The Business Links Page

April 2008

 

 

 

Weird, wonderful and fun

 

MyCatHatesYou    How to waste hours when you should be working.  

PirateName              Your secret pirate name. Where do you think I got Captain Ethel?  Fixed!

HobbitName           Your hobbit or elf name.  

FairyName               For those who aren't hobbits or pirates.

GothName                Your Goth name. 

Adipocere               Instead of being buried or cremated, get saponified. Weird, scary and very gross.

Henna                 Loads of info and laughs about henna.  

KissThisGuy            A database of mis-heard lyrics.   Fixed!   

Shipping

 

  Parcelforce                                 Pricing Page.

  Fedex                                           Federal Express

  United Parcel Service                UPS

  Parceline                                      Parceline

 

Regulatory Bodies and Trade associations

 

NaTrue                                       European  lobby for the regulation of the terms natural and organic in cosmetics 

EFFA                                          European Flavours and Fragrance Association   

Colipa                                        European Cosmetic, Toiletries and Perfumery Association

CTPA                                        UK Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association                                

BERR                                         UK  Department  for  Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (used to be the DTI)   FIXED!

UKCP                                        UK Cleaning Products IndustryAssociation

UK Trading Standards.          Start here to find your regional agency.

NMTF                                       National Market Traders Federation. Join and you get public liability insurance.

 

Agencies to ruin your day

 

IRS                                                                        The Inland Revenue

Customs                                                               Customs and Excise

UnCertSoap                                                         Research for those selling uncertified soap

 

Financial

   

CraftInsurance                 Ian Wallace, Insurance for crafters and craft shows.    

GM Imber, London          Craft Insurance     

 

PayPal                               Provides online payment for small firms and clients without credit card facilities  Fixed!

NMTF                               National Market Traders Federation. Join and you get public liability insurance.

Natwest                             National Westminster Bank.

Barclays                            Barclays Bank

Lloyds                                Lloyds TSB

BankofScotland               Bank of Scotland  

AbbeyNational                Abbey National Business department

 

Web Page Developers  

Mals                                   Mal's e-commerce free shopping cart service  and now online shop hosting

Webtapestry                                 Hosting and Design.

FredtheCat                                     Designers specialising in animal and equestrian sites. Worth a look!   Fixed!

 

Printer and Photography Supplies 

 

PicStop                      Good prices on photography supplies and super customer service

InkjetCartridges                  Compatibles and recycled. Good customer service.

Pixmania                               Cartridges and all kinds of media goodies.

Inkfactory                            Free delivery in the UK.

Software Tools  

Zonelabs                            Free firewall package.

Filemaker                            For creating a client database. Free trial available. 

RKSoftware                        Inexpensive mailing list manager. Prints labels too. 

GriSoft                                 Free AVG anti-virus software   

McAffee                             Anti-virus and firewall

Norton                                Norton anti-virus by symantec

Postarmor                           Server-side SPAM filter. Shareware.

Alchemy                             Inexpensive GIF animation package.

GoogleUK                           Google search for the UK web pages  

 

Business Services

 

Phonebook                                    UK Phone book  

Yell                                                  UK Yellow Pages

YellowBook                                   USA Yellow Pages

Postcode                                        UK Postcode search. Must register but its free.

Conversions                                  Metric Conversions

 

Plants  

Many soapmakers grow their own herbs, botanicals and dye plants.

 

Buckingham                    Specialists in native UK plants. Will even ship trees.

Nickys                              Lots of unusual herb seeds.  

Richters                           Canada, but will ship plants anywhere. I've never seen so many herbs.

HorizonHerbs                  USA.  fantastic source for hard-to-find plant seeds.

 

Books

 

Links to books that soapers swear by

 

HMSB                                              The Handmade Soap Book. Melinda Coss. (Link to Amazon)

The Soapmakers Companion.       Susan Miller Cavitch. (Link to Amazon)

Catherine Failor.                              Making transparent Soap, Making Natural Liquid Soaps, Making Cream Soap. Link is to her site.

ScentedSoap                                    Making Scented Soaps by Linda Hamblin. (Link is to Amazon.)

Craftworkers Yearbook                  Write Angle Press, Stoke-on-Trent. Tel: 01782 749919

The Saponifier                                 USA. Bi-monthly magazine for soapmakers.

Soapwire                                           USA. Electronic newsletter for soapmakers.

MarieBrowning                                Melt and Pour Soapmaking  and others. Nice lady, too.  Link to her site.   

 

 

                            

 

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