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Donna Maria's
Handmade Beauty Connection
December 23, 2002
I wish you peace this season and all
year long.
A Publication of The Handmade Toiletries
Network
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 3, Issue 52
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newsletter, click here.
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1. HBN Update: Welcome New
& Renewing HBN Members!!
2. You're Invited to Donna Maria's Handmade
Beauty Brunch!
3. Handmade Beauty Trivia Question: win a bar of
Cocoa Butter soap made by HBN member SunFeather Natural Soap Co!!
4. dM's Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Shea
Butter Body Bar
5. HBN Member
Success Spotlight: Spotlight on
Anne Kremer of Bottles and Jars.net
6. Sweet Holiday Indulgences-Special Recipes For The
Season: Terri's No-Bake Orange Balls
1. HBN Update: Welcome
New & Renewing HBN Members!
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Welcome New
& Renewing HBN Members!
Fire and Ice Botanicals |
Sandra Nash | Missouri
* renewing member
Carrot Tree Soaps and
Essentials | Christine Richter | Virginia
* renewing member;
gentle, handcrafted herbal soap, salves, bath oils, and milk baths made with
vegetable oils, herbs, essential oils, and fine fragrance oils. All soaps made also with carrot
oil!
Personal Alchemy |
Bonnie Waters | California
* Natural spa products for total well
being. Awake, Lull-a-bye, Remember, Mystica
Vital Nature | Jade Shutes
& Mariah Kornberg | Washington
* bulk organic oils, essential oils, raw material for
aromatherapists, soap makers healthcare professionals; customized natural salves and skincare products
Blue Ridge Gypsy Studio |
Julie W. Hilton | Washington
* handmade soaps and toiletries and beautiful decorative
home accents made by Julie Hilton, with over 20 years of pharmaceutical compounding experience.
Learn more about our members and their exciting activities by visiting their Web sites through HBN's Online
Member Directory!!
2. You're Invited To Donna Maria's Handmade
Beauty Brunch With My Special Guest Marla Russo!!!
 Meet
and hear from Marla Russo, one of New York's top cosmetics
public relations experts! Marla is a cosmetics industry media expert with
several years of experience creating the "buzz" for clients like
Renee Rouleau, Aroma Floria, Salon Selectives and HBN's own Kathleen Lewis
Beauty Worldwide, who has been featured in top fashion magazines like Elle,
Self, Lucky and O (Oprah Magazine)!
Donna
Maria's Handmade Beauty Brunch is the perfect way to start off the New
Year with your colleagues and learn from an expert while also having
fun networking at Washington, DC's
premier brunch location, Bambulé Restaurant!!
* bring your handmade beauty products for show and tell!
* learn valuable business and PR tips for the new year!
* develop new business relationships | strengthen existing ones
* network! network! network!
Date: Sunday, January 12, 2003 (new date!)
Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm
Where: Bambulé Restaurant, Chevy Chase
Pavilion,
Washington, DC
Includes: all you care to enjoy of dozens of brunch
menu items including cereals, breads, assorted egg dishes, fruit salad, veggies,
waffles and pancakes, fish, lamb, pasta, salmon, tiramisu, choice of a
non-alcoholic beverage and more!
Price: $50; register by December 27 | HBN Members
Enjoy 10% discount!! If
you're serious about growing your business in 2003, you won't want to miss
this event!!
For Directions, Information & To Register, click
here to download a PDF version of the details. If
Adobe Acrobat is not installed on your computer, click
here to download it for free.
3. Handmade Beauty Trivia Question: Last
week's winner was Callie Lee of
Cincinnati, OH. Callie won
one of my Christmas Cocoa Lotion Bars
made with real cocoa absolute, shea butter and virgin coconut oil ... delish!!
 Last
Week's Question:
I am in plastic and vinyl toys to make them for flexible. I make perfume last
longer. I help keep nail polish from chipping. I am a chemical and my use in all
kinds of consumer products is very controversial since I am linked to birth
defects in animal studies. What am I?
Last Week's Answer: phthalates
This Week's Question: In
the distillation of essential oils, I am the cooling device for removing
sufficient heat from the distillation vapor to enable it to change to liquid
state -- the essential oil and hydrosol. What am I?
To win this week, be the first person to provide
the answer to this week's question and win a bar of Cocoa Butter soap made
by HBN member SunFeather Natural Soap Co!!
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 will be notified by email and their name posted at HBN's home page.
4. dM's Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Shea
Butter
Body Bar
Shea
Butter Body Bars are
easy last minute gifts made with rich shea butter, virgin coconut oil and
beeswax. Of course you can skip the essential oils I used (patchouli, blood
orange, rose and ylang ylang), use your own blend or keep them unscented. Either
way, they make wonderful stocking stuffers or gifts for any occasion.
When you visit MakeYourCosmetics.com,
it's easy to buy the ingredients you need to make your goodies by clicking
on our Partner links:
Essential
Wholesale: natural unscented cosmetic bases, pure
essential oils, absolutes, carrier oils such as avocado, virgin coconut,
sweet almond, jojoba, shea butter and specialty packaging supplies!
Bramble
Berry, Inc.: over 80 different, fully
tested fragrance oils (including the exclusive "Relaxing" and
"Energy" blends), over 250 soap molds, essential oils and
unscented bases.
SunRose
Aromatics: pure essential oils (many organic), carrier oils and
other aromatherapy products, each carefully selected for quality. Check out
their 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!
Lynden
House International, Canadian supplier with 10% off fragrance oils and
glycerin blocks and 25% off Christmas candle scents until January 7, 2003. For
your discount, use this Discount Code at the prompt: HBN001
5. HBN Member Success Spotlight: Bottles and
Jars.net
This
week's HBN Member Success Spotlight shines on HBN member Bottles and
Jars.net, a New York-based supplier of ... well ... bottles and jars! In
just a few short years, Bottles and Jars.net has grown from a small
home-based company supplying just a few choice packaging options to a
fast-paced operation supplying over 75 different types of bottles and jars.
Click here to
check out Bottles and Jars.net's Success Spotlight and get some
encouragement and inspiration from the owner, Anne Kremer.
Member Success Spotlights are one of the many benefits of HBN membership. To
learn more about Scott and all of the other HBN members profiled in HBN's
Success Spotlights, click here.
6.
Sweet
Holiday Indulgences-Special Recipes For The Season: Terri's No-Bake Orange Balls
You
may recall that this month, I am departing from product reviews to provide a
different kind of treat: tasty sweets for your holiday table!! If you missed the
first recipe for Chewy Orange Ginger Cookies, you can read it here.
if you missed the recipe for Rosalee's Zucchini Bread, you can read it here.
This week, reader Terri B. in South Carolina offers her recipe for Terri's
Orange Balls. Terri makes her Orange Balls each year and gives them as gifts to
neighbors. Her 3 sons help. Says Terri, "having quick, no-bake recipes like
this helps me make the holidays more special for my neighbors and gives my boys
a chance to give a gift that we make together as a family. It's fun. It's fast.
And while the recipe is simple, the result is a delicious treat that makes it
seem like you slaved in the kitchen for hours."
Terri's No-Bake Orange Balls
1 6-ounce can frozen orange juice, thawed
1 teaspoon orange zest
1 17-ounce box vanilla wafers
1 stick butter, salted
1 box powdered sugar
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
1 large bag shredded coconut
Step 1. Process the vanilla wafers in a food processor until they are small
pieces. Do not powder them. Instead, they should be about the texture
store-bought bread crumbs.
Step 2. Using a spatula, mix together all the other ingredients except
coconut until they are well incorporated. Add the crushed wafers to this mixture
and stir to blend in.
Step 3. Using your hands, form the mixture into 50-60 small balls. Roll the
balls in the shredded coconut. The balls will stick together unless they are
covered in coconut so be sure not to omit this step.
These treats are easy enough to make in the morning and have ready to give as
gifts for neighbors in the afternoon on Christmas eve!
If you have a
holiday recipe you'd like to share with other readers, send it to
me and if there's room, I'll add it! By the way, you can check out last
year's recipes too
at
this link. (Scroll to the bottom of the issue for the recipe links.)
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Donna Maria, Editor-In-Chief, DonnaMaria@HandmadeBeauty.com
The Handmade Beauty Connection
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