Month: June 2010

Hi everyone

As some of you may know I was recently out of town for a while, so a few items were out of stock while I was gone. All items that were out of stock are now back in stock (including the Dreamy Legends Gift Set).

New gift sets will be appearing by the end of July (replacing the two current ones: African black soap and Dreamy Legends gift set).

Lots of exciting new items will be released this summer. The next items that will be released will be outdoor oils (with ingredients like citronella). 🙂

Edited: July 2: Thanks for taking the poll. The poll is now over!

Hi Everyone

Please take my new poll on containers for the outdoor oils 🙂 I am thinking about either glass, plastic, or lined aluminum. Thank you!

I have just updated the Solaris elixir webpage, with three new pictures and a new banner. Please let me know what you think about them 🙂

I am still using amber glass dropper bottles for the Solaris Elixir grande 1 oz (full) size. I have a few more of the amber rounds shown in the pictures, and I also have a lot of amber 1 oz bottles that are more ‘angled’–which look like the amber ones that I use for the Terra and Luna Elixirs, but bigger. So it may be a while until I switch to blue glass for the grande size (it is my plan to switch to mostly blue glass, except for a couple products like the perfume petite vials that are in clear glass, and the toners & unscented Dreams & unscented Buttercremes which are in PET plastic).

Once I switch to blue glass for the grande (full) elixirs, prices may or may not go up a little to cover the change to blue glass (I need to recalculate to figure out by how much etc or if I can absorb it or not), but the switch probably is not going to happen for a while (months) since I have so many amber bottles left.

For the xiao (small) sized Solaris elixirs, I have been packaging them in the blue glass since last month. The blue glass 5 ml bottles cost more than the green glass 5 ml bottles I was using (usually green glass cost more than blue, but the green glass 5 ml bottles were super on sale when I got them, and now my vendor no longer carries them). I thought I could absorb the costs for the Solaris xiao Elixirs, but I just redid my calculations and figured out that I can’t 🙁 The blue glass cost about 50 cents more than what I paid for the green ones. I am very sorry 🙁 but prices on the xiao sized Solaris Elixirs will increase because of it. I will be raising prices for the Solaris xiao sizes on July 1st by 50 cents. Though they are already being shipped in the blue glass, the prices for Bliss and Pangaea xiao 5 ml (small) size will not go up until July.

The Terra and Luna xiao sized elixirs are also being packaged in the 5 ml blue glass bottles. Please note: though I use the same blue glass 5 ml bottles for the Terra and Luna Elixirs, prices for the Terra and Luna xiao sized elixirs will NOT increase, since I am able to absorb the costs on those.

I wish I could also absorb the costs on the Solaris xiao Elixirs but since they are priced so low I can’t 🙁 I am undercharging on them; they are priced lower than what many other companies charge for elixirs/oil based serums (made only with conventional ingredients) even with the price increase. I use a few organic and ethically wild harvested ingredients in them, which cost more than conventional/non-organic ingredients.

But I can absorb the cost of the blue glass on the Terra and Luna xiao elixirs so will not raise prices on Eden, Butterfly, Everlast, and Serenity xiao elixirs.

I posted this article on anb (all natural beauty) mall’s website but I am posting it here too 🙂 In addition, my new Eco Living article is up on anb mall’s site (this month I wrote more of my Quick Eco Tips 🙂 ).

When I think of summer, I think of fresh ingredients like berries! This month I decided to profile one of the berry seed oils I use in my skin care line: Earth Alkemie.

Cranberry seed oil is a carrier oil extracted from cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) seeds. It absorbs fast, is very emollient, and is excellent for all skin types. Cranberry seed oil is a rich source of antioxidants, vitamins, and nutrients, including carotenoids and several types of vitamin E. It also has a unique ratio of Omega 3, 6, and 9 essential fatty acids. I recommend using cold pressed, unrefined cranberry seed oil since cold pressed, unrefined oils usually contain more nutrients and vitamins than solvent extracted and highly refined oils. (I use mostly cold pressed unrefined or expeller pressed unrefined oils, and organic oils when I can find them!)

Like many of the berry seed oils, I love using cranberry seed oil for skin care. It makes my skin glow, and though can be used by many skin types, it is especially good for extremely dry, scaly skin, and also blemished skin. I use it in my newest elixir (oil based facial serum) called ‘Serenity Terra Elixir’ (a high antioxidant, nutrient rich, soothing, and scent free elixir. Serenity is only scented with the natural scents of the carrier oils).

I just finished more updates of pictures on the toner, luna elixir, and terra elixir webpages. I hope you like the new pictures 🙂 The toner page was actually updated twice, I posted a new picture the other day, but decided to retake the picture, and also change the banner. The luna elixir page also has a slightly revamped banner and new picture. I also changed the terra elixir page’s banner, and also posted four new product pictures.

I hope to work on the solaris elixirs next.

Please let me know what you think 🙂

So I am finally updating the website with new pictures 🙂 I have finished with updating the perfume page, and am shooting new pictures for most of the other products this week too.

I really like the new pictures for the perfumes (with the new larger petite/sample vials; I used to only have a picture of the old ones on the website, though had pictures of the new ones on the blog).

Like many of my pictures I have taken pictures of a few of the herbs/plants that are in the products. For Hu, the carnations were this vivid pink and red, and their scent was incredible (very fragrant). All the herbs for Paradise smelled so yummy (I love the smell of fresh basil, ginger, and vanilla beans. The vanilla beans I have are organic, and are super intense).

Let me know (on the forum or through email) what you think about the new pictures. 🙂

Will be updating more of the site this week!