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 […]
4 With things starting to heat up around here, I wanted to make a light, non-greasy foot oil that had a little bit of menthol for a slight cooling affect. I am not looking for something so intense the user will want to wash their feet afterwards. I am just looking […]
Cool Summer Foot Oil
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
I get asked all the time what my favorite scents are. To be honest, it changes with the weather, seasons and even what I have been doing recently. So while I prepare for a summer vacation, enjoy spring and wait anxiously for fresh produce at the local market, let me […]
Favorite Scents
4 Vernita called the other day asking for help in formulating a hair product that would help tame, calm and hydrate her hair. She is of African American decent and has really struggled finding a long term product. Her frustration is understandable. She wanted something that would make her hair more […]
Vernita’s Hair Serum
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!
11 Two years ago I participated in a swap for Halloween. One of the items that was included was a hair serum. Thinking back, the bottle of hair serum was no more than an ounce of product. Over the last two years I have used it a little bit at a […]
Quick Hair Serum
8 I am a total java junkie. If you want to invite me to coffee I won’t take any time to answer “Yes!”. You have convinced me already! 😉 I am particularly fond of mochas or lattes. I mean, can you really go wrong with chocolate, coffee and cream. I don’t […]
Sweet Coffee Massage Butter
2 I have a notebook of recipes and thoughts so I am never without inspiration for a blog. So when I hit a recipe block, I turned to my trusty notebook. I find looking though that book with a pair of fresh eyes can really help. As I was browsing my […]
Mama’s Hand Therapy
5 Today I wanted to make the castor oil soap with no volcano. How does that sound? I am pretty excited to see how it turns out. Let’s head to the test kitchen and make sure our thermometer is handy! To be on the safe side, I decided to not […]