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Lauren Padawer strolled into the Shark Tank wearing a short sleeve, teal blue wrap round dress and black fur trimmed Wellingtons, (a fashion faux-pas perhaps). She is a commercial fisherman, the owner and founder of Alaska Glacial Mud Company, and was seeking $100,000 for a 20% stake.
As Lauren described how she discovered the buttery soft silky mud on a wilderness rafting trip down the majestic Copper River, visions of luxuriating in the mud danced in my head. I loved this product already. The Sharks however didn't seem to share my vision, eyeing Lauren a little hesitantly during her pitch. Her enthusiastic: “who wants to get their fins dirty and play in the mud with me?” elicited a lukewarm response from the Panel. Barbara put a voice to what everyone else seemed to be thinking: was Lauren the only one in the world to discover this miracle mud? Yes. (..well maybe not after the airing of this episode).
