Handmade Beauty Connection
January 20, 2003
Happy Birthday Martin! We are striving to live your dream!!2003
A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network
ISSN 1530-9630 |
Vol. 4, Issue 3
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1. HBN Update: Welcome New
& Renewing HBN Members!
2. Join The HBN T.E.A.M!
3. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Flower
Children Body Powder
4.
Handmade Beauty Trivia Question: win
some top quality shea butter!
5.
Create The Life You Love™:
All
In The Family Business
6.
Handmade Beauty Product Review by Donna Maria: Orange Ginger Peppermint
Handmade Soap by Anastasia's Ideas
1. HBN Update: Welcome New
& Renewing HBN Members!
The Soap Goat Soap Shop |
Monique Durian | Canada
* renewing member; a
ton of soapmaking supplies
Outer Body Experience | Sarah
Porter | Colorado
* renewing member;
choose your experience!
Baisley
Herbals | Pamela Baisley | New York
* renewing member; you
gotta try their lemon verbena soap!
SuperNatural Soap &
Essentials | Carmen Bates | Texas
* goat milk soap, gift
sets and herbal miscellany
Na Praia | Michelle Gorman
| Nevada
* handmade goodies
Sister Golden Hair Fine
Handmade Soap & Candles | Lindy Sellers | Texas
* handmade soap and candles
Narrow Gate House |
Stephanie Taylor | Missouri
* everyday luxuries for body and home
Handcrafted Soap by RJ
Caulder | RJ Caulder | Maryland
* handmade soap geared toward dry and
sensitive skin
Tub
Mud | Veronica Clayburn | New Jersey
* body butters, salts, lotions, etc.
Remember
Me Gifts | Joyce Newsome/Heather Farrow | Georgia
* all-natural handmade potpourri scented with
essential oils
Bath
Essentials | Shannon Sohn | Missouri
* handmade body scrubs with Hawaiian
Turbinado sugar to loosen and slough dead surface skin
Garced Naturopathics | Gladys
Delgado-Garced | Pennsylvania
* body creams, salts, and other
delicious treats
Soaper's Co-op | Melissa May |
Washington
* great selection of co-op items;
specialty items sourced regularly
Soappouri | Cindy Helgason |
Iowa
* beautiful glycerin soap, bath
salts and whipped body scrub
Cottage Farm Soap | Shari May
| Ohio
* handmade soap
The Purple Sage | Bobbi Guerra
| Arkansas
* handmade soap and other
delicious goodies
Olfactory
Vibrations | Donna MacEachern | Massachusetts
* Natural, synthetic free
personal care products
Learn more about our members and their exciting activities by visiting their Web sites through HBN's Online Member Directory, now with 4 ways to search: (1) by state/country; (2) by member business name; (3) by keyword search; or (4) using our new alphabetical listings.
2. Join The HBN T.E.A.M!!
Together
|
Everyone
|
Achieves
|
More
Everyone knows that there is power in numbers. Collectively all 370+ HBN members work within the handmade beauty products community to accomplish goals for everyone that none could accomplish on their own. Being a part of the HBN team allows a business to maximize its strengths. We need each other to succeed and Together Everyone Achieves More!! To facilitate everyone's success, HBN has lots of new member benefits!
1. Our Online Member Directory now features product photos to encourage site users to do business with members! See how great your product photo can look at this link.
2. Our Web site now features "Shop!" links down the right side of pages so that site users can quickly click on member links and go directly to their Web sites to shop!
3. Our Philanthropy Page makes it easy for consumers to do business with companies that support causes that make our world a better place.
4. Our "REFER 3 AND YOURS IS FREE" Program allows HBN members to earn credits toward free membership dues when they refer other businesses to HBN!
5. Our new INCI Dictionary providing members with easy access to the names they need to properly label their cosmetics products!
Join the HBN team and start putting HBN to work for your business today!
3. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Flower Children Body Powder
Flower Children Body Powder is a new recipe
submitted by HBN member Lissa Lee. It combines simple ingredients available
anywhere with a few choice essential oils. Not only is it a great baby body
powder, but it also makes a nice scented addition to grown up linens to relax
before bedtime.
When you visit MakeYourCosmetics.com, it's easy to buy the ingredients you need by clicking on our Partner links:
Essential
Wholesale: pure essential oils, base carrier oils such as avocado,
sweet almond, jojoba and shea butter and specialty packaging supplies
packaging supplies!
Bramble
Berry, Inc.: over 75 different fragrance oils
(including their exclusive "Relaxing" and "Rosehip
Jasmine"), all soap tested, soap molds and unscented soap
bases!
SunRose Aromatics: pure essential oils (many organic), carrier oils and other aromatherapy products, each carefully selected for quality. Check out their new 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 of soap and candlemaking supplies such as fixed oils, perfumes, essential oils, molds, powdered milks, colors, pre-made bases, candle wax, wicks, embeds and more!
4. Handmade Beauty Trivia Question: the winner of last week's contest was V. Latta of Millerstown, PA. who won a pair of fragrant floating heart beeswax candles with cinnamon CO2 and ylang ylang superior essential oil, made by Anastasia's Ideas.
Last Week's
Question: I derive from the Latin word "miscēre" and am
an adjective used to describe ingredients that are capable alone of being
mixed in any ratio without separating.
Last Week's Answer: miscible
This Week's Question: Poetically speaking, I am attributed to adorning the foreheads of both conquerors and poets, and the first part of my common name describes a particular water/land formation. Several other plants share the second part of my common name. On the whole, I alone can be added to several tasty culinary delights. What am I?
Be the first to answer this week's question, submitted by HBN member TJ Curry of Caerlon Gardens Luxury Soap, and win a generous sample of cold pressed unrefined shea butter from HBN member African Shea Butter Company!
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.
5. Create The Life You Love™: All In The Family Business Spotlight
In the November 25, 2002 issue of HBC, I profiled a few family-owned HBN member businesses and elaborated on some of the best reasons why family business ownership is beneficial for our world (including the fact that there are some little known tax benefits). If you missed that article, you can read it here.
This
week, the HBC spotlight shines on HBN member Of The Earth, a family-owned business in Texas,
run by Maggie Hanus. At very early ages, Maggie and her husband Mike worked
in a family business. As children, Maggie picked cotton and Mike sold family
grown produce at the local farmers market. Says Maggie, "when you grow
up in a family business, doing your part is not an option, it's a way of
life."
For the 15 years Maggie has been making and selling crafts, her two sons
Jory and Cael have learned how to develop their own creativity, count money,
display products, greet customers, and make a sale. Since they were raised
by such self sufficient parents, there was never any
question in Jory's and Cael's lives that they had options. Working in a
family enterprise taught them that a typical 9 to 5 job was just one of the many
choices they had, and that they did not have to wait for opportunity to
knock. Instead, they could actually go out into the world and create it for themselves!
Both Maggie and her husband built on their training as the kids in family-owned businesses to create their own successful family operations. Mike owns a successful lawn care buisness. During the summers, his most loyal employees were his sons. That's right, while other kids were hanging out at the mall, Mike's sons were busy learning the value of an honest day's work. While other kids were learning how to spend money, Maggie and Mike's sons were first learning how to make it. And they learned this not only by being involved themselves, they also learned it by Maggie's example ... she chipped in to mow lawns, plant trees and tend gardens just like they did when her help was needed, and she still does the bookkeeping for Mike's business.
Maggie is quick to point out that the family business is not just about making money. "One of the most important things that family members do for the family business is work together for the common good. Our sons grew up knowing that in order to survive, we had to all pull together to get the job done. Work came first and hard earned play followed." Just as Maggie helps Mike, Mike is also known to stir a soap pot or two, fix a leaky faucet in the soap shop or do whatever else is needed to get the job done.
"When familie
s learn to depend on each other for their livelihood, an unbreakable and abiding sense of caring, respect and trust is born. And today, we see the results of this sense of family commitment we instilled in our sons when they were young." Mike and Maggie are now watching with delight as their youngest son (now 19) contemplates using his creativity and ingenuity to start his own business. Says Maggie, "Mike and I are confident that he has the experience, dedication, and solid work ethic to make it happen. We are proud that, without our even saying so, our son knows that his family will be here to help him along the way, both physically and emotionally. They say 'the family that plays together - stays together'. We say 'the family that grinds together - binds together!'"Well
said Maggie! Not only has Maggie created the life she loves, she has equipped
her sons to do the same. You
can see some of the results of Maggie and Mike's family business work ethic at Of
The Earth.
6. Handmade Beauty Product Review by Donna Maria: Orange Ginger Peppermint Handmade Soap by Anastasia's Ideas
OK, if you've been a subscriber to this newsletter for a while, you know how much I love Anastasia's Ideas soaps. You also know that I'm not a real peppermint fan. So when I got this bar of Orange Ginger Peppermint soap from Anastasia a few weeks ago, I didn't bother to sniff it right away. Once I finally got around to sampling it, I was kicking myself and asking what in the world I was waiting for??!
The first time I used it, I liked it. But like leftover chili, it seemed better after I let it sit overnight. I actually enjoyed it more after the first use. I guess I had to warm it up after the long shipping from Kentucky, but it was worth the wait.
As usual, Ana is oh so creative, packing this chunky bar of soap with crushed ginger and dried pineapple bits. How does she think of this stuff??!! The combination of virgin coconut oil and olive oil is a super cleansing, richly lathered combination and the essential oil blend of peppermint and orange oils is refreshing and reviving. Ana tops each bar off with a dusting of crushed vanilla beans ... careful not to scrub your skin with that part! Wrapped in handmade paper, this bar makes a great gift for a friend who needs to clear her head!
You can get Orange Ginger Peppermint handmade soap and a bunch of other really delicious goodies at Anastasia's Ideas.
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