EXHIBIT 24.2






                             BLYTH INDUSTRIES, INC.

                                  CERTIFICATION

      I, the undersigned Secretary of BLYTH INDUSTRIES, INC., a Delaware
corporation, certify that the attached is a true copy of resolutions adopted by
the Board of Directors of Blyth Industries, Inc. on March 30, 2000, at a meeting
throughout which a quorum was present, and that the same is still in full force
and effect.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
Blyth Industries, Inc. this 28th day of April, 2000.

                                    /s/ BRUCE D. KREIGER
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                                    Name:       Bruce D. Kreiger
                                    Title:      Secretary

                             BLYTH INDUSTRIES, INC.

                          Board of Directors Resolution

                                 March 30, 2000

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                                    FORM 10-K

RESOLVED, that the form, terms, and provisions of the Annual Report on Form 10-K
(the "Form 10-K") in substantially the draft form presented to and reviewed by
this Board, are approved and that Robert B. Goergen, Howard E. Rose and Richard
T. Browning be, and each of them with full power to act without the other hereby
is, authorized (i) to sign the Form 10-K on behalf of the Corporation and any
amendments thereto as either of them may approve on behalf of the Corporation,
in such form as the officer executing the Form 10-K or any such amendment may
approve, with any changes from the form presented to this meeting as he may
approve, such execution to be conclusive evidence of such approval, and (ii) to
file the Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission"); and be it further

RESOLVED, that each of the directors, the Chairman, President and Chief
Executive Officer, the Vice Chairman and the Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer, of the Corporation, are each hereby authorized to execute in their
respective capacities, a power of attorney in favor of Robert B. Goergen, Howard
E. Rose, Richard T. Browning and Bruce D. Kreiger designating each of them as
the true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents of the signatory with full
power and authority to execute and to cause to be filed with the Commission the
Form 10-K for fiscal 2000 with all exhibits and other documents in connection
therewith as such attorneys-in-fact, or any one of them, may deem necessary or
desirable; and to do and perform each and every act and thing necessary or
desirable to be done in and about the premises as fully to all intents and
purposes as such officers and directors could do themselves.