Candles For A Cure Is A Huge Success!

I was hoping to post about Scent-Sations (Mia Bella's) Candle For A Cure last month, but with all my vacations (2 camping trips and a trip to Florida) I never found the time. So, now I'll tell you what a success the program was, and how you can still help.

Last month in response to breast cancer awareness month Mia Bella released the Hope candle. A candle created especially for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure to breast cancer. The 16oz pink jar candle is perfumed with high-end designer fragrances, and for each candle sold, Scent-Sations decided to donate $10.00 to the Foundation with an initial goal of $5000!

Did they meet the goal? With flying colors! The check presented to the Foundation a few days ago was for $15,190.00!

The great news is that the Fundraiser is not over! You still have a chance to help. Just purchase a Hope candle and a portion of the proceeds will be sent the following month to the Foundation. You get an incredible smelling and burning natural wax candle, and we all get closer to a cure!

Click Here to get your Candles For A Cure.

Bella Beauty - The New Cosmetic Line From Mia Bella (Scent Sations, Inc.)

Saturday the suspense was ended when Mia Bella (Scent Sations, Inc.) announced their new, and entirely different from their other products, line. It's called Bella Beauty and it's a Color Cosmetic (Mineral Makeup) line.

I'm extremely excited about the new makeup line because at one time I had considered buying mineral makeup in bulk wholesale, and reselling. I decided it would be a lot of hassle and I'd have to buy a ton of product to make it work and I wasn't exactly sure, without a catalog, how I'd market it.
Now, I have my makeup, with a catalog, that someone else made and packaged and now I can have home parties (hint, hint, mom!) or sell at flea markets or to friends, etc.

The line won't be released until May, but if you want a sneak preview you can take a peek HERE and see what we will have to offer.

This makeup will be made in the USA with FDA regulated ingredients, have high concentrations of natural minerals, renewable natural moisturizers (Including Soy Protein), vitamin E as an anti-oxidant / moisturizer , no animal derived ingredients , no animal testing, and will be gluten free! (Great for those with celiac disease!)
And, if you've been looking for a home business now is a great time to jump in! Whether you love candles or cosmetics, or just want to own a business for less than $50 a month, (with no quotas or start up fees) contact me for more info. There are multiple ways to run your business, fundraisers, retail sales, and building a team for residual income. I can offer to do whatever I can to help you, and you'll be amazed at the amount of sales training and support that we have.

I Washed My Hair With A Bella Bar

I'd heard for a while that you could use our Bella Bar Gourmet Soaps for more than just bathing. I was already using them to shave with, but even though I'd heard that they could be used instead of shampoo, I really didn't think it would work on my hair.

However, some of the women, on a forum I visited, mentioned how they were using them instead of shampoo and liked the results, so I gave it a try. For all my sketptism, it did a great job! I couldn't believe how well it lathered and my dry scalp seems much less flaky today. I still used my regular conditioner, but think how convenient this will be when we go out of town. No more bottles of shampoo to carry along, just one little bar.

If you'd like a sample, contact me through the 'Contact' button in the link bar above. And, remember, we also have one of the best candles in the world, they burn clean (no black soot) and are strongly scented, all the way through, down through the last burn. Unfortunately, we no longer carry pillar candles but there are some great new things on the horizon. Announcements will be made at our conference in March. Look for updates on this blog!

For information on how to start your own gourmet candle biz, for less than $50 month, visit my website at www.RunAHomeCandleBiz.com.

The Winner Of The Mia Bella Candle Contest Is...

Thanks to everyone who visited, commented, tweeted, stumbled, and subscribed to my blog during the past few weeks while the contest was open. I truly appreciate all the new readers I've acquired. My goal is to hold a new contest every 4 - 6 weeks. So keep coming back... you never know when I'll have something new to giveaway. (And, if you would like to donate a product for me to review and giveaway, you can contact me at ahurst @ gmail dot com.)

Drum-roll please...

The number chosen by Random.org, out of 234 entries, was #90, which was Sue S of Just Neat Stuff. Congratulations to Sue! I will be contacting you by email and Twitter! You will be receiving the Mia Bella jar candle, 4 votives and a gourmet soap!

Canada Now Open For Candle Business!

Woo Hoo! We received the news, just yesterday, that we can now enroll new distributors in Alberta, Canada! Orders have already started shipping!

If you love candles, and have never tried a Mia Bella candle, you're in for a treat! They are made of a blend of all-natural vegetable waxes, (yay! they're green!) with two cotton wicks, which makes them burn clean, (no black soot!) and evenly all the way to the bottom of the jar!

And with over 100 scents to choose from, you're bound to find a scent you love.

Be the first in your area to offer these great candles. You can start your own business for less than $50 a month, make residual income, and don't let the recession get you down! There are no quotas. And you are free to work your business any way you want, retail sales, fundraisers, team building or a combination of the three.

Click Here to sign up today, or to learn more visit my website at www.ASuperiorCandle.com.


Note to other Canadian residents: For New Brunswick and Nova Scotia residents, we will most likely be open for business in January 2009 and we are trying hard to have Manitoba and Saskatchawan in by early Spring 2009!

Win Mia Bella Products In My First Ever Contest!

Love scented candles? I've got a contest for you! I posted a few weeks ago about the Bella Bars from Scent-Sations, Inc. (better known as Mia Bella) and told you I would be holding a contest for some of my extra goodies. Well, the time has come!

Mia Bella Gourmet Candles are made from a proprietary blend of ALL NATURAL waxes – no harmful paraffin wax, just a safe blend of vegetables and other renewable materials. Because they are made with natural wax ingredients -- you get virtually no black residue on your jars, walls, ceilings or in your lungs! In addition to the healthier qualities of a cleaner burning candle, you also get maximum value and performance -- the unique double wick in our 16 oz. jars will give you an even burn, all the way to bottom of the jar; and because they are made with biodegradable products, they clean up with soap and water! If you are looking for the best smelling, best performing, lowest soot producing candle on the planet… this is it!

Here's what you'll get if you win the contest:

• 16oz. Hollyberry Balsam scented Mia Bella Gourmet Candle (Fruit & Spice combine with the fresh forest scent of balsam to bring you this intriguing aroma.)
• Mystic Melon scented Bella Bar Gourmet Cleansing Bar
• 4 candle votives in misc. scents

(value of $32.90!)

So if you've ever wanted to try one of these great burning candles, or love them already... now's the time to enter!

How To Enter

Mia Bella has over 100 scents to choose from. Go to my Mia Bella website to see our list of scents and then come back here and tell me in a comment what your favorite candle scent is from the list on that page.

The contest will end on December 12. On Saturday, December 13 I will post the winner and I will contact the winner by email, so make sure I can find your email address. If you do not have it on your blogger profile, or the link you leave, put it in your comment. The winner will have 48 hours to respond, at which time I'll get their mailing address.

Can you get extra entries? YES!

• Earn 2 extra entries by also blogging about my contest, and linking back to this post, on your blog. (leave the URL of your post in your comment)
• Tweat about my contest for 1 extra entry.
  
• Stumble or Digg this post for 1 extra entry.
  
• Subscribe to my RSS feed for 1 extra entry.
• Technorati Favorite my blog for 1 extra entry.
  
• Follow me on Twitter for 1 extra entry. (http://twitter.com/amh615) (New followers only -sorry!)

Be sure to let me know in your comment if you did anything to get extra entries. And be sure to leave your user/profile name in your comment if you are Stumbling, Digging, Technorati Favoriting, Tweating, or following me on Twitter - I will be checking! :)

Thanks for entering and I hope you win!

*Sorry, but due to the price of shipping, prize will only be mailed to addresses within the U.S.

It's Soysational!

This post is going to be a blatant advertisement for a company that I love and one that I have a vested interest in since I'm an Independent Representative for them. You probably know them as Mia Bella.

Mia Bella makes the best candles and in a couple of weeks I'm going to hold a contest for some of my extra stock, but today I want to tell you about our Soysational Bella Bars, "the soap alternative!"

Why they are so great: you can use our "Soysational Cleansing Bars" to shower, shave (I haven't bought shaving creme since I received my first one!) and even shampoo! Once you experience the benefits of this amazing body bar you will never want to go back to plain ordinary soap again!

They contain ingredients that are good for you! Soy Proteins, lavender oil, grapeseed oil, grapefruit seed extract, MSM, glycerin, cananga ororata oil.

Using ordinary soap is an exercise in “overkill” that cleanses the skin too much and that can leave your skin drier and itchier, not to mentionordinary soap can actually make your skin age faster!

They come in six great scents:

• Grapefruit/Lavender
• Mystical Melon
• Juniper Breeze
• Sweet Orange & Chili Pepper
• Slate & Stone
• Japanese Pear

I love these bars and know you will too! Wanna try one? Email me for best pricing at ahurst07 @ gmail.com. Or, shop online by visiting ahurst.scent-team.com.