Herbal Bath and Skin Products…mmmmm
Geez Louise…I love all kinds of herbal bath and skin products from the scented soaps to sugar scrubs, I think I have them all!
And in all kinds of scents! I love all the wonderful handmade lavender lemon soaps, the Christmas peppermint hand lotion, lilac scented bath salts and my list could go on and on.
What I do love so much is where a person can take different “scents” and somehow put them all together to created a very heavenly scent! As much as I would love to do this I cannot. It does take someone with the “nose” (excuse the pun) for blending scents together.
I will admit I tried it, one time, and that was enough! I had several different flower scents along with herbal scents and the each smelled wonderful, separately! But when I just threw them all together, whew, it was awful. Too much. So I learned my lesson that one cannot just get a bunch of essential oils and make something that smells so good.
It takes a person that knows what they are doing.
So, I resign myself to just being a buyer.
One problem that I have had is that when a person names there product with a name such as “Moonlight Beams” I wonder what does it smell like. The name tells me nothing and some sellers are really great at describing what oils/scents are in their product but some are not. If you are a seller of those wonderful bath and skin items just give to the buyer the names of the scents that are in your products not just give the product a name. You will get more business when a person knows what is in your special scents/perfumes.
I went out on a limb and purchased a small bottle of essential oil that was a mixture but listed no ingredients but has only a “name.” The name intrigued me and so I figured that if it did not smell good to me I would give it to my sister.
Imagine my surprise when I opened the bottle and this aroma was something so amazing. I carefully put the top back on and hid it so my sister would not find it. Jealously I guarded this small bottle, sparingly using it only for special occasions and then I had no more. Shaking hands I had keying in the seller name and emailing to buy more. I checked my email every hour for an answer. Finally the seller answered back. She no longer had any more and could not make any more because she did not write down the ingredients nor the amount of each ingredient!
Another point in case, you never know when you make something that someone just “has to have it” and then there might be another person that just really “wants it!”
I crochet a lot of things but never use a pattern. I have been doing this for a long time. I see something and I make it. Well, I made a little hat from yarn that I had dyed. Yep, I mixed a green and blue to get the color. Can’t repeat it because I never measured the amounts of the different colors. I also never even thought about writing down the design of the hat. I have had 4 people want me to make the same hat for them! I also gave them a ridiculous price and they still want the hat! Soooo, I am busy dying yarn and trying to match the color. I can look at my hat and tell how to make it but not in making the color.
This is just another example of writing down your formula when creating something for the first time as you never know when people want your products.
Well, enough for today on this subject.
All you wonderful people who create bath and skin products, we hope you open a shop on www.craftique.us. I certainly do because I don’t have the “nose” for creating the perfumes and blending of essential oils for aromatic pleasure.
Happy Holidays to All!!!
And in all kinds of scents! I love all the wonderful handmade lavender lemon soaps, the Christmas peppermint hand lotion, lilac scented bath salts and my list could go on and on.
What I do love so much is where a person can take different “scents” and somehow put them all together to created a very heavenly scent! As much as I would love to do this I cannot. It does take someone with the “nose” (excuse the pun) for blending scents together.
I will admit I tried it, one time, and that was enough! I had several different flower scents along with herbal scents and the each smelled wonderful, separately! But when I just threw them all together, whew, it was awful. Too much. So I learned my lesson that one cannot just get a bunch of essential oils and make something that smells so good.
It takes a person that knows what they are doing.
So, I resign myself to just being a buyer.
One problem that I have had is that when a person names there product with a name such as “Moonlight Beams” I wonder what does it smell like. The name tells me nothing and some sellers are really great at describing what oils/scents are in their product but some are not. If you are a seller of those wonderful bath and skin items just give to the buyer the names of the scents that are in your products not just give the product a name. You will get more business when a person knows what is in your special scents/perfumes.
I went out on a limb and purchased a small bottle of essential oil that was a mixture but listed no ingredients but has only a “name.” The name intrigued me and so I figured that if it did not smell good to me I would give it to my sister.
Imagine my surprise when I opened the bottle and this aroma was something so amazing. I carefully put the top back on and hid it so my sister would not find it. Jealously I guarded this small bottle, sparingly using it only for special occasions and then I had no more. Shaking hands I had keying in the seller name and emailing to buy more. I checked my email every hour for an answer. Finally the seller answered back. She no longer had any more and could not make any more because she did not write down the ingredients nor the amount of each ingredient!
Another point in case, you never know when you make something that someone just “has to have it” and then there might be another person that just really “wants it!”
I crochet a lot of things but never use a pattern. I have been doing this for a long time. I see something and I make it. Well, I made a little hat from yarn that I had dyed. Yep, I mixed a green and blue to get the color. Can’t repeat it because I never measured the amounts of the different colors. I also never even thought about writing down the design of the hat. I have had 4 people want me to make the same hat for them! I also gave them a ridiculous price and they still want the hat! Soooo, I am busy dying yarn and trying to match the color. I can look at my hat and tell how to make it but not in making the color.
This is just another example of writing down your formula when creating something for the first time as you never know when people want your products.
Well, enough for today on this subject.
All you wonderful people who create bath and skin products, we hope you open a shop on www.craftique.us. I certainly do because I don’t have the “nose” for creating the perfumes and blending of essential oils for aromatic pleasure.
Happy Holidays to All!!!
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