Off to the Shrewsbury Flower Show

This week we've been busy preparing loads of hampers and soaps ready for the Shrewsbury Flower Show.  We'll be setting up our stand on Thursday this week, and exhibiting at the show on Friday and Saturday.  This means our Stourbridge shop will be closed from Wednesday onwards.

After attending such a busy show, we're expecting to be pretty tired!  So we'll be taking a weeks leave, returning to re-open our shop from Tuesday 19th August 2014.   During this time, our websites will continue to accept orders and these will be processed in date order once we return.

Limited opening hours this week

Unfortunately we have a family illness again, which means more trips to the doctors and hospital.  We're going to try to open our Stourbridge shop as often as we can, but it's likely that our normal opening hours will vary each day.  As things become clearer, we'll keep updating our opening hours on this blog and hope it helps customers in planning their visits.

For urgent order queries and if Stourbridge customers would like to arrange a specific time to call in to make purchases, it will be best if you send us an e-mail.  We'll be picking up messages regularly and will try to get back to you asap.

Feeling hot, hot, hot...

Unfortunately the workshop is causing us problems again.  Today was unbearably hot, so in view of tomorrow's weather forecast we've decided it will be best to close the workshop for tomorrow.  We'll be open again on Saturday, but will be closing a little earlier than usual.

We apologise for any inconvenience, but we'll continue to work on finalising this years Christmas range somewhere cool!  The Ruskin Glass Centre was very quiet today so we're sure that tomorrows closure won't cause any problems.

While the weather is hot, we'd recommend that local customers keep checking this blog since we'll continue to update our shop opening hours to try to prevent any wasted journeys.  If you need anything urgent, just drop us an e-mail and we'll see what we can do.  Rest assured it is business as usual, and we'll ensure that internet orders continue to be processed within our usual delivery timescales.  

Keep cool everyone!

Final preparations for Royal Three Counties

Later this week, The Natural Soapworks will be heading off to the Royal Three Counties Show at Malvern.  We'll have our stand in the Eden Crafts marquee which is near to the main ring. 

Natural Soapworks - Gardener's Gift Buckets

As you can imagine, the workshop has been a hive of activity during the last few weeks, making loads of lovely fresh bathing products and wrapping lots of soaps and gift hampers.

Enville - Natural Soapworks real ale soap in aid of Prostate Cancer UK

For these events we often produce new special edition items, and for this show we've created some pretty Gardener's Tins - cute little galvanised buckets containing Gardener's soaps, our new Gardener's Balm and hand care products that are perfect for green fingers!

We'll also be showcasing Enville, our brand new charity real ale soap, which was launched last week.  This is a special edition soap, created to support Prostate Cancer UK and would be a nice choice for Father's Day.

Our Stourbridge shop will be closed from Thursday 12th June (2pm) until Tuesday 17th June.  Our websites will continue to accept orders while we're away, and these will be processed in the date order they arrived as soon as we return.  For more updates on the show, visit our Facebook page.

The Natural Soapworks supports Prostate Cancer UK

Every week The Natural Soapworks is contacted by people asking us for charitable donations.  As a very small business it feels hard to have to say no to many of these requests, but hopefully everyone understands that we simply couldn’t afford to support every good cause that comes our way.   So we’ve decided that it’s best if we choose a single charity, who will receive all of our Natural Soapworks donations for this coming year. 

We’re pleased to announce that our chosen charity for 2014/15 is Prostate Cancer UK, and our donations will be made in memory of Sarah’s Dad who lost his fight with this terrible disease some years ago. 

It may surprise you to know that 1 in 8 UK men will get prostate cancer during their lives, so the chances are that at some point it will affect your life or someone you are close to.  For more information about the wonderful support and advice that’s available from Prostate Cancer UK, visit:  www.prostatecanceruk.org  We has a collection box and information leaflets available in our shop.

Thank you to everyone who's made a donation so far!

Gift ideas for Mother's Day

Natroma Soap Box Hamper

We have some lovely new gift ideas for Mother's Day this year.  More details can be found on the Natroma Gift Sets page.

Our pretty Soap Box hampers would be lovely for anyone who enjoys using handmade natural soaps.  These contain a mixture of goats milk soaps, ranging from half bars, mini soaps, soap balls and hand decorated soap slices.  Each hamper is wrapped with an elegant stitched ribbon, topped with a pretty daisy decoration.  In each hamper we'll make sure there's a range of fragrances and soap designs, to allow the gift recipient to try out a variety of soaps.

Natroma Fizz Box Hamper

Or another alternative would be our popular Fizz Box, which contains a variety of organic fizzing butter melts and bath bombs.  These completely natural bathing items would make a nice choice for anyone who enjoys taking long relaxing baths!  This hamper is also wrapped in pretty stitched ribbon topped with the daisy decoration.

Natroma Buttterfly Hamper

We also have some larger Butterfly Hampers which contain a mixture of a goats milk soap, some bathing products and a luxurious Monoi de Tahiti rollerball.  These are  lovely hampers giving the gift recipient the chance to try a variety of pampering items.  They're presented in our unusual fluted hampers, finished with lacy ribbon and a pretty butterfly decoration.  These are available in 3 fragrance options:  De-Stress, Exotic and Rose.




If you're looking for other gift ideas, remember to check out the Beautiful Things section of the Natroma website.  This contains a few of the candles, jewellery and crystal items that are stocked in our Stourbridge shop.

Just in!
We have some beautiful pear drop style sterling silver earrings with genuine gemstones in fluorite, carnelian, tigers eye, lapis lazuli, smoky quartz, amethyst, amazonite and blue lace agate. 

We also have a lovely variety of sterling sliver crystal pendants, again with a variety of natural gemstones.  Also check out our Chakra items - they're really pretty!

It's time for some Romance!

It's time to enjoy some Romance in your life!

Our Valentine's Day products are now available on the Natroma website.

Choose from sensuous heart shaped bath bombs, fizzing butter melts, heart decorated goats milk soaps and of course....our ever popular Romance essential oil blend!   This years special edition is our pretty rose petal decorated Romance bath salts with pink Himalayan salts...we hope you enjoy!