Retailers know that consumers seek purchases that are beautifully designed, earth friendly and that add delightful value to their lives. Our profitable retail accounts continue to both bring in new product lines and to offer a cross section of merchandise categories. Below, please enjoy viewing examples of the niche and artisanal products that our vendors offer to help you keep pace with changing customer demands. Our lines are themed to fall into the categories of better quality 'feel-good' or impulse buying (pampering, accessorizing, sentimental, or pick ups), wellness and treatment (home fragrance, spa and beauty), gifts & home decor.
Altru
Fragrances that are lovely blends and that draw from a life long love of beauty in life. Altru is more than a collection of luxury fragrances. It is a commitment to social responsibility through its support of In a Perfect World, which aims to empower children to become compassionate and socially conscious leaders. By supporting altru, you embrace a cause that gives children a stronger voice in making our future more perfect! Each collection includes a room diffuser, copper candle, & incense, with names such as Appreciation, Integrity, Harmony, Wellness, & Inspiration.
These brilliantly designed lighters and wick trimming snuffers are volume sellers for stores. Retail prices range from $10 for the 7" lighter; $16 for the 9" lighter with black leather handle and $22 for the 12" Stainless lighter with square stand. We love the upright lighter stand and the elegant beauty of the design. The snuffer double as wick trimmers so that candles will burn better with a properly trimmed wick.
Angela's Garden
Originally inspired by a need to find comfortable, well made and pretty garden gloves, Angela's Garden offers garden accessories that are as beautiful as your garden itself. The many styles of gloves are made in 'dress style' construction, with lanolin infused linings and washable SPF 37 fabrics, seen on the "O List" in May. For the Eco Aware Consumer, they offer the 'Green Gardens Group' which are made with vegetable tanned leather, Hemp & Organic Cotton, and the care instructions are printed directly on the fabric with soy ink. Notable are the totes, full or half aprons, brim hats and an entire collection of kid's gardening accessories, all with a UPF of 45, protecting against 97% of the sun's UV rays. Gardeners love the knee pads that attache withVelcro and are super comfortable.
This extensive
collection of home fragrance and personal care collections, listed below, with treatment-oriented
ingredients and quick selling packaging themes is a basic reorder business for our stores.
New in Fall 2009, Boticario de Havana, is shown above. "Good for the planet, good for the skin". With a fragrance based on Archipelago's home fragrance sensation, Havana, retailers are jumping to reserve their zip codes for this collection. Blended with natural ingredients, including coffee bean, tobacco flower, orange oil, sugar cane and pineapple, and with green packing that is made with recyclable materials and boxes made with no glue ( the fold together). Men's shave creme tube extends this line into unisex category and a special no charge sign is offered to promote the shave ritual. As all collections, Boticario is available in a prepack of cases of each item, testers and signage, with an approximate 10% savings.
New in Spring 2010 a lip balm and home fragrance diffuser will begin ship in mid February.
The Milk Collection Dried milk solids and natural soy and oat proteins combine to gently nurture and sooth the skin. Soy Milk products are blended with proteins, amino acids and lipids- allowing for rapid hydration and cell regeneration. Oat Milk products are blended with oat grain to soothe the skin.
New items include 1.7oz travel sizes in lotions and shower gels, lip balm tubes, EDT in Milk, Bath Salts, Body Scrubs, Body Souffles (with innovative flip open tops) & Body Butters. Just added for February 2010 launch, in Milk are 4.2 oz cube bar soaps retailing for $6, 8oz lotion pump retailing for $16.
The Morning Mint Collection Jump start each morning with our Mint products- each product is infused with naturally stimulating essential oils and extracts. The herbs and mint fragrance is softly appealing to all.
Pomegranate continues to top sales in body care. The red currant-like fragrance is crisp and only slightly fruity. Pomegranate is the perfect additive for the skin. Our Pomegranate Skin Care Collection is loaded with powerful antioxidants, premium ingredients- including Phase 2 Enzyme boosters that help detoxify and cleanse the skin.
New this season in Pomegranate is a lip gloss wand and fragrance roll on. The recently added travel sizes in lotion and body wash, moisturizing souffles, re-formulated body butters, & a travel gift set in Pomegranate have nicely extended the shelf appeal and sales.
Grapefruit Blended with premium ingredients and natural antioxidants, these skin care products are formulated to refresh, soothe and protect. Grape seed extract-- a powerful natural additive-- offers natural UVB protection and 50 times the antioxidant power of vitamin E. Gentle jojoba esters keep skin smooth and silky, while the crisp scent of grapefruit awakens the senses.
The Excursion Collection, boast some of the astoundingly popular fragrances Archipelago is known for such as Havanna, Figi, Luna, Positano, Dubai, Enfleurage, and Stonehenge. Diffusers in 2 sizes plus a refill are available. Travel diffusers with a screw on cap, come with 5 sets of wands. Poured candles are soy blends and are now offered in new mini tins. Sure to be one of the best selling fragrances, new for Spring 2010, Sakura, pictured above is a blend of cherry blossom, teak and white spices.
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The 28th fragrance this season for The Signature Collection is White Peach. Mini tins retailing for $7 with a 4 hour burn time are now available in all fragrances. A new boxed set of 3 mini tins will be a perfect father or teacher gift.
The Black Forest Collection features a blend of Douglas Fir and Ebonywood with a subtle hint of Black Currant. Its sleek, black presentation is the ultimate in sophistication.
The 31 fragrances in The AB Home Collection, are joined this season by 2 new fragrances, Pineapple and Lilac. New also are small boxed candles and mini tins. Each fragrance is available in your choice of hand poured candles or home diffusers. Our hand poured candles are blended with more than 70% natural soy wax to burn longer and cleaner. Frosted room diffusers add a distinctive decorative element, and continuous fragrance delivery.
The Sugar Collection unlocks ancient remedies with this delightfully gentle, luxurious and moisturizing collection. Used for centuries, sugar provides natural alpha hydroxyl acids to smooth fine lines and is the perfect base to gently remove dulling dirt, toxins and dead cells from the skin. Calming vanilla, and pure mango and coconut extracts deliver powerful antioxidants to keep skin looking young and healthy.
AromaFloria
Shown above is their collection of purely organic bath salts and body oils. AromaFloria's factory is green certified. They also offer almost their entire collection is spa professional backbar sizes as well as the retail packaging shown here. For retailers product collections are supported by on the shelf signage describing product benefits. Well known for their Spa Fusion Collection below, and their home fragrance bead collections that offer retails as low as $3.
Baudelaire
Provence Sante is a best selling full body care line from the south of France. The oversized Big Bars
in 8 fragrances now come in pictorial gift boxes. New for loose soaps
are gorgeous huge glass jars for display, creating a modern apothecary
feeling in your store. A men's line with sleek effective display units
has just been added to Provence Sante and is reordering quickly. Essence Soaps with 'Goddess' image embossing, has a new fragrance Loofa Mint. Apiana
are the famous Swiss hexagonal soaps with honeycomb sculpture. A top quality
collection of sponges and wooden bathing brushes, loofahs and soap
dishes, with a well-designed display is available.
Beau Bain
Easy to display packaging for petite fizzing bath bombs. The $14.99 smaller size is a best seller, although stores often buy back up stock in the $29.99 size in top selling fragrances such as Lavender Black Amber, Coconut Lemongrass, Spearmint Eucalyptus, Rose Garden, or Rainbow Sorbet. 6 different emoilient oils in each ball: shea, clary sage, vitamin E and several floral oils. Epsom salt based.
Bella il Fiore
Ready to go gifts, great displays and super prices from Bella. Makeup treats sell in the most challenging times, offering indulgences at great prices. The makeup trunk set above left retails for $22, the gift boxed shimmer powder puffs have either silver, gold or pink shimmer powder, and retail for $14. The eye palette below retails for $12. These sell!
Body Heart
A heartfelt collection designed with the intention of helping women create positive self images and messages. Affirmation decks come in 2 styles for daily practice. Life Event greeting cards and Inspired Greeting cards become keepsakes. Necklaces come in 16" or 18" lengths in either black leather or sterling silver chains retailing for $25-$26. Semi Precious Stone Stretch Bracelets retail for $14.
Bomb
Handmade bath melts, gems, fizzies, massage bars that outshine all others. Bathing is a time to indulge, reflect and to spend a little quality time by yourself...Bomb is also aware of best environmental and humanitarian practices from packaging to animal rights regarding testing, which is reflected whenever possible in their packaging, products and operations. Best selling trays shown below can be split between 2 fragrances. We've never seen the excitement in stores that these create, as customers help themselves to bath treats, even making excuses to come back and get more.
Bougies la Francaise
Made in France, lovingly crafted, since the 1900's, Bougies la Francaise is known for beautiful quality and fragrance blends. Sculptured candles and whimsey draw your attention, but the basic candles produced for over 100 years bring customers back each month. Their candles and fragrances are so divine that they are the private label manufacturer for premium brands such as: Gucci, Luis Vuitton, L'Occitane, and Prada to name a few.
The Perforated Tapers (above) still in the line after 100 years, burn about 7 hours, and are made with drilled channels to catch drips and re-burn the wax. The box of 20 retails for $29 and the box of 8 for $16. Their colored unscented tapers come in 32 colors in either 8" or 10" at $1.80 and $1.45. Prices have gone down in 2010, on an average of 25% and shipments leave the Kentucky hub every 2 weeks.
Jar candles are 50/50 vegetable and food grade parafin wax. The palm wax is sustainably harvested from non GMO 'RSPO' palm forests, so that trees are re-forested. Otherwise, wax is all European in origin, saving consumers from the benzene found in so many 'economy' waxes. Fragrances are from the perfume capital of the world, Grasse, France.
Cook Book Company
Bitch in a good way! Stands for "Babe in Total Control of Herself". Not only hilariously funny the cookbooks are filled with delicious and tested recipes. Another product line that makes a statement, lightens the mood and delivers value. Softcover titles retail for $19 at keystone. Wineries buy "Any Bitch Can Wine" with appetizers; "Any Bitch Can Party" dessert recipes; "Any Bitch Can Drink" cocktail recipes; "Bitchin' and Grilling" barbeque recipies; "Any Bitch Can Fake It" recipes for quick meals enhancing leftovers; "Any Bitch Can Lose It" recipes for healthy eating and weight loss; and "Any Bitch Can Cook" in hardcover retails at $24.
Crossroads Jewelry
Contemporary and artful collections of jewelry from around the world. Artisans contribute to the collection from Thailand, Mexico, Massachusetts, and New York, to name some locals. We first fell in love with the Silk Thread with Glass and Crystal beadwork. There are fused glass designs, lampwork glass, and funky felt jewelry collections too. Tabletop displays that are effective and attractive make the line super strong for stores. The stretch ankle bracelets & toe rings with their playful displays are often sold out in our stores in Spring/Summer
Deep Steep
Beloved Organic Body Care with no item retailing over $20...plus they have travel sizes in everything that retail under $3.60 each. Body Butters come in tubes which are so easy to use. Liquid hand soap retail at $8.50! Where can you find that? Fragrances that rock are Tangerine Melon, Rosemary Mint, Grapefruit Bergamont, & Lavender Chamomile.
Dynamo House
At last! Available now in the US, from Australia, this vendor offers products that tell curious, mystical, educational and genuine stories. What does that mean? Here is a collection of completely natural, therapeutic bath, body and healing items; a collection of reference charts, products to encourage us in the pursuit of wellness through meditation and spiritual connections. A favorite is the Mandala jigsaw puzzle which we sat down and put together until 2 in the morning! Red Tea natural body care with its amazing antioxidant properties, Dead Sea salts and body care, Healing Balms of Eucalyptus, Peppermint Oil, Tea Tree Products, genuine Rose and Lavender Balms and moisturizers, incense sticks (we heard you ask)....It's crazy wonderful Perhaps the greatest hit in California are the Wine Tasting Kits for red or white wine..that lead you through the process with sample vials of fragrances, of understanding wine and evaluating its taste...a super father's day item and a staple in wineries and wine shops...Retailing at $35.
Emily's Garden*
Owned and operated by women near the San Francisco Bay.The organic flax seed filled microwavable neck wraps are the best! They are nicely weighted to help relax the shoulders and they are full enough that the soothing flax does not travel to the tips of the pillow, thus missing the back of the neck. The lavender and eucalyptus herbs release beneficial aromas when heated one to two minutes in the microwave. Eye Pillows retailing for only $20 are already gift packaged.
Eye for the Find
No two are alike with these art glass nail files. Embellished with glass and beads on permanently etched tempered glass from the Czech Republic. Three sizes all come in felted black case: Mini for purse retails for $14; Medium for $16; and Large for feet $22.
Frilly Lilly
First known for their cuticle oil & cream and then for their lip scrub and glosses, we now have a full bath and body line with EDT in the top selling Sugar Fragrance. Buttercream in Blue has a delicate rich pastry fragrance. Green Coconut Lime is often sold out in summer months. Ruby Grapefruit in orange packaging has been strong on the West Coast and the scrub and body butter are used in many mani pedi spa treatments.
Frankie and Johnny
This has to be the best PJ vendor out there! Prices are great and the quality is relialby the best. New this season are Eco Friendly Bamboo Cotton Blend Flannels. Bamboo is naturally anti-microbial for sensitive skin. The texture of bamboo is comparable to a blend of cashmere and silk and wicks away moisture, keeping you cooler in summer and warmer in winter. The Cashmiracle robes and spa wraps are 'one size fits most' and launder well time after time.
Games for Dames
What's a Dame to Do? This game needs a warning label "you will laugh until you cry". Seen on a number of news shows, this $29 retail board game is great for girlfriend parties or mixed groups. The object of the game is to score points, using female intuition and humor, by guessing how players would react to given dilemmas. For example--you accidentally elbow a guy in the groin as you enter an elevator, what's a dame to do? The answer is in the cards! The laughter begins when players look over their hand of Reaction Cards and give you answers that they think fit the bill. Would you--Avoid eye contact? Slap on some lipstick? Introduce yourself? Yell "Fire!"? Give a compliment? Stop drinking? You secretly choose your answer, then players guess what you choose. Get out the martinis and chocolate, coffee and scones, or wine and brie. Hate reading Rules? Watch the how to play video online :)
Get Fresh*
Spa and Home Spa bodycare products with natural and effective ingredients. Packaged in bright pastels. The Foot and Treatment Lines are used in Backbar Programs by spas worldwide and backbar sizes are available. Brand new packaging and fragrances are just now shipping in the Spa Collection. This group rounds out the backbar products with very salable retail counterparts in modern graphic packaging. Standout products include body masks, soy moisturizers, and Beauty to Go Kits. Also new this season is Memories a gift oriented group of bodycare named after famous cities such as Paris & New York.
Hollywood Fashion Tape
New Ballet Flats come in black or silver and simply roll up into their own organza bags. Sizes are S(6-7) M (7.5-8.5) L (9-10). New body shapewear also comes in organza display bags. Classic items that reorder regularly are the clothing tape that holds necklines, straps, hems down; clear bra straps, sweater de-piller blocks, nipple cover-ups, facial oil blotter papers, lint lifting sheets, bustline enhancers, and heart shape mints.
Icelandic Designs Accessories
These photos are last season's sold out designs. Stay tuned as we bring you Fall 2010 which will pre-sell and close by April.
Jay Soap
Handmade soaps from all natural ingredients. Gifts that need no wrapping.
Jimeale
Style function and price come together delightfully with our new vendor Jimeale. Exteriors are satin and interiors are wipe down , double lined. Zippers are top quality YKK brand. Interiors on the travel bags are all the Brown Stripe pattern. Diaper bags all have the colorful patterns on the interiors, Chocolate Brown solid exteriors, 2 side pockets, loads of interior pockets, changing pad, bottle insulator and padded adjustable straps. Plus! After a long search, we finally have a roomy and pretty shower cap collection (with carrying cases). Their colorful patterns that will coordinate with luggage and loungewear, promise brisk sales.
The team at Jimeale strongly believes in social responsibility, generously donating 10% of net profits to various non-profit and youth focused charities. October is Breast Cancer and Leukemia awareness month, and the Soho Collection generates 15% of net profit
for Boarding for Breast Cancer; the Red Dot France Collection generates 10% of net profits for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Kathy Lo Rocks*
A big trend in jewelry is the 'Flip Over' charm, earring , pendant--so that all pieces are reversible (2 sided) ---adding 2 for 1 value to the purchase. A contrasting color is always on the other side, so that the customer gets great satisfaction in having such versatile jewlery. Sold in fine museum stores, gift and apparel, the collection boasts timeless but artistic design. Hugely popular are the alphabits charms, where customers can purchase the initials of their sweethearts, pets or kids and wear them on a chain. In the colorful line seen above, there are rarely any duplicate charms since they are hand cut from limited edition Japanese Chiyogami papers. Most stores buy assortments knowing that they can always exchange and that the artist will select a beautiful assortment.
Kelly Colleen
Stores refer to this line as "Counter Candy", as customers collect them in many colors and styles...Stretch Rings in Sterling, Vermeil and in many possible stone and color combinations...See our special on Current Specials page! Shown left to right: Filagree, Swarovski Crystal, Pearl, Swarovski Crystal Full Color, Swarovksi Cube, Vermeil Pearl. Sure fire recommended new account opening order is 12 ea: Sterling Assorted, Pearl, & Crystal all in assorted colors. New accounts get NC Hand display. Opening order is 24 rings.
Love, Me
Blessed by spiritual leaders worldwide, these carded string bracelets and necklaces (retailing for $10 & $15) offer blessings of love, strength, and peace to your customers. A portion of proceeds goes to charity. Bracelets are also available in boxes with leather for $25. Fragrance compacts have 3 solid perfumes to mix and layer, as customers create their own fragrance.
Maris Naturals*
Maris of San Francisco uses only 100% natural essential oils and extracts. The delicate fragrance blends contain no synthetics or phthalates. The fragrance blends contain some of the most expensive essential oils and absolutes available. The Bulgarian Rose oil used is certified organic. (Did you know that it takes 20,000 pounds of roses to make 1 pound of rose oil?) The soaps contain a rich shea butter; bath and shower gels are made with skin softening extracts that cleanse without drying; the scrubs have spa grade salts and clays to gently exfoliate; and the body cremes are a blend of shea butter and botanical orange wax for intensive moisturizing. The 4 fragrances are Bali Vanilla, Bergamot Vanilla, Eucalyptus and Fleurs.
Northern Lights
Best selling collections of candles with beautiful displays to guarantee sales. Your rep has special offers and pricing each month.
PooPourri & Karoma
Who knew this would become a basic reorder item? It's a version of a room spray but this newly patented product eliminates bathroom odor when it's sprayed onto the toilet water prior to use...great for travelers, guest baths, or anywhere one shares space with others. Lately the silver purse spray has become popular as gals carry a supply with them. Gift sets with TP and a bottle in the center continue to wow us with retail sales...New from the company this season is Karoma, aromatherapy for the car in 5 fragrances. Pure essential oils fill your car with delightful fragrance or aromatherpy, such as "headace relief'. The display holds the box rear view mirrors handers and starters set retailing at $16 and refills. To guarantee supply we can only open a limited number of accounts in 2009, so please contact your rep, see the button above "Contact your Rep" for phone numbers.
Primal Elements*
The original and still the standard in the industry for glycerin loaf soaps, Primal Elements
continues to brilliantly re-invent themselves. We have some store who order as many as 150 loaves a year! They coloring and fragrances in them are suitable even for the natural foods level customer with only the yellow dye being synthetic... Now the popular graphic
soaps are available in individual 'pillow packs' that both show and
protect the soap. Color Bowl and Demi Light candles appear to have chunks of 'stained glass' in them as they burn. Seasonal Fun Soaps are priced as low as $2.00. Bling bling decorated Wish Candles and Bath Soaks seem to be on every order. Below see a snap shot of the loaf display at a successful retailer, promoting the loaves in a 'produce-style' display. .
San Francisco Soap Company
Of course we have this! Crazy-well priced and perfect for value & design driven accounts throughout our territory. Notable are the Glycerin Soaps retailing for $1.80, lotions, body butters, shower gels retailing for $4.80. Large Hand Foamers for $6.00. Many retailers are doing a triple mark up on these items, then placing one fragrance per month on sale at 25% off, still making a better than keystone margin. That's good business.
Simply Be Well Organics
A body care collection loaded with Certified Organic Ingredients such as: Blueberry Fruit Extract, Coconut Oil, Goji Berry, Lavender, Orange Oil, Palm Oil, White Tea, Rosemary Extract, Peppermint, Pomegranate, Soybean Seed Extract, Sunflower Seed Oil and Sweet Almond Oil. Because this is produced by a large private label manufacturer, the prices are extremely reasonable and you have a good margin to work with. Just added: a home cleaning kit of 4 items in a canvas tote retailing for $25 and a set of 4 lip balms retailing for $20
Tranquility Audios
Gift the gift of relaxation and harmony with these CD's by one of our favorite yoga masters. Shown above are the art work on the covers for Yoga for Meditation (Inspiring and beautiful music from around the world), Dream Time (if you have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, this program for progressive relaxation, guided visualizations & soothing music, will help), Tranquility (guided meditations and music for reducing anxiety). Below see the artwork for Shavasana ( a mini retreat of yogic rest, deep level of relaxation) & Get Walking (guided power walking for stress reduction and fitness). Retail $17.95. Get demo copies with your orders too. Call Ann to have sound samples sent over. 800-500-6229
Upper Canada
Yoga Rat Mats*
Now that the wellness trend has brought Yoga, Pilates, and fitness to the mainstream as huge national business trends, studios, stores and spas need specialized products not found in grocery stores and mass market merchants. The premium mats above retail for $49 and are extra long 72" mats, made of nontoxic TPE material, is latex and rubber free and completely recyclable and biodegradable. The printing inks are nontoxic and the mats are double thickness/reversible. The closed cell, waterproof construction allows perspiration to wick off and they offer superior cushion and grip. Students come to realize quickly that a really good mat is a smart purchase...
TPE mats shown below are 68" long and are extra thick and nontoxic. Retail for $29
Chuckle over the skeletons demonstrating yoga poses on your mat and connect with Super Om for a grounded practice! Buy 10 and get a demo mat for studio use for 1/2 wholesale.
*A California Company