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Donna Maria's Handmade Beauty Connection
May
3, 2004
A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 5, Issue 18
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Carol's Daughter with $100 in cash and the boldness to believe she could turn her cosmetics making hobby into a thriving enterprise. At my Beauty Brunch, Lisa will share
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1. HBN Update :
Welcome New
& Renewing HBN Members!
2.
Handmade Beauty Recipe Of The Week: Lisa's Rose Milk
Bath
3. Beauty & The Business Trivia
Question: win an autographed copy of Lisa Price's new book,
"Success Never Smelled So Sweet"!!
4. The Lifestyle
CEO™: Put Up Or Shut Up!
1. HBN
Update: Welcome New &
Renewing HBN Members!
All About You
Spa, Inc. | Leigh Little | Illinois
* renewing member; our clients enjoy products combining essential
oil synergies with other natural ingredients to create total wellness and
beauty Samara Botane
| Marcia Elston | Washington
* renewing member; are importers of organic and wild crafted
essential oils, and manufacturers of innovative natural skin and body care
products Naples
Creek Soaps & Sundries | Kathleen Schwingle | New York
* renewing member; soaps made from vegetable oils, exotic butters,
creamy milk, botanicals, essential oils and fine fragrance oils Merriweather's,
Inc. | Shari Manfredi | New York
* renewing member; fresh handmade hand cut soaps and creams and
other skin care products made in small batches Maine
IntelliHemp | Stephanie Pruzansky | Maine
* renewing member; therapeutic handmade lip balm made with hemp oil,
silky jojoba oil and calendula oil for skin repair Anchor
Bay Bathworks | Jenafer Simpson | California
* renewing member; high quality herbal & botanical soaps,
salves, bath & body oils, bath salts, bath teas and lotions sunny
brae body works | Juliet Bedell | California
* renewing member; products integrating the healing qualities of the natural world into your day through the use of herbs, essential oils and vegetable oils Carol's
Daughter | Lisa Price | New York
* the sweetest and most
luxurious body care products my kitchen and my heart have to offer Blue
Ridge Gift Baskets | Lena Veit | Virginia
* handmade salt & sugar
scrubs with all natural quality ingredients as well as melt & pour
soaps, bath salts, and Virginia products Renaissance
Woman Aromatherapy & Crafts | Yvonne Cleveland | New York
* body scrubs, shower gels,
massage oils, room sprays, bath salts and soy candles Designs
By ONE | Jay Ento | California
* products made from scratch
or almost scratch, from soaps, facial cleansers, bath salts -- to body
scrubs and body butter; discount for newsletter subscribers. Global
shipping. Canadian currency shown at site Kapsandoy, LLC |
Sylvia Kapsandoy | Utah
* comprehensive collection of all natural beauty and healthcare products that promote a sense of well
being Craft
Essentials | Leslie Davies | Canada
* premium ingredients and supplies for the soap and body care
enthusiast
HBN Members On The Move! Margaret
LaPierre of HBN member Maison de
Marjan Herbals will speak at the
Virginia Herb Association's 18th Annual Conference on the topic of natural
skin care. In addition to her skin care practice, Margaret is also a very
active HBN member and the membership secretary AND newsletter editor of the
organization. The conference will be held July 16-18, 2004. For further information contact Victoria Butler, (434) 292-4082 or visit
their website.
Longtime HBN
member Leslie Plant of Leslie's
Garden is featured is a recent edition of the Carroll County Times!
Leslie is a Seed Member of HBN and has been active in the organization since
its inception. I have reviewed her soaps in previous issues (most notably,
her fabulous Lemongrass Bar, my husband's favorite!) and have enjoyed her
soapmaking class. You should take it! You can enjoy the article here.
Congrats Leslie!!
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: Lisa's Rose Milk
Bath
 This
week, I am pleased to present an extra special recipe submitted by
Lisa Price, author of "Success Never Smelled So Sweet". Lisa will be
my guest at the next Beauty Brunch on June 13. (Read more details
here.) Lisa says that her Rose
Milk Bath soothes the emotions, uplifts the spirit and boosts
the user's self-confidence.
New
Features At MakeYourCosmetics.com!
Register to enjoy printable recipes, site user recipe ratings and your own personal recipe
book! HBN members are automatically registered using their usernames
and passwords! To register, just click here!!
When you visit MakeYourCosmetics.com,
it's easy to buy the ingredients you need by clicking on our Selected
Supplier links:
Essential
Wholesale: pure essential oils, over 200 cosmetic bases, hundreds
of carrier/fixed oils such as meadowfoam, 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!
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!
From
Nature With Love: over 1,600 ingredients and supplies, including
cosmetic ingredients, spa supplies, bath accessories and packaging
supplies!
3. Beauty & The Business Trivia
Question: the
winner of last week's contest was
Cheryl Tom of Quebec, Canada. Cheryl won a sample of a lovely
perfume blend I made with the oil that was the answer to last week's
question!
Last
Week's Question: I
don't have much time these days to sample new aromatics, but recently, I
sniffed an aroma I'll not soon forget. If you didn't know that you could
distill a beautiful aromatic oil from an alcoholic beverage, now you will!
This oil is known as Weinhefeoel and results from the distillation of
brandy. Very intense and rich, it blends well with other intense aromas like
ylang ylang, osmanthus and tobacco. Use often as a base note in men's
colognes, it's "deep fruit" aroma is unforgettable. What is it?
Last Week's Answer:
cognac oil (or wine lees oil)
This Week's Question: Carol's Daughter was named by its owner
Lisa Price in honor of Lisa's mother. To win this week, provide this
information about Lisa's mother: (1) her full name; (2) her date of birth;
and (3) the first names of her grandchildren (Lisa's children). Be the first to correctly answer this week's question and win an
autographed copy of Lisa's newly published book, "Success Never Smelled
So Sweet"!
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 be announced in the next newsletter!
4. The Lifestyle
CEO*™: Put Up Or
Shut Up!
 \Life.Style
CEO\n. A person who owns and manages a business, not
solely for financial gain, but also to enjoy the personal rewards of
entrepreneurship, independence, flexibility and fun.
There are few things more frustrating than hearing
someone repeatedly complain about some sad state of affairs in their life,
and then fail to do anything about it. This obviously only perpetuates
their sad state of affairs, and it can also make everyone around them
NUTS! Several years ago, I was acquainted with Suzanne (not her real
name), a wife and mother of a son. Suzanne was a really fun person to be
around, except when she was talking about her husband. When she was, she
complained and complained about his bad habits, difficult disposition and
mostly, the way he fathered their son. He never did anything right. It
always seemed to me that he was trying really hard, but could never get
past her criticism -- but that was just how it looked to me. The bottom
line is that Suzanne claimed to be miserable with him, yet she never took
a single step toward exorcising her demons and changing her situation for
the better. She never went to counseling (with
or without her husband), she never considered seeking a divorce and she
never even tried to have so much as a constructive conversation with him
about what upset her so thoroughly. She simply complained.
Of course no one knows whether counseling, divorce or
constructive conversations with her husband would have made Suzanne's life any
better? Maybe so. Maybe not. In fact, any one of those options
could have made her situation considerably worse depending on various circumstances.
But the upshot of Suzanne's life as a wife is that she talked and talked
about her demons, yet she never took a single step to exorcise them. In
sum, Suzanne never Put Up Or Shut Up.
In business, we can be the same way. We can spend
hours on end chatting with friends and fellow business owners about how
frustrated we are with the way business is going. We get tons of hits to
our website, but no one buys anything. We are trying to recruit people to
sell our products at home parties, but no one is participating. Family
friends buy products one time, but never return for repeat sales. Yet when
people give us suggestions and constructive criticism, we don't accept it.
Instead, we simply look for another person to listen to us
"vent," and complain. We feel better after the gripe session,
but our pity party ultimately gets us nowhere. We must Put Up Or Shut Up!
We must take the bull by
the horns, get to the heart of what is obstructing our progress,
exorcise our demons and TAKE ACTION to improve things!!
No one said business (or life!) was easy. But in
business (as in life), we have to take the good with the bad, the easy
with the difficult. And if the difficult is unbearable, we must resist the
temptation to simply complain about
it and stop there. Exorcise The Demons! Put Up Or Shut Up!
We must jar ourselves from that place of complacency and be about the
business of happening to life!! Take ACTION!!
If we take action, there are
no guarantees. But one thing is for sure. If we
do nothing, we'll get nothing. And no one wants to end up with that.
*The Lifestyle CEO column was formerly known as "Create The Life You
Love."
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