Creating an Herbal Bodycare Business (Making a Living Naturally Series)

This is a great book for thinking and acting practically when starting your own business, especially in the field of natural body care. The author speaks from experience and has a successful business that she started with fifteen dollars many years ago. She has many practical ideas and suggestions for the starting and maintaining of business. I especially loved the interviews and spotlight she features of other success stories.Wisdom demands that we learn from the success and failure of others. This book allows this in a very real way. I also like that she encouraged us to follow our intuition and dreams, and see even our failures as steppingstones to future success. There is also an emphasis on ethical and environmental business which is very important to me and she does a great job of explaining the reasons behind it.My only negative comment would be that there is too much emphasis on spirit guides and such for my liking. I do, however, understand her reasoning.Thank you for a practical, engaging book that focuses on our field of business specifically!

"Creating an Herbal Bodycare Business" is less of an actual "how to" and more of a New Age outlook book. That being said there is a good amount of practical advice to be found in the pages, but it will take some digging to get at the important stuff. We already own a reasonably successful "brick and mortar" store and produce our own line of Bath & Body products, but wanted to get this book to add to our library.If you are not overly concerned with New Age philosophy, I would recommended starting with something like  Start Your Own Business, Fifth Edition: The Only Start-Up Book You'll Ever Need  or even  Small Business For Dummies , and look for another book on making bodycare products (such as  Clean, Naturally ).CFH

This book is great and very helpful. Unfortunately, one of the most inspiring passages at the end of p. 133 simply ends mid-sentence and never carries on. If it it somewhere in the book as an error copy and paste, I have yet to come across it. It doesn't continue on p. 134. Other than that, quite helpful and inspiring.

This book is exactly what it says it is. The information is well written, it is well organized and it takes you from the beginning stages of planning to the future stages of expansion. I loved this book and while I read it in just a short time, it a book that I will keep on my business shelf and use repeatedly over the years. Sandy Maine did a great job on this informative book.

Good information.

Good advice for new business owners! Lots of great stories from people who made it big and started very small. Congrats on this piece of work!

the whole read was very informative. I would recommend this book to everyone. i received much info. i keep it out as a referrence tool.

Writen by a woman who knows what she is talking about from not just her view but from several business owners struggles and successes. Easy to relate to and the wisdom, although slightly out dated thanks to new laws and regulations, is inspiring and gives the reader a starting point to work from.

a helpful insight into creatinga business as well as looking at oneself as a person. it is actually quite a touching/reflective book considering it is about "business".

This book is full of inspiration, good tips, and a few generous warnings. I particularly enjoyed the profiles of various companies.

Excellent book. Wasn't what I was expecting but turned out better.

Not of much use in the age of internet stores and platforms like Etsy. The businesses were started before the mid-nineties so can't provide much practical advice for a modern setup. The advice about marketing also suffers for this reason. It's unfortunate because the premise of the book is a good one : a more holistic approach to business. It would be nice if the author would update the book to take into account how the body care business has changed since it was published in 1999.

Very good