Happy Easter

We love Easter, it's the first big holiday since Christmas! It's beginning to feel properly like spring, with flowers popping up everywhere, longer, warmer days (and boy have and we been spoiled this year?) oh and then there's the chocolate! Ahhh but each year we are tasked with finding gifts which aren't just about sugar, so here's an Easter edit of our sugar free goodies!  Ceramic Bunny and Guinea Pig Egg Cups and Money Boxes from Quail from £11.95, Bunny and Baby Bunny Night Lights from £4.95.  These delightful hand-painted glass trinket eggs are perfect for tiny gifts and mini eggs and if you are going on an Easter Egg Hunt these Retro Jelly Bags are perfect for egg-gathering £5.95.  Gorgeous Egg Cups in Pink & Blue by Pip Studio and these grrrreat Dinosaur Egg Cups in Orange & Turquoise at £8.95 With a full range of Easter Cards in store too, we have everything you may need (except of course the Chocolate) - Happy Easter.

Easter Opening Times  Good Friday     11am-4pm Saturday      10am-6pm Easter Sunday    closed Bank Holiday Monday  closed

Going the Extra Mile - A brand new range from The Handmade Soap Co.

We have a brand new Toiletry Range!  We really do like to go the extra mile and so when nothing caught our eye at the recent round of trade shows in London and Paris, Ian dropped in on Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna (which is the leading international platform for the cosmetics and wellness industry), to see if he could find anything special there.  He struck gold, and we are really delighted to launch this new range from The Handmade Soap Co. who are based nearer to home in Co. Meath Ireland.  We love their products and their ethos - meet founder Donagh Quigley (originally a Master Thatcher).

"We started out small, selling our lovely handmade soaps at farmers’ markets and to kind neighbours… and from there, things just grew and grew.

Pots got bigger, our range blossomed, and we added a few more hands on deck… but our mission remains the same:

To bring pure, heartfelt joy to your everyday, so even the small things feel precious.

Using thoughtful essential oil blends and nature’s pantry, we have lovingly created a range that will boost your mood and your skin in equal measure.

And oh, does it smell divine.


Put simply, it’s everything you need to grab life by the happy. So, go grab it with both hands."

We were particularly looking for a well priced range that would sit comfortably with the ever popular Burt's Bee's Range and appeal to both Men and Women - we think we have found our match.

Lemongrass and Cedarwood - Lose yourself in this sweet oriental fragrance.  Citrus top notes with a lemongrass zing, eucalyptus and lavender middle notes and earthy base notes of Patchouli and Vanilla.

A Musky, manly mix of Basil, Lime & Sweet Orange.

The products themselves have 99.7% Natural - no nasties, (the other .3% is the binding agent and preservative which makes the lotions behave so wonderfully).
They are made with coconut derivatives, vegetable emulsifiers and scented with essential oils.

There are no SLSs, parabens, petrochemicals.  No product is tested on animals, ever and even the card in their packaging is from sustainable sources and printed with vegetable-derived ink.