Latest News
Welcome to the Natroma news page, here you'll find all the latest news on our products services and everything Natroma related.
RSS Feed
- February, 17 2010 - Mothers Day Soap Hamper Ideas
We've just uploaded some new goats milk soap gift hampers on to The Natural Soapworks website, which would make perfect Mother's Day gifts. Our new contemporary soap range will be added to the website in the coming weeks, and we're very pleased with them!
The botancial mini soaps, will be available in 2 sizes: 25g (these are the cute mini soaps which have been featured in our natural skincare gift sets for a while), and 40g (a new larger mini soap). These look fantastic in our elegant, hamper boxes.
We're particularly proud of our new contemporary soap slices, since they look beautiful but are also handmade using our new goats milk palm-free soap formulation. We first introduced this soap recipe when we launched 'Orang 2' (our charity soap, which supports Borneo Orangutan Survival - BOS UK). It will be the base formulation for our contemporary soap range, so is particularly suitable for anyone who wants to avoid using products which contain palm oil. This soap range will introduce several new soap fragrances, and the first six are: Springtime (a refreshing and uplifting blend with herbal and citrus notes), Rosebud (delicate, sweet rose notes), Hippy Rosie (rose geranium with patchouli), Exotic Flowers (rich sensual notes of ylang ylang and jasmine), Marigold (with lavender and chamomile), and an old favourite, Lavender.
These are being previewed in our Mother's Day hampers page on the website, and will soon be available as individual soaps. We hope you like them!Related Links
- October, 9 2009 - Natural skincare in the Autumn
Sadly the days are shortening, and it’s definitely becoming chilly at night! So while Autumn may encourage you to enjoy outdoor activities, it’s important to remember that your skin will retain less moisture as the air becomes cooler and drier. This is why at this time of year, many people experience dryness, fine lines, dull and sallow skin tone, sun and age spots, flaking and irritation as well as the flare-up of some conditions like rosacea. So it’s a good idea to pamper your skin in the Autumn and make some adjustments to your skincare regime in readiness for Winter.
On our blog we’ll be publishing a series of articles on Autumn skincare starting with the hands and nails.
Nails and cuticles can become dry and flaky at this time of year, so we’d suggest that you invest in products which will replenish lost moisture to keep the skin soft and in good condition. With this in mind we have now launched two new products! Our orange blossom and rose hand creams have a lovely formulation, enriched with jojoba and avocado oils with glycerine, comfrey and evening primrose extracts to nourish and condition the hands without greasiness. Please visit our new Hands and Nails page for more information.
For the nails we’d particularly recommend a butter enriched nail balm. Our Nail Silk contains shea and cocoa butters, jojoba and avocado oils to replenish the nail surface and surrounding skin. This is a rich balm which smells heavenly (it contains frankincense and neroli, with a touch of lime) but it sinks in within a few minutes. Many of our customers enjoy massaging their nails and cuticles with Nail Silk, whilst watching the TV each evening.
Related Links
- May, 11 2009 - Introducing our new facial exfoliators
We're pleased to launch a new product in the Natroma skincare range. Our Gentle Exfoliator creams have been carefully formulated with lots of skin-kind natural ingredients to soothe delicate facial skin. Exfoliation is important for the face, helping to remove dead cells and reveal a fresher, radiant complexion. But it's never a good idea to apply harsh or abrasive products since these can irritate delicate facial skin making it sore and uncomfortable.
So our exoliator creams really are gentle, and contain tiny jojoba beads. These are perfect spheres, so can be lightly massaged across the skin to exfoliate without any nasty after-effects. We're also chosen our ingredients carefully - gentle jojoba, papaya seed oil, evening primrose and comfrey oils are teamed up with D-Panthenol, Sea Buckthorn and Echium botanical extracts.
These are lightly textured creams, which can be easily rinsed off with water. We'd recommend using one of our muslin cloths to completely remove all of the tiny jojoba beads, followed by a spritz of Hydrolat Toner and the application of some Concentrated Moisturiser to finish off your mini facial treatment.
There are 2 varieties: one with a light rose fragrance and the other with orange blossom (neroli). Both of these are completely natural and subtle fragrances from a blend of essential oils. Our Gentle Exfoliators are presented in a 50ml airless pumps, and should be used once or twice each week as part of your skincare regime.Related Links
- April, 23 2009 - Introducing....Natroma Bathing!
We're very delighted to introduce a new range to Natroma, with the addition of our new bathing collection!
Natroma Bathing has allowed us to splurge on luxurious natural skincare ingredients to create a really indulgent range of luxurious goat's milk soaps and bathing products. The goat's milk soap, like our Natural Soapworks Favourites, contains a luxurious blend of botanical oils and butters, enriched with real goat's milk soap. But we've made these even more decadant, including organic botanical oils, Fair Trade butters enriched with Monoi de Tahiti. This has created a top pf the range soap with a lather that feels even more moisturising and lushous. We've co-ordinated these soaps to our skincare fragrances, including many of the very expensive essential oils that you do not usually see in handmade soaps, with the choice of Chamomile, Rose and Orange Blossom. Each soap is wrapped in pure muslin cloth, decorated with a co-ordinated organza ribbon, and we'd suggest that these natural wrappings are re-cycled as facial cloths so there's no waste. More of these luxurious soaps will follow during 2009, so watch this space!
We're also very pleased to introduce our Fizzing Bath Melt range. These are lovely little bathing beauties which really do look good enough to eat! We wouldn't recommend it though, since our new cup-cake range is designed to gently fizz in the bath and release lots of Fair Trade Cocoa and Shea butters into the bath water. They feature some lovely new blends of essential oils, and are naturally coloured with petals and other natural ingredients. Available on their own, or in a pretty ribbon decorated ballotin box, these are already proving to be very popular with our Studio customers. More fragrances will be released during the year.Related Links
- April, 11 2009 - NEW! Natroma Travel Sizes
We have great pleasure in introducing a new size option to our range. Our travel sizes are perfect for taking on holiday, as a smaller gift, or if you'd like to try a longer trial period before you commit to a full sized product.
Our natural cleansers and moisturisers are presented in lovely slim white, airless pumps and contain 30ml of product. They are small in size but will contain more than enough product for several weeks of use. Our 50ml toner bottle is still presented in violet glass, to protect our organic hydrolat toners, but has a screw cap instead of a spray attachment. It's roughly the size of the travel sized airless pumps, so will take up no space at all in your suitcase.
These smaller sizes are light and would be perfect to carry to the gym too!
For a limited time, we're pleased to be offering a special discount when you purchase a Travel Trio. These are presented in an organza tote bag, and contain 30ml Facial Cleanser, 30ml Concentrated Moisturiser, 50ml Hydrolat Toner and a muslin cloth. These should retail at £13.75, so enjoy a 10% discount and buy these at £12.50!
