Denver Post "Yourhub Business"

I was so excited to have my little business be featured in the Yourhub Business Section of the Denver Post




http://www.denverpost.com/yhbiz/ci_24365067/aurora-business-focus-secret-garden-bath-boutique-llc?source=rss

Visit Secret Garden At Etsy

Come by and see what Secret Garden Bath & Boutique is all about. Some of the best feeling, most effective and truly all natural products around!!
 
 http://www.etsy.com/shop/SecretGardenBB

I have found that I would rather not make an product then make it with an ingredient that could be considered harmful. Being a mother of four and a grandmother, I want to make sure that I am making products that my own family will love, use and enjoy.

some of my products can take up to 7 days to make. But they are worth it. 

some are so luxurious feeling that the price just doesn't feel right.

Some make you feel better and ease the pain.

and some are for pure fun!

Stop by and see what we are all about and come like us on Facebook too.

Halloween 2013

I love this time of year. It is the start of great colors, family holidays and fun. I don't really like the scary, gross parts of Halloween. Yet the pumpkins, the decorations and the candy is pretty fun. So I try to find the fun things about Halloween I love and add them to my products.

                                                                   Fun bath salts for any age. Dead sea salt in great Halloween Scents, like Moonlit walk. A crisp fresh woods smell. or Trick or Treat, a sweet candy and fruit scent, or Red Hot Purple Passion, a sexy scent of love.

Even my Fizzy Seltzer Math Melts are fun for the Holidays. These spooky ghouls are just scary enough with their sugar eyes and funny faces. Drop them in your bath and experience a new kind of Fizzy bath bomb. This one gives you all of the pleasure of the fizz and then the skin softening affect of Shea Butter and Coconut oil. 

     

There many more great Halloween Bath Gifts at Secret Garden Bath & Boutique LLC.

Please stop by my Etsy Store to order your gifts today. 

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

Don't forget to start your Fall and Christmas shopping as well.

Face Care and Natural Products

      So much of our confidence and self esteem is tied to our skin. When we have breakouts and other skin conditions, it really does drop our own feelings of confidence in the world. Today more then ever all you see are drop dead beautiful young women on magazine covers, build-boards, commercials and movies. Perfect skin seems to be important at any age. 
     Yet should we take a chance with our young children's faces and even our own and use prescriptions that  have side affects, or over the counter names that are packed full of chemicals?  After hearing so many horror stories about some of the dangerous side affects from prescription acne medications, I vowed to make a face product for my teens that was effective, safe and easy to use. Because let's face it, if it is hard or time consuming, what teen will take the time to do it daily? 

The first product I created over three years ago was my Lavender-Honey Sugar Face Scrub. It has two sugars in it, Brown & White. 
Brown Sugar is a gentle exfoliant. The sugars' will help lift off an clear away dead skin cells. Brown sugar has glycolic acid in it. Because of it's capability to penetrate the skin it is often used in such products like Facial Chemical peels. The brown sugar will help you maintain a healthy and glowing look. The glycolic acid is also known for helping reduce wrinkles, scaring from acne and darkening of an area of skin called hyperpigmentation. With the sugars I add fresh crushed Lavender buds and French Lavender Essential oil. 
Lavender is known for its antiseptic properties, but for the fact that it increases cell growth and heals wounds faster, while it also helps reduce scaring from the wound. So when you can take two ingredients like brown sugar and Lavender, both which are a culinary favorite, and clear your skin with no side affects...Why wouldn't you?   
    I also have another wonderful face scrub, Almond ~ Juniper Sugar scrub. It only has the white sugar, but the crushed Almonds and Wheat Germ will help exfoliate Almonds contain Vitamin E, which is a powerful antioxidant which cause an anti-aging benefits. Juniper Essential oil is being used to help relieve acne, eczema and even oily skin conditions. 
  So I really do believe that you can help your own face or your teens face conditions naturally. There is no need to use harsh, scary medicines, when there are so many natural ways to treat and heal your skin. I am a firm believer that there is a reason for every plant, flower and food that grows from the ground being placed on this Earth. For Centuries these ingredients were used for  daily medication, personal hygiene, and so much more.  
It is time to take back our and our children's well being.
Try natural , Feel and experience the difference first 
hand. 
   Secret Garden Bath & Boutique makes safe, effective
and truly affordable products. 
If you don't believe me and my four kids that use it, go
out there and ask anyone who does.  Post the question
on my FaceBook and hear what my Clients think. 



Lavender-Neroli Face                                                                                           Pore Cleansing Face
   Astringent: $8.00                                                                                                  Toner: $8.00                                                                                  



  


 

Schedule, Re-Schedule and Try again.

 I have to say that 25 years of marriage, 24 years of raising children I have learned how to make a schedule that runs like clock work. I did very well keeping my four kids on time to school, scout meetings, events and even birthday parties over the weekend. I worked outside the home for some of my children's school years. So it took a bit of juggling, oh, did I forget to mention my husband was in the Air National Guard and was gone A LOT? Now you see why it was important to have a strong schedule that worked well.
  I am a mom that likes to have fresh baked snacks after school, and cooks three meals a day by scratch. I work hard at keeping my house clean and organized, I even iron my sheets, This is why a schedule is so important to me.
   Yet I have to say that this is becoming something that I am having a hard time with lately. One child is out of the home, one is getting ready to get married and join the Marines, and the last two are in high school. My husband is retired and works a regular job where he is home now. So I thought this would be a good time for me to think about my own business. Yet this is not really the case. I just can't seem to get a grip on making a schedule that works well and is easy to keep on.
    I have my one year old grandson all day, which after raising for kids you think I would find this easy. I guess the difference is I wasn't trying to build a business from the ground up. I make and create everyone of my products. I create the recipes, make the products, design the labels, build the web sights and run my own spa parties. I am an Army of One. So I am finding it hard to still do my house work, cook by scratch, run after a one year old and run a business. I make a new schedule every week and I find each one harder then the last. Sometimes I feel like making schedules are more work then just doing each day as they come. I often wonder how I ran a house hold of six, with me having to act as a single mother for so many years, and kept it all on track and organized. Now...it just feels like chaos more then half the time.
   I guess it is trial and error. At some point this has to all fall into place. I am determined to make running a house, chasing a toddler and building a business work smoothing, on time and with very few hiccups. So I will sit down again and design a schedule that will more then likely frustrate me, and I will
 re-write it until it just works!

  Until then...I will enjoy being a Grandma to this little guy and always make sure is first on every schedule

Home Spa Parties, Birthday Parties, Bridal Parties and Fundraisers!!!

Why should we take baths and soak?

    So many people tell me they don't take baths. Some because they don't like baths, or some because they heard sitting in a tub is bad for them, and then there is the ever popular "I don't have time to take a bath".
Yet it is really important for our bodies for us to soak. Using a good quality and natural bath soak can help pull toxins out of our body. We are bombarded by toxins every day of our lives. It is in our foods, water, air, everywhere. They get trapped in our bodies and start to cause cellular damage in our bodies. Once this starts
the toxins will damage our cells and start to create free radicals. These free radicals will look for healthy cells to attach themselves to and start a horrible circle of damage, which in turn could damage or DNA, cause aging, cancers and more.
     Now eating right can help you remove some of these free radicals and toxins, yet soaking in a bath soak can help too. Now to mention that it soothes our muscles, relaxes our mind, calms our stress and simply makes us feel better all around. Make sure your soak has natural herbs, minerals and fruit oils. Also Dead Sea Salts, Epsom salt, Essential oils and Vitamins are ingredients that you want. These ingredients will help purify your body, mentally rebuild your mind and spirit and even replenish your skins Ph balance, and could help such injuries as bruises and cuts heal.
   Do your body a favor and find 10 minutes to take a bath with a soak of your choice. Even if it's once a week, it will help you recover. In this day and age when we down Energy drinks full of chemicals, fast food full of preservatives, smear chemicals all over our bodies in creams, soaps and lipstick, we need to take back some of our health and give our bodies something important back. Spoil yourself and treat your body, cells, muscles, skin, mind and Spirit to a few minutes of pure goodness.
    You will be amazed at how you feel better and more energized.