The North Otago friends, who began making and packaging soap from their homes in 2003, "got heaps out of it", Mrs Boraman said.
They have now entered this year's award which recognises outstanding rural businesswomen running their own enterprises and celebrates the success of rural women entrepreneurs.
Ethel Gray, from Whalan Lodge Rest Home in Kurow, has also entered.
Judges are Wool Partners International chairwoman Theresa Gattung, Access Homehealth Ltd former chairman Doug Langford and Rural Women New Zealand president Margaret Chapman, who will choose both North and South Island winners.
The supreme winner will be announced at RWNZ's national conference in Oamaru on May 26.
Being involved had also generated some "fantastic" publicity for their business Lavish Soap. As a result, Global Culture got in touch and they now supply soap to that company.
In August last year, they moved to new premises in Itchen St, in the town's historic precinct.
They create between 40 and 50 different varieties of soap, with goat's milk and almond accounting for about 70% of their sales. Many people found it soothing for eczema and psoriasis.
