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this link. The Handmade Beauty Network
January 19, 2004
Happy Birthday Martin!!
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 5, Issue 3
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Creating
Opportunities For Your Handmade Beauty Business!!
Donna Maria Coles Johnson, Esq., President
(301) 464-4515 (p.) | (301) 464-2719 (f.)
info@handmadebeauty.com
:
Welcome New
& Renewing HBN Members & HBN Members
On The Move!
2.
Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Velvet
Sugar Scrub
3. Beauty & The Business Trivia
Question: win some essential oil!
4. Create The Life You Love™: Surviving
The New Year Let Down
1. HBN
Update: Welcome New
& Renewing HBN Members &
HBN Members On The Move!
Simply Soap |
Carol Ochs | California
* renewing member;
luxurious, handmade natural soaps; Old World craftsmanship -New Age artisan design
Sunshine
Garden Soapworks | Stephani Halderman | Wisconsin
* renewing member; high
quality handmade soaps and glycerin soaps, lotions, lip balms, & bath salts
SunRose
Aromatics | Rosanne Tartaro | New York
* renewing member; essential oils (many organic), carrier oils and other
aromatherapy products, each carefully selected for quality
Bubbles
'n Bees, LLC | Tammy Taylor | Maryland
* renewing member; soaps,
creams and lotion bars are made from quality vegetable oils and pure essential
oils or fragrance oils
A
Wild Texas Soap Bar | Maggie Hanus | Texas
* renewing member; handmade
soaps with a Texas theme
Rainbow
Meadow | Melody Upham | Michigan
* renewing member; wide
array of essential oils and soapmaking supplies
Outer
Body Experience | Sarah Porter | Colorado
* renewing member; choose your experience: Tranquil,
Adventurous, Exhilarating, Soothing or Practical
Utopian
Garden | Charlon Bobo | California
* renewing member; a
company collective offering expertise in education and professional services
Cloud
Nine Candle & Bath Company | Randi Aldridge | Nevada
* renewing member; a
full line of handpoured candles and handmade toiletry products, created with the
sensory experience in mind
Oliver
Aromatics | Darlene Oliver | Washington, DC
* renewing member; My
man body oil, OOh Baby Baby body oil, Jazzy Jasmine Hair Oil, Hair-n-Body
Butter, Sacred Body Polish, Bath Salts, Bath-n-Body Soap
Bottles
and Jars.Net | Anne Kremer | New York
* renewing member; supplier
of plastic and glass packaging for all your toiletry needs; no minimums
Honeychild
Handmade Soap Co. | Roberta May | Wisconsin
* renewing member; luxurious
soaps with shea butter, cocoa butter and silk, scented with skin-friendly
essential or fragrance oils
Naturebath
| Kathleen Healy | Ohio
* renewing member; products
meticulously handmade in small batches and formulated with the highest quality
ingredients available
SandPea
Herbal Soaps and Botanicals | Sandra Posey | Maryland
* renewing member; a
beautifully fragrant assortment of gourmet body soaps, rich, fluffy body
mousses, thick and creamy body butters, and more
Pampering
U, Inc. | Lynn Turner | Maryland
* aromatherapy bath bags,
vegetable glycerin soap, powdered milk bath, foot care products, massage oil,
fragrance oils, oil warmers, potpourri and
Pampered
Pleasures | Nicole Watkins | Maryland
*handmade soaps, bath blasts, bath crystals, bubble bars and gift
baskets for all occasions
HBN Members On The Move!
HBN member Baby Bouquet (formerly Jacquelyn Reve) has revamped their business and is pleased to announce the opening of their new website!
Exercise equipment maker Nautilus Inc. is now selling personal care products made by HBN member AthleteGift, which makes personal care products for active people.
HBN
member Tvål!
is excited that their body butter is featured as a "highly recommended
moisturizer" in the e-zine Cybelesays.com.
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.
When you visit MakeYourCosmetics.com,
it's easy to buy the ingredients you need by clicking on our Selected
Supplier links:
Essential
Wholesale: pure essential oils, over 200 cosmetic bases, hundreds
of carrier/fixed oils such as meadowfoam, cranberry, jojoba and shea
butter plus a new Short Run Private Labeling Program! 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! From
Nature With Love: over 1,600 ingredients and supplies, including
cosmetic ingredients, spa supplies, bath accessories and packaging
supplies!
2.
Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Velvet
Sugar Scrub
If
sugar scrubs are the most delectable exfoliant in the skincare world
today, then Velvet
Sugar Scrub is the envy of all the others! Vitamin E, virgin
coconut oil, shea butter, whipping cream and more make this both good for your skin
and fun to use. It smells great too!
Bramble
Berry, Inc.: over 105 different fragrance
and essential oils (including their exclusive "Energy" and
"Relaxing"), all soap tested, soap molds and unscented soap
bases!
3. Beauty & The Business Trivia
Question: last
week's winner was Gayle Jackson of Brownsboro, Texas! Gayle won a
Pampering Present of Lemon Balm & Lemongrass Soap!
Last Week's Question: I am the most comprehensive measure of US economic activity. I am the value of goods and services produced by US-owned labor and property in the United States. It is important to be aware of me if you are a producer of any goods in the US for many reasons, including which your production figures count toward my final numbers each year! Historically, I have been very strong in the US, but over the last generation, since the end of the industrial revolution, my numbers have slipped more than usual now that many other countries are producers to be reckoned with in their own right. What am I?
Last Week's Answer: Gross Domestic Product
This Week's Question: When applying for a trademark at the United States Patent & Trademark Office, an applicant must file with his application a this, which shows use of the mark applied for in a way that would be perceived by consumers as identifying the applicant’s services and indicating their source. What is this?
Be the first to correctly answer this week's question and win a sample of lovely superior ylang ylang essential oil from my private stock -- a deliciously sweet taste of the islands!
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's name will be announced in the next newsletter!
We hear it (and sometimes experience it) year after year. The New Year's resolutions take effect on January 1, and by the third or fourth week of the year, hope starts to dwindle that the goals will ever be achieved. Well, alas, it's 2004. The New Year has once again come and gone, and now it's time to start assessing how we're all doing so far on our New Year's resolutions. Are you feeling as positive as you were on January 1? Are you doing as well as you'd hoped? Feeling like you'll never accomplish some of those goals that seemed so attainable at the start of the New Year? Well, don't despair! Here are some tips to help you pull yourself up by the bootstraps when your goals seem out of reach and your confidence level plummets.
1.
Remember To Believe In Yourself.
For many of us, negative self-talk is a part of our everyday lives.
We're constantly feeding ourselves with messages like "I can't ... I'll
never ... It's a waste ..." It's no wonder that we get to a certain
point after the New Year and just give up. I don't personally know why we do
this to ourselves, but I've seen it time and time again, and even
experienced it in my own life. Anxiety, depression, guilt and anger seem to
culminate and create a sense of doom and gloom. That's life, but it doesn't have
to rob you of your self confidence and your gifts and talents that can be put to
good use to move you forward toward your goals. Surround yourself with positive
strokes, upbeat self talk and people who will encourage you and help you build
your self esteem and confidence. While this is not an overnight process, and we
will always experience the blahs and blues every now and then, making sure you
surround yourself with as much "positivity" as possible is a sure-fire
way over time to inch toward your goals.
2. Neutralize The Nay Sayers.
While we do a fabulous job of negative self-talk on our own, there's no
doubt that we all have people in our lives that seem to want to shoot down every
positive step we try to take. You know exactly who I'm talking about in your own
life, right? You wake up, geared up for a great day and you are excited about
continuing to pursue your New Year's resolutions. There you are minding your
own business, when a long-time friend calls. You share your New Year's goals
and BAM! She begins needling away at you with negative energy. "Why are
you doing that? Haven't you tried that before and it didn't work? That might
be a waste of time, don't you think? Wasn't that your resolution from last
year?" At first you think it's just
conversation but as it continues, you realize your "friend" is
trying to sabotage your efforts. You have two choices at this point.
You can allow her negativity to bring about feelings of helplessness and anger.
Or you can simply rise above the fray and realize that her efforts to make you
feel bad may be the only way she knows how to deal with her own feelings of low
self esteem. Choose the high road by neutralizing her ability to hurt your
efforts. Either end the conversation due to some other "pressing need"
or better yet, simply address the issue face to face, letting her know that you
are determined to reach your goal and have decided to surround yourself with a
cheerleading section. If she can't be on the squad, you'll just give her a call
when you've reached your goal. By putting the ball in her court, you give her
the choice and the control. She can be either on your side or not, but she
cannot be in between. Voila! You've neutralized her, empowered yourself and made
it one step closer to accomplishing your goal.
3. Remember That Feeling Follows
Activity. Visit our suite of Web sites serving the handmade toiletries
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Someone once told me that feeling follows activity. By way of
example, it's 6:00am and you promised you'd go out for a 20 minute jog
at that time each morning. But this particular morning, you're feeling
especially pooped so you bag the jog, sleep the extra 20 minutes and get
ready for your day. Why (aside from the obvious sabotaging of your
exercise goals) is that a mistake? Because it puts feeling before
activity. Next time, instead of waking up and allowing the fact that you
don't feel like jogging control your actions, try reversing the process.
Decide that you are going to jog, get up and start jogging, and watch
the feeling follow the activity! I have experienced this time and time
again in my life. More often than not, I am now able to consciously
ignore how I feel, and choose instead to start the activity, and the
rewards are tremendous -- an increased positive activity level and more
productivity for starters. Try this in all walks of life -- when you
don't feel like tackling that dreaded project, don't feel like getting
out of bed or whatever. It works!
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