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Handmade
Beauty Connection
December 10, 2001
A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network
ISSN 1530-9630 |
Vol. 2, Issue 49
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1. HBN Update: Welcome New
Members & HBN Members On The Move!!
2. Try These Recipes At MakeYourCosmetics.com!!
3. Handmade Beauty Trivia Question: win a bar of
Marble Ribbon Soap, courtesy of HBN member Utopian Garden Soap Company!!
4. Create The Life You Love Tip: Priorities: The Building Blocks Of Business
5. Create The Life You
Love Audio Tapes Now Available
6. Handmade Beauty Product Reviews: Hana Aloha
& Sea Siren Salts by Blue Moon Herbals
1. HBN Update:
Welcome New Members & HBN Members On
The Move!!
Welcome New HBN Members!!
~ VictorianBeauty.com |
Jennifer B. Bowers | Ohio
* The
Seven Sutherland Sisters Advanced Formula Hair System
~ Tranquility Farm, LLC |
Margie A. Knowles | Missouri
* specializing in soaps, lotions, bath salts, sugar scrubs and lotion bars
HBN Members On The Move! ~
HBN Files Comments In Drug Enforcement Administration's "Hemp Oil" Proceeding Today,
HBN filed comments before the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on behalf of HBN
members opposing the DEA's new regulations which allow the DEA to regulate
personal care products containing hemp oil as
Controlled Substances Act (CSA), making them illegal. HBN's comments urged the DEA
to exempt all personal care products such as soaps and cosmetics from the new
regulations (which became effective in October) because they contain either no
tetrahydrocannabinols (THC) or such negligible amounts of THC that they should be of no legitimate
concern. For those interested in reading them, the full text of HBN's
comments will be made available online at a later date. Learn more about HBN 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. Try
These Recipes At Make Your
Cosmetics.com!!
Try these and other great recipes at Make
Your Cosmetics.com!!
Girlfriend Party Body Cream, with
shea butter and neroli wax for dry skin!
Banana Beauty Balm, with banana, oats
and cream to give winter stressed skin a soothing treat!
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Share your own creations with the world using our unique "Submit A
Recipe" feature!!
3. Handmade
Beauty Trivia
Question: The winner of last week's contest was Stephanie
Pinnell of Kansas City, Missouri. Stephanie won
a generous sample of sandalwood essential
oil, courtesy of HBN!!
 Last Week's
Question: Twenty years
ago, a woman with a little bit of money and a dream began making bath salts,
potpourri, herbal vinegars and other handmade treats in her kitchen. Her
first in-home sale was a huge success so her next step was to engage a
manufacturer's rep. After disappointment using someone to rep her products,
the woman took her wares to some stores herself, and emerged with $1,000
worth of orders. After another rep took her products to the New York Gift
Show and emerged with $30,000 worth of orders, the woman asked a friend for
some help, and together, they filled the orders themselves, one by one. Out
of these humble beginnings grew a now successful and growing company.
Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and employing over 100 people, the
company sells a wide variety of products including soaps, body washes,
specialized body treats, fragrance mists, foaming bath gel, creams, oils and
lotions.
Last Week's Answer: The Thymes, Ltd.
This Week's Question: This ingredient is an anti-oxidant naturally
produced by the human body to metabolize food and energy. It is typically
found in nutritional supplements and is said to work internally
with other nutrients to defend against excessive free radicals. It is often
called "a universal antioxidant," and is finding its way into skincare
products with claims that it helps prevent free radical damage (and thus
wrinkles) and softens and nourishes skin tissue.
To win this week, be the first to provide the name of the ingredient
described above and win a bar of Marble Ribbon Soap, courtesy of HBN member
Utopian Garden Soap Company!!
Please read the contest rules here
before submitting your entry.
While time does not permit me to respond personally to all entrants, the
winner will be notified by email and their name posted at HBN's home page.
4. Create The Life You
Love™ Tip: Priorities: The Building Blocks Of Business
As a small business owner, there is almost never any shortage of things
for you to do on a daily (even hourly!) basis to promote the growth of your
enterprise. Sometimes, there is so much to do that it seems impossible to
get it all done within an appropriate time frame. Because there is so much
to do, it is extremely important to recognize which things are priorities
and which ones are not. By determining the relative importance of each item,
you can prioritize those which must be tended to immediately while saving
the other items for completion "when time permits". But with so
many responsibilities, all of them at first blush appearing to be equally
important, how can you distinguish between the ones that can wait and the
ones that cannot? Here are a few tips to help you do this.
1. Distinguish Between The Merely Urgent And The Truly Important.
Many small business owners with either full time jobs and/or family
responsibilities are stressed to the max. It helps immensely to develop the
habit of distinguishing between those things that are merely urgent
and those that are truly important. A simple real life example:
when I was managing Maria Grace Bath Shop, I remember a
yucky, rainy day when I had several dozen pounds of soap to make to fill a
custom order with a delivery date of about 3 weeks. I was muttering
to myself about how I didn't feel like making soap that day when one of my
favorite customers walked in and wanted to chat over tea about some crisis
or other that she was going through at the time.
I brewed some tea, sat right down and chatted for hours trying to help her
through her crisis. Late into the evening (when my customer was probably home tending to her priorities), I
was making soap which should have been curing for hours by then ... all
because I did not recognize that while my shop customer's needs were urgent
in the moment, the need to complete the custom soap order was truly important,
and, while I certainly should not have ignored my shop customer's needs, I
should have prioritized things so that I could provide her with immediate
(yet quick) assistance and complete the soap order as well.
If I could live that day over again, I would have recognized that, not only did
I have to complete the soap order within a certain time frame,
but also, future business from that customer depended on my timely delivery
of quality soap. I then would have told my shop customer up front that I was
sorry to hear that she was going through a tough time, and that I would like
to hear more about it ... after I completed my soap order. Perhaps I would
have offered a hug or even a cup of tea "to go" if it seemed like
she needed either. I would have taken the few hours needed to make the soap,
and then called her back and provided whatever assistance I could on the
phone. Voila! Both goals accomplished, but in the order called for by their
relative importance!!
2. Set Specific Goals For Your Business. If you have no goals, it
doesn't matter how your prioritize your activities. After all, if you don't
know where you're going, it doesn't matter how you get there! If you have
not determined what's important to make your business a success, you can
just juggle your "to do" however it suits your fancy at any
particular time and deal with the consequences later. The better way to run
a business is to take the time to set specific goals, and prioritize those
goals. In this way, you can place each item on your "to do" list
under a specific goal. Those items at the top of the list are tended to
first. An item that does not fit under any particular goal can be placed in
a "miscellaneous" list, and you can take care of them when you
can.
Setting priorities is just as important to the success of business as it
is to the success of life. Organizing tasks, even last minute and urgent
ones, in light of their relative importance to your goals can will make your
life a whole lot more manageable and remove a lot of the frenzy from your
day. Try incorporating the 2 suggestions above into your daily routine and
see what a difference it makes!
5. Create The Life You
Love Audio Tapes Now Available
Designed to inspire, encourage and coach you to create the life you love!
Tapes Now Available:
1. Legal & Regulatory Challenges Facing The Handmade Toiletries
Industry Today: Applying Yesterday's Laws To Today's Marketplace.
Includes the latest on cosmetics, trademark and Internet law. Perfect for
online toiletries and aromatherapy businesses! 2 90-minute tapes. To order,
click here.
2. Planning NOT To Fail: How to Prepare A Business Plan That Positions
You For Success!! Handmade toiletries/aromatherapy centered business
planning tape with tips for making the most of your small business. Selected
by the College of DuPage for use in their continuing education aromatherapy
course!! 1 60-minute tape. To order, click here.
3. Audio Tapes Of Several HBN Beauty Calls™ are now available,
including Aubrey Hampton (natural preservatives & the FDA
inspection process), Melody Upham (transitioning from
manufacturer to supplier, general business tips) and Kim Baron (how
to design and maintain a winning Web site.) For details on
these and other tapes, click here.
6. Handmade Beauty
Product Review: Hana Aloha & Sea Siren Salts by Blue Moon Herbals
 Sea
Siren Salts
10 oz. | $10.99
You know how you get a package in the mail and
you are so excited because you know it is some really fantastic skincare
treat, and then, the experience gets even better when you cut the tape and can
smell the aromatic oils even before you get the box opened??!! Well, that's
what happened when I opened a box of goodies from Blue
Moon Herbals. I smelled delicious
things, and one of the most predominant scents was the neroli essential
oil found in the Sea Siren Salts. This romantic blend of dead sea salts
and botanicals is both beautiful and skin loving. The
botanicals are composed of calendula and rose petals which I think must
contribute to the lovely and very rich golden color of the salts. Also added
are absolute of jasmine sambac and essential oils of neroli, sandalwood and
rose oils. These exotic aromatics combine to create a scent that is alluring
and mysterious. Jojoba oil, glycerin and vitamin E are mixed in to pamper the
skin.
Hana Aloha
2 oz. | $14.99
This wonderfully fragrant and skin soothing
product is named for the Hawaiian words for "love work." Debbi at
Blue Moon Herbals told me that it can be used as either a perfume or a massage
oil (it's at the perfume page at their Web site). I loved the scent so much
that I used it as an all-over massage oil after a long, warm bath last week. I
perfumed by body wonderfully! Hana Aloha
contains virgin coconut cream, and is the
first product I have used with that ingredient. (Virgin coconut oil
is a different product.) It also contains apricot kernel oil and flower
essences. The pikake oil (extracted from the flower using the enfleurage
method), complements the natural scent of the virgin coconut oil to create a
soft and soothing blend reminiscent of what it must be like to relax on a
fragrant beach in Hawaii. Debbi tells me that Hana Aloha
contains an amblygonite gem, the "Stone of Meditation," which is
"cleansed" in white sage and seawater and charged during the moon
cycles. I'm not sure what that means but if it adds to the sheer enjoyment I
experienced while rubbing this product over my skin, I wouldn't use it without
it!
You can find Hana Aloha, Sea Siren Salts
and lots of other fragrant treats (with lovely pictures of each!) at Blue
Moon Herbals' Web site, which you can
find through HBN's Online
Member Directory.
Visit The Handmade Beauty Connection Archives.
Visit our suite of Web sites serving the handmade toiletries industry:
HandmadeBeauty.com: the
leading industry trade organization
MangoButter.com:
now with over 400 suppliers of raw materials and packaging, updated weekly!
MakeYourCosmetics.com:
ingredient encyclopedia & original cosmetics recipes
DonnaMaria.com:
sound advice for your small business, We2We Success Seminars
HandmadeSkinCare.com:
handmade skincare product heaven!
Have your ad seen by over 2,790 subscribers! Click here
to see why Essential Wholesale says that the returns from their newsletter ad "just keep on coming," and why
Anastasia's Ideas says "the ad I placed for my handmade soaps just 2 days
ago has generated 6 huge retail orders and 2 new wholesale inquiries from HBN
members with retail shops. Things are really good ..."
Donna Maria, Editor-In-Chief, DonnaMaria@HandmadeBeauty.com
Jenn Givler, Associate Editor, Jenn@HandmadeBeauty.com
The Handmade Beauty Connection
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