Notes on Nature

In our modern, tech-frazzled existence, taking time to reconnect with nature is the ultimate act of self-care. Even a short stint spent in natural surroundings can have a major impact on our mood; dialling down our stress hormones, and turning up our energy levels.

When it comes to body care, it’s easy for the best-known botanicals to steal the limelight, but often it’s the quiet ones that can hold the most surprises. Here we hand the mic over to three of our lesser-known ingredients - hemp, meadowfoam and jojoba.

Oh, hello purples, oranges and reds. We haven’t seen you blanketing our hills in a while. But thanks for the reminder that Autumn is well and truly here.

It might surprise you that we’ve been sponsoring a football club for three years now. Why? Because the one we sponsor, Forest Green Rovers, is top of the league (of sustainability)!

Sometimes it’s good to keep things simple, and a bar of soap is as simple as it gets. Soap isn’t glamorous. It’s humble, reliable, and in its very nature, plastic free. 

As nature lovers, we feel more than a little envious of dog’s noses. Imagine being able to experience so much more of the natural world...

Laundry - love it or hate it, we all have to do it. Actually, it’s such a part of our everyday, we can easily forget the pressure it puts on the planet. We’ve found a few easy ways to lower the impact of our laundry days. 

Name something lovelier than a garden in bloom. We’ll wait. Actually, while we wait, let’s talk about some of our best-loved buds - lavender, geranium and rose - and why we put them in our products.

Orange and seaweed are two ingredients that have been with us from the start — but they weren’t chosen at random. Rivka turned to them for her first formulations because they're  like little medicine cabinets for your skin and hair.

We’ve known all along that nature packs a punch. Our ingredients may be gentle on the planet and nice on the nose, but we pick them because they’re powerful. 

In nature, renewal is all around us. We see it in the seasons, in the forests, in the water cycle, but what about in our homes?

47 years is a long time to keep going. Especially when, for so much of that time, natural has meant niche. Or nuts, even.