Handmade Beauty Connection
January 6, 2003
A Publication of The Handmade Toiletries
Network
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 4, Issue 1
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Meet
and hear from cosmetics industry PR pro Marla Russo at Sunday's Handmade
Beauty Brunch!! Get your new year in gear and learn how to position your
products for maximum magazine exposure in 2003!
Price: $50; register by January 10 | HBN Members
Enjoy 10% discount!!
For Directions, Information & To Register, click here to download a
PDF version of the details. If Adobe
Acrobat is not installed on your computer, click
here to download it for free.
1. Handmade Toiletries Network
Becomes Handmade
Beauty Network!
2. HBN Update: Welcome New
& Renewing HBN Members!!
3. Handmade Beauty Trivia Question:
win some top quality shea butter!
4.
Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Rose
Otto Champagne Bath
5. Handmade Beauty Product
Review: a gift box of goodies for baby
6. Join Me In France This Summer!! I Know You Wanna Come!!
1. Handmade Toiletries Network Becomes Handmade Beauty Network!
It's a new year and the dawn of a new age for the handmade beauty products industry!! That's why I am so pleased to announce that dM's Handmade Toiletries Network has become dM's Handmade Beauty Network!
After several months of planning and assembling feedback from members and consumers, our activities and mission have expanded to include more new media promotion highlighting the unique benefits of handmade beauty products and bringing increased visibility to the member companies that manufacture them.
Among our new Web site features:
- members only INCI Dictionary
- pictures of member products in our Online Member Directory to spur sales - visit the Directory now to check out members with pictures: Village Soap Shop, Anastasia's Ideas, Kate's Soap, Elysian Dream, Joan's Gardens and others! More pictures uploaded daily!!
- expanded members only Business Resource Center
For more
information about our exciting name change, new logo, look and Web site, click
here for our press release!
Here's what HBN member Rashida Balogun of Elemi Skin told me: "I'm so excited about HBN's new Web site and new look! I cannot count how many customers tell me that they found my business while browsing HBN's Web site! Thanks for providing such a valuable resource!"
Join us or renew your HBN membership today!!
2. HBN Update: Welcome New & Renewing HBN Members
Also, Lots Of HBN Members On The Move This Week!!
~ Welcome New & Renewing HBN Members!
5th Element Products |
Debra Chaffins | Michigan
* renewing member;
Spirited Herbal Creations: soaps, salves, balms, bath salts, teas lip balms
and more made with organic ingredients
Dragonfly Dreams | Pamela
D. Guest | Texas
* renewing member;
Fizzing Bath Salts, Milk Baths, Lotion Bars,
Salt Glo, Tub Teas, Fragrance Sachets, Spa Gift Sets, Dream Pillows, home
parties
From Nature With Love |
Kibby Mitra | Massachusetts
* renewing member; so many raw materials, you head will spin
Life
Balance Spa | Polly Fletcher | Massachusetts
* renewing member; you'll love their Miracle Grains!
ROSEBUD | Sherrylee
Govoni
* renewing member; signature essential blends and customized
products
Essential
Wholesale | Dennis Fioravanti | Oregon
* renewing member; you never knew there were so many base
products to choose from
The Soap Box | JoAnn Takushi
| Hawaii
* renewing member;
handmade soaps reflecting the beauty of the islands
Simply Soap | Carol Ochs |
California
* renewing member; some
of the prettiest swirled soap in the universe
Kate's Soap, Inc. | Kate
Krival | Florida
* renewing member; you gotta try the hemp soaps
Creekside Soaps | Susan
Ryhanen | New York
* renewing member; molds
and cutters for soapmakers
Cloud Nine Candle and
Bath Co. | Randi Aldridge | Nevada
Mango Stick and hand poured candles and
toiletries; colorful and fragrant, made with premium
ingredients
Of The Goddess, Ltd. |
Pemala Leavey | California
aromatherapy, bath, body based on Being of All; prepackaged and volume
sizes available. Also, supplier of salts, herbs, essential and carrier oils,
etc.
Saratoga Scents |
Bill Hunt | California
handmade soap and soapmaking supplies for the small soapmaker; no minimums
~ HBN Members On The Move!!
HBN member TJ Currey's Caerlon Gardens' handmade Choco-Lotta PMS Soap is featured at Seventeen Magazine. Check it out here, item 4 from the left in the pictures, or see it on page 35 of the latest issue!!!
HBN member Kathleen Lewis Beauty
Worldwide's Mini Rose Soap is featured in the January 2003 "Love
That!" department in O (Oprah's) Magazine! Says Oprah, "this soap is
gentle enough to double as a face and body cleanser." Congrats Kathleen!
HBN member Christine Richter of
Carrot Tree Soaps
& Essentials will be interviewed on January 9, 2003, at 3:30pm
(central) on KDUZAM 1260 in
Hutchinson, MN. Give it a listen if you're in the area!
Learn more about our members and their exciting
activities by visiting their Web sites through HBN's Online
Member Directory!!
Last Week's Answer: condenser To win this week, be the first person to provide
the answer to this week's question and win
Please read the contest
rules here
before submitting your entry. Put "TRIVIA CONTEST ANSWER" in the
subject line or your answer will not be considered.
While time does not permit me to respond personally to all entrants, the
winner will be notified by email and their name posted at HBN's home page.
When you visit MakeYourCosmetics.com,
it's easy to buy the ingredients you need to make your goodies by clicking
on our Partner links: Essential
Wholesale: natural unscented cosmetic bases, pure
essential oils, absolutes, carrier oils such as avocado, virgin coconut,
sweet almond, jojoba, shea butter and specialty packaging supplies!
3. Handmade Beauty Trivia Question: Last
week's winner was
Lisa Laborte of Pengrove, CA. Lisa won a bar of Cocoa Butter soap made by HBN member SunFeather
Natural Soap Co.!!
Last
Week's Question: In
the distillation of essential oils, I am the cooling device for removing
sufficient heat from the distillation vapor to enable it to change to liquid
state -- the essential oil and hydrosol. What am I?
This Week's Question: Since what date has this newsletter
been called The Handmade Beauty Connection?
4. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Rose
Otto Champagne Bath
Submitted
by reader Christine Ziegler, this
week's recipe is Rose
Otto Champagne Bath!! How delicious does that sound??!! Get out your rose
oil and sea salt (Hawaiian red if you have any) and create this simple recipe
to soothe and detox the skin. Oh! And don't forget the champagne!
Bramble
Berry, Inc.: over 80 different, fully
tested fragrance oils (including the exclusive "Relaxing" and
"Energy" blends), over 250 soap molds, essential oils and
unscented bases.
SunRose Aromatics: pure essential oils (many organic), carrier oils and other aromatherapy products, each carefully selected for quality. Check out their Perfumer's Emporium.
The Scent Shack: fragrance oils and soap supplies. Fragrance oils are pre-tested in cold process, melt & pour soap, and candles, and test results are listed at the Web site. Scents tested by soapers for soapers!
Lynden House International, Canadian supplier with 10% off fragrance oils and glycerin blocks and 25% off Christmas candle scents until January 7. For your discount, use this Discount Code at the prompt: HBN001
5. Handmade Beauty Review: Baby Gift Box From Silk'n Shea
Baby
Gift Box
$7.50 | 2 oz. soap, wash cloth, 4 oz. lotion, 2oz. baby balm
As the mother of a 1-year old daughter with that beautiful petal soft baby skin, you can bet I don't want to put anything on it that would cause the slightest irritation. That's why I usually make most of her beauty products. But now and then, I either don't have the time or the inclination to mix up stuff on my own. That's why I'm glad there's Silk'n Shea's baby products. You can find the Baby Gift Box and lots of other silk and shea filled products at HBN member Silk'n Shea.
In addition to a soft baby wash cloth, the Baby Gift Box comes with 3 unscented baby products: baby lotion, baby balm and baby soap. The balm is my favorite. I'm sure if my daughter could, she'd fight me for it. Packaged in a 2-ounce screw top plastic pot, the balm feels very nice on my skin ... I like to use it on my feet and elbows, as well as all over my daughter. (I have used wonderful baby balms before and I always thank companies that package the baby products in plastic. Nothing makes diapering a little one more difficult than having to keep track of a glass jar that could cause serious injury if dropped onto a tile floor.)
The baby lotion (4 oz. plastic pump bottle) is next in line for my kudos! I love the creamy way it feels going on my skin. My favorite part is that it feels rich but does not leave behind a greasy sensation. I like to put it on my hands throughout the day and it works especially well to keep my cuticles soft in this cold snowy season in the Mid-Atlantic.
One thing I usually look for in a handmade soap is a frothy lather, but bathing my baby is one time when I like to skip it. The 2-ounce bar in the Baby Gift Box is perfect because it contains no coconut oil. The mild lather is produced by shea butter, hempseed and sweet almond oils, enhanced with castor. It's the perfect creamy bar cleanser for delicate skin. I've been using it on my face too!
I just came back from Silk'n Shea's Web site to place my order for a Baby Gift Box to give my cousin as a shower gift this weekend. You can buy Silk'n Shea's Baby Gift Box and lots of other silk and shea filled goodies at Silk'n Shea.
6. Join Me In France This Summer!! I Know You Wanna Come!!
There are some spaces left so be sure to check out the links of great photos so you can see what you're in for when you come with us!
To view the full itinerary, click here! To register, click here!
This trip presents a wonderful opportunity for HBN members to enjoy a working vacation and we encourage all business owners to check with their tax professionals to make sure that they receive whatever tax benefits are available as a result of this trip to see first hand how some of the ingredients used in your products are manufactured!
Check the entire itinerary here.
Aroma Tours has set up a special page at their Web site for HBN members to register! Join us for this fabulous trip!
If you have any questions about the trip, just email me!
Visit The Handmade Beauty Connection Archives.
Visit our suite of Web sites serving the handmade toiletries industry:
IndieBeauty.com: the leading industry trade organization
MangoButter.com: 450+ suppliers of raw materials and packaging, updated weekly!
MakeYourCosmetics.com: ingredient encyclopedia & original cosmetics recipes
DonnaMaria.com: sound advice for your small business, Create The Life You Love™
AromaGirls.com: Coming Soon: "defining beauty for ourselves"
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Donna Maria, Editor-In-Chief, DonnaMaria@IndieBeauty.com
The Handmade Beauty Connection
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