Handmade Beauty Connection
January 3, 2005
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1. IBN Update: Welcome New & Renewing IBN Members!!
2. Feature: No More Beauty Business As Usual
3. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Peppermint Foot Flip
4. Beauty & The Business Trivia Question: win some essential oil!
1. IBN Update: Welcome New & Renewing IBN Members!!
5-Year Renewing Members!
All this year, HBC will highlight members who are renewing for their 5th straight year of membership! Our 5-Year Renewing Members joined IBN in 2000 and have this week renewed their memberships for a 5th year without interruption. I am eternally grateful to all IBN members, but especially these who put their faith in IBN in the early days when there was no track record and no one was sure it would last. I'm excited to say that IBN has lasted and so have these members! Please visit their websites. Be inspired and buy something new and delicious just for you!
Herbs of Grace | Vanessa
Nixon Klein | Washington
* 5-Year
Renewing Member; Vanessa
Nixon Klein (now living in Japan for a year!) started her business shortly
before joining IBN. Her background includes medicinal herbalism which is the
basis for her product line formulations. She is also a work at home mother to
three young attachment parented children. The Herbs of Grace website
features a variety of natural products, including Vanessa's new mineral makeup
which I have tried and enjoyed personally! To enjoy my review of her mineral
makeup line, click here.
Renewing Members!
Lutzy's Lather | Kim Lutz-Isenhour
| Pennsylvania
* renewing member; soaps
and bath & body products
honoring "Grammy Lutz",
the
founder's paternal Grandmother
Carrot Tree Soaps and
Sundries | Chris Richter | Wisconsin
* renewing member; new
products include True Amber soap, Whipped Shea Butter, and Massage, Bath,
and Body oil!
Saltworks,
Inc. | Naomi Novotny | Washington
* renewing member; supplying
premium grade salts to wholesale, retail, and consumer
gourmet and bath/spa markets
Have it Yur-Way | Maxine
Blanchette | Illinois
* renewing member; providing
natural products for the face and body
New Members!
Scentual Fragrance
|
Veronica Armstrong
| Arizona
* specializing
in affordable custom blended fragrances designed with our clients in mind
Hammond
Farm | Julie Hammond | Texas
* high
quality farm fresh handcrafted goat milk soaps and natural sundries
Wayward
Winds Lavender Farm | Brad Shavers | Oregon
* natural products
made with Wayward Winds lavender - handmade soap, lotions, body butters, bath salts, etc.
Spoiled Rotten Bath
& Body | Kellee Taylor-Smith | California
* handmade bath bombs, scrubs and body butters made with the highest quality oils, salts and essential oils
IBN Members On The Move!
IBN member Saltworks, Inc.,
is featured in the January 2005 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine on pages 36-37!
In a featured called "E-Tail Therapy," underscoring the benefits of doing business online, you'll find
owners Naomi Novotny and her business partner Mark Zoske surrounded by their gourmet and
bath/spa sea salts which they sell only on the Internet. Congratulations Naomi
and Mark!!
Learn more about our members and
their exciting activities by visiting their Web sites through
IBN'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. What a joy and wonder it is to celebrate a New Year and a new milestone all
at the same time, especially with you, dear readers of the Handmade Beauty
Connection and members of the Indie Beauty Network. I'm sure each of you have
special things to look forward to in 2005 and sentimental memories of what was
precious about the year just passed. Imagine having a vision in January 2005 about creating a new organization
that would join together the aspirations and plans of an entirely new industry!
Today, 5 years later, I can hardly comprehend how that vision has become reality
in IBN. I stand in awe of the entrepreneurial spirit displayed by IBN's members
around the country and in the world. I am constantly amazed and invigorated by
the sheer passion that joins over 420 members together to enjoy life, share joy
and learn from one another. Yet no matter how many months and years pass, and no matter how many new and
exciting adventures IBN takes with you, one thing will always remain the same
-- we will continue to look to one another's hearts to find what is
meaningful and lasting, and to find the strength we indeed need to allow our
businesses to help us change our families, our communities and the world. I am so blessed to enjoy this time with you, and I am especially excited
because it brings with it an opportunity to announce plans for IBN's first
conference and trade show to be held July 28, 29 and 30 at the Sheraton
Park Ridge Hotel and Conference Center in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Our conference will bring us together for the first time as participants as a
growing niche in a cosmetics industry that has survived with little change for
decades. Details about our exciting keynote speaker, workshops and Awards
Banquet will be made available in the coming days. I hope you will mark
your calendar to join us as we celebrate our theme: No More Beauty Business As Usual: Changing Our Families, Our Communities
& The World!
In the months -- and years -- ahead, along with the members of IBN, I will
continue to endeavor to bring you the best of the handmade beauty world. I hope
you will continue to join us on the journey.
2. No More Beauty Business As Usual: Changing Our Families, Our
Communities & The World!
3. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Peppermint
Foot Flip
Peppermint
Foot Flip blends the sweet smell of honey, the spiciness of
lemon and the kick of peppermint leave your tired tootsies refreshed
and smooth.
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: the winner of last week's contest was IBN member Jena Thompson of Albert Lea, MN. Jena won a bar of handmade soap!
Last Week's Question: Here's some 2004 trivia for a little laugh. Last month, a popular talk show host got married with the goal of having a wedding that rivaled that of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Apparently, she was successful, even though her bridesmaids wore inexpensive shoes from this nationwide discount shoe store chain.
Last Week's Answer: Payless Shoe Source
This Week's Question: Who was the guest at dM's first Handmade Beauty Brunch?
Be the first to correctly answer this week's question and win some 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! Visit our suite of Web sites serving the handmade toiletries
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