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Donna Maria's Handmade Beauty Connection
December 13,
2004
A Publication of The Handmade Beauty Network
ISSN 1530-9630 | Vol. 5, Issue 52
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1. HBN Update: Welcome New
& Renewing HBN
Members!
2. Handmade
Beauty Recipe Of The Week:
Home For The Holiday Botanical Scents
3.
Handmade Beauty University:
Building Your Business Through Referrals & Effective Networking (Schmooze Or Lose)
4. Beauty & The Business Trivia
Question: win some delicious handmade soap!
5. The Handmade Beauty
Cookbook:
Join the Handmade Beauty Revolution!
6. Handmade Beauty Product Review: Cold Sore Lip Balm Kit
7. Take Our Reader Survey!
1. HBN
Update: Welcome New &
Renewing HBN Members!
Splendind Blends | Bill
Bates | New Hampshire
* renewing member; natural skin care
products, including our best-selling Shea Butter Moisturizer in six
fragrances
Aunt Roma's Handmade Gifts
| Roma Christensen | Iowa
* renewing member; raw materials like emulsifying wax,
stearic acid, beeswax, cocoa butter, carrier oils, salts, fragrances,
flavors, etc.
Tranquility Farm, LLC |
Margie Knowles | Missouri
* gift basket company featuring whipped body
butter, triple butter balm and sugar scrubs
Earthlight Organics |
Judee Martin | California
Good Ground Botanicals |
Christine Laureano | New York
* handmade lotions, creams and
therapeutic blends using all-natural components and high quality essential
oils
Sunburst Ridge | Karen
Williams | Montana
* soaps handmade in the Rocky Mountains below Lolo Peak, Montana
Birch Hill Happenings |
Alan Keay | Minnesota
* 100% Pure Therapeutic essential oil for use in aromatherapy
S&D Aroma | John Bebner
| United Kingdom
* 35 years of providing natural and organic ingredients sourced from around
the world
Learn more about
these and other members and
their exciting activities by visiting their Web sites through
HBN's Online
Member Directory, 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: Home For The Holiday Botanical Scents
 Home
For The Holiday Botanical Scents is a delicious aromatherapy synergy to help keep
your home smelling clean and festive all season long. It's my choice for
burning this season!
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, LLC:
pure essential oils (many organic & wild crafted), carrier oils, solvent
free shea
butter rare & exotic perfume materials (visit the Perfumers
Emporium), supplies, accessories and more. GC/MS tested to ensure
quality.
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. The Handmade Beauty
University: Building Your Business Through
Referrals & Effective Networking (Schmooze Or Lose)
 "My gratitude abounds as I learn more and more about this exciting
industry. I really think I am getting my money's worth and more from HBU and HBN membership!" Denise Moore, Nostalgic Purity, Texas
"I just
love the way dM has such compassion for the newcomer and will suggest steps
to take if you're not in a financial position to do everything at once. I am
learning so much about the details that needed my attention but I wasn't
sure where to start. I am having so much fun working on my business now, and
have gained confidence in its success thanks to HBU!" Patricia Godin,
Tricia's Garden, Massachusetts
Our next class is: Building Your Business Through Referrals & Effective Networking (Schmooze Or Lose);
Thursday, December 16 (60 minutes)
In this class, you'll
learn how networking properly can make your business a success. This is by
far one of the most exciting and fun filled ways to grow your business
without spending a dime! We'll discuss
why "schmooze or lose" is more than a catchy phrase, how to
turn "small talk" into "big bucks, how every moment shared
with another person is a chance to generate sales and so much more. To register
for this fact-filled class, click here!
4. Beauty & The Business Trivia
Question: Last week's
winner was Rachel Lane of HBN member Barcelona Bath & Body. Rachel won a
bar of delicious handmade soap!
Last
Week's Question: In
1999, the FDA approved a drug to treat uncontrolled blinking and crossed
eyes. Three years later, it approved the same concoction to help decrease
the appearance of wrinkles and lines between the eye brows. What is the
trade name of the product?
Last Week's Answer:
Botox Cosmetic
This Week's Question: In the movie “Miracle on 34th
Street” what does Susan teach Kris to do?
Be the first to answer and win a bar of soap. 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!
5.
The Handmade Beauty Cookbook:
Give A Gift That Really Cooks!!
They're
Here!
"Delicious"
... "Scrumptious" ... "ideal reference guide"
Enjoy recipes like Citrus Spa Salt Glow by DK
Mind & Body, Eczema & Dry Patch Balm by Essential Wholesale,
Cocoa-Castile Soap The Scent Shack and Island Blossom Cream by Fallen Muse
WebWorks and so many more!
To meet members selling the cookbook, and buy the
book from them, click here!
6.
Handmade Beauty Product Review: Cold
Sore Lip Balm Kit by
HBN member Essential Wholesale
 Cold
Sore Lip Balm Kit
$39.00 | Kit for 100 lip balms
If you've participated in the handmade beauty industry in even the
smallest way, you surely know of Essential Wholesale, a supplier of all
kinds of ingredients and supplies to make your own beauty products. Well,
they also have do-it-yourself kits to help you make the most of last
minute holiday gift giving. The Cold
Sore Lip Balm Kit is as easy to use by the most seasoned
handmade beauty enthusiast as it is for any neophyte. Make 100 lip balms
with the kit -- each one costs only less than .50¢ -- and that's
including shipping and printing the labels yourself on your own computer!
The Cold
Sore Lip Balm Kit comes with a natural, gentle cold sore
essential oil blend plus a base that you melt down as you need, add the
essential oil to and pour into the tubes. How easy is that??! If you've
waited until the last minute to have a handmade gift for friends, family
members -- even customers -- this kit is for you.
The base is chock full of goodies to help smooth, soothe and protect
your lips. Shea butter, cocoa butter, avocado butter, rosehip, Vitamin E,
neem oil and a lot more! Ahhhh! Just melt it down using a double boiler or
microwave (the former is the better alternative to preserve healing
qualities in the oils and herbs), add the essential oils (or add your own
blends or keep some unscented for those who prefer Totale Naturale
and you're done! And if you don't need all of it at once, just scoop out
and melt down what you need, and save the rest for 2005 gifts! (Valentines
Day is just around the corner!)
You can get the Cold Sore Lip Balm Kit plus lots of other goodies at Essential
Wholesale. Essential Wholesale is also a sponsor and authorized seller
of our Handmade
Beauty Cookbook. Supplies are limited so be sure to order soon before
they run out!
7. Take Our Reader Survey!
 You, dear reader, are important and what you think matters!
Please take a minute to complete our reader survey so we can find out more about your likes and dislikes so that we can provide
you with the best publication possible. The first 50 of you to submit
entries will be automatically entered to win $100.00 in Handmade Beauty
Bucks! Take our reader survey here.
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Donna Maria, Publisher & Editor-In-Chief, DonnaMaria@HandmadeBeauty.com
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