Showing posts with label body. Show all posts
Showing posts with label body. Show all posts

2.21.2013

Craft Cafe Artisan Chat - Sugared Euphoria

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Meet Sarah Henson from Sugared Euphoria

Please tell us about yourself: 
Hi! My name is Sarah, I'm a 26 year old Canadian mother to an adorable little boy who will be turning 3 in April. I love baking, crafting, art, rollercoasters and loud music. I come from an eclectic family of animal lovers! We have everything from cats and fish, to scorpions and even an albino hedgehog. There's never a dull moment in my life!

How long have you been in business?
I officially started offering my goodies for sale in February of 2012

Please describe your business:
I offer handcrafted glycerin soaps, jumbo bath bombs and fizzy bath salts in all sorts of fun designs and fragrances! Whether you just need something simple and relaxing to pamper yourself, or something more bright and upbeat to liven up your bath, my goal is to offer a diverse collection of gentle, skin-loving goodies suitable for the entire family!


Tell us what inspires you:
To be honest, everything inspires me! Whether I'm following current fashion and colour trends, thinking about holidays and weather forecasts or catching a whiff of perfume as someone passes me in a store, there's always a neverending supply of inspiration all around me. I'm especially inspired by other artisans! There's nothing that can get your gears turning more than being surrounded by such wonderfully talented and incredible people.

Please share with others, your best marketing techniques:
Host giveaways, offer discounts and promote wherever possible! Also, take the time to post and chat with your customers on a more personal level - from my own shopping experience, customers love knowing they are supporting artisans who are genuinely kind and caring!

What do you love most about your business?
 I love knowing that I can create whatever my heart desires, whenever inspiration hits. I love all the amazing people I've had the chance to meet, and the part of me that wants to squeal with joy every time I drop a package off at the post office and picture those goodies going from raw ingredients in my kitchen, to fully finished products ready to be enjoyed in a bathtub thousands of miles away!




Please tell us why have chosen Craft Café as a venue for your business?
 I chose Craft Café as the primary venue for my business because not only does it have surprisingly easy setup and is an amazingly affordable place to sell, but the customer service and sense of community is absolutely unrivaled! Not once have I felt left in the dark to compete or fend for myself, everyone involved is a joy to be around!

What advice can you give for crafters/artisans just starting out?
Don't ever be discouraged or scrap a project you truly love just because it doesn't sell or get tons of attention at first. Even if there are a million other artisans doing the same things you do, ultimately people will notice your products for the love, attention and passion you put into them. Follow your heart and continue to push your creativity!

Where do you see your business in 5 years?
Honestly, I prefer to fly by the seat of my pants! If you asked me 5 years ago what I would be doing now, I probably didn't have any idea then either. I just hope to push myself forward, build a bigger and better business network, offer a wider range of wonderful goodies and take on each day with as much positivity as possible. Oh, and I can bet 5 years from now my son will probably be a seasoned bath bomb making pro! ;)

Lastly, would you like to offer our readers a special or coupon code for your Craft Cafe shop?
Of course! Please feel free to come visit my shop and use code CHAT15 to save 15% off your entire order until 3.8.13.
Thank you for taking the time to chat with me! :)

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We would like to send out a big THANK YOU to Sarah for all her love and support.

Be sure to visit Sugared Euphoria soon ♥ ♥ Craft Cafe Shop / Facebook


11.06.2012

Craft Cafe Artisan Chat - Botanicals for Beauty


Craft Cafe Artisan Interview - Botanicals for Beauty

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Meet Laura Simmons From Botanicals for Beauty

♥ Please tell us about yourself:
Like many other of the newer artisans, I have problems with unemployment.  After 7 years of look and not finding any work with the exception of temporary agencies I decided to finally take the plunge and paid for a 3 level aromatherapy home study course.  This course had lots of information in it about nature's butters and oils plus herbs and included some sample recipes as well.  So that was when I started thinking about selling skin care products and essential oils perfumes, bath salts and bath oils on the web.

♥ How long have you been in business?
Since 2/27/2012

♥ Please describe your business:
My shop contains items most of which have essential oils added to them either for pleasure or skin care.  I started this business after taking an aromatherapy home course which discussed skin care issues a great deal and also talked about the advantages of various butters and oils.  The second part of the course talked more about blends and essential that are helpful for a specific mood.
♥ Tell us what inspires you:
What inspires me to keep going are the people who have told me that they have tried everything else they could find and nothing helped them with their dry skin until they tried my products.  Also I have had feedback from people who have said that they see noticeable results on the 3rd day of using my product.  Unfortunately if not used every day you will not see the same results.

♥ Please share with others, your best marketing techniques:
For now it is making friends with my fellow artisans.  I am also working on some research to learn how to be more effective using social networks.

♥ What do you love most about your business?
Actually it's hard to give just one thing that I love the most.  There are two things and they are that I give real value in my creations because everything I sell is concentrated,  nothing is watered down (except the apple cider vinegar toners due to acidity) and because of that my items not only give better results they also last for a longer period of time.  Plus the success stories of people who have been relieved of a skin care problem after trying so many other things.


♥ Please tell us why have chosen Craft Café as a venue for your business?
Because the price was so reasonable and I have heard that it is a great advantage if you are among the first to open up a shop in a new venue.

♥ What advice can you give for crafters/artisans just starting out?
The first thing is to find other artisans that enjoy networking and network with them.  I started a FB share and like group and so now all of us have our items shared by at least 5 other artisans on their social networking sites.  The group is new so it is still small, but I also don't want anyone to have to spend too much time doing the like and shares plus I don't want my members to be thought of as spammers.  If the group gets too big I will end dividing it into two groups.  So can you imagine, the reach we each have now?

♥ Where do you see your business in 5 years?
I hope that I will have 100 items by then and be so busy that I will need to hire some part time help.


♥ Lastly, would you like to offer our readers a special or coupon code for your Craft Cafe shop?
Yes, I am offering FREE SHIPPING with the purchase of 3 or more items from my Craft Cafe Shop, please see my shop message for more information.

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We would like to send out a big THANK YOU to Laura for all her love and support.

Be sure to visit Botanicals for Beauty soon ♥ ♥ Craft Cafe Shop / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest

10.01.2012

MountainOwlSoap - Craft Cafe



- Cappuccino Hazelnut Coffee Soap- 

This soap is for all you coffee lovers like me. It has a strong expresso scent mixed with steamed milk and hints of hazelnut. 
I have added ground Durango Coffee Co. Coffee for a great exfoliation.

This soap will definitely wake you up. 

Made with all natural moisturizing glycerin and shea butter soap.


Bar size:3"by2"by1"

Weight:5oz

9.21.2012

pegasussoaps - Craft Cafe



This listing is for Orange Peel Whipped Bath Butter Soap. This fragrance is a light and airy floral, clean and crisp. 

9.05.2012

AquaBlossom - Craft Cafe



***CAFE MOCHA LIP BUTTER***
A perfect way to wake up your lips! Cafe Mocha smells just like a freshly brewed cup of coffee, with just a hint of chocolate to balance it out. 

Our lip butter is vegan, gluten-free, and contains no harmful preservatives! It is handmade (not from a base!) in small batches to ensure freshness.

***BENEFICIAL INGREDIENTS***
The first ingredient in our lip balm is Shea butter. Shea is high in vitamin and mineral content, and is excellent for dry skin and chapped lips.

Kokum butter is considered to be up to 80% of stearic-oleic-stearic (SOS) triglycerides which are thought to prevent dry skin.

We use 5 different plant-based oils in our lip butter: sweet almond, apricot kernel, avocado, coconut, and soybean. These light oils absorb quickly into the skin to moisturize lips without feeling heavy or greasy.

8.29.2012

theSugarShack - Craft Cafe



5oz Oatmeal Milk&Honey Glycerine Soap with added Oatmeal for some scrub!

-The wonderful fresh aroma of hawthorne, with nuances of creamy French vanilla, soy milk and a base note of nutty almond.

Want to scrub away those dead skin cells and clean your body at the same time? Now you can! They are scented with OMH which is a true favourite over here.


glycerin, propylene glycol, sodium sterate, sls, coconut oil, sodium laurate, sodium myristate, TEA organic, sodium salt, purified water, titanium dioxide, fragrance, 5oz 

8.28.2012

DesertRoseBotanicals - Craft Cafe



This is the perfect way to try 5 different soaps from my shop, gift as a thank you to some one or use in the guest bathroom!

Each hand cut soap is approximately 1/4th of a regular bar of soap and they weigh between 1.5-2oz each. They are all labeled with every ingredient in them and come wrapped in tissue paper in the box set shown in the photos. 
Try one out today!!

1 sample bar each of:

*Midnight Monsoon, 
*Honeyed Patchouli, 
*Desert Peach,
*Valencia and Vanilla Spice
*Carrot & Pumpkin/Juniper & Lavender

8.23.2012

AmandaRoseSoaps - Craft Cafe



French Milled Goat's Milk Soap
With Soybean oil, coconut oil, olive oil, goat's milk and oatmeal, there is not a more luxurious and moisterizing soap anywhere! Gently fragranced with Milk and Honey.

8.22.2012

Botanicals - Craft Cafe



This is a very thick scrub that I use for my feet. The scrub/exfoliant part is finely ground apricot kernel shells.

The ground shells remove the dead skin and the oil and butter create a silky smooth and long lasting suppleness to the skin. This product does contain a preservative due to the fact that water is likely to be introduced into the mixture with either wet hands or from a running shower.

The essential oils of lime and juniper combined with the apricot shells are known to be detoxing.

Ingredients: apricot kernel oil, kokum butter and apricot kernel shells, essential oils of lime and juniper, Propylene Glycol, Diazolidinyl Urea, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate

net wt. 3 oz.

8.21.2012

SkinnyDipSoaps - Craft Cafe



Ginger Peach: A well-balanced fragrance consisting of warm ginger essence, combined with juicy peaches. A very creamy bar that has been dusted with gold shimmering mica.

This listing is for (1) 3-3.5oz bar of handmade cold process soap.

Ingredients: olive oil, coconut oil, sunflower oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (for saponification), mics, fragrance oils.
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