Handmade Beauty Connection
A Publication of The Indie Beauty Network 1. IBN Member Update: Welcome New & Renewing IBN Members! Handmade Beauty Recipe of the Week: Citrus
Bath Soak
April
24,
2006
ISSN 1530-9630 | Volume 7, Issue 18
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2. Lifestyle CEO Report: Global Trade Expert Laurel Delaney Joins Me
3. Handmade Beauty Trivia Question: win something wonderful!
4. Feature Article: The Busiest Bee
5. Countdown to IBN Live!
1. IBN Member Update: Welcome New & Renewing IBN Members!
Welcome
Renewing Members!
Hawaiian
Pleasures | Lauri Strain | Hawaii
* We are an Ohana (Family) owned and operated business making Spa Quality
Body and Bath products here on the beautiful island of Hawaii.
Canterubry
Cabin | Lorrie Beach | New York
* Canterbury Cabin combines the time-tested practices of handcrafted
soapmaking with herbal properties, essential oils and distinctive fragrances
to elevate the self-care experience. Our Spa Essentials Collection,
Canterbury Bath & Body Collection and Natural Toiletries Collection
feature high quality soaps and other body products such as lip balms,
botanical tub tea, exfoliating body scrubs, luxurious hand & body cream,
milk bath, bath salts, lotion bars, body spray, linen spray, eye pillows,
muscle rub, etc. Custom orders available.
Heartlight Garden | Francesca Fodera | Connecticut
Welcome New Members!
Blended
Solutions | Ambre Holly | Arizona
* Blended Solutions offers a full line of custom blended aromatherapy products for personal care, babies and children, pets,
equine, and household cleaning. You can even design a gift basket from our luxurious handmade creations that can be personalized for that special someone or grand occasion.
Body
Basics Absolute Wellness LLC
| Angela Abenaa Atta Wells | Maryland
* Body Basics Absolute
Wellness is a holistic company that produces soaps, salves and shea butter
body rubs and other items that are simply delightful for the body.
AromaHead.com
| Andrea Butje | Florida
* Aromahead.com provides both Essential Oil Education and an International
Directory of Essential Oil Distillers. The 200-hour certification program is
approved by the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy. Weekend
classes and the certification program are approved for National and Florida
Massage Therapy CEU's. The Distiller Directory is for individuals and
businesses that want to buy high quality essential oils directly from the
distillers that make them. Contact information for distillers and
distributors worldwide.
Jo's
Garden Treasures | Jo Graham | Alabama
* Relax and enjoy natural hand made bath products. Feel the soothing and healing effects of bath salts and the moisturizing of lotion and cream that will not clog pores. My lip balms, soaps and other products, including children's soaps are made with healing herbs and oils. God's gift of nature is the best way, so see and feel the difference in your skin.
Handmade
Beauty Business Magazine!
For those of you waiting so patiently for the current issue of the Handmade Beauty Business Magazine, it's going to the printer this week and being prepared for shipping next week! Thank you all for your patience -- I guarantee you it's worth the wait! We've got lots of features including things you need to know before opening your own retail store, how to comply with the FDA's Good Manufacturing Practices and an introduction to the 2006 Handmade Beauty Business of the Year! Work is underway on the 2Q issue due out in June -- our Handmade Soap Issue! Thank you for your patience!
Please visit our magazine sponsors!
IBN Members on the Move!!
Dennis and Kayla Fioravanti are pleased to announce the re-launch of their exclusive line of vonNatur products. They've got the same great formulations packaged in sleek new packaging that's perfect for your retail store or spa. Learn more at their website.
IBN member Rachel Lane of Barcelona Bath and Body is featured in two cool online newsletters: delightdeals.com/ and styleenvy.com/. Check them out!
From an announcement received through IBN's Media Opportunity program, members BioTropica and Alpha Skin Care were included in the VIP Gift Bags (valued at $1,500 each!) which were featured at The Billies, an inaugural event honoring media excellence in the portrayal of women in sports. The event was held last week in Beverly Hills, CA where 25 VIP female athletes were honored -- and each of them got a VIP bag with these IBN member products tucked inside.
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.
2. Lifestyle CEO Report: Global Trade Expert Laurel Delaney Joins Me!
\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.
Laurel Delaney, founder of the Small Business Global Marketing Forum, joins me today to discuss how to know if your business is ready to "go global," and what you can to do take it there!
Check out today's Lifestyle CEO Blog: What's Your Hustle?
Upcoming Lifestyle CEO Show Guests ::
May 1: Cathy Townsend, Senior Business Development Coach at Peter Montoya and graduate of one of the premier coach training programs in the world, will join me to discuss the benefits of hiring a business coach to help you grow your business.
May 8: Diedre Wachbrit, Esq., a leading estate planning attorney, joins me to talk about what small business owners can do to plan for the future - theirs and their family members'..
May 22: Author Rachel Hamman joins me to talk about her new book Bye-Bye Boardroom: Confessions From a New Breed of Stay-at-Home Moms. Rachel talks about her interviews with moms all over the country (including me!) who abandoned the corporate board room to have more family time and own their own businesses.
3. Handmade Beauty Trivia Question: last week's winner was Kia Skrine of Hollywood, CA. Brenda won some Hyacinth Soap, courtesy of IBN member Bloomworks Soap Co.
Last Week's Question: State the name of the world renowned non-profit educational institution which, under pressure, recently scaled back its "endorsement" of a new line of skincare products produced by Klinger Advanced Aesthetics.
Last Week's Answer:
Johns Hopkins Medicine. The product line is Cosmedicine, the latest offering from the well known spa maven, Georgette Klinger.This Week's Question: Soon, "realistic scent" will join surround sound and 3-D glasses to make your movie going experience even more realistic -- or something. With the release last weekend of a movie incorporating aroma into the movie-going experience, movie-goers who pay for "aroma seats" will enjoy smelling scents that correspond to scenes throughout movie. Just think of all those great animal smells to go with the Disney characters, or maybe the perfume of the leading lady as she prepares for her first date with Mr. Hunk. A paid advertisement for the featured perfume can't be far behind. What will they think of next? Anyway, I digress. The question this week is to state the of the Japanese company credited with inventing this fragrance releasing concept.
Be the first to answer and win something delicious!
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. Feature Article: The Busiest Bee
by Annette Esterheld
Having soft beautiful hands is an
important goal for many of us. To IBN
member Barbara Chappuis of Bee
Naturals, it wasn’t just that her hands weren’t
soft, they were cracked, raw and nearly bleeding. As a nurse, Barbara’s hands were constantly exposed to harmful substances in the hospital
work environment.
“My hands were nearly bleeding from the constant washing I did on the job,” says Barbara, "And nothing commercially available helped.” Barbara says after she read ingredient lists on the lotions she was using on her hands, she realized they were more harmful to her hands than the harsh detergent she used to wash her hands in at the hospital. “Soap making was my hobby at the time,” she says, "So I took the knowledge I learned from soap making and created a solid lotion bar, the Bee Naturals Skin Creme Bar, in 1992.” To this day, Barbara credits herself with creating the first solid lotion bar ever made.
The Skin Creme Bar healed Barbara's hands and she began giving it to friends and family and you know what happened next. It wasn't long before such a demand was created that Barbara had no choice but to start a company. She says that the name "Bee Naturals' was a natural choice since she was using bee and natural products in the items she was developing.
Today, Barbara has expanded to over 20 different products and she is constantly developing new Bee Natural items on weekends or late at night, after putting in her time as a full-time nurse manager at a pain management company. “I have a full time job and two businesses,” says Barbara who in addition to manufacturing products also owns a retail store. “Geri Ashley is the manager of Bee Naturals store and takes care of the day to day running of the business. Geri also assists me in formulating the new products.”
From her first skin creme bar to her newest lines of Queen Bee, an array of cleansers for all types of skin, to the Bebe Bee line items for babies, Barbara uses only the finest of high quality ingredients. She says, ”There are no superfluous ingredients -- everything in Bee Naturals products has a specific therapeutic purpose. They protect and heal skin, period.” Her products contain unbleached beeswax which contains honey, a natural moisturizer, and trace minerals. According to Barbara, the beeswax in the products bonds with surface skin cells to create a protective barrier without clogging pores. Her skin creme bar comes in luscious scents like Honeysuckle, Rosemary, Lavender and Vanilla. MMMM! Sounds lovely! The Baby Balm contains beeswax, several oils and shea butter and can rid baby of chapped skin and diaper rash.
For the Queen Bee in all of us, Barbara’s queen bee facial polish, facial nectar and honey skin cleanser sound like just the trick. Honey (the kind you eat on toast) is a commodity in my house since my husband has been known to drive miles to get a certain kind of honey. As much as he loves honey, I bet he would enjoy using the honey skin cleanser.
Barbara says she uses unbleached beeswax in her products. “It still has some honey, propolis and other trace minerals that are good for the skin. Beeswax in itself does not moisturize, but it is an excellent protecting agent," Barbara explains." Barbara says that her best sellers are Skin Creme, BeBe Bee Baby Balm and lip balm,” says Barbara, who has her own factory and retail store that Geri manages.
She retails her products on her website. She also sells through catalogs, her retail store in Clarksville, Missouri, and wholesale to the trade. She says the most enjoyable part of her business is getting to know her customers and reading the e-mails and letters from them expressing how much they love Bee Naturals. Barbara’s looking forward to the day, hopefully soon, when she can quit her nursing job and work full- time at Bee Naturals. In the meantime she keeps busy preparing new product lines to launch.Barbara appreciates being part of IBN all the good business advice and information she gets from dM. Her own advice to others in the business is to: have a clear business plan and follow it! “Have good help, good business advisors, and most of all, have confidence in yourself!” says Barbara. You can be Queen Bee for a Day with your own Bee Naturals goodies at the Bee Naturals website.
5. Countdown to IBN Live!
You
asked for it! You got it! Mark your calendars for IBN Live!
IBN Live! covers the hot handmade beauty topics of the day! We'll discuss product liability insurance issues, any new legislative or legal issues affecting member businesses, upcoming trade shows, your ideas for new member benefits and opportunities, news about your company that you'd like posted at IBN's newsletter, media opportunities, etc. -- plus I'll answer your questions about how you can take advantage of IBN member benefits that you might not know about or just haven't had a chance to explore.
IBN Live!
Date: Friday, April 28, 2006
Time: 2:00pm EST to 3:00pm EST
Conference details are posted
for members at
this link.
Talk to you Friday!
Best & Success!!
Donna Maria
Editor, The Handmade Beauty Connection
The Indie Beauty Network | www.handmadebeauty.com
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