Handmade Beauty Connection A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network
May
3, 2004
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 5, Issue 18
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Carol's Daughter with $100 in cash and the boldness to believe she could turn her cosmetics making hobby into a thriving enterprise. At my Beauty Brunch, Lisa will share
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: Welcome New & Renewing HBN Members!
2. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Lisa's Rose Milk Bath
3. Beauty & The Business Trivia Question: win an autographed copy of Lisa Price's new book, "Success Never Smelled So Sweet"!!
4. The Lifestyle CEO™: Put Up Or Shut Up!
1. HBN Update: Welcome New & Renewing HBN Members!
All About You
Spa, Inc. | Leigh Little | Illinois
* renewing member; our clients enjoy products combining essential
oil synergies with other natural ingredients to create total wellness and
beauty
Samara Botane
| Marcia Elston | Washington
* renewing member; are importers of organic and wild crafted
essential oils, and manufacturers of innovative natural skin and body care
products
Naples
Creek Soaps & Sundries | Kathleen Schwingle | New York
* renewing member; soaps made from vegetable oils, exotic butters,
creamy milk, botanicals, essential oils and fine fragrance oils
Merriweather's,
Inc. | Shari Manfredi | New York
* renewing member; fresh handmade hand cut soaps and creams and
other skin care products made in small batches
Maine
IntelliHemp | Stephanie Pruzansky | Maine
* renewing member; therapeutic handmade lip balm made with hemp oil,
silky jojoba oil and calendula oil for skin repair
Anchor
Bay Bathworks | Jenafer Simpson | California
* renewing member; high quality herbal & botanical soaps,
salves, bath & body oils, bath salts, bath teas and lotions
sunny
brae body works | Juliet Bedell | California
* renewing member; products integrating the healing qualities of the natural world into your day through the use of herbs, essential oils and vegetable oils
Carol's
Daughter | Lisa Price | New York
* the sweetest and most
luxurious body care products my kitchen and my heart have to offer
Blue
Ridge Gift Baskets | Lena Veit | Virginia
* handmade salt & sugar
scrubs with all natural quality ingredients as well as melt & pour
soaps, bath salts, and Virginia products
Renaissance
Woman Aromatherapy & Crafts | Yvonne Cleveland | New York
* body scrubs, shower gels,
massage oils, room sprays, bath salts and soy candles
Designs
By ONE | Jay Ento | California
* products made from scratch
or almost scratch, from soaps, facial cleansers, bath salts -- to body
scrubs and body butter; discount for newsletter subscribers. Global
shipping. Canadian currency shown at site
Kapsandoy, LLC |
Sylvia Kapsandoy | Utah
* comprehensive collection of all natural beauty and healthcare products that promote a sense of well
being
Craft
Essentials | Leslie Davies | Canada
* premium ingredients and supplies for the soap and body care
enthusiast
HBN Members On The Move!
Margaret LaPierre of HBN member Maison de Marjan Herbals will speak at the Virginia Herb Association's 18th Annual Conference on the topic of natural skin care. In addition to her skin care practice, Margaret is also a very active HBN member and the membership secretary AND newsletter editor of the organization. The conference will be held July 16-18, 2004. For further information contact Victoria Butler, (434) 292-4082 or visit their website.
Longtime HBN
member Leslie Plant of Leslie's
Garden is featured is a recent edition of the Carroll County Times!
Leslie is a Seed Member of HBN and has been active in the organization since
its inception. I have reviewed her soaps in previous issues (most notably,
her fabulous Lemongrass Bar, my husband's favorite!) and have enjoyed her
soapmaking class. You should take it! You can enjoy the article here.
Congrats Leslie!!
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.
Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Lisa's Rose Milk
Bath
This
week, I am pleased to present an extra special recipe submitted by
Lisa Price, author of "Success Never Smelled So Sweet". Lisa will be
my guest at the next Beauty Brunch on June 13. (Read more details
here.) Lisa says that her Rose
Milk Bath soothes the emotions, uplifts the spirit and boosts
the user's self-confidence.
When you visit MakeYourCosmetics.com, it's easy to buy the ingredients you need by clicking on our Selected Supplier links:
Essential
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of carrier/fixed oils such as meadowfoam, cranberry, jojoba and shea
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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!
3. Beauty & The Business Trivia Question: the winner of last week's contest was Cheryl Tom of Quebec, Canada. Cheryl won a sample of a lovely perfume blend I made with the oil that was the answer to last week's question!
Last Week's Question: I don't have much time these days to sample new aromatics, but recently, I sniffed an aroma I'll not soon forget. If you didn't know that you could distill a beautiful aromatic oil from an alcoholic beverage, now you will! This oil is known as Weinhefeoel and results from the distillation of brandy. Very intense and rich, it blends well with other intense aromas like ylang ylang, osmanthus and tobacco. Use often as a base note in men's colognes, it's "deep fruit" aroma is unforgettable. What is it?
Last Week's Answer: cognac oil (or wine lees oil)
This Week's Question: Carol's Daughter was named by its owner Lisa Price in honor of Lisa's mother. To win this week, provide this information about Lisa's mother: (1) her full name; (2) her date of birth; and (3) the first names of her grandchildren (Lisa's children).
Be the first to correctly answer this week's question and win an autographed copy of Lisa's newly published book, "Success Never Smelled So Sweet"!
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!
4. The Lifestyle
CEO*™: Put Up Or
Shut Up!
\Life.Style
CEO\n. A person who owns and manages a business, not
solely for financial gain, but also to enjoy the personal rewards of
entrepreneurship, independence, flexibility and fun.
There are few things more frustrating than hearing someone repeatedly complain about some sad state of affairs in their life, and then fail to do anything about it. This obviously only perpetuates their sad state of affairs, and it can also make everyone around them NUTS! Several years ago, I was acquainted with Suzanne (not her real name), a wife and mother of a son. Suzanne was a really fun person to be around, except when she was talking about her husband. When she was, she complained and complained about his bad habits, difficult disposition and mostly, the way he fathered their son. He never did anything right. It always seemed to me that he was trying really hard, but could never get past her criticism -- but that was just how it looked to me. The bottom line is that Suzanne claimed to be miserable with him, yet she never took a single step toward exorcising her demons and changing her situation for the better. She never went to counseling (with or without her husband), she never considered seeking a divorce and she never even tried to have so much as a constructive conversation with him about what upset her so thoroughly. She simply complained.
Of course no one knows whether counseling, divorce or constructive conversations with her husband would have made Suzanne's life any better? Maybe so. Maybe not. In fact, any one of those options could have made her situation considerably worse depending on various circumstances. But the upshot of Suzanne's life as a wife is that she talked and talked about her demons, yet she never took a single step to exorcise them. In sum, Suzanne never Put Up Or Shut Up.
In business, we can be the same way. We can spend hours on end chatting with friends and fellow business owners about how frustrated we are with the way business is going. We get tons of hits to our website, but no one buys anything. We are trying to recruit people to sell our products at home parties, but no one is participating. Family friends buy products one time, but never return for repeat sales. Yet when people give us suggestions and constructive criticism, we don't accept it. Instead, we simply look for another person to listen to us "vent," and complain. We feel better after the gripe session, but our pity party ultimately gets us nowhere. We must Put Up Or Shut Up! We must take the bull by the horns, get to the heart of what is obstructing our progress, exorcise our demons and TAKE ACTION to improve things!!
No one said business (or life!) was easy. But in business (as in life), we have to take the good with the bad, the easy with the difficult. And if the difficult is unbearable, we must resist the temptation to simply complain about it and stop there. Exorcise The Demons! Put Up Or Shut Up! We must jar ourselves from that place of complacency and be about the business of happening to life!! Take ACTION!!
If we take action, there are no guarantees. But one thing is for sure. If we do nothing, we'll get nothing. And no one wants to end up with that.
*The Lifestyle CEO column was formerly known as "Create The Life You Love."
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