You know winter isn't far away when you wake up to the colder mornings, it takes you longer to get motivated, but it is that time of year when Christmas is fast approaching...soon everyone will be busy with their Christmas shopping, getting the house ready for the festive season, stocking up on all the goodies that are out there...
We will have busy times ahead over the next few weeks stocking up ourselves with our handmade gifts which are all individually wrapped with care. We can also do bespoke gifts where you can pick and choose what you would like to be added to a natural wooden box or a natural jute bag. If you want something different, then must send us an email with what you would like and we will get back in touch with you.
Here are just some of our gifts...
A delight gift box for new mums - Lavender Body Butter and gentle Mum & Baby Lotion. For their young one there is Moisturising Baby Cream, Soothing Baby Soap.
Our Natural Wooden Gift Box holds a variety of delights... an assortment of three guest size soaps, relaxing Ylang Ylang Bath Salts with its own wooden scoop, moisturising Chamomile & Geranium Body Butter and our skin loving Vitamin Rich Body Cream.
For those who are looking for something inexpensive, we have our floral bath bombs arranged in a light weight wooden tray...delightful Ylang Ylang, calming Geranium and soothing Lavender...but we can make these up with just the scent of your choice.
Coming soon we have this lovely gift set with a larger jute bag, this bag is filled with herbaceous Lavender to soothe and protect, but we can easily change them with your favourites instead!
The bag will have Lavender Body Butter, Lavender Soap, Lavender Bath Salts and a cotton face cloth.
Lavender is one of the world's most well known herbs that not only helps us to calm us down in stressful situations, but has a wide variety of different benefits dependent on how it's used.
Throughout the ages Lavender has been used to soothe and calm, which is why it's so popular in baby products. Although most people today have showers instead of baths, there is nothing more relaxing than indulging in some time out with a soak in a lavender scented bath.
When used as soaks, Lavender Oil not only soothes and relaxes but it
can also help alleviate the symptoms of headaches, migraines and stress - making it ideal for those who have difficulty in sleeping in getting a
good nights rest.
Lavender is a favourite for use in skincare because of its abilities to gently heal and care for all skin types, with its anti-septic, anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties.
These properties make Lavender Oil perfect for those with acne, allergies, burns and various forms of dermatitis! Used in soaps and moisturisers,
Lavender improves the overall skin condition and helps to heal any
damage your skin picks up from everyday life.
We have a large range of products with Lavender Oil because of all these lovely benefits, from our soaps (Lavender Soap, Soothing Baby Soap and Kitchen Soap), and our moisturisers (Lavender Body Butter, Moisturising Baby Cream, Mum & Baby Lotion), to soak (Lavender Bath Bombs, Lavender Mini Bath Bombs, Lavender Bath Salts).
Lavender Oil is
one of the few essential oils safe enough to be used neat on skin,
although it's best to leave this to the professionals as with all
essential oils they are extremely potent and may be harmful if used
incorrectly.
Making your own skincare products can be fun a lot of fun most of the time, but it's not always smooth running. This year has been totally different from the last few as you have probably seen from our website.
This year we have been so busy making our creams, lotions and body butters that we have almost forgotten about our soaps! Not to worry though, panic stations has set in and we have now started making them...
Making our soap is quite an easy process, weigh the oils, heat them up and then mix them with the lye (sodium hydroxide), once they get to a thick custard texture, they are then ready for the mould.
This is fine, but I forgot the last batch we made, we had to take the mould to bits as the soap wouldn't come out but we got there in the end, now this time the first soap to be made was Lavender and whoever put the mould back together again didn't put the screws right in, (I think you know what happened next), so here is me delighted to be making soap again, not knowing any better, pours the soap into the mould and low and behold it starts running out of the side...OMG...panic stations again! Luckily there was another mould ready nearby that was done for another batch and some quick thinking, grabbed the leaking mould and poured it into the other mould.
We had quite a bit of a mess to clean up, there was soap everywhere, but after a while we did see the funny side of it. Here are some photos of the soaps we made, which were chosen for the upcoming Christmas season...we've experimented with heart and round moulds too ready for some unique Christmas gifts (stocking fillers...)
Oh I know we are going to have a lot of fun decorating the hearts and the round ones, you will have to wait and see what we come up with.
