Handmade Beauty Connection
April 28, 2003
A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 4, Issue17
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1. HBN Update: Welcome New
& Renewing HBN Members & HBN Members On The Move! Welcome New & Renewing Members
2. HBN Member Success
Spotlight: Pixie Vision
Botanicals
3. Handmade Beauty Recipe
Of The Week: Ylang Tangerine Dry Skin Balm
4. Handmade Beauty Trivia
Question: win some ultrarefined shea butter!
5. Create The Life You
Love™: Dreaming HUGE!!
1. HBN Update: Welcome New
& Renewing HBN Members & HBN Members On The Move!
Queen Esther's Soaps &
Body Creations | Diane Buono | North Carolina
* renewing member;
all-natural,
handcrafted, therapeutic soaps and body products
Mama Coco's |
Lymari Hughes | Hawaii
* renewing member;
virgin coconut oil lip balm and red hibiscus
lip rouge
va campagna |
Maryann Casini | New York
* renewing member;
Italian inspired handmade bath, body and spa
products
Samara Botane |
Marcia Elston | Washington
* renewing member;
importers of organic and wild crafted essential oils, and
manufacturers of innovative natural skin and body care product
Merriweather's | Shari Manfredi
| New York
* renewing member;
fresh soaps handmade and hand cut; skin care products are made in small batches
Star
Hitched Wagon | Stacey Curry | Wyoming
* bringing the spa to you with products
like Brown Sugar Citrus Body Scrub and more
Awakening Spirit,
Inc. | Kathleen Flanagan | Colorado
*
send you tired body on a vacation with
skin care, hair care, cremes, bath salts, massage and therapeutic oils,
chakra oils and more
Sunset
Loft Bath Shoppe | Stacy Garrett | California
*
products to help your skin stay silky
like sugar scrubs, lotions, milk baths, and spa salts
Scenter
Of The Mind | Linda Faust | Illinois
*
natural, handmade soaps and herbal bath products
Bella
Brava by Fuzions | Lorinda Morales | California
*
luxurious candles and skincare with Latina flair
Spa
Scents | Rhea Brown | Maryland HBN Members On The Move!!
*
the vegan-based ultimate spa experience
~ If you're not familiar with how HBN got started, check out this link from the Business section of today's issue of The Washington Times newspaper!!
~ HBN member Calypso Cosmetics', owned by Marietta Carter-Narcisse, Paradise Foot Soak is featured in this month's issue of InStyle Magazine! Check it out on page 364!! Congratulations Marietta!!
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. HBN Member Success Spotlight: Pixie Vision Botanicals
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!
This
week's HBN Member Success Spotlight shines on HBN member Pixie
Vision, a California-based manufacturer of handmade soaps, bath
salts, dream pillows and more. Click here
to check out Pixie Vision's HBN Success
Spotlight and enjoy information and inspiration from the owner, Carrie Duncan!
Member Success Spotlights are one of the many benefits of HBN membership. To
learn more about Carrie and all of the other HBN members profiled in HBN's
Success Spotlights, click here.
3. Handmade Beauty Recipe
Of The Week: Ylang Tangerine Dry Skin Balm
Ylang
Tangerine Dry Skin
Balm is a tropical treat for your dry skin.
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 Callie Lee of Cincinnati, OH. Callie won a copy of The Soaper's Cookbook co-authored by HBN member TJ Currey of Caerlon Gardens Luxury Soap.
Last Week's Question: While companies like Sony and Disney currently earn the largest portion of fees for licensing of their brands to other companies, a large cosmetics company is right behind them. By licensing its brands to other companies that market complementary but non-competing products, this cosmetics company (known for soaps and other cleaning products) is cornering an increasingly large share of the $71.5billion licensing industry by licensing its brands to companies that sell items such as contact lenses, hair dryers and pet products. This large cosmetics company has licensed one of its brands to a company that is known for its hair accessories. To win this week, state each of these 3 things: (1) the name of the large cosmetics company; (2) the name of the brand the large cosmetics company has licensed to the hair accessories company; and (3) the name of the hair accessories company.
Last Week's Answer: (1) Procter & Gamble; (2) Cover Girl; (3) Goody
This Week's Question: I
am the child of a parent that is considered one of the world's leading
makers and distributors of spices and food flavorings. My parent is based in
a town called Sparks in the eastern part of the United States. I produce
plastic squeeze tubes for the personal care products industry and I have
plants located in Massachusetts and California.
Be the first to correctly state the name of the company speaking and win a pound of ultrarefined shea butter, courtesy of HBN member Essential Wholesale!
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™: Dreaming HUGE!!
I recently saw a television program featuring an interview of 9-time gold medal (and 1-time silver medal) winner Carl Lewis. You may recall Lewis' inspiring track and field accomplishments during the Olympic Games of the 1980's and 1990's. During a time when track and field athletes were being disqualified left and right for drug testing violations, Lewis stunned all of us with his stellar career, unmarred by even the slightest allegation of impropriety.
During the interview, Lewis was asked what advice he had for any aspiring Olympic athletes. His response was simple, "Dream huge, not big. You have to dream huge in order to accomplish anything in this life. Don't sell yourself short by limiting your aspirations to just the "big." Dream HUGE! Dreaming HUGE made all the difference in my athletic success."
If dreaming HUGE helped him win 9 Olympic gold medals, who wouldn't want to take his advice??!! Dreaming big is nice, but dreaming HUGE propels your possibilities into a whole new stratosphere!
1. Dreaming HUGE Builds Confidence. In his interview, Lewis described his high school personality as very shy. Even though he was the best athlete in the state, he could hardly muster up the courage to speak to the press, even as less talented athletes spoke with confidence and assurance. He began to study how the other athletes interacted with the press, and once he got the hang of it, he was unstoppable. His HUGE dreams gave him the courage he needed to step outside his comfort zone, and in the process, his confidence soared. The result is history.
2. Dreaming HUGE Provides Increased Motivation. There's nothing terribly wrong with dreaming big instead of HUGE ... unless maximizing your potential is a goal in your life. Now, don't get me wrong ... I am a firm believer in being content in whatever circumstances exist at a given time. However, if there's something better out there, why not reach for it -- being content in the meantime -- while also aiming for something even better and more fulfilling? During my high school years, my dad shared lots of wisdom with me. After graduation, as I squirmed in my chair because he was making me late for a celebration party, I filed these words away in my spinning head: "Whatever you do, always make sure your reach exceeds your grasp." At that time, it meant I should have the very best time possible at the party! But as the years passed, I have put those words to work as best I can, being content with what has been grasped, yet remaining motivated to always reach at least a little bit further.
3. Thinking HUGE Inspires Others. We all learn by example. Think about it -- many business decisions are made because they have already worked for another business person. Once you start dreaming HUGE, and your most cherished dreams begin to be fulfilled, you'll start to see others encouraged and inspired by your motivation and desire to move forward. This is a blessing and a wonderful by-product of dreaming HUGE! By fulfilling your own dreams, you also help others fulfill theirs as even your smallest steps yield big results.
Among many other reasons, I believe we are all here to achieve our fullest potential. Dreaming HUGE can help each of us do that. So write your HUGE dreams down today, and study them once in a while to help inspire and encourage you to do everything you can to fulfill them!
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