Pink Sugar Bombs & Beneficial Body Oils

♥ This week's Bombs- Pink Sugar aka Cotton Candy | Really Sweet |

Soothing Peppermint Bath.Body.Massage Oil

Essential Oil of Peppermint is excellent for mental fatigue and depression, refreshing the spirit and stimulating mental agility and improving concentration. It helps for apathy, shock, headache, migraine, nervous stress, vertigo and faintness and in general respiratory disorders, as well as dry coughs, sinus congestion, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, tuberculosis and cholera. On the skin, peppermint oil is used to relieve skin irritation and itchiness and also helps to reduce skin redness, where inflammation is present. Peppermint oil can assist in nervous disorders and is dramatically effective in stimulating the mind and focusing concentration, for treating the respiratory tract, muscular aches and pains and for some skin problems.

Energizing Rosemary Bath.Body.Massage Oil

Rosemary Essential Oil has a pronounced action on the brain and the central nervous system and is wonderful for clearing the mind and mental awareness, while having excellent brain stimulant properties, as well as improving memory.
It helps with headaches, migraines, neuralgia, mental fatigue and nervous exhaustion and the antiseptic action of rosemary oil is especially suitable for intestinal infections and diarrhea, easing colitis, dyspepsia, flatulence, hepatic disorders and jaundice and relieving pain associated with rheumatism, arthritis, muscular pain and gout. It also helps for arteriosclerosis, palpitations, poor circulation and varicose veins.

New Organic Lip Tints!

Two new Flavors of Sheer Organic Lip Lushness:

Wild Cherry | Warm Deep Red
Black Raspberry Vanilla | Deep Plum Wine

All Organic, Vegan-Friendly, Synthetic-Free,
with pure essential oils and mineral colorants.

Treat yourself, and treat yourself well ♥ xox

Kitty Cat Beads

purr....New Kitty Beads- Glass Lampwork- Handmade with Love =^.^=

New Soap, Bombs, and a Bead Sale!

Glass Goodness! Handmade Glass Lampwork Beads on sale today- cool

Enjoy Fresh Lavender Soap & Soy Candles.
Did you know that you can use our soy candles as a lotion and massage treat?
Smooth non-greasy moisturizer that makes you smell delicious!

Blackberry Sage bath Bombs. Must try this experience.... amazing

This week's Bath Bomb Fresh Batch

Super refreshing sweet basil, lime, & wild mint -with geranium, linden blossom & hints of amber.

Drop this into your bath water for an instant spa experience! Kaolin Clay Absorbs excess oil so your skin emerges glowing toned & refreshed, Apricot Oil moisturizes, and essential oils soothe the senses.♥

Black Raspberry Vanilla Bath Bomb Fizzies

fresh batch! Black Raspberry & Vanilla Bath Bombs- we make just a few at a time so they are super fresh and beneficial, and they go fast! Kaolin Clay, Grapeseed Oil, Dead Sea Salt, Essential Oils, combined and dropped into your bath, equals fizzing tonic waters that leave your skin toned, refreshed, senses soothed, and muscles relaxed ...

Black Raspberry Vanilla smells like...Fresh, vine-ripened raspberries and blackberries mixed with bergamot citrus, Ripe Barlett pear with soft notes of plum wine, vanilla orchid and a silky, cashmere musk. Overall, it's sweet, silky and mouth-watering. ♥

Borosilicate Lampwork Beads

new! Boro Beads.
You can now choose between traditional "Soft Glass" Lampwork Glass Beads and the newest addition to our bead line: Borosilicate Glass Beads. Boro is a bit heavier than soft glass, and has the most unique reactive characteristics imaginable. Changes in the light as well- fun!

Available in our retail boutique only.

FrankinMyrrh Halloween Soap Bars

Just in! Our Frankin-Myrrh Soap is ready to spook your bath time up-
Warm and sensual exotic soft musk with a woodsy bottom note.

Arabian Spice Soap Bars

New Soap! Arabian Spice: Myrrh and Orange, with middle notes of Ginger, Cinnamon
and Cloves. Rounded out with Caraway Seed and Vanilla for a warm, tranquil feeling ♥

Sugar Scrub Cubes

fun for the shower- pop out a square, melt it a bit in the palm of your hand, and then smooth over your entire body (yes gentle enough for your face too!). The sugar exfoliates, and the glycerin moisturizes,along with sumptuous apricot oil, grape seed oil, and fresh pure essential oils chosen for their invigorating, energizing, and refreshing qualities.

get your Gift-wrap on

New! Gift wrapped suds now available in the shop. We will also be offering gift cards for the season for those times when you just don't know if they would prefer vanilla, rose, or sandalwood. If it's a tough call, you can always go for the card, comes wrapped up cool too!

Vegan Lip Balm For Men

yes it's true! Man-friendly Balm, vegan, synthetic-free, no added colors, just creamy refreshing lip savers, lightly scented in traditional mint and essential oils that make you think "Crisp" "Fresh" and "Clean".

Toy Soap!

Check out these fun toys we found at the Fascinate-You Children's Museum... they are trapped inside moisturizing glycerin in the all around happiest fragrance of all: YumBerry. Suds r fun.

Soap Sickles? yep.

we will be getting more creative with these, rainbow colors maybe? =)

Eden's Garden and French Milled Rose with Rosemary & Lavender

Fresh Batch of Handmade Soap!



Eden's Garden, French Milled Rose, and Strawberry Rhubarb...

Dragon's Blood

New Suds!



Dragon's Blood. (A blend of Patchouli, Rose, and Musk)

Labor Day Weekend Sale

Labor Day Weekend Sale | Enjoy 25% off select items

BOGO Soap Bars! Buy One Get One Free includes Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla, English Rose Garden, Hungarian Lavender,Vineyard,Pilgrimage Spice, Chocolate Cherry.

Yum! Fall Soaps rolling out...

Now available ♥ Patchouli Hemp & Sandalwood handcrafted Artisan Soap Bars

Chocolate Cherry Handmade Artisan Soap

If only they made scratch n sniff computer monitors! Just added our newest soap recipe to the shop today, Creamy Light Chocolate & Bing Cherry. YUM. =)

Be sure to visit our shop this Friday during the Monthly "Fourth Friday" festival in Historic Downtown- we had to make lots of room this week for new soap, and last weeks soap needs homes! We will be offering some nifty bonus buys on clearance goodies, worth a visit, and a sniff.

July's Fourth Friday Plans at Beads & Botanicals

This Month the Historic Downtown Fourth Friday Street Festival for Arts and Entertainment will be on July 28th.

We are getting super excited because we have a lot of fun lined up!

Local Artist & Jewelry Designer Lisa Fenn will be here designing live and in person, and we will also be debuting our Pandora and Troll Style glass beads that Daniel and I make from scratch in a hot torch flame- fun :)

Swing by to meet us, and see what Lisa, April, and I are designing at our booth in front of the shop... If you are a local artist who can do a live demo of your craft and would be interested in participating with us on Fourth Fridays do swing by and chat with us about it ♥

We will have our new fall scents available just in time for the festival.... more info to follow on them so stay tuned....

Organic Color Tints

Cabernet, Beach Daisies with Sea Weed, and Vineyard are now available!
These are Super Sized Bars of Suds,Late Summer & Fall Aromatics.

Newly Added Lip Yum Line: Organic Color Tints!
Color, Gloss, and Condition your lips with all natural and organic ingredients.
Featuring Shea Butter & Apricot Kernel Oil.

CooL Berry Fizz! New Bath Bombs

Yay! This week's new Bath Bombs are a splash of cool fruity goodness, Passionfruit & Kumquat.Filled to the brim with essential oils, Kaolin Clay, Apricot Seed Oil, and Foaming Suds, these giant bath fizzies will get the job done. Relax, soothe, smooth, moisturize, and deep cleanse- ahhh. ♥

Botanical Hair Repair Treatments

Introducing Botanical Hair Repair Treatments! Our new line of serums consists of three different nourishing blends:

• Well Being Treatment with Geranium! For Healthy Balanced Hair and Scalp
  
• Chemical Recovery Treatment! Soothe, Strengthen, Hydrate & Seal in Shine
• New Growth & Healthy Scalp Treatment! Ease Scalp & Promote New Growth

Next time you stop in ask for your FREE fact sheet and ingredient list for these treats for your tresses :P

Fourth Friday Event- July

Introducing:

blossoming Wall of Glass Lampwork beads

Top Shelf Glass Rounds, up close =)

Solid Shampoo Bars in Cleansing Clover with Tea Tree Oil

Glycerin Gift Soaps in Passionfruit Rose

Vegan Lip Balm, Smooth, Soothing, and Scrumptious

Foaming Bath Salts! Try Lemongrass Zinger...

Fresh Bath Bombs,
April Say's just add glass of wine for the most awesome bath experience- ever
(please drink the wine, don't dump in in the bath)

Lampwork beads, Lampwork beads, Lampwork Beads

And entertainment! Stop by the shop on Fourth Friday, July 24th
for acoustic music by Jenelle- cool =)

New Store Hours!

Oh Goody ♥ New Store Hours- Open Tues-Friday 12-5 and Sat 10-3, plus late night on Fourth Fridays

|introducing our new solid shampoo in clover and tea-tree. anti-dandruff pro-happy hair-minimal packaging makes the environment happy to, win win =)

New Article about Beads & Botanicals!

yea! New Article today in the Fayetteville Observer :) Rebecca Logan stopped by the shop last week to take a peek and wrote a bit about us, check it out here:

Downtown shop aims for organic growth

By Rebecca Logan

http://www.fayobserver.com/Articles/2009/07/11/915682

We are Open! yay :P

Day two:) Thought I would share some photos with you, yummy Soaps Below...

Meet Dan: Glass Bead,Soap,and Candle making extraordinaire!

And Jenelle: General Mixing, Stirring, Creating, Concocting, Brewing, and occasional guitar playing glass and soap slinger :P

Shop hours are Wed-Friday 12-5p and Sat 10-3
See ya Downtown!

Sneak Peek LIVE

Will Be open Tomorrow, Thursday July 2nd from noon to 5pm for the curious, bead collectors, and those in need of some good smelling soap =)

Window Sign :)

Window Sign, check!

Handmade Hurley

Beads & Botanicals will be opening sometime during the first week of July, featuring Handmade Glass Lampwork beads, Cold Process Old Fashioned Artisan Soap, Fancy Glycerin Gift Soaps, Vegan Lip Balm, and Soy Candles & Tarts.