Welcome Soap and More
The Handcrafted Bath & Body Guild is happy to announce that Soap and More has joined us as a Vendor Member and is offering members 5% off their purchases, plus 15% off workshop registrations. They offer a wide variety of ingredients and supplies, plus “how to make it” workshops, which they offer in person, or the instructions and recipes by email if you’re not able to attend in person! Not a member? Join now and save with Soap and More, plus other suppliers, and have access to our industry best insurance policy!
Welcome Soapmaker Software!
The Handcrafted Bath & Body Guild is happy to announce that Soapmaker Software has joined us as a Vendor Member. Members receive 10% off their purchase of the Professional Edition. Not a member? Join now and save with Soapmaker, plus other suppliers, and have access to our industry best insurance policy!
A few of my favourite things
When the dog bites, when the bee stings….When I’m feeling sad….. I make soap, think about soap, or shop for soap supplies. Well, most of us do, so you all understand! The Board and I came up with some of our favourite things from each of our Vendor members. I make a Silk & Shea Butter soap for my unscented line, and Baraka Shea Butter is my go-to Shea Butter. I make a whipped body butter with it too and everyone loves it. They offer Organic Shea Butter too. Marg recommends Voyageur Soap & Candle Co for the best Coconut Fragrance Oil. Island Coconut is pure coconut, no…
Welcome Mad Oils!
The Handcrafted Bath & Body Guild is proud to welcome Mad Oils, a US supplier based in Florida, as a Vendor Member. They are offering HBBG members 10% off their orders of $40 or more. Mad Oils has a full selection of unique fragrance oils, essential oils, colourants, and additives for the soap maker. Joanna, the CEO of Mad Oils, also runs The Soap Bar Soap Blog, which offers lots of tips and techniques and information for everyone from new to experienced at soapmaking. Not a member? Join now and save with Mad Oils, plus other suppliers, and have access to our industry best insurance policy! Save Save
Welcome New Directions Aromatics!
The Handcrafted Bath & Body Guild is pleased to announced our newest Vendor Member, New Directions Aromatics. They offer an enormous selection of ingredients, supplies, and read to use products, for every type of bath and body handcrafter. HBBG members save an additional 5% off their orders. Not a member? Join now and save with New Directions Aromatics, plus other suppliers, and have access to our industry best insurance policy! Save
New format to CNF (Cosmetic Notification Form) coming Summer 2016
Health Canada’s Cosmetics Unit is (finally) changing their CNF format from the pdf forms we all know and love-to-avoid, to an hopefully much more user-friendly HTML (website) form. Below is the original newsletter email. Because this information is not found on their website anywhere, before we posted this, we did some fact checking and asked our Cosmetics division contact to confirm the change, and that email is below that! What do you think of this change? From: Cosmaliste <cosmaliste@HC-SC.GC.CA> Date: April 22, 2016 at 2:50:23 PM EDT To: COSMETICS_LIST@LIST.HC-SC.GC.CA Subject: NEW from Health Canada’s Consumer Product Safety Program /NOUVEAUTÉ du Programme de la Sécurité des produits de consommation de Santé Canada…
Cosmetic Notification Forms (CNF) – Part Two
Wow, this month is flying by! I apologize for the delay in getting Part Two of this series on CNF published, especially since I know it is on the mind of so many of you these days. In the first part of this series we talked about what a CNF is, and when you would need to file one. If you missed it, you can find it here. Today I’m going to talk a little bit about completing the actual filing process. A blog is not a good forum to actually walk through completing a form step by step, so I’m going to answer Frequently Answered Questions in this post. The…
Cosmetic Notification Form (CNF) : Part One.
If you are new to the handcrafted bath and body industry in Canada, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about the Cosmetic Notification Form (CNF). I started to write a short post about CNFs, which quickly turned into an encyclopedia, so I have turned it into a two or three part series. Up first, what is a CNF and why do I need one? Health Canada requires that anyone who sells a cosmetic product in Canada must file a CNF with them within 10 days of first making the product available for sale. Anyone means everyone, from the big name sellers such as L’Oreal or Lush, all the…
All About Preservatives
I think every handcrafted bath & body person out there probably starts their journey down the lotion making path by creating a beautiful, whipped body butter. Some people stop there, while others start thinking about how they could tweak this product to be less greasy, more moisturizing, silkier, drier….and so on, and so on… If that’s what you’re thinking about, then eventually you are going to run up against the reality that emulsified lotions, body butters, etc. contain water, the breeding ground for bacteria, mold, and fungus, and your journey into the wonderful world of preservatives has begun. Before we start talking about preservatives, let’s look at what isn’t a…
Win a Voyageur Gift Certificate!
Voyageur Soap & Candle Co has generously offered a $100 gift certificate to one lucky winner, to be picked once the HBBG has reached 100 active members! Not a member? Join now and not only get a chance at winning, but save on your membership as we are still offering a free 30 day free trial, and a discount on your first year. Come check us out and see what we have to offer: Vendor Discounts, a Professional Business Directory so customers can find you, and lots more to come. Winner will be picked at random from active members on or after May 15. Must be an active member to…
