Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Christmas Gifts and Postage Changes

We're pleased to be able to report that some of our Christmas gift hampers have now been uploaded to The Natural Soapworks web site.  This year we have a lovely selection of natural goats milk soap and bathing hampers, all at very affordable prices ranging from just £2.75 upwards!

At the same time as uploading some of the Christmas items, we've also reviewed our website postage.  We've been monitoring the average cost of posting out orders, and have decided to make a few changes to The Natural Soapworks site to help with Christmas orders.  The big news is that our standard postage cost has been reduced to just £3.00 per order!  This is for orders dispatched on a Standard 5-7 day Second Class Royal Mail service.  Customers will then have the option to upgrade to a Priority 2-3 day First Class service for an additional 75p.  We think this is the fairest way to calculate the postage costs, since it gives more customer choice.  In addition to these Royal Mail services, we've also introduced a courier option for an additional £5.50 which is excellent value for money on a next day signed for service.   We hope the courier option will be helpful for urgent or larger orders as Christmas approaches.

All that customers need to do is visit the postage page  on The Natural Soapworks site to add on any postage surcharges they may require for their orders.  Otherwise the Standard postage of £3.00,  will be automatically be added on by the Paypal checkout as usual.  Similar postage options will be added to the Natroma website in the coming weeks.  We hope these changes help to make this years Christmas orders just a little more affordable!

Monday, 10 September 2012

Christmas is coming!

What a fantastic few weeks it's been!  Our congratulations to the wonderful athletes and everyone involved in the Paralympics - it's been an inspirational and moving experience that we'll never forget and we're so proud of your achievements!


We've been watching loads of sport during the last few weeks, but behind the scenes at the Soapworks there's also been a festive aroma in the air!  Yes, 'that time of year' is rapidly approaching again and we've been busy making lots of festive soaps, and developing new hamper packaging etc.

So we just wanted to warn Stourbridge customers that our Christmas catalogue is already out (this is for orders that will be collected from the workshop).  For website customers, we hope to have the the Christmas gift and hamper range uploaded to the websites in the coming weeks.