Silky Smooth Summer Foot Care Beauty Box

Order your box today at:

http://sgkeystobeauty.wix.com/beautyboxclub

Keys To Beauty Boxes are Ready!!!!!!

Get 6 amazing foot care products made from Secret Garden Bath & Boutique. There are three great boxes to pick from. See first hand how all natural feels. 

$25.00 a box

You will receive:

2 oz foot scrub, 2 oz Heal My Heels, 3.5  Fizzy Foot Soak ,  1.5 Foot soak Seltzer tablet,

1.5 oz Beautiful Heels Solid Lotion Bar, 2 oz Massage oil

                       

Healing Foot Box                                     Relaxing Foot Box                                     Maintaining Foot Box

Go to:     http://sgkeystobeauty.wix.com/beautyboxclub

To order your box today

Beauty Box Club...Coming this Summer

Secret Garden Bath & Boutique LLC is now offering
Keys To Beauty
A Beauty Box Club that will ship out Four Boxes a year.

   Starting this Summer in July: Silky Smooth Summer, a box dedicate to making your feet perfect for Summer. A scrub, heal my heels cream, a powder soak, a re-energizing soak tablet, a massage oil and asolid lotion bar. 

$25.00 a box

You can keep up with the Beauty Box Club on Facebook

@  https://www.facebook.com/SGkeystobeauty

All of my products are made naturally, by me.

I reasearch and find the best ingredients to help bring you the best results. 

You can always contact me with questions, concerns or special needs @

secretgardenbathboutique@gmail.com

or

sgkeystobeauty@gmail.com

Change is Good.

       I have been researching my face care ingredients for three years. When I first staring making face scrubs, I went with what other business were using. Brown Sugar and Honey was everywhere, so I created my Lavender~Honey Face scrub. I had just opened my doors and all I really knew was that Lavender and Honey were good for our skin.
                                                                     

        One year into my business, I started to learn more about ingredients and what they did to our skin. I started using Tea tree oil, Juniper oil and Witch Hazel. Even though these are very good ingredients, I was still following the path that all other natural products were taking. I think that venturing out on my own and finding better ingredients to use, even if they weren't being used by other companies, became very important to me.  I also started  to create my face care products different then the normal  path that other small natural business were taking.
      I took a few clues from the retail world and began to mix my ingredients in a completely different way.
I started to research ingredients and learn about the affects that they would have on our skin, especially our face.
     Orange Butter became an ingredient that I was very interested in. Orange butter, which is created from Orange Rind Oil, Orange wax oil and Sweet Almond oil  is a cold pressed oil that is refined. This oil contains high levels of Limonene, which has been found to be a highly effective free radical scavenger. Because of this, Orange Butter will tone and cleanse our skin, improve oily skin and help issues caused by acne prone skin. It also holds anti-cellulite and anti-inflammatory benefits for our skin.
   Now,  I am a big fan of Shea Butter, but when you read all that orange butter can do, it just made since to use it in my scrubs, face creams and under eye cream. This is why I use Neroli Essential oil as well. It comes from the Orange flower, the white ones that form before an orange grows. It is a sweet smelling oil, relaxing for our muscles and brain, calming for our heart and very therapeutic. Yet it is wonderful for our skin as well. It helps prevent scars and reduces stretch marks, plus it will help our skin rejuvenate and regenerate.

     It is known for its relaxing properties, relieving anxiety, depression, fear, shock, and stress. It can help with insomnia and even calm heart palpitations. But it was the "regenerating skin cells" benefit that most impressed me. This is why you see Neroli in every one of my face care products. Why would we not want to use something on our face that was safe, natural and created with these amazing properties? It just makes since to take care of our face with the best ingredients possible.
    Now I have to say that the idea of using Castor Seed oil on our faces scared even me. It is a thick, sticky oil, in my opinion.  Not at all what you would consider using on your face. But when I started researching natural oils and their properties, I was pretty shocked to find out that Castor Seed oil was a "Dirt Magnet". Castor seed oil is amazing for our skin. It contains properties that dissolve cystic acne, helps moisturize and reduces wrinkles.
   The ingredients I am using today are no longer a trend from other business. They are from me researching and finding the ingredients that will work the best for the product that I am creating. If you are going to spend your hard earned money on my products, then I am going to do everything in my power to make them work.
                                                                 

I have 7 product as of today for your face, all of which have over gone changes in the last three years. But Change is Good when it comes from continuous learning, and the need to make for improvement.   It isn't enough to make a good product, it has to work and be worth the purchase. You have to want to use it more then once, you have to love it enough to buy it again. It also needs to be safe, effective and as natural as I can get it. These are the things that are important to me when I create a product. 

I hope you will try my face care product, for yourself, for your teens or suggest them to a friend. 

You can find my products on Etsy 

@ https://www.etsy.com/shop/SecretGardenBB

I also offer FREE Facial Spa parties locally in Colorado. 

                           

Recycled Treasures

Secret Garden Bath & Boutique is making Bird Feeders, Bird Houses and Bird Baths from recycled Treasures. The creative process has been so wonderful and exciting, and I have to say, even though I am so happy they are selling, I miss them when I send them off. 

Stop by my Etsy store and see if any spark some love for nature in your heart. 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/SecretGardenBB

Spring Line 2014...Amazing new scents and soft pastels.

Stop by My In~Home Showroom @

1176 S, Cathay St Aurora, Co. 

or @

https://www.etsy.com/shop/SecretGardenBB?ref=si_shop

Men's Needs are on the Rise

     I am excited to see my Natural Men's Line doing so well. I think that men are coming around to the idea that they too need healthy, natural and safe skin care products.

                                 

    I have four extremely important men in my life, so it only makes since that I want to make them products that are the best.  Yet even though we are all related, all four of them are very different. So that is what helped me develop my Men's Line. 

Tuxedo Line:  This is a high Class Scent, one that goes beyond the Tie and Jacket Guy. And Yes, I have a son that falls into this Line. It is a Confident, Calm scent. It also is one that is Loyal to only one or two scents, and not one that likes to bounce around the scent board.

Business Line: This Class of Men will easily like the Tuxedo Line above and the Casual Line below. These scents will range from the Calmer scents to a braver bolder scent. This is the line for the Suit and tie guy, that still likes to let go a little.  

Metro Line: Now here is a line for that likes to groom and buff himself. One that enjoys fashion at work and out on the town. This line will be more of my clean, floral and soft fruit scents. 

Casual Line: Now here is a crisp, clean line, with just a touch of Musk. It is for that on the guy. One that enjoys playing hard and kicking back after. This is another Son for me. 

Rugged Line: Now this was my first and easiest line, for this is where my husband falls. This is a line for that hard working, tough guy. The flannel wearing, out in nature kind of guy. These scents are high in Woods, Moss, ans Spices. 

Pure Naked Line: Now this is the cleanest, most natural line I have. There are NO SCENTS. It is just the Pure - Raw Ingredients. I have a son that is very sensitive to oils, scents and dyes. Even natural essential oils can cause skin irritation. So with this line I make wonderful products that are safe and non irritating. 

The Men's Line is growing and changing everyday. From Cologne, After Shave, Shaving Soap and Soap Bars. I am also making Foot Care, Under Eye Cerium's, Muscle soaks and Oils, and even Mustache Wax. 

Our Men may be tough, hard working guys, but they still need products that treat them right. That is what I am working on...making their skin healthier and and better feeling. 

From the Kitchen to the Shelves.

  Thought I would share the process of taking a raw product, just made, from the kitchen to the store shelves. I made these Bath Melts Yesterday (2-6-14) It took me 6 hours to make 20 boxes of Bath Truffle melts and 50 bath melt squares. In that six hours I was able to make by hand 50 squares, 80 truffles, glue together the boxes & lids (cut them the night before on my Cricut Cutter). I also made the labels for the boxes, cut them out and glued them on. Packaged them in the boxes and then I needed to take photo's of each product to put on line.
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   This process is what made me think about sharing my day with you. I am not just making these products, I am a full time house wife and mother as well as a Small business owner.
So I started my Friday with a cup of coffee, and emails. A quick check of the online Etsy store and a fast read through my business facebook.  Then off to work I start. I have 50 Bath Square melts that need to be finished and put out.
                                 

I start by making the labels on my computer. These will go fast because I have had these products in my store, so I have the main label already made. All I need to do is copy, paste to a new file and change the colors, scent name and ingredients. If it was a new label it could take me a few hours to design. I would have to measure where on the product the label is going, design it, fill it in with ingredients and instructions. I have learned to hard way, print one first to make sure it fits, looks right and is all spelled right, then make them all. 

      

With this I made four sets of labels (made the first set last night) and printed them all off. 

Now I take a fast business break and run down to change the laundry, one in dryer and another one in washer. Then back to work, I start hand cutting this label for the melts. I loved it when I designed it. It is a one piece, wrap around label, but after cutting over 100 of these labels, not so much love anymore.

I get the first paper of labels cut and then off to make the bed. This is important to me. I always fear what I I don't make my bed and some one visits, or I have a heart attach and  the paramedics come in and see my unmade bed. 

   

I feel so much better now, and I get another set of labels cut out. 

Taking another break, I run down stairs and change the laundry. One load up to fold, one in the dryer and another in the washer. 

Load #1 folded.

Then I noticed that my kitchen took a hit this morning with 7 people getting ready for the day.

So a fast 30 minute cleanup. Empty the dishwasher, fill the dishwasher, clean counters, Put things away.

     

Before                                                           After      

Back to work, cutting out the last labels. Then I start to wrap the melts so I have something to put the label on.

 

  First I start by cutting small candy bags open to wrap them in, and start to wrap each one, it takes me about 45 minutes to wrap 50 of them.

Unexpected break to take in a box and check the new ingredients that just came in from 

Natures Garden Wholesale 

 http://www.naturesgardencandles.com/candlemaking-soap-supplies/category/610/Melt-and-Pour-Soap.html

While I'm up...another load of laundry and a cup of coffee. 

The I start running my labels through my Create a Sticker machine....I LOVE This thing so much.

 

This is the last step. I peal off and stick to the melts. They go from plain wrapped melts to a beautiful product out on my shelves. The only thing left is to photo them, place them on Etsy, Facebook and Pinterst. 

 

There are few other thing I got done while I was writing this blog. I helped my husband hang to shelves in my kitchen, changed the laundry again (only two more loads to go. I was 6 days a week) and I packed my husbands lunch so he could go to work for the night. 

It's almost 3:00 p.m. I still have the rest of the house to clean, kids to meet at the door from the bus. Meals to attend to and more products. I am hoping though, that this was a good way for everyone to see that I am not just mixing up ingredients and tossing on labels. I put a great deal of work into my Family, my home and my business. I am pretty sure I put in 60-70 hours into my business and another 60 into my house and family. I don't think I'm alone in this. I am sure there are hundreds of women that put in just as much and even more. I don't regret it or even resent it. I love what I do. I love being a Wife and Mother and Grandmother, and I love building my business one day at a time. 

 

Third Year and Still Standing

    Secret Garden Bath & Boutique Is just about to reach it's third year in business. I can honestly say it has been everything but easy. Yet I am still hear and I am still standing. The third year is off to a better start then the last two years, and I only see it getting better.
    Three year ago I was in fear of my stay home mom job coming to an end and wondered what I would do with myself. The prospect of being home alone with my husband was a bit terrifying. Now don't get me wrong, I love my husband of 26 years...but alone? Not real sure if I was up to that. What would we do? Birdhouses, the word search, maybe cards? No, I knew it was time for me to think of some of my dreams that had put on the back burner.
   It has been a struggle and all I can tell people starting a business. Be prepared to nurse it like it is a new born for about three years. I just now am starting to feel like it can roll over and hold it's own bottle, but still need to be burped  It is a roller coaster of emotions, trials and tears. Yet I do think I am starting to have less hard days and more enjoyable ones.
   It is such a feeling of accomplishment to see orders come in and have such positive feed back from my customers. It is nice to be out of the constant worrying stages, walking the floors at night and stressing over making it work.
    I don't know where this business will take me, but I am sure it will be great and wonderful. It is the first and tiny steps towards my Bed & Breakfast. I feel confident if you just push through the worst and continue when there seems to be no reason too, you will come out the other side stronger and better.
   On the brink of our 3rd Birthday...I want to say Thank You to every person that has helped. believed and supported my little business.

Thank You
Drusilla Fife