Rene Wallace and business partner Dale King, both of Portsmouth, pitched their Doc Spartan brand of handmade skin and beard products on ABC Television’s Shark Tank in February and walked away with a $75,000 investment from one of the show’s business panelists.
Wallace, married and mother of three young children, met King, a former Army intelligence officer, at his Scioto County PSKC CrossFit fitness center. She was making natural lotions for women but, at King’s request, developed an all-natural first aid ointment for use at the gym then expanded the market to heal the “nicks, cuts and scrapes the military encounter on the field and range.”
Doc Spartan processed over 4,000 orders in less than a week after the TV show, twice as many orders as they filled in 2016. Vowing to heal America’s wounds with an ointment made from 100 percent natural ingredients, the products, for men and women, are available in gyms, barbershops, beauty salons, health stores and online to retail and wholesale customers.
A portion of the company’s sales go to Team Some Assembly Required, a non-profit organization supporting adaptive athletes (men and women missing limbs) in sports competitions.
For information: docspartan.com
