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BEAUTY: A salon and shop in the historic Sharon Building in downtown Bolinas joins a coterie of new women-owned businesses in town. Amanda Ross-Mann, above, offers facials, waxing and more, and sells her own line of botanically based skincare products. Two local massage therapists also work out of the space, where a grand opening celebration will be held next Saturday, Sept. 3 from 4 to 8 p.m.   David Briggs

Eleven years after Amanda Ross-Mann moved to Bolinas and saw an empty storefront in town, the space is hers. Ms. Ross-Mann, who hosts events at the Mann Family Farm, is also an aesthetician; over the last decade, she has formulated and sold her own botanically based beauty product line, which features organic and ethically sourced ingredients. Now those products, which “used to be in my trundle-bed drawers,” she said, have a storefront. The Amanda Ross…