My husband joked, 'I'm going to go from med tech to mermaids?' Now he's the CEO of our daughter's company.

Tiffany Myers' daughter made a deal on Shark Tank.

Courtesy of Tiffany Myers Tiffany Myers's daughter, Sydney, created a cosmetics company when she was 10.

Sydney is now 17, and the company did more than $1 million in sales last year.

Sydney attends school remotely to focus on her business, and both her parents work for the company.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tiffany Myers and her daughter, Sydney Myers, founder of Glimmer Wish .

It has been edited for length and clarity .

When my daughters were younger, I was incredibly sick.

I remember driving and feeling so short of breath that I was worried I would crash the car with my babies in the back.

It was terrifying to feel like my body was failing.

It took seven years to understand why: I had Lyme disease.

After the diagnosis, I changed everything in our lives, from the food we ate to the cleaning products we used.

My daughter Sydney was into beauty products and makeup, but I insisted she use only clean products.

She hated that the options I offered smelled like tea tree oil or lavender.

Those weren't fun for her at all.