Handmade Beauty Connection
February 16, 2004
A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 5, Issue 7
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1. HBN Update: Welcome
New & Renewing HBN Members!
2. Unleash
The Power Of Your Beauty Business at dM's Beauty Business Boot Camp!
3. Handmade
Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Cucumber Face Mask
4. Beauty & The Business Trivia Question:
win lemongrass essential oil
5. Create The Life You Love™: The
6. Handmade Beauty Product Review: Saturnina (what's that??!!)
1. HBN Update: Welcome New & Renewing HBN Members!
Cactus & Ivy | Lisa
Rodgers | South Carolina
* renewing member; herbal body butters, aromatherapy soy candles, herbal soaps, hemp-based lotions, anti-aging crèmes, face & body spritzers, tub tea, gift baskets and
more
Greenridge Herbals |
Colleen Miller | Colorado
* renewing member; soaps,
massage oils, scrubs, balms, rubs, salts and more
Soap Goddess Handmade Soap
Co. | Susan Soros | Texas
* renewing member; the ultimate in earth-friendly, skin loving handmade soap & botanical body care products
Round Top Natural Soap |
Jann Schwarz | Texas
* soaps and skincare products
are handmade from natural botanical oils
and fine
essential fragrance oils
Innerglo home spa
products | Terina Mckinney | New Jersey
* transforming
your
bathroom into a sacred space with our bath and body products
Burgundy
Soap Co. | Burgundy Shank | Maryland
* fine
soaps,
lotions, moisturizing balms, exotic oils and mineral-rich salts made
from scratch, using the pure
natural ingredients
Bitter Creek Candle
Supply, Inc. | Rich Hansen | Wisconsin
* Your One Stop Candle & Soap Supply Headquarters
Body
of Essence | Ginger C. Garrett
| New Jersey 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. 1. Branding Your Business: How To
Maximize A Key Competitive Advantage Only $1
* using
shea butter with oils of almond, jojoba and other oils and pure essential oils
in products that enhance
and
rejuvenate the skin
2. Unleash The Power Of Your Beauty Business at dM's
Beauty Business Boot Camp!
I'm
delivering a high energy, informative series of workshops designed to help
you Unleash The Power Of Your Beauty Business!!
2. Using An Email Newsletter To Promote, Market & Grow Your
Business
3. How To Get Inexpensive Media Attention For Your Business
4. FDA Regulation: Get
Answers To Your Pressing Regulatory Questions
Early Bird
Registration closes Friday, February 20 and will not be available at
the door!
HBN Members Enjoy Discount!!
Spaces are limited so sign up early to reserve your spot! Sponsored by Kim Lutz Isenhour of Lutzy's Lather! To register, click here or email Kim at LutzysLather@msn.com or (717) 226-1530.
Register online, by phone or by email!3. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Cucumber Face Mask
Cucumber
Face Mask is fabulous for sensitive or delicate skin, this mask smells
clean and crisp and will leave your skin feeling pampered and smoothed.
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!
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!
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!
4. Beauty & The Business Trivia Question: Due to the website blues, answers to the trivia question were not properly received and processed This week's question is the same and the contest will occur afresh. Last week's answers will be disregarded. I apologize for any inconvenience.
This Week's Question: Written by Charles Perrault, I have been translated into dozens of languages and many stories have been written based on my general theme. I was the first successful ballet composed by Tchaikovsky's first successful ballet. A classic story am I, of a beautiful princess who awakens at the kiss of a prince, to marry him and live happily ever after. Name me.
Be the first to correctly answer this week's question and win a generous sample of lemongrass essential oil!
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!
5.
Create The Life You Love™: The
Last week, I shared some thoughts on how important it is to begin training young people as early as possible to consider entrepreneurship as a professional and lifestyle option. If you missed that article, you can enjoy it here.
This week, I take a quick but heartfelt look at another type of blues -- the website blues. Oh, we've all had them right? The server is crowded so the site goes down. There's a virus going around that makes sites load so slowly that you could give birth before the even the home page downloads. The website designer is on vacation at just the time when you need that will make or break your business added to your site. I could go on and on about those sorts of things. They are totally beyond your control, yet they can wreck havoc in your business.
But what about the website blues brought on by things that are in your control? You know, those mundane things you don't think about much until you have to? Like, maybe, renewing your website domain? Well for those of you who enjoyed last week's trivia question and emailed an answer to me, guess what? I probably didn't get it. Guess why? Well, it was that mundane thing about renewing HBN's website domain that got me this time. Plumb forgot about it! Fortunately, HBN has a backup site that allowed the newsletter to be published on time. Unfortunately, your emails did not get to me.
So, I had the website blues. And that's why this week's trivia question is repeated.
Don't get the website blues yourself! Visit your hosting company regularly and use their websites to track when your website domains expire so you can avoid the website blues. Many hosting companies have an automatic renewal service and/or automatic notification services so you don't get the website blues. Take advantage of those services. They are worth it, even if there is a nominal cost attached. Ask me how I know ...
6. Handmade Beauty Product Review: Saturnina (what's that??!!)
Saturnina Loose Mineral Foundation by Monave
Mineral Cosmetics
30 grams (about an ounce) | $25.00
While there are many exciting trends in the handmade beauty industry
today, perhaps none of them are as exciting as the growing availability of
color cosmetics from HBN members. Not long ago, I had the opportunity to
visit Monave in Baltimore, Maryland, where Debbie Bilezikian was tasked with
the job of creating a mineral foundation just for me. She took one look at
my skin and said, "We don't even have to make one for you. You're a Saturnina
." Of course, I asked what that was, and voila! Debbie brushed
a layer of Saturnina (see photo above
left) loose mineral
foundation on my cheek. It was like looking at my skin -- only smoother and
more even-toned. How much fun was that?
While I don't use foundation much, before Saturnina , I was wedded to Aveda's Moisture Plus Tint in the Tea color. It works well mostly during the winter but I found it to be a bit oily for summertime use. Saturnina, on the other hand is great for all seasons. It's wonderful for my oily skin in the summer and does not dry out my skin in the wintertime. The consistency is nice and fine and it feels really soft going on my skin, especially when I use the make up brush I got from Monave to apply it. It's the perfect color for me as a rather light skinned (non-Caucasian) person with yellow skin undertones. It comes in a container with a sifter top and I'm very careful opening it so as not to spill any of the precious contents. The stuff seems to last forever!
To view Saturnina and all of Monave's foundation colors, as well as a host of their other mineral cosmetics in every color of the rainbow, visit their website.
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