Get Started In You Aromatherapy Business
Now that you have learned so much about this miraculous healing remedy of aromatherapy and what it can do, you can choose to incorporate it into your every day life. Be forewarned, however, that aromatherapy is addictive. Once you start making bath salts and massage oils, you will want to make more and more things.
The list of what you can make when it come to aromatherapy is long. In addition to what we described throughout the book, other items you can make to incorporate aromatherapy include shampoos, soaps, moisturizers, lotions and potpourri. The possibilities are endless. You may decide to start making “healing baskets” for friends and relatives. You can purchase some pretty bottles and containers and decorate them with ribbons. The choices are endless.
Once you have really mastered the art of making aromatherapy products at home, you may want to begin to sell your products. Before you do this, you should be aware of one caveat:
We live in a very litigious society. Be careful whenever you sell any sort of healing product to people because they are likely to sue if something goes wrong.
In order to continue your business without worrying about getting sued by some money hungry lawyer, you should do the following before you sell a thing that has to do with aromatherapy:
• Add a disclaimer to the product stating that it is not for medical use;
• Incorporate your business
A disclaimer will let people know that you are not making any sort of medical claims about the product. You have to be very careful about selling “healing products” on the market today because people will be very quick to file a lawsuit if it doesn’t work. You cannot go about saying that you can cure someone with terminal cancer with lavender it is not only wrong, but you are giving the family false hope.
That being said, there are cases where people who were written off as “hopeless” by doctors, have bounced back using aromatherapy or other alternative therapies. We have to get out of the mindset that doctors are not God. They have a lot of the answers, but not all. And every once in a while, something happens that stumps them. Where there is life, there is hope.
You should be cautioned, however, about preying on people who are seriously ill and promising them cures. This is not only inaccurate and unproven, but it is bad karma. Don’t do it. Promote your product as a way to treat minor . After all, if pharmaceutical companies can sell “cold medicine” over the counter, you can also sell aromatherapy products. The only difference is that your stuff will actually work and won’t have any side effects.
Put a legal disclaimer on all of your products and literature that this is made for the following:
External use only. Keep away from eyes. Keep away from children. Not meant to be a substitute for medical treatment. Do not use on sensitive skin. Do not use on broken skin areas. Do not use in mouth or genital area.
The other thing you should do is incorporate. Not all businesses need to incorporate, but those who sell items such as aromatherapy healing products are wise to incorporate their business. This can protect your personal assets.
A corporation is like a separate entity. It can open bank accounts, file taxes and be sued. The owner of the corporation is the stockholders. The names of the stockholders are not public record; the names of the officers running the company are public record. In most small businesses, the stockholders and the officers are the same people.
It is not difficult to open a corporation. You need a tax number from the federal government called an FEIN and you need to file Articles of Incorporation with the state. The fee to file Articles of Incorporation varies from state to state. It is usually around $100. The form is simple to fill out and there are various places online that can do this for you cheaply. Although corporations are required to hold annual meetings of stockholders and officers as well as have a corporate resolution whenever a decision is made,if you are the only one in the corporation, you can do this any time you want. It can be written on a piece of paper. Save yourself the money and skip the “corporate book and seal” deal. You don’t need it in a small corporation that is not offering public stocks. In fact, you don’t really need to do anything except pay your taxes and file an annual report, which you will get from the state and, essentially, gets mailed back signed stating that nothing has changed.
For a small fee, you can protect yourself against any sue happy lawyer that wants to sue you for selling their client massage oil that made them break out for a few days and caused them “mental distress.”
Aromatherapy products can be a big business and quite profitable. You just want to be sure that you protect your own personal assets. If you selling your products under the corporation, they cannot go after you personally for anything.
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