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Donna Maria's Handmade Beauty Connection
December 8, 2003

A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 4, Issue 50
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1. HBN Update: Welcome Renewing HBN Members!
2. Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Fizzy Bath Salts
3. Handmade Beauty Trivia Question: win some "Kitchen Herb" type fragrance oil
4. Handmade Beauty Product Review: soaps By HBN Member Cedar Lane Farms

Welcome Renewing Member!

L&M Soapworks | Mary Jane Bochnig | Michigan
* renewing member;  natural handmade products for your bath and body needs

The Soap Fairy, Inc. | Scott Blackson | Delaware
* renewing member;  vegetarian, handcrafted soaps, lotions, bath salts, bath balls, and balms

Soapworks and More, LLC | Jessica Quaintance | California
* renewing member;  soothing, smoothing and environmentally safe skin care products

Daisy Blue Naturals | Jena Thompson | Minnesota
* renewing member

Personal Alchemy | Bonnie Waters | California
* renewing member;  natural spa products for total well being

Herbs of Grace | Vanessa Nixon Klein | Washington
* renewing member;  soaps, powders, lotions, massage oils, bath oils, wrinkle cream, baby and pregnancy care oils and butters and more

Earth Mama Angel Baby | Melinda Olson | Oregon
* renewing member;  natural and organic pregnancy, labor, postpartum, breastfeeding and baby care products

Just Lovely | Samantha Holton | Pennsylvania
* handmade bath bombs and other delights

Saltworks, Inc. | Naomi Navotny | Washington
* premium grade salts to the wholesale, retail, and consumer markets throughout North America

Goatboy Soaps | Lisa Agee | Connecticut
* handmade soaps made from whole goat's milk, shea butter and vegetable oils

j.blossom | Jamila White | Maryland

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 alphabetical listings.

Fizzy Bath Salts explode with effervescence and color when you sprinkle them into your bath water! This recipe was submitted by HBN member and MYC.com Selected Supplier From Nature With Love.

When you visit MakeYourCosmetics.com, it's easy to buy the ingredients you need by clicking on any of our Selected Supplier links:

Essential Wholesale: pure essential oils, over 200 cosmetic bases, hundreds of carrier/fixed oils such as meadow foam, cranberry, jojoba and shea butter plus a new Short Run Private Labeling Program!

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!

While time does not permit me to respond personally to all entrants, the winner's name will announced in the next newsletter!

Martha Lupton of Cedar Lane Farms raises goats for several things, but lucky for us, one of them is to make her wonderful goat milk soaps in tons of different scents! I have tried several and you should too!

Cedar Lane Farms' soaps contain over 33% pasteurized goat's milk from ADGA Registered Nubian Goats that are range fed and raised on Martha's Virginia Beach farm. ... And there are tons of scents to choose from. My favorite bar is Ben's Butter Bar, made with buttermilk, shea butter, cocoa butter, mango butter and sweet cream butter! The not-so-heavy scent is peru balsam and vanilla fragrance oil. Ooooh! Another favorite is "Exotic," a blend of rosewood essential oil and sandalwood fragrance, this bar smells rich and heady and also contains camelia oil and swirls of purple and black. This bar is not for the faint of heart or for anyone who is easily overpowered by scent.

Martha says that the capryllic oil found only in goat's milk soap is known to help moisturize the skin. If you love scented soaps and lots of rich, buttery, skin loving ingredients, you can't go wrong with these soaps. Other scents available (and in my bath waiting for me to try!!) include Mer's Memory (floral aroma with swirls of orange and dark blue), Jennie's Bubbles & Berries (berry aroma with pink strawberry seeds), Milk With Silk (a green bar made with fragrance oils of mimosa, jasmine, neroli and frankincense and enriched with rice bran and sesame seed oils. There's even a bar with triple filtered water from Virginia Beach where Cedar Lane Farms makes its home -- that's the Sand 'N Sea bar.

There's no boredom here! It seems like if you can touch it, Martha can find a way to put it in a bar of her soap. Each bar is about 3.5 ounces and hand beveled making it a lovely gift! So if you're hungry for some of these inventive and skin smoothing soaps, email Martha at cedarlanefarms@juno.com to request a brochure. Several holiday scented soaps are available.