In the next two and a half weeks I will be flying to China. This will a touristy vacation for me and I am so excited to go. I will be on vacation for an entire month! I am planning to visit the Great Wall of China and the Forbidden […]
Thoughts from The Sage
We just added a new product to our gifts section of our catalog. They are Cable Buddies! Cable Buddies are wonderful for identifying cables, keeping them organized and tangle free. I even have a Cable Buddy on my ear buds so they won’t get tangled in my pocket! I hate […]
Cable Buddies – Free Gift
4 Recently, I was in San Francisco with my husband for a brief trip while we spent a few days sightseeing with his parents before they headed home. Our first day there, we visited several beaches while on our way to Half Moon Bay. Since I’m an inland girl by birth, […]
Sea Glass Inspired Soap Challenge
4 We all know that moms work hard. Some of you may may be moms and yet others are just grateful for the support our moms give us. In honor of the rapidly approaching Mother’s Day, I would like to challenge our readers to share ways that they relax. Then we […]
Mother’s Day Is Coming Up!
I’m pleased to announce that we have chosen our winners to attend the HSMG 2012 Conference in Portland, Oregon! We received many great entries and while we wish everyone could go, we picked these winners based on the fact that we feel they will find the conference to be very […]
HSMG Scholarship Winners!
3 Have you ever received a jug of oil and noticed a haze at the bottom? Don’t be alarmed. This can be common. It just means that stearines that are solid at room temperature have settled to the bottom. This is normal! Some oils can also have material left over from […]
Have you ever seen this?
It is rapidly approaching that time of year for the HSMG Annual Conference. I’m excited to announce that Taylor and I will be attending the conference this year! We have had a few changes and we have discovered that we have two extra tickets to the conference. So… we have […]
HSMG Conference Ticket Scholarship
We have a lot of recipes on the blog for lip balms, lip glosses and lip butters. All of those are great but today I wanted to focus on flavor oil blends. I think it is the flavor oils that are the selling point for most lip balms. I’ll admit, […]
Flavor Oil Blends
3 Argan Oil is one of those luxury oils used in skin and hair care around the world. Recently I had been helping a customer with their questions about Argan Oil and I realized that if one person had questions, many people probably also had similar questions! What is the big […]
Ingredient Spotlight: Argan Oil
1 Yes, I know Easter has already passed, but I get a lot of inspiration from holidays and I found out that I am not the only one! I love learning what our customers are doing and love sharing that with our readers. Come see what one of our customers made […]
Renee’s Easter Egg Bath Bombs!
Two weeks from now I am going to do a full week of making lip balm. After all, summer is coming and summer is lip balm season. Yes, lip balm is used all year long but we generally see a spike in the demand for lip balm and flavor oils […]
Flavor Friday!
Do you sing in the shower? Some days I don’t and some days I do. When I do sing, I generally have music playing which, let me be honest, is most showers. 🙂 I got thinking about the song,It’s Raining Men by The Weather Girls, after the wind blew all […]