Holistic Therapy Spring Offer!

We really enjoyed meeting so many people last weekend, at the Stourbridge Open Studios event.   Everyone seemed to have a great time, and it was good to have a chat and advise on our various natural skincare products.  So thanks to everyone who called in to see us, and we hope you enjoy using your products.

This week we're nearly back to normal on our Stourbridge shop opening hours, with a slightly later start today (Tuesday we'll be opening at 12.30pm).

We're accepting holistic therapy bookings again now, so remember that there's only another couple of weeks left on our Treatment Spring Offer - 20% off Paul's Swedish, Sports and Lava Shell holistic therapy treatments.  The diary is filling up quickly so catch it while you can!  Treatments needed to be booked by the end of May (but can be taken during the next few weeks) to qualify for this special offer. 

Beautiful Things

Visitors to our Stourbridge shop are always commenting on how it contains lots of beautiful things.  Many people linger for a while taking in the beautiful aroma coming from our soaps and skincare, having a chat and checking out the many items that would make lovely gifts. 


Gemstone chip necklace



Chakra Hanging Crystal

It's great feedback, since we pride ourselves on having a shop that's a little bit different.  We're always on the look out for unusual or pretty products to complement our own - and more often than not, we hand select items that we'd like to own ourselves!

So finally (we always seem to be too busy to photograph things and upload the product information) we're pleased to be able to add a few items onto our Natroma website....on the Beautiful Things page.



Natroma Chakra Crystal Bookmarks



Over the coming weeks we'll try to add some more items, but for starters there are some lovely natural gemstone inspired gifts - crystal necklaces, handmade chakra bookmarks and hanging light-catcher crystals.  There are also some fair trade hand-crafted floating candles and orchid tea-lights and incense gifts which are really pretty and smell wonderful.

We hope that our website customers like our Beautiful Things, and that these new products help when you're looking for an unusual gift. 

New! Organic Facial Oils

Visitors to our Stourbridge shop, will be familiar with our organic botanical oils.  We introduced them several months ago, since we felt that customers with certain skin conditions would benefit from adding these oils to their skincare regime.  Using these oils in small amounts as a facial serum can be very helpful with certain skin-types, so we're pleased to now have Argan, Jojoba, Rosehip and Tamanu available on the Natroma website, listed under Botanical Oils.  These are certified organic oils (and Leaping Bunny approved too) supplied in 10ml blue glass bottles with a pipette attachment.

We can't make any specific claims about these oils, but have included a little information about each one on the Natroma website and would encourage customers to research each oil's properties.  We've always loved all of these oils so they regularly appear in our products, and we're not surprised that they've become popular with quite a few well know celebs just lately.

For best results use the pipette to dispense between 1-3 drops onto the palm of the hand, then warm the oil by rubbing the palms together.  Apply the oil to the skin in soft patting/massage strokes, and the idea is to only apply sufficient oil that's needed (you'd need more on very dry skin, and less on a combination/oily complexion), so the skin absorbs the oil within a couple minutes.  As we often say "less is more", and definitely try to avoid getting an oil slick on the face!

These oils are also perfect to use if you wish to try a little facial massage.  You'll need to apply a few more drops to allow the fingertips to glide over the skin (it's important that you don't feel like your fingertips are dragging or stretching the delicate skin on the face), and you should aim to massage for a few minutes using gentle circular movements.   The idea is to gently stimulate the skin, and we'd recommend that you do this regularly followed by one of our Natroma Clay Mask treatments.

You can also try adding a drop of your chosen oil to our Natroma moisturiser each day.  We developed the formulation of this cream so it could be enriched and adapted to suit different times of the year, so the extra drop of oil will make the application feel slightly richer than usual.  This is particularly good when the skin is dry and is feeling tight or uncomfortable (perhaps after spending too much time in the sun, or when the weather is very cold).

We hope you enjoy using these oils, and would welcome customer feedback on how they're working!