POSSIBLY THE BEST WAY TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE

I just came across an excellent new system that can help anyone who has a personal blog or website to make extra money. Before you go doing what I'm about to tell you, be sure you don't break any terms of services, as not all blog sites will allow you to do this...however, if you have a free blog here, on http://www.blogger.com/, or have your own website, THIS SYSTEM WILL EVENTUALLY PAY MORE THAN GOOGLE ADSENSE.

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Make a Cool Gift Card Holder

Below is an article I wrote on the 5 Best Gift Card Ideas for the Man in Your Life This Christmas. If you know the type of stores your husband or boyfriend likes to visit, consider getting him several gift certifcates this Christmas! Read more»

After you read the article and purchase the gift card(s) of your choice, consider making a personalized gift card holder or purchase a special wallet like holder and decorate it with your talented personalized touch.

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Using Site Sell to Build Your Seasonal Business

Many have discovered that even when they first got on Site Sell and weren't very focused, but the Site Sell system helped them focus their business and website into becoming a multi-million dollar businesses.

Site Sell is the perfect tool for building a seasonal business from scratch. If you have a Christmas craft that you want to sell to the world this year, now's the time to let Site Sell help you develop your website. They handle all the promotions, hosting, shopping cart and etc.

Whether it's an art craft, an ebook or some service or product perfect for Christmas, it's time to get serious and join Site Sell .

Not only is Site Sell an awesome place to start a business from scratch, but they also provide all the easy tools to create and market your website.

Site Sell has over 100,000 entrepreneurs & small businesses that outperform their large competitors, thanks to Site Sell's web hosting and marketing program.

What's their secret?

Site Sell's continued growth is based on its guiding set of principles:

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Wholesale Bath and Body

Who doesn’t like to be pampered in scented bubble bath and body lotions? I don’t know one woman who doesn’t appreciate benefiting from wholesale bath and body products. Today’s amazing aromatherapy scents with extra skin moisturizers not only feed the body, but also produce calming and/or energizing effects on the mind.

This is where you come in. This Christmas, offer your own line of wholesale bath and body products. Purchase the lotion, add your own oils and produce the type of bath and body product you've always wished someone would make!

Wholesale bath and body care products on the Internet

For many years, I’ve sold aromatherapy products, incense, oils and candles. I also bought and sold some great wholesale bath and body care products on the Internet. In order to purchase wholesale bath and body oils, lotions and soaps, some places require you to have a retail license or sales tax number. However, many places selling wholesale bath and body products don’t ask for any such thing, but only ask that you purchase a larger quantity of products.

Wholesale bath and body shopping carts online make it easy to purchase some of the greatest products at excellent cost savings to you. Wholesale bath and body products include: bath gels, bath soaps, shampoos, lotions, bath salts, scrubs, bath and massage oils, bath puffs, bath mists, soap making kits, soap making molds, etc. For Christmas, you can create beautiful packages offering a little bit of all of these, or specialize in one product.

Wholesale bath and body supplies means getting more for less

What I always appreciate about purchasing wholesale bath and body supplies is the fact that I can get so much for so little. Taking advantage of warehouse price breaks means creating an inventory of supplies through which one can create one’s own catalog or online shopping cart to resell the products. By taking advantage and purchasing wholesale bath and body supplies, you can turn around and make a decent commission in resale.

Ideas for home-based wholesale bath and body business

When I sold my own products, I bought the wholesale bath and body supplies online. From there, I created bath and body baskets with my own homemade scented soaps, aromatherapy oils, and incense kits. I sold my products through an online website and shopping cart; home parties; email list of friends and interested parties; and through word of mouth. During the months before Christmas, my sales increased. You have to take advantage of holidays and special occasions when operating this sort of business!

Another way I sold my wholesale bath and body products was through kids who wanted to earn extra money in the summer and fall. I provided them with supplies, and an avenue by which to sell the various wholesale bath and body supplies to their social groups. The kids had a great time. They went door-to-door, sold items at school to parents, teachers and students, at church and other social functions.

Buying wholesale bath and body products is a great way to supply your own home with wonderful scented oils, soaps and lotions or your own home based business. Shop around for the best deals, not only on the products, but also in shipping and handling.

How to Make Hand-Milled Soap for Christmas

Christmas gifts and soap making go hand in hand. The great thing is, it's easy to make hand-milled soap, and these make wonderful Christmas stuffers and gifts for friends and family. In this article, I'll show you how to make hand-milled soaps.

Hand-milled soap is a term that basically means taking a basic bar of unscented white soap and further enhancing it with colors, fragrances, filler, oils and lotions to make it into a final product you desire. With the right molds and ingredients, hand-milled soaps can be among some of the best soaps around.

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"Commercially produced hand-milled soap bars are considered the finest quality of soap available for their silky hardness, fragrance, and excellent emollient characteristics. Produced at home, hand-milled soaps are equally exceptional and can be molded and decorated in many creative ways," says Marie Browning, author of Natural Soapmaking.

A few years ago, I began making my own hand-milled soaps. Along with selling aromatherapy products, soapmaking made sense, and selling scented soaps seemed like a great complementary item to sell with oils and etc. What I didn't know was how fun it would be to actually make my own soaps.

The Process

First of all, I began buy purchasing vegetable glycerin unsented soap online. I ordered them in big square pieces. You can also purchase these at craft stores like Michael's. I also purchased soap molds and created my own molds at home out of various items. Next I bought oil scents like vanilla, sandalwood, strawberry, mango, peaches, lavender and etc.

What you do is melt the soap in a microwavable bowl. Grate it or cut it into small pieces and then let it melt. Once the soap is soft, separate it into the molds and add the specific oils you want per bar. If you plan to make several of the same bars, just add the oils into the bowl and mix it well. Next, place the soap molds inside the refrigerator on a shelf to cool down and harden.

Adding other ingredients
Part of the fun of making hand-milled soap is the creative process of deciding what ingredients you want to add besides the fragrant oil. I enjoy adding things like oats, herbs like chamomile, mint, slices of real cinnamon, almonds, honey, rose petals, citronella, and etc. The sky is the limit.

The main thing to be aware of when making soap is your own allergies.

Choosing molds

Craft stores sell all types of molds with all kinds of shapes and even special writing or inscriptions. Decorative soaps are lots of fun to make and the shape of the soap can be fun to choose as well. Be creative. You can also by your own plastic tubing at a hardware store for making round soaps. Buy a five to six inch tube and fill it with the melted soap and scent of your choice. After it hardens, push it out of the tube and with a large knife; cut the soap any width you like. These types of soaps have a real natural, home-touch to them. I especially enjoy my oatmeal vanilla soap in these shapes.

Never use hard, inflexible molds made of glass or aluminum. Avoid plastic cups and disposable plastic containers.

Soap presentation and packaging

You can package your soap in any kind of material you like, from plastic to specialty papers and containers. Again, creativity and your own personal touch can make a big difference. If you want to sell hand-milled soap, let your imagination run free and create attractive labels to glue to the packaging. Next, place the soaps in an attractive box with decorative ribbons, specialty craft rope and etc. As for what to charge, do a quick search online or in stores in your town to see what your competition is charging.

Overall, hand-milled soapmaking can be so much fun and a great outlet for those with a creative spirit.


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How to Make Incense for Christmas Gifts

There's nothing like creating a Christmas atmosphere for your home and for those you love. Those of us who enjoy aromatherapy and creating "atmosphere," know the importance of scents. Incense is probably the most intense of mediums and can be irritable to some people and create headaches in others. Yet, for many of us, a favorite incense helps relax and put us in a good frame of mind for meditating, reading, studying or for simply relieving stress. Giving incense you've made yourself as a Christmas gift is an excellent idea.

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There are basically three forms of incense - loose incense, cones, cylinder and stick. The oldest form of incense is the loose kind and by far it's the easiest of the four to make. Loose incense usually burns on charcoal. Cone incense is economical to make and less messy than loose incense. Cylinder incense lasts longer than cone and both are the hardest to make because they are made my hand and can be time consuming. By far, my favorite incense comes in the form of sticks.

When learning how to make incense, the main thing to remember is that there are four basic ingredients that go into making incense, with the exception of the loose incense. They include your aromatic substance (which creates the scent), a base or chemical that helps the incense to continue to burn, some sort of bonding agent that holds it together and a liquid that allows the bonding agent to change into a type glue.

When it comes to the aromatic substance, there are many scents to choose from. The following list is from Wylundt's Book of Incense, and breaks the scents down by categories:

Bark: woody, semisweet, mild
Berries: heavy, earthy, resin-like
Flowers: dry, grassy, semisweet
Gums: heavy, semisweet, resin-like
Leaves: dry, herby, grassy
Roots: earthy, heavy, woody, different
Seeds: burny, bitter, smokey
Spices: sweet, dry, mild
Wood: woody, semisweet, mild

Things to consider when making incense

It's important to keep the proportion of aromatic substance at least twice as large as the base. Too much base can cause a strong after smell of smoke, so be careful not to overdue it.

When measuring ingredients in your incense recipe, be sure to use level teaspoons and always make sure your ingredients are grounded well, and as finely as possible. This will help assure your final incense product burns clean and evenly.

When grounding down ingredients, use a mortar and pestle. A blender can be used for larger ingredients.

The key formula is twenty parts aromatic substance, four parts base and one part bonding agent.

Bases

There are many types of bases to choose from. A base burns easily and gives off a nice odor when burning. The reason a base is needed for your incense is because most herbs burn poorly without one. The base helps make all bitter roots and herbs balance out and give them a smoother, milder fragrance. "The most popular and easy to obtain bases are wood powder, sandalwood, red sandalwood, quassia, vetiver, willow, evergreen needles and talc. Wood powder is nothing more than sawdust that has been ground very fine. You can either buy it or make your own. Any lumber store will be more than happy to give you all the sawdust you can use." (Book of Incense)

Saltpeter is added to incense to help reduce the burning time by 25 to 40 percent. If you've ever bought and burned incense and notice that some burn forever while others burn out fast, saltpeter is the reason. In case you don't know what saltpeter is, it is a natural form potassium nitrate that they put in gunpowder and fireworks.

Choosing your bonding agent

The bonding agent is very important in good incense. You can choose from a variety of gums and resins including "agar agar, ghatti gum, guar gum, gum arabic, locust bean gum, karaya, sodium alginate, tragacanth and xanthan gum." (Book of Incense)


Liquid

Any fluid can be used, but water is your best bet. Still, some people are known to use olive oil, wine, rose water and beer.

And finally...

Once you have the above ingredients, you can begin to combine them and can use them to form cones, cylinders or down hand rolled or dipped sticks. If all you want is the loose incense, you've got it!

After a while, you'll find that you have your favorite scents. Experiment and carefully find what works best for you. Mostly, have fun!

Incense recipes can be found throughout the Internet or in the Book of Incense.