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Donna Maria's Handmade
Beauty Connection
November 10, 2003
A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 4, Issue 45
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This Week's Sponsor: Fairies Kiss
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1. HBN Update: Welcome
New & Renewing HBN Members & HBN Members On The Move!!
2. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Fruity
Hair Treatment
3. Handmade Beauty Trivia Question: win some neat
samples of fragrance oils
4. Handmade Beauty Product
Review:
Sweet Sugar Scrub
1. HBN Update: Welcome New
& Renewing HBN Members & HBN Members On the Move!
Welcome New & Renewing HBN Members!
Inhalation, Inc. | Marilyn
Vail | Washington
* renewing member; therapeutic
quality essential oils providing relief from colds, flu, headaches, stress,
etc.
Doctor Bill's Natural Skin
Care | Bill Bates | New Hampshire
* renewing member; Pumice
Foot Scrub, Aloe, Shea Butter Body Cream, Exfoliating Body Wash, etc.
Dee's Delights | Dee
Borchardt | Wisconsin
* beautifully crafted handmade soap,
customized to order with brilliant colors and fragrances and your logo lasered
onto each bar
Soapendipity, LLC, | Deborah
Parker | Virginia
* luxurious handmade soaps made with vegetable
oils and butters, herbs, and botanicals Essentially
For You | Marilyn Vail | Washington
* 100% natural custom skin care,
personalized scents and scented natural bubble baths and shower gels
HBN Members On The Move!
HBN member Sandra Thebaud of Botany's Desire is
excited to announce the opening of Botany's Desire Lifestyle Boutique in
Ridgecrest, California! Filled with lots of handmade, natural and organic
products, Sandra wants all HBN members to know that she's on the lookout for new
products to add to her repertoire and will give preference to HBN members!
Sandra is also pleased to report that HBN has played a role in her success. Says
Sandra, "I would not be doing this if not for the encouragement, contacts
and great entrepreneur information I have received in the last two years since I
joined HBN." Visit Sandra's new boutique at 619 W. Ridgecrest Blvd, Suite
A, in Ridgecrest and call (760) 375-9771 if you need directions!
HBN member Christine Tafuri of Body Wisdom West in southern California is
making a difference in the face of the devastating fires in southern California. From
now until November 25, Body Wisdom West will donate 30% of profits from
sales to help those who has lost their homes and other valuable possessions in
the fires.
HBN member Marla Wilson of Marla's
Apothecary invites you to her "Aromatherapy Blending For Perfume
Or Massage" class on Friday, November 14 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm PST
in Ojai, CA. For more information, contact Marla at marla@marlasapothecary.com.
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.
2. Handmade Beauty Recipe
Of The Week: Fruity Hair Treatment
 While you may not normally put fresh fruit in your
hair, here is one good reason to give it a try. Fruity
Hair Treatment It's fruity and fun and the reader who submitted it swears
it will leave your hair feeling newly conditioned and great!
When you visit MakeYourCosmetics.com,
it's easy to buy the ingredients you
need by clicking on our Selected
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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
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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
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From
Nature With Love: over 1,600 ingredients and supplies, including cosmetic
ingredients, spa supplies, bath accessories and packaging supplies!
3. Handmade Beauty
Trivia
Question: the winner of last week's
contest was Ro Peluso of Trenton, New Jersey. Ro won an
assortment of HBN member Aquarius Aromatherapy & Soap gifts, plus a gift
certificate!
Last Week's
Question: I am an herb with skin soothing properties. Some people
mix me up with a food item with which I share the same common name, but
except for the name, we are nothing alike. I am not native to North America,
yet I am here, and Native Americans have known me as the "white man's
footsteps" since they believed that my presence indicated that
"the white man" had been in the vicinity. When infused in an oil
base, I make a wonderfully soothing green skin oil. What am I?
Last Week's Answer: plantain (Plantago major)
This Week's Question: Ounce for ounce, I have more antioxidant
power than green tea. I have a sweet and soft flavor and some say I smell a
bit like flowers. I am primarily produced in the Fujian
province in China and another name for me is "silver needles."
Picked during the springtime, approximately 80,000 of my shoots are needed
to produce just one pound of me for human consumption. I have recently
started to appear in beauty products and, like
any other antioxidant containing naturally occurring plant, I am believed to
be good for the skin. Be
the first to correctly state what I am and win some fragrance oil
samples, including Green Tweed, Sandalwood Musk and Sweetgrass!
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 announced in the next newsletter!
4.
Handmade Beauty Product Review: Sweet Sugar Scrub by HBN Member
Sugar Coat It
Sweet Sugar Scrub
16 oz. | $20.00
 Sweet Sugar Scrub
is a deliciously sweet
combination that your skin will love. A generous 16 ounce jar will last quite a
long time and the combination of ingredients is a smooth mixture with just
enough granular sugar to exfoliate the skin without being rough. To soften the
sugar edges, Sugar Coat It has added a nice blend of butters and oils, including
shea butter, cocoa butter, Vitamin E and sweet almond oil. The combination
results in a product that is smooth and moisturizing without being greasy. It
feels "buttery," even "fluffy" on the skin, but without a
greasy feel going on or afterward. In sum, to me, it feels like a cream with
sugar in it. The tangy sweet aroma comes from a bunch of citrus essential oils
like grapefruit, orange and tangerine. Yummy!
Starting now, this is my
sugar scrub of choice and definitely makes one of my Top 10
goodies for my Gift Buying Guide this year. (By the way, stay tuned for the rest
of the Top 10 in the Gift Buying Guide later this month!!) A few
of my dearest handmade beauty buff friends will see this under the tree this
year!
You can get your own Sweet Sugar Scrub
and polish your skin to an incredibly sweet and smooth finish by contacting
Laura at info@sugarcoatit.com, or
through the Sugar Coat It website.
You won't be disappointed!
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