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Donna Maria's Handmade Beauty Connection
June 16, 2003

A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 4, Issue 24
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Create The Life You Love™ at dM's 2003 Summer Small & Home-Based Business Success Series, Washington, DC

Three high energy mid-week networking luncheons to help your business reach its maximum potential! Choose one or two, or come to all 3 and enjoy a discount!

1. Branding Your Business: How To Maximize A Key Competitive Advantage, June 25. Speaker, dM.

2. Using An Email Newsletter To Promote, Market & Grow Your Business, July 16. Speaker, dM.

3. How To Get Inexpensive Media Attention For Your Business, August 6, Guest Speaker, Katherine Hutt, Media Relations Expert

Spaces are limited so sign up early to reserve your spot! To register online, click here.

1. HBN Update: Welcome New & Renewing HBN Members!
2. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Lavender Rosemary Hot Oil Treatment
3. Handmade Beauty Trivia Question: win a Beauty Bar Boutique Tub Tart!!
4. Create The Life You Love™: The Five Business Personality Types, Part II
5. Handmade Beauty Product Review by Donna Maria: Manicure Scrub and Soy Butter Bar

Earth Dance Soaps | Libby Claridge | California
renewing member; handmade soaps created using the finest ingredients; pure essential oils, pure vegetable oils, organic herbs for color and texture and exotic butters

RainShadow Labs | Casey Carole Kellar | Oregon
renewing member; "finest selection of craft molds in the galaxy" with a variety of different shapes to choose from.

The Herbarie at StoneyHill Farm | Angie Turner | South Carolina
renewing member; botanical extracts and proteins, dried botanicals, emulsifiers and thickeners, essential oils, oils, butters, surfactants, preservatives, and other ingredients to make your own cosmetics

Scents By Pat | Pat Roberts | Texas
* crafting soaps and lotions with vegetable oils, exotic butters, herbs and other ingredients to pamper our customers with a luxurious feel and scent

Sugar Coat It | Laura Confoy | North Carolina
bath and boy products

Potomac Soap Co. | Linda Tabach | Maryland
* manufacturer of high quality soap and bodycare products

Placebo X, LLC | Claudia Mayer | New York

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.

Lavender Rosemary Hot Oil Treatment is a new recipe designed to give you major hair help, especially if your tresses are dry. The essential oil combination is a favorite of aromatherapists for hair conditioning and smells fantastic too!

When you visit MakeYourCosmetics.com, it's easy to buy the ingredients you need from our Selected Suppliers:

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!

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.

In my work with small business owners over the past several years, I have encountered at least 6 definitive "business personality types." This series of articles explores them and offers tips for how adjustments can be made if you find yourself in a category that is not serving you well. If you missed last week's article, you missed an overview of Dan The Dreamer and Playful Polly -- you'll want to check them out here. As you read about them, see if you can categorize yourself or someone you know into one of the types. (Any resemblance to real people is entirely coincidental.)

This week, we'll meet Wanda One-Way and Carlton Cruiser (a/k/a William Wing-It), two types with some definite strengths, but a little room for improvement.

Wanda One-Way. Wanda is what you might call a stubborn business owner. Once she figures out a way to accomplish a goal, she sticks with it. It's Wanda's way or the highway! Her determination and single-mindedness serve her well in several respects. However, if you approach Wanda with a new and more efficient way to manage something, her usual response is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Wanda does not like change. She has a tendency to view her business in a tunnel - not looking to the left or to the right - and hardly ever seeking out new opportunities for fear they will require her to change her usual way of doing things.

Carlton Cruiser (a/k/a William Wing-It). Of all the business personality types, Carton and William are the most fun to be around. They are the life of the party, never rushed or pressed and seem to live stress free existences. Rather than concentrate on preparing a business plan to chart their course, they'd rather "go with the flow," and see where it leads them. If that's straight into a raging river, that's OK with Carlton and William -- they'll cross that river when they come to it. Better to have fun while they can and not worry so much after all! The problem is that without a plan, there is usually neither a bridge nor a boat to use to cross the raging rivers that always overflow in business. And since Carlton and William have no plan for how to build a bridge or a boat, they simply sit back at the river's edge and enjoy a brew ski. It was fun after all and hey, not everyone is cut out to own their own business. Then they are off to see if they can get their old jobs back!

Do you see anyone you know here? Maybe -- maybe not. Stay tuned for next week's final installment when we'll meet Unimaginative Ursula (a/ka/ Cora Copycat), and then Solid Sally who trumps them all when it comes to setting and accomplishing goals for her small business, and we'll discover some ways that everyone else can make the changes that will make all the difference in their lives! 

This week, I'm pleased to tell you about two new yummies by HBN member Beauty Bar Boutique.

Sun-Kissed Sage Spa Manicure Scrub
8 ounces | price unavailable at press time

Sun-Kissed Sage Spa Manicure Scrub is the most versatile, easy to use, attractively colored and scented scrub I have used in a long time. Made with goodies like jojoba spheres, raw sugar, aloe and sweet almond oil, the product is enhanced with a pretty golden color and a mild lather to cleanse and exfoliate at the same time, And the best part is that it works! Now that summer is here, a manicure scrub is great, but I also like to give myself a foot scrub when I can and this is a fabulous product for both. Slather your hands, feet -- even elbows and other rough spots -- with this treat and you'll be pleasantly surprised at how soft and supple it leaves your skin feeling. Sun-Kissed Sage Spa Manicure Scrub smells like a combination of just picked herbs and flowers with a slightly grassy note. Use it at night and your feet will feel blissfully smooth in the morning. Even better if after scrubbing, you put a coat of cream on your feet to make the pampering last as long as possible!

Soy Butter Bar
1 ounce | price unavailable at press time

Yum! The fun never ends with this line! There are tons of "lotion bars' on the market today and so it's hard to find one that really stands out with a supple feeling that does not drag across the skin. Soy Butter Bar glides smoothly across any area of skin, even a dry patch near my mouth. The balance of soy wax, mango butter and cocoa butter is perfect -- not too hard and not too buttery soft -- just right! If I could change one thing about this product, it would be to have a larger container of it, but now that I think of it, even an ounce is a good amount and will probably last me a few months, especially during the summer time. I can't quite place what scent this is, but Beauty Bar Boutique calls it "FRESH." It smells like a combination of fresh flowers and honey with maybe a touch of grassiness. If you're on the hunt for a wonderful product to smooth and soothe your skin, that is also compact and easy to carry and use, try Soy Butter Bar and you may be a convert too!

Sun-Kissed Sage Spa Manicure Scrub and Soy Butter Bar are available at the Beauty Bar Boutique.