passionate about what I'm doing.

But I've gone good because I'm doing it for a good purpose.

I am here creating natural plant-based products that are great to feeding our skin and really enhancing our beauty.

I actually worked in a very corporate setting as a cosmetic chemist specifically, but as a cosmetic chemist, my job was to make sure the ingredients in a bottle would be stable, to make sure that the formulas would be safe for human skin, for human contact, but also to make sure that the formulas were affordable once they were into retail and would be okay in households.

One of the things that I discovered, some of the ingredients, there's some question behind the toxicity and there's some question about dosage.

And as I came to learn more about that in the industry, I also discovered that there are some perfectly safe ingredients that we could be using that are quite effective.

And that brought me right back to mother nature where I learned a lot more about botanical ingredients and herbal ingredients and understanding more of why that natural skincare trend really began to pick up steam.

All right, Autumn.

So for this, we're going to do your skin analysis and it will give us a nice facial map.

So all you want to do is make sure that your face is lined up directly in this oval here and just wanna move forward nice and slow until it captures your image.

The skin is literally the largest organ on our bodies and we don't think of it this way, but as the largest organ, it even has the function of protecting everything else on the inside.

It provides immunity, it provides our ability to sense what's going on in our environment and it also helps to regulate things getting in and out of the body.

So down here is showing that your skin is actually nice and hydrated and you're not dealing with too much dryness.

Do you already use natural oils?

Whatever you're fueling and nourishing your body with will absolutely show and reflect on the outside.

And so it's really important to make sure that we're getting the proper balance of nutrients and vitamins, proteins, hydration.

And so the first thing I like to do with clients is just really ask questions, get to know them.

And then we do a skin analysis that will show us a facial map.

And on the facial map we're able to determine if there are chronic breakouts, maybe if there's some dark circles, hyperpigmentation, if there's roughness or dryness on the skin.

And even if pores may be too open.

From there, I always like to show the skin under high definition.

And so it's really nice to just give folks a little glance of what else is going on just beneath the skin.

And so we're able to see how the oils and different products actually run through the skin, how they nourish the skin.

And we're able to see that under high magnification.

The slogan for DVINITI Skin Care, of all things, it's inform, empower, create.

And at the end of the day, I really just wanted to teach people and educate and share the knowledge that I had learned and that I'd gained and how I came to feeling good and better about myself and having that confidence to know what I'm going to need.

And I think that that's really all that it comes down to.

- Joining me now with a further look at DVINITI Skin Care is Marquita Robinson Garcia.

Marquita, thanks for being here.

- Thank you for having me.

- We just saw you inside your lab and in the store and I found it so interesting to see you do the facial mapping.

So I was really intrigued.

But you are here today now with suggestions on how we can care for our skin during these dog days of summer because man, it's so hot out.

- Yes.

(laughs) - We know that sunscreen, sunblock, these are kind of obvious ways to protect our skin, but there are even hours, maybe the position of the sun that we need to be factoring in as well.

- Yes.

- Tell me about that.

- For sure.

Still a little common sense will go a long way when protecting our skin.

So being mindful not to be in the sun during the high sun hours between 12:00 and 4:00, for example.

And some good old fashioned just covering up with loose fitted clothing, you know, light loose clothing, a hat, like these things are gonna be really the best ways to protect our skin from the sun.

- Yeah, I know that sometimes when you go out, I mean, people go on vacation, we go to the beach, we go to the pool or whatever, we are in the sun.

The sun is our friend, but what can we do really to kind of set us up for best outcomes before even going out in the sun?

- Yes.

So as a mommy of four, okay, I have a lot more skin to protect, and my little ones, what we do is we hydrate first and foremost and we get lots of vitamin C. Vitamin C can actually help with some natural sun protection so that your body doesn't burn or get too irritated.

- [Shirley] Oh, that's interesting.

- It is really interesting.

A lot of burns come from lack of minerals or vitamins.

Now the next thing, what I like to do is use a mineral sunscreen, which is more of a physical sunblock and less of a chemical sunscreen.

So the reaction on the skin is less harmful and it actually still allows for vitamin D production, which is very important for getting sun exposure.

- Yeah.

And I guess people don't know that there's a difference between sunscreen and sunblock and there is a distinction there.

- Absolutely, yeah.

One is chemical, right?

So if we wanna avoid some of the chemical products or some of the toxins that can be found in sunscreen, we don't want those to bioaccumulate in the body, right?

So avoiding those is really, really important because there's some silent killers that we can't always know what the impact will be.

However, a sunblock is physical, so it does still go on top.

It offers you protection but then your body knows what to do with it.

- Okay, so here on the table we have some face oils and this is a good way to protect your skin after coming out of the sun.

- And that's just as important as protection before you go out.

So when you come back in, you wanna now nourish the skin, rehydrate, and make sure that you're putting those nourishing vitamins and minerals on the surface of the skin, that's gonna enhance the moisture barrier and ensure that your skin can naturally repair and correct.

- Now, see, I grew up in like the '70s and '80s, and I just remember, gosh, you never put oil on your skin, you're going to clog your pores, but that really isn't true.

- No, not in my experience, it's actually the opposite.

So the oils are not going to clog your skin, it's in some of the synthetic ingredients that can clog your skin.

That's what really your skin is trying to push out when you have a pimple or zit, or even eczema and rosacea, whereas the natural ingredients, your body knows exactly what to do with them.

Just like what you would eat, you can use the same thing on your skin.

Cause guess what?

It's our largest organ.

- Wow, I know.

And that's such a good reminder.

Skin is our largest organ.

Marquita, thank you so much for your insight and you can learn more about DVINITI Skin Care on their website.

We appreciate you being here.

- [Marquita] Thank you so much for having me.

- Okay, well, sunscreen is required for this next story.

The Nile Swim Club in Yeadon is continuing to uphold its tradition of inclusivity and aquatic education.

Producer Sarah Moses has their story.

(light music) (water splashing) - The Nile Swim Club is the oldest historically Black swim club in the country.

It was founded back in 1958 when three of our members were denied admittance to other local swim clubs.

And those three members, along with our community, raised the money to purchase this four and a half acres of land so that our community could swim here.

I was born and raised here in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, two blocks away.

And very funny story, believe it or not, the members used to say, the board said that only members could only have up to four children as members.

So my dad showed up with all 15 of us at one time.

He said, "I need a membership for all my kids."

So they say, "You used to sneak us in four at a time."

(laughs) But it's somewhere that I came pretty much every day growing up as a young man.

(kids chattering) - Arms out, facing the water, push your arms to me, go.

My name is Andre Andrews.

I'm the aquatic director and I sit on the Board of Directors here at the Nile Swim Club.

I've been a lifeguard since I've been 16 years old.

I'm 68 years old, so it's been a minute.

Point the toes.

I've been teaching here at the Nile Swim Club for 25 years.

Point them toes.

It's one of the first Black-owned swim clubs in the country.

That really meant something to me because I'm coming up as a young Black kid in the area.

They wouldn't let us swim in a lot of the swimming pools.

They would not let us come in.

- From day one, the club has always been inclusive, all are welcome to the Nile Swim Club, and to this day it remains that way.

(light music) (kids chattering) One of our biggest opportunities that we've started here at the Nile Swim Club is our No Child Will Drown in Our Town campaign, where basically we provide free swimming lessons to all the children in our community for free.

Anyone that needs to learn how to swim can come to the Nile Swim Club and learn how to swim.

- The No Child Will Drown in Our Town has been going on for about three years now and we trained about 600 kids to this point.

For me, I believe that it's important to have free lessons because sometimes people don't have the resources or the money to pay for classes.

So with the Nile, they provide free lessons for kids to come to swim.

And I think it's important personally, because of the fact that there's a high percentage of Black kids that can't swim.

- Because a lot of kids, you'd be surprised they did not know how to swim and they trying to jump in the water and we was having a lot of drownings in these inner city neighborhoods.

So our finger said, we are not gonna let that happen in this town.

Come up, blow out your nose.

When you come up, blow out your nose.

See, a lot of times you have to tap into the kids, you gotta make 'em comfortable in the water.

I gotta make 'em have confidence in me.

So I take 'em and I know how to hold these kids and tell 'em about the flutter kick.

One of the first things I always try to teach these kids is I tell 'em to flutter kicks is the key to swimming.

You gotta have that flutter kick.

Oh, kicking girl.

Oh, kick.

I love to see kids that are afraid of the water become water worthy.

That's it, girl.

(water splashing) - Growing up, being the youngest of 19 children, we needed somewhere to go where we felt safe.

And during today's times, you know, I look at the Nile Swim Club as a safe haven for our community and for our children.

Not only do we have swim, we have basketball, yoga, all sorts of activities to keep our children safe.

- Time it back.

- [Group] Oh!

- Not even!

- These particular clinics and camps doesn't cost the parent or guardian anything.

And we're doing just more than just basketball skills.

Like we have what I call camp talk.

So we have guest speakers come in, talk to 'em about life, career, entrepreneurship, things of that nature.

So it's more than just sports, it's life lessons as well.

- [Speaker] One, two, go hard.

- [Group] Go hard!

(light music) - Several of our members along with the Yeadon Historical Commission and the Pennsylvania Historical Commission started years ago in an attempt to make the Nile Swim Club an historical location.

And this year we were awarded our historical marker.

And it was a great tribute to our club as well as to our community.

It feels great to be president.

I feel proud to be president of this organization.

I'm very proud of my board that works with me very hard to continue to grow the club and we continue to do whatever needs to be done to ensure that this club will be here in future generations.

- [Speaker] Here we go.

Getting better.

(child speaks indistinctly) - A dip in the pool is one way to cool off from the heat.

Another way is with ice cream.

Amy Wilson and Ryan Miller of Milk Jawn are serving up premium ice cream at their South Philly shop.

Thank you so much for being here, you two.

- You're welcome.

- And also thank you for bringing ice cream.

(laughs) We have learned about Milk Jawn from our program director, Betsy Braun, who went into this shop and just raved about it.

So I can't wait to try this ice cream.

But first let's talk about how you came up with the name and the concept.

- So when we first started talking about creating an ice cream company, we didn't have a name for it.

And we were trying to think of all the different names.

We just started calling it the Ice Cream Jawn 'cause we're from Philly and that's what you do.

And then it just sort of evolved from there.

One day we just Milk Jawn, combined the two and it just seemed perfect.

- Yeah, perfect, especially in Philly, right?

So tell me how you got started, even with the idea of, okay, let me make ice cream.

- So Milk Jawn essentially started as a hobby in my kitchen.

I love baking and cooking and making ice cream.

And I just got into the science behind ice cream and creating new flavors and having lots of fun with it.

And my family and friends started telling me I should do something more with it.

So at that point I brought in my friend Ryan, who has a culinary background and so we just put our heads together and started building Milk Jawn.

- You serve Philly style ice cream.

What does that mean?

- So Philly style ice cream is no eggs.

We don't put eggs in our ice cream because it allows the flavors that we produce to shine through our ingredients.

And plus, we're in Philly so we might as well make Philadelphia style ice cream.

- Makes sense.

Tell us about the flavors you brought today.

- So this is vegan.

This is our mango sticky rice.

It's a coconut-based ice cream.

We make our base from scratch.

We make our sticky rice from scratch and we also make a mango swirl that gets swirled in.

It's kind of like the Thai dessert.

This is malted toffee crunch.

It's a malted ice cream base.

We make our toffee from scratch, that gets chopped up and mixed in, milk and cookies is a fan favorite.

It's like cookies and cream.

But we also bake our homemade chocolate chip cookies.

They get chopped up.

- I love how you make all the things that you're adding in.

- We do, yeah.

- [Shirley] Okay, so that brings us to the next one.

- The next one is Earl Gray with honeycomb.

Earl Gray with honeycomb actually won an award for second best ice cream in the country at National Ice Cream.

- Oh my gosh!

- Yep.

We make our honeycomb from scratch.

That gets mixed in.

- [Shirley] This is good.

I've been nibbling at it all day.

- And then we have mint stracciatella, that's a seasonal flavor.

We make that as long as we can get fresh mint.

We like using fresh mint because it tastes more natural.

- Hmm, okay.

I love that candied honeycomb.

What is the most popular flavor?

Like what's the flavor are people can't get enough of?

- Milk and cookies.

- Oh really?

- Yeah, the kids love it.

Even the adults.

That's our bestseller.

- Yeah, and with homemade cookies, you can't really go wrong.

There is something new on the horizon.

Tell me about that.

- We are about to open our second scoop shop.

- Hmm, that's exciting!

- Yes, we're very excited.

It's gonna be in Northern Liberties.

- Oh, I love that.

And you guys have been in business, what, two years?

- Our scoop shop has been open for two years, but we've been in business for about three years before that just selling at farmer's markets and popups and deliveries.

- What do you think about all this success?

- It's crazy.

(laughs) - Alright, I'm gonna try some.

I wanna thank you so much.

I'm gonna try this Earl Gray.

Let me just give it a quick look.

Oh my gosh, the Earl Gray flavor is really strong, I love it.

Oh, this is so good.

Amy and Ryan, thank you so much for being here.

- You're welcome.

- Thank you for bringing ice cream and treating us.

This is a real treat.

Thank you for being here as well and we hope to see you next week.

So go to Milk Jawn, get some ice cream.

Goodnight, everyone.

- Bye.

- This is really good.

- Thanks.

- Thank you.

- Oh my goodness.

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