What's New at TKB Trading

Pressing Matte Powders is different than pressing Mica Powders because Matte Powders are different than Mica Powders ... learn more and see some example recipes.

Recently, we announced on our site that we had some finished matte liquid lipsticks "coming soon" for sale on our site.

I wanted to briefly explain to our long-time customers what this is all about.

For decades, TKB has focused its efforts on supplying raw materials and offering support to indie businesses. We started with the soapmakers and quickly added a variety of indie crafters, with a large...

It is shockingly easy and affordable to work with uncolored, bulk nail polish base to make your own unique creations.

Our company started selling the material in early 2011. I had noticed that there customers were talking about making "Frankenpolish" where they would blend together polishes from different manufacturers -- a half a bottle of an Essie green, a quarter bottle of an OPI gold, and top...

Halloween came and went. While the cat was away the mice played as, apparently, there was a contest to see who could come up with the most creative "recycled costume" while I was out running errands.  It was hard to choose the winner as everyone was so creative!

In the meantime, I continue to work on improving our new website. I managed to make some minor improvements, but each of these areas still...

Thanks to those taking time to report goods, bads and uglies on our new website.  Keep 'em coming! We need your feedback!

Today we added the WISHLIST function.  It's like pretty much any other wishlist you see on the net, but you do need to be logged in with an account in order to use it.

Speaking of Logging In . . . many customers on our old site are confused about how to move over to the new site...

Birthin' our New Baby
TKBTrading.com 5.0!

TKB was founded in December 1997.  Over the years, we have had plenty of .... simple-looking.... web designs.

What we lacked in flash and sizzle, we made up for in prices, heart and innovation. Time has caught up with us though and we really needed to become "mobile friendly". For this reason we are now launching our new version of "us". It's a lot prettier!...