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There's no point standing still is there? We've got to make sure we try and do better all the time. And while we try really hard to collect all the feedback you give us and publish it, we've decided to make the whole process a little easier.
So there's now a "Review" section on the site on each product page. You can give us stars, let us know what you like and what we can do better.
And every month, we'll pick one of the reviewers out of a hat and send them a little thank you for thier efforts.
What with Christmas approaching and all, I've been very remiss in posting recently, but it's high time I got in gear and let you know what's been happening here at PNS towers, there's so much!
Firstly, there have been a bundle of new products launched recently - check out the New Products section for all of them of course - but our firm favourite has to be the Keep Balm and Carry On. It was first created last year for a group of builders we had here working on our beautiful building. At first, we had all the usual giggles from them about being a lovely bunch of girls (they hadn't noticed Barry making soap in the cellar at this point) making soap and smellies of course. Then one by one, when all thier friends had gone to lunch and weren't overhearing anything, they'd make thier way into the workshop and show us cracked cuticles from plastering or callouses and ask if we had anything to sort them out. We didn't have anything specific at the time, so we made one. They were every so good about reporting the results they had bless them and we'd soon perfected the recipe.
The result is a balm that's so healing and helpful it can be used everywhere you've got skin -cuticles, lips, eyebrows (very good for taming we've heard) and elbows, feet, you get the idea. It's a great alternative to any petrochemical based product you might be familiar with, so we're very pleased with it. The blend of base oils was put together with very hard skin in mind; it needed to be totally different to anything we'd ever created before, greasy enough to penetrate a callous, soft enough to get out of a tin and healing enough to work quickly. The essential oils we've used are there for healing and soothing of course and the amount of Vitamin E in there really does a lot of work too. Not forgetting the very healthy amount of luscious Cornish Beeswax we're lucky enough to get our hands on, that too does real work in there to heal and soothe.
It was a hard product to name in truth, the fact that it's good for so many things means that it couldn't have a bodypart in the name like most of our others, but so far the feedback on that has been positive too - it raises a smile if nothing else! But once the idea had been suggested to us on Facebook, it just really fit the product. It does help you to just do what it says on the tin, carry on, and we really liked that idea.
So that's the story of our favourite new thing - do keep us posted on all the ways you're finding to use it, we never tire of hearing them.
Well it might be just that it's a Monday and I'm cross that my wonderful weekend is all over, but I saw THIS press release this morning while catching up with general Beauty News and I'm scared my face will freeze all scrunched up now.
OK, it's pretty and very shiny, so my inner magpie should be squealing with delight right?
Seeing that picture should be fuelling my desire to have it (and note here that I'm not even considering the fact that I don't have a million pennies to my name...) and in truth, it's a thing beauty. It might even smell nice, I don't know.
So what's got me all scrunchy about it? DKNY are donating the profits to Action Against Hunger. I want to shake them for that. Yes, I can see that it's all very laudable and they probably will raise a few quid for a worthy cause (after the cost of all the gold and diamonds has been accounted for, obv.) - but it all has an air of Marie Antoinette about it to me.
:/
Most excitingly, Rachel has created her first product - Sole Food. It came about when we were
And we've been doing Bath Salts and Bath Milk here in the shop for a few months and they've been selling so well we decided to offer them on the site too. They're very simple, feel good, they're full of good things and pretty petals to pamper while you soak. There's one more thing, but I think I'm going to do a whole post about it so that will do for now.
Hope you all have a stupendous week, we're already raring to go (three batches of Conditioner and 60 litres of Squeaky Clean Gel have been made the morning already - uneard of for a Monday!) and hope you're enjoying the same superb weather :).
Among other news here is that our remaining Rachel has created her first new product - how exciting is that! It should be available for purchase in July now, so very well done Rach and thanks so much to everyone who tested for us. I can't say too much about it just yet, not till the copyright people have finalised one last thing, but I'll put pictures up as soon as we possibly can.
Hope you're all enjoying this spot of fabulous weather too, we'll be back very soon with more news.
And it's around this time of year we all start to think about baring those bits of us that have been largely covered by wool for the past few long months. For my part, I have begun the long and tedious task of preparing my feet to emerge from boots to flip flops again and the girls here have already applied the first layer of Natural Tanning Cream of the year - whoopee!
On the subject of feet (is it just me that's obessed with hoofy state of mine?) I don't know if it's because I'm on them most of the day in the shop, but they seem to be worse this year than ususal. So I'm experimenting with a new foot treatment. Would anyone else like to join me in a little experiment in return for some feedback please? If you would, then drop me an email with a note of your address and I'll get a sample pot in the post for you. Thanks very much :)
Yes, we have discontinued that one, but will be bringing a replacement out very, very shortly. As you were so fond of the old one, would you care to test out the new one for us to see if it comes up to scratch please?
Nice to hear from you either way, hope you're enjoying some sunshine too :)
Thanks for your patience with an answer, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. But to answer your question, we're not going to be stocking a deo any time soon, but I can recomend the Lafe's ones that the lovely Pauline at the Organic Bodycare Shop stocks.
Well we've decided to give up giving up this year. We're not doing resolutions, we're doing aspirations and we're doing one a month for the whole year. I think it's easier to start new habits bit by bit anyway, it gives you time to fit them into your daily routine. So this month, I'm aspiring to keep to the 20 minute rule for my own housekeeping.
If you're not familiar with this one, the idea behind the 20 minute rule is that you spend 20 minutes every day doing a household job that you wouldn't normally do - you do 20 minutes and then stop (even if it's not finished). And I must say, so far it's working. I feel like I'm getting niggly little jobs out of the way and I don't feel like I'm being a slave to the house (the "bits drawer" in the kitchen hasn't been so clear in years). And yes, it did take me 4 days to clear out the spare wardrobe, but as I knew I was going to come back to the job, I didn't feel bad about leaving it till the next day.
I also made up the 10 minute rule. This one is just for me - l spend 10 minutes a day doing something for me. Instead of setting aside a whole evening a week and trying to remember to pumice my feet, pluck my eyebrows, do a facemask, whip up a hair treatment and all the other stuff that makes up personal maintainance these days, I'm doing a little bit every day. And that's working too - my eyebrows are no longer battling to meet in the centre and my toes are painted for the first time in weeks. And I don't feel like I'm being selfish either - there's enough pressure on women generally to be there for everyone else that we do tend to put ourselves at the bottom of every list. Like we don't have enough guilt in our lives, eh? The little confidence boost you get every day from feeling well groomed though, well, that's worth a lot in my humble opinion.
Have you got any new ideas for this year or do you live in the moment enough that you don't feel the need to make big changes?
I know, I know, no-one enjoys it, but it's important. I've been getting these done for nearly 25 years now (Lord, I'm old...) and I'm STILL not used to it, which is utterly pathetic I know. After a little chat on Twitter about screening checks and when you last had one (thank you @BigFashionista) and one here in the workshop we realised that we were all putting it off. So the two of us that can have booked one today and we feel rather proud of ourselves actually. What did shock me was that women under 25 have to pay for thier own screening now - did you know that? I was horrified.
Anyway, the point of this post is just a little reminder about an important general health check, if you can't remember when you last had a cervical screening done, book one today, please.
Here endeth the lecture.
