EGCG Swag Bags

Need amazing stocking suffers? Grab one of these awesome swag bags put together by the EGCG members! Filled with 14 generous sample sized luxurious products (1-3oz!), this bags are eco-friendly and reusable! Only a few still available! Check them out at the EGCG store!

Spa Therapy Works on Baltimore Magazine

Big THANK YOU to Baltimore Magazine, for including Spa therapy Works in your December issue - Holiday Gift Guide! What a honor to be included in a directory of indie crafters in Charm City! It is also so gratifying to see some of our friends together in one slick looking mag!

Maryland Food Bank Holiday Donation

With Thanksgiving and the holidays fast approaching, the members of BEST want to take the time to give a little something back to our community. Several members will be donating money from the sale of the their items to the Maryland Food Bank.

The Maryland Food Bank provides nearly 14 million pounds of food annually to 1,000 Network Partners - including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, low-income day care centers, after-school programs, senior centers, rehabilitation centers, and other feeding programs. They supply food for over 50,000 Marylanders each week who otherwise would go hungry or not eat enough, including families with children, the elderly, the homeless, the homebound, low-income workers, the recently unemployed, and people with AIDS and other health problems. For every $1 contributed to the Maryland Food Bank, they are able to provide 3 meals to Maryland’s needy families and individuals.

From November 27^th through December 11^th, Spa Therapy Works- will be donating 15% from all soap sales to the Maryland Food Bank, along with the following participating BEST members:

1. jenmenkhaus.etsy.com - 10% from entire store

2. jennyjen42.etsy.com - 10% from entire store

3. blockpartypress.etsy.com - 10% from entire store

4. RobotZ.etsy.com - 10% from the entire store

5. yonpli.etsy.com - 10% from the entire store

6. yummyandcompany.etsy.com-10% from entire store

7. threewheelsdesign.etsy.com - 10% from entire store

8. bennyandheidi.etsy.com- 10% from entire store

9. vwstudios.etsy.com - 10% from entire store

10. lulaandme.etsy.com- 2% of all sales from store and shows

11. elisasherejewelry.etsy.com - 10% of all earring sales

12. thebrokenplate.etsy.com - $5 from each sale of Holiday Theme Plates

Take some time to visit these fantastic Etsy shops, support handmade and know that when you make a purchase between Nov. 27- Dec. 11^th, you will be helping to provide food and services to someone in need this holiday season. Here are some other ways to support the MD Food Bank:

• Make a direct monetary donation to the here:

• Purchase and donate food through the Food Bank's “Virtual Food Drive”

• Deliver the food directly to the Maryland Food Bank at 2200 Halethorpe Farms Road. Please call 410-737-8282 to arrange your delivery.

• Volunteer Opportunities

Holiday Heap 2008

Photo courtesy of Chad Van Pelt @ CRV Images

Holiday Heap 2008 was a successful fun event! A big thank you to all of you who braved the rain to come joined us yesterday, supporting local and independent artists at St. Paul's' Church in Baltimore.

Our little space on the Baltimore Street Team table

Virtual Trunk Show TONIGHT! Come chat and shop w/ the Baltimore Etsy Street Team!

BEST will be part of this virtual trunk show,TONIGHT, November 13th, starting at 7 pm. Stop in and check it out! Participating members will be offering 10% off purchases in their shops from 7 - 9pm EST, and anyone who makes a purchase during this time will be entered in a drawing for a goody bag by BEST members.

Where to Find Us This Fall

Come see us at the Holiday Heap 2008 - A Charm City Craft Mafia’s annual Holiday show. Held in the heart of Baltimore in the beautiful neighborhood of Charles Village, the fair will take place November 15th from 10-5pm at the 2640 Space at St. John’s Church (located at 2640 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD

Shea Butter - Your Winter Skin's Best Friend

More and more products are being introduced with the added benefit of shea butter nowadays. Shea butter (Butyrospermum Parkii) comes from the shea tree which is native to Africa. Each summer, the tree bears a fruit the size of a plum, which contains a nut. Shea butter is actually the fat extracted from the seed that is removed from the shea nut. The nuts are then mixed with water and boiled until the butter rises to the surface.

Africans have used Shea Butter for many generations to protect and rejuvenate their hair and skin and research has shown the great benefits of using shea butter to soothes, moisturizes, and protects the skin, because of its high quantity of unsaponifiable fats. This butter also helps to regenerate your skin and retain moisture, protecting the skin from the sun’s UV rays and healing aged skin.

When used on a regular basis, cracked hands, feet, and other dry skin irritations are reduced greatly.

Experience it for yourself and you, too, will be a believer!

Election Day

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Spa Therapy Works' New Recycling Program

“Spa Takes Back” Recycling Program

How can we live lightly on the Earth and save money at the same time?

RECYCLING!

Spa Therapy Works is committed in helping our environment, and so we’ve created a Recycling Program that helps save the planet and save you money! You’ll get a 50% OFF coupon to use on any product in the shop when you return 5 containers to us!

Send us back 5 rinsed out containers with your Etsy screen name and we’ll email you a coupon where you can choose ANY Spa Therapy Works’ product and pay only 50% off the price!

Eligible containers are our lotion bottles and our low-profile jars (scrubs/whipped soaps/whipped butters). It can be a combination of types or 5 of the same type of container – It doesn’t matter! These containers are very light and easily fit in an envelope, so it’s cheap to send them back.

Now you can shop responsibly without feeling guilty about producing waste.

We cannot reuse these containers for our products, but we can make sure the material is properly recycled. We know that there are people out there who don't bother recycling these containers and just throw them away, so by offering a discount, we make sure they won't end up in a landfill somewhere.

RECYCLE . REUSE . REDUCE