Tips for winter time nail care

Are you suffering from dry, cracked cuticles? Wintertime is very harsh to the cuticles. Moisture is important in helping you achieve healthy cuticles. Healthy cuticles make your hands look nicer and who need the pain of a hangnail or broken cuticle?

A quality moisturizer, such as my body butter, used throughout the day will help with dry skin. And using a cuticle oil at night before bed daily will provide your cuticles the moist
ure and nutrients they crave. When choosing a cuticle oil, look on the label and make sure that the first oil is not mineral or lanolin oils. You want your first oil to be sunflower, sweet almond, safflower or shea oil.

If you do not have a cuticle oil, grab your olive oil out of the pantry and rub it in! Ol
ive oil will work in a pinch but it will not give you the nutrients that
a high quality cuticle oil will give you.

I will be introducing a cuticle oil in Spring 2010. So be on the look out for that.

Scentful Indulgence Bath & Body Boutique

"I believe in healthy, S.E.X.Y. skin!"

They are finally in L*SH dupes!!!!

By customer request I have 7 duplicates from this wildly popular brand! I plan to add 5 more before New Year's in time for Valentine's Day!

CANDY SHOPPE

FLIRT

GIRL NEXT DOOR

GUILTY PLEASURES

HONEY LOVE

SUGAR RUSH

For a complete list of scent descriptions, please visit http://www.scentfulindulgence.com/pages/Descriptions.htm or http://www.etsy.com/profile.php?user_id=6461795

To my loyal customers....a big thank you!!!

Scentful Indulgence started as a partnership. In the beginning, it was a wonderful partnership. Formulating was and is still my favorite part which has now turned into a passion. A passion and a drive to bring to you the best ingredients to pamper the lifes of my clients is the reason that I can't get any sleep at night (story for another blog entry ;P). The collaboration between my partner and I was amzing....but we all know partnerships a can weaken and sour quickly.

Our once flourishing partnership hit a deep tail spin. I had no idea that I would be able to keep Scentful Indulgence afloat all by myself. I mean, it was a brand new baby and barely walking yet. I spent many sleepless nights trying to figure out how to make this thing work....formulating, changing, adding....it seemed like I would never be able to do this.

And then a sales, growth spurt if you will, hit me and it was like I suddenly had this group of cheerleaders...my customers. On the very days that I wanted to throw in the towel, were the days I woke to multiple orders. Almost as if some of you were reading my mind and saying, "Oh no sister, you cannot give up on us now!"

So I give you all my word, I haven't given up on any of you. This sole proprietorship is taking some getting used to but thanks to the support of my loyal customers, you have made it impossible for me to even think about giving up. And, you didn't even know that you did!

Thanks so very much to you all for holding me up when all I wanted to do is fold up and fall down. There will be lots of new things coming down the pike for Scentful Indulgence Bath and Body Boutique, so keep your eyes on this blog for all the updates.

A sneak peak of what's to come:

July 1~The Boutique Body Oils will be replaced with convenient Roll-On applicator bottles.
July 1~I will be adding Lotion Bars to the line up.
July 1~Everything But the Kitchen Sink Soap will debut in more scents and shapes.

What would you do?

Since Mother's Day has just passed (my Mom died in 2004) and Father's Day is approaching, I thought I'd ask my blog followers this question. Let's say you weren't speaking to your Dad because of a misunderstanding (on his part not mine), would you still acknowledge him for Father's Day? He is my only parent now and I feel kinda bad about us not being on the best of terms right now, but it truly is not my fault. So you were in my shoes, would you at least send a card, leave a message on his phone (although he claims he doesn't get them)? Or, do you just continue to wait until he comes to his senses and starts communicating again? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ;)

Our Bubbly Bath Powder gets in the Best Beauty Bets Poll

Etsy is a homemade craft community of 170,000+ shops. Of those 50,000 sell bath and body products. Of those Etsy picked 60 products for The Storque's Best Beauty Bets Poll. With only 4 months on Etsy, our Bubbly Bath Powder placed 17th in this poll putting us in the Top 21!

It was truly an honor to be placed in such great company with established sellers on Etsy; some of which boast over 15,000 sales!

Congratulations to the winner, mmmmhandmadesoap and her Coffee Mocha Fizzing Bath Melts! To view this poll, the Top 21 list, and our featured Bubbly Bath Powder, click this link
http://www.etsy.com/storque/etc/the-most-tempting-bath-and-body-items-3542/

What's in your moisturizer?

I challenge all that are reading this bulletin to do one thing. Pick up your favorite lotion or body butter and read the list of ingredients. More often than not, commercially made skin care lotions and body butters have one of the following as the largest amount of oil in the formulation.....Lanolin, Mineral Oil or Petroleum.

Lanolin is a wax derivative of sheep's wool which can cause allergies and be comodegenic (pore clogging).

Mineral Oil & Petroleum are generally skin protectants. both of these products, byproducts of petroleum/crude oil production, leave a film on the surface layer of the skin, which can lead to clogged pores.

Some of you may have heard some old schooler's tell you the best way to soften your feet is to use Petroleum Jelly and put socks on your feet before you go to sleep. And yes it works--but only on the surface! The best way to soften your skin is with non-comodegenic oils that will penetrate the skin. Softening the surface is only putting a bandaid on the real problem. Not to mention it's messy! The path to beautiful, well hydrated skin is to get beneath the skin's surface with natural penatrating oils and butters.

Our Shea Souffle Lotion & Body Butter will NEVER contain any of these products! Homemade skin care is on the rise.....visit our store and see why there's nothing better than homemade.

March Special~Buy 2 Four Ounce Body Butters get the 3rd FREE!

Now until March 30th, 2009, our 4 ounce Body Butters will be buy two get one FREE! Now who doesn't like free? With many satisfied customers across the US and now in Canada, get yours today and see why our feedback remains a 100% positive rating.

This Body Butter was created out of our need for a good, spa-quality, intense moisturizer that is not greasy! This amazing moisturizer goes on silky smooth with a light powdery feel.

We offer over 25 scents now with more to come.....order yours today.

This offer is valid ONLY by putting the following code "B2G1F" along with the name of your free scent in the 'message the seller' field during your Etsy checkout. This offer is only valid for our 4 ounce Body Butters and cannot be combined with any other specials or discounts.