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.
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
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.
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| Gemstone chip necklace |
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| 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.
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| 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.
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
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!
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!
Friday, 26 April 2013
Stourbridge Open Studios
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Getting back to normal....
We're very pleased to be able to mention that the member of our family who was taken ill a couple of weeks ago, is now recovering well. Thanks for all of the best wishes, we've received from customers.
The good news is that we're now expecting to be able to operate our usual shop opening hours again, as things get back to normal. The only changes to our opening hours may be if we have to visit the hospital for appointments, but we'll make sure that any changes that have to be made to shop hours are posted here.
During this difficult time, we're pleased to be able to report that all of our internet orders were processed on time, so website customers will have received their orders promptly. Thanks again for everyone's support and good wishes!
UPDATE: Just as we thought things were going to be ok, we're back in the wars again. Earlier this week another family member had an accident, which means we'll be spending more time at the hospital. All internet orders have been processed as normal, but our Stourbridge shop will be closed on Friday. We're very sorry but this is all beyond our control and as a very understanding customer said earlier this week, family has to come first. We will be open again tomorrow (Saturday), so if Stourbridge customers have urgent needs, please e-mail us at enquiries@naturalsoapworks.co.uk so we can advise on the best time to collect items. Internet orders will continue to be processed as normal. Once again, sorry for any inconvenience.
The good news is that we're now expecting to be able to operate our usual shop opening hours again, as things get back to normal. The only changes to our opening hours may be if we have to visit the hospital for appointments, but we'll make sure that any changes that have to be made to shop hours are posted here.
During this difficult time, we're pleased to be able to report that all of our internet orders were processed on time, so website customers will have received their orders promptly. Thanks again for everyone's support and good wishes!
UPDATE: Just as we thought things were going to be ok, we're back in the wars again. Earlier this week another family member had an accident, which means we'll be spending more time at the hospital. All internet orders have been processed as normal, but our Stourbridge shop will be closed on Friday. We're very sorry but this is all beyond our control and as a very understanding customer said earlier this week, family has to come first. We will be open again tomorrow (Saturday), so if Stourbridge customers have urgent needs, please e-mail us at enquiries@naturalsoapworks.co.uk so we can advise on the best time to collect items. Internet orders will continue to be processed as normal. Once again, sorry for any inconvenience.
Monday, 8 April 2013
Opening hours during w/c 8th April 2013
As we mentioned previously, a member of our close family was taken ill last week so it means that we're spending lots of time at the hospital.
We've decided that in the coming week we'll try to open our Stourbridge shop whenever we can, but it's likely that we'll operate reduced opening hours each day and we may have to close at short notice. We'll update our opening hours on this blog each day, in the hope that local customers won't visit the Ruskin Glass Centre only to find us closed. For urgent orders, we'd advise local customers to drop us an e-mail (at enquiries@naturalsoapworks.co.uk), so we can advise on likely timescales for manufacturing items / preparing hampers etc, and we may be able to make arrangements for certain items to be available for collection.
We're very sorry that all holistic therapy appointments have been cancelled for this week. Our thanks to all of our clients for being so understanding, and we'll get in contact with new appointments as soon as possible.
Our websites will continue to accept orders, and these will be processed as normal.
Thanks to everyone for their patience and good wishes!
We've decided that in the coming week we'll try to open our Stourbridge shop whenever we can, but it's likely that we'll operate reduced opening hours each day and we may have to close at short notice. We'll update our opening hours on this blog each day, in the hope that local customers won't visit the Ruskin Glass Centre only to find us closed. For urgent orders, we'd advise local customers to drop us an e-mail (at enquiries@naturalsoapworks.co.uk), so we can advise on likely timescales for manufacturing items / preparing hampers etc, and we may be able to make arrangements for certain items to be available for collection.
We're very sorry that all holistic therapy appointments have been cancelled for this week. Our thanks to all of our clients for being so understanding, and we'll get in contact with new appointments as soon as possible.
Our websites will continue to accept orders, and these will be processed as normal.
Thanks to everyone for their patience and good wishes!
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Due to unforseen circumstances....
Unfortunately due to an unexpected family illness, we're going to be closed for the next day or so. We're sorry for any inconvenience caused, and hope to re-open our Stourbridge shop again as soon as possible. For very urgent enquiries, please send us an e-mail to enquiries@naturalsoapworks.co.uk and we'll try to respond within 24 hours.
Our internet shops will continue to accept orders, and these will be processed as soon as we return to work. Thank you for your patience.
Our internet shops will continue to accept orders, and these will be processed as soon as we return to work. Thank you for your patience.
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