This recall impacts theOrganic Smudge Scented Candle – Mandarin & Bay Leaf 200g (product code: 622484) we sell.
This is due to a report of the wax overheating in the candle causing the glass to crack.
Please do not use the candle and dispose of it immediately.
We will issue a full refund for this candle and there is no need for it to be returned.
True Origin Product Recall
This recall impacts the True Origin Christmas Gift Set – Trio (product code: 500758) we sell. The reason for this recall is due to a potential mould contamination in the Peach & Ginger Jam 340g with a best before date of 12th April 2027* sold within this pack.
* The best before date can be found on the label on the back of the jar.
What you should do
Check if you have bought the affected best before date of Peach & Ginger jam
For more information contact True Origin on 0141 255 0901 and info@trueorigin.org.uk
Spice Kitchen Product Recall
This recall impacts the Spice Kitchen Indian Spice Tins (product code: 458595) we sell. The reason for this recall is due to a potential peanut contamination in the mustard seeds within these tins.
This recall follows recent guidance from the Food Standards Authority (FSA) and is being handled with the utmost care to ensure your safety.
This product is safe if you do not have a peanut allergy.
If you have a peanut allergy, do not consume the affected mustard seeds and please discard immediately.
If you do have a peanut allergy, Spice Kitchen will send replacement mustard seeds to customers directly, please get in touch with them via email soldwithlove@spicekitchenuk.com.
This recall impacts the Spice Kitchen Indian Spice Tins (product code: 458595) we sell. The reason for this recall is due to a potential peanut contamination in the mustard seeds within these tins.
This recall follows recent guidance from the Food Standards Authority (FSA) and is being handled with the utmost care to ensure your safety.
This product is safe if you do not have a peanut allergy.
If you have a peanut allergy, do not consume the affected mustard seeds and please discard immediately.
If you do have a peanut allergy, spice Kitchen will send replacement mustard seeds to customers directly, please get in touch with them via email soldwithlove@spicekitchenuk.com.
Created by the National Eczema Society, Eczema Awareness Week runs September 15th-22nd and seeks to improve public knowledge of this commonly misunderstood condition. It’s a week of various special events – seminars, fundraisers, Q&As, etc – encouraging people to learn more, share their experiences and spread the word.
What is eczema?
Eczema, also known as dermatitis, is a chronic condition that renders the skin red, dry and itchy. Roughly 1 in 5 children suffer from eczema – the condition often improves as the subject get older, but about 1 in 10 adults continue to experience it throughout their lives. It also has close links to other conditions like asthma and hay fever.
Eczema varies in severity – though rarely dangerous, it can increase the risk of severe skin infections like cellulitis. In addition, it can have a serious impact on quality of life. Disturbed sleep is a particular common effect, leading to daytime fatigue. Self-consciousness and low self-esteem are also frequently reported among eczema sufferers.
MooGoo skincare
Various medical treatments are available for eczema, including steroid creams – but those seeking a milder, more natural alternative may find what they’re looking for in MooGoo’s skincare range.
Sensitive Skin Balm is specially formulated for people with eczema or psoriasis. Lightweight and gentle, it’s rich in natural oils and soothing ingredients like aloe vera.
Milk Wash is pH-balanced and free from SLS, meaning it can cleanse the skin without causing unnecessary drying or irritation.
Soothing MSM Moisturiser is light, hypoallergenic and full of natural oils, making it ideal for sensitive skin.
Don’t forget to spread a little kindness and support this Eczema Awareness Week – and if you’re one of the millions of people in the UK who experience the condition, maybe there’s something here that can help you.
Happy Organic September! Every year, the Soil Association leads a month-long campaign celebrating organic practices. Whether you’re doing it for the planet, for animal welfare or just for your own wellbeing, there’s never been a better time to get involved.
What does organic really mean?
There’s no single element that defines organic farming – rather, it’s a whole system of principles and methods. Many people believe it means using no pesticides whatsoever, but that isn’t quite true.
The use of toxic chemical pesticides is prohibited, along with the likes of growth hormones and GMOs. But certain natural alternatives, like spearmint oil or citronella, are permitted under certain circumstances.
Typically, organic farmers will use compost or manure as a natural fertiliser, along with methods like crop rotation.
What are the benefits?
Food that’s been produced organically is generally thought to be healthier and tastier than non-organic, but the benefits run a lot deeper than that. Organic farming results in healthier soil, greater biodiversity, and better conditions for farm animals.
Pollinators particularly thrive on organic land. The declining bee population is one of the most serious issues we currently face as a species, with pesticides and herbicides being a leading cause – organic farming is helping to fight it.
Organic beauty
Beauty products are one area where organic ingredients are especially important. In addition to environmental concerns, it’s natural to be wary about what you’re applying to your skin, and beauty products often come with a long, daunting list of mysterious ingredients.
Organic ingredients are typically more recognisable, and they also tend to be safer for people with allergies. It’s no wonder that people are being drawn to organic cosmetics in greater and greater numbers.
Our offers
At Natural Collection we’re committed to bringing you the highest quality organic products all year round. But it wouldn’t be Organic September without a few special offers. Here are just some of the deals we’re bringing you:
Buy One Get One Half Price on the entire Aloe Dent and Aloe Pura ranges, to take care of your skincare and dental hygiene needs.
Ditch the dull dishwashing chore and elevate it into a delightful experience with The Lab Co.’s brand-new range of washing up liquids. Expertly crafted with a fragrance house, their innovative products come in three invigorating fragrances: relaxing, soothing, and fragrance-free. Each designed to transform your kitchen routine into a sensory treat while making sure your dishes are sparkling clean.
Why choose The Lab Co.’s washing up liquid?
Their washing up liquids are not just about great scents; they bring a host of benefits to your kitchen sink. Here’s what makes them exceptional:
Powerful cleaning action: Tough on grease and grime, making sure your dishes are impeccably clean.
Eco friendly Ingredients: Made with plant-based, biodegradable components, free from parabens, phosphates, silicones, and artificial colours.
Sustainable packaging: Bottles made from 30% recycled plastic, fully recyclable including the label and cap.
Cruelty free and vegan: Their products are never tested on animals and contain no animal-derived ingredients.
Made in Europe: Produced to the highest standards, ensuring quality and performance.
How to use The Lab Co.’s washing up liquid
Achieving spotless dishes has never been easier. Follow these simple steps for the best results:
Dispense: Add a squeeze of washing up liquid to your sponge or directly into your sink filled with warm water.
Wash: Scrub your dishes, pots, and pans with the soapy solution.
Rinse: Thoroughly rinse with clean water to remove all soap residue.
Dry: Let your dishes air dry or towel dry for a spotless finish.
Three fragrances to enhance your dishwashing experience
The Lab Co.’s fragrance range is designed to uplift your senses and make dishwashing a pleasure:
Relaxing: Infuse your kitchen with a calming aroma that calms your mind.
Soothing: Enjoy a gentle, soothing scent while you clean.
Fragrance-free: Ideal for those who prefer a neutral, unscented option.
Each fragrance is carefully balanced to provide a pleasant, lingering scent that enhances your dishwashing experience without overpowering your senses.
With The Lab Co.’s new range of washing up liquids, cleaning your dishes becomes an act of care for both your home and the environment. Make the switch today and discover how their innovative and delightful products can transform your daily routine. Experience the joy of clean, fresh, and wonderfully scented dishes with The Lab Co.
Miniml highlights the ease and positive impact of switching to refillable products. By choosing to refill everyday items, you can help reduce single-use plastic consumption and contribute to a healthier planet.
Understanding the global plastic crisis
Plastic waste is a critical issue affecting the entire planet. Each year, around 30 million tons of plastic waste find their way into the oceans, causing severe damage to marine life and ecosystems. Despite recycling efforts, a large amount of plastic still ends up in landfills, oceans, and even in our food supply. The continuous production of plastic, combined with inadequate recycling, exacerbates this problem.
The UK’s plastic waste problem
In the UK, the plastic waste problem is also significant. The average UK household produces over 90 billion pieces of plastic packaging waste annually. Despite efforts to recycle, much of this waste ends up in landfills or incinerated, contributing to pollution and climate change. It’s clear that a more sustainable approach is needed, and refilling offers a promising solution.
How refilling with Miniml makes a difference
Miniml focuses on sustainability and convenience, offering eco-friendly solutions for household, laundry, and personal care needs without compromising on quality or ethics. Thanks to these efforts and the support of loyal customers, over 6 million plastic bottles have already been saved from landfills! Here’s how refilling with Miniml can make a difference:
Sustainable packaging Miniml’s products are packaged with the environment in mind. Whether it’s laundry detergent, hand soap, or shampoo, the packaging is designed to minimise waste. Once the product is used up, customers can visit a local refill shop or order a bulk refill online.
Closed loop The closed-loop system is central to Miniml’s sustainability mission. When customers purchase bulk refills, they can send back the empty packaging to Miniml’s headquarters. The packaging is then cleaned and refilled, making sure nothing goes to waste. This system significantly reduces the need for single-use plastics and supports a circular economy.
Environmentally friendly formulas Miniml’s products are safe for both the planet and families. The formulas are biodegradable, vegan, and cruelty-free, making sure there’s no harm to animals or the environment
Getting involved is simple
Share your refill journey on social media and encourage friends and family to join the movement. By doing so, you can help spread awareness and make a positive impact.
By refilling with Miniml, everyone can play a part in reducing plastic waste and promoting a sustainable lifestyle.
It’s no surprise that Waft Laundry Perfume is ideal for adding a distinctive scent to your laundry – whether used neat as a laundry perfume or diluted with vinegar to make a fabric softener. A blend of essential oils and fragrance oils, it’s available in 10ml and 50ml bottles, in Lavender, Sweet Orange, Tropical Flowers and Spring Freshness varieties. What you might not know is that it also has an unexpected range of alternative uses around the home.
Freshen up your tumble dryer
It’s not just the washing machine that can benefit from this product. Try pouring 4-5 drops on a piece of material and throwing it in the tumble dryer to fragrance a fresh load of laundry.
Ironing made pleasant
Spray your clothes before ironing with a solution of 10 drops diluted in 100ml of water. It adds a pleasant scent and makes ironing a more enjoyable task.
Small spaces, big impact
A touch of laundry perfume on a tissue or scrap of cloth is a great way to add fragrance to a small space. If you have a drawer or cupboard that gets a little musty, 4-5 drops should be enough to have it smelling fresh again.
A little fragrance goes further than you might expect – find a suitable nook in your cloakroom or bathroom, and 4-5 drops again will be enough to liven up the whole room. Or tuck the cloth into the side pocket of your car as a discreet alternative to that air freshener dangling from your mirror.
Innovative use with your vacuum cleaner
It sounds strange, but it’s true – you can even use your vacuum cleaner to spread fragrance around a room. Just add a few drops to a cotton ball and place it in the dust bag, and the airflow will circulate the scent.
Enhance homemade cleaning products
If you like to brew up your own chemical-free cleaning products with vinegar and baking soda, but you’re not too fond of the resulting smell, try adding 10 drops of laundry perfume to the water beforehand. It’ll make all the difference.
Endless possibilities
There’s really no end to the uses of this versatile product. Get creative and you might surprise yourself with the results.
Salt of the Earth began its journey as in 1993 as Crystal Spring, long before natural deodorants became a trend, with a single product: the ‘Crystal Spring Natural Body Deodorant’. Today, this product is known as the Salt of the Earth Classic and remains one of their bestsellers.
A family owned business
Salt of the Earth are an independent, family-owned business. Their family took on the company in 2005, when it had three products and ran it from their family home. Since then they’ve rebranded as Salt of the Earth, introduced a whole host of new natural deodorants and sell all round the UK, Europe and rest of the world.
Made in the UK
In the early days of making spray deodorants, production took place in a tea urn in the family kitchen. Now, they boast a purpose-built factory in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire, which produces 85% of their products. This facility, powered by 100% renewable electricity, manufactures their spray, roll-on, stick, and balm deodorants, as well as their foaming hand wash. Their crystal deodorants, however, are produced outside the UK.
Staying fresh
Innovation is central to their mission. Salt of the Earth continually strives to enhance their products for both customers and the environment. Most of their products are developed in-house, with their team consistently testing new ideas and creating new iterations. With a diverse range of scents and formats, Salt of the Earth aims to offer something for everyone.
It’s Pure shine a light on the realities of whether your hair colour really is natural or not. Read on to find out exactly what to look out for.
The trend towards natural beauty products
Over the past few years, many people have switched their beauty regimes to natural. This includes everything from lipstick to moisturiser, and especially hair dye. Thousands of monthly searches for terms like ‘natural hair dye’ are fuelled by concerns over allergies, hair and scalp health, as well as the environment.
It’s great that so many people are seeking healthier and more eco-friendly hair colour. However, it can be difficult to understand what is truly “natural” and what is simply “greenwashing”.
The reality of store-bought hair dyes
75% of UK home hair colour purchases are made in major stores and supermarkets. But how many brands sold by major British stores are all natural?
The answer is none.
All the hair dye brands on the store shelves contain some artificial chemicals and most of them contain paraphenylenediamine (PPD), a known irritant and allergen.
It’s Pure hair dye ran a survey with a nationally representative panel and found that up to 31% of people who had purchased hair dye from major British stores thought their product was natural. Sadly, even most British health food stores do not sell truly natural hair dye. The only place to buy truly natural hair dye in Britain is online.
The only way to be sure a product is truly natural or organic is to look for some kind of certification. It’s Pure is certified by the Soil Association, which means that every ingredient that can be grown organically (without harmful pesticides and herbicides), must be organic.
The remaining ingredients are also subject to the strictest rules: no GMO, no harsh preservatives, no artificial fragrance, and no other harmful chemicals.
The illusion of natural products
It may look natural using green colours on the packaging, pictures of leaves and flowers, and statements like ‘inspired by nature’ or ‘free from ammonia’. These elements make the product feel entirely wholesome. However, even if your product comes in recycled packaging or is vegan, it doesn’t make it natural.
It is better for the planet to choose those options, but if your focus is hair dye ‘made with’ natural ingredients, that isn’t enough. The only way to tell for sure is to know your ingredients.
Myths about natural hair dyes
There is a myth that all hair dyes are unnatural, stemming from the idea that hair ‘needs’ certain ingredients to ‘take’ colour. This isn’t true. There’s nothing wrong with using ‘chemicals’ in beauty, as all ingredients could be classed as chemicals in one way or another.
The It’s Pure range
The It’s Pure range includes an organic clarifying pre-colour treatment made of organic minerals and essential oils. This treatment helps remove residue, silicones, and build-up from your hair. If used before dyeing, it helps the henna naturally bond with the hair much more strongly, giving a more vibrant, richer colour.
Harmful chemicals in mainstream hair colours
Mainstream hair colours use chemicals that change the hair shaft and can be damaging. These include:
PPD
PPD is used to darken the hair. In some cases, you can develop contact dermatitis reactions to PPD. Alternatively look for indigo, which comes from a plant and is a natural way to darken the hair.
Ammonia
This gives mainstream colours that eye-watering smell. It’s used to alter the outer shaft of the hair to allow the colour molecules to penetrate the hair. Instead, choose a natural, herbal colour that works by staining the hair’s pigment, like Henna which comes from the leaves of the Henna plant.
Other harmful ingredients to avoid include Tetrasodium EDTA, Resorcinol and Ethanolamine.
The truth about lightening hair naturally
If a hair dye claims to be able to dye your brown or black hair blonde, it isn’t natural. You simply cannot make your hair lighter without using bleach (hydrogen peroxide). There are no ingredients in nature that can take the colour out of your hair.
Cassia, an Ayurvedic herb used in several It’s Pure dyes, can enhance and colour blonde hair blonde, but it cannot lighten your hair.
It’s Pure: A truly natural choice
It’s Pure offers a range of certified organic, 100% natural, herbal hair colours. The ingredients are sourced ethically and are blended in the UK. They can’t lighten your hair, but there are 9 beautiful colours that will give you your natural colour or darker. Plus, the nutritious ingredients will boost your volume and shine!
With Eco-Max’s helpful advice, now is the perfect opportunity to refresh your cleaning routine with eco-friendly practices.
As the weather starts to warm up, our thoughts often turn to cleaning, tidying and organising our spaces. The good news is that you don’t have to use harsh chemicals to keep your space clean. Green cleaning is a great alternative that’s practical, effective, and easy to adopt.
Our friends at Eco-Max have provided a helpful guide to greener cleaning this spring.
Line-dry your laundry on dry spring days
The fresh outdoor smell of line-dried laundry is impossible to imitate. Using plant-based laundry detergents like Eco-Max Laundry Liquids can help you capture that fresh outdoor smell by removing harsh-smelling and residue causing ingredients from your laundry day.
Choose the fragrance-free variety for the shortest ingredient list. If you like a light scent, Eco-Max’s Laundry Liquids are naturally scented with the purest essential oil extracts of lavenderand orange so washed clothes don’t smell like synthetic perfumes.
Invest in wool dryer balls
If wet weather means that line drying is difficult, then a quick boost in the tumble dryer may be impossible to avoid. Replace disposable dryer sheets with reusable wool dryer balls to naturally soften fabrics and reduce drying time. These eco-friendly alternatives help to prevent static cling, minimise wrinkles, and fluff up your laundry without the need for synthetic chemicals.
Versatile vinegar for glass and mirrors
Are you struggling to keep your mirrors clean? Instead of using harsh cleaning products, why not try a gentle and natural solution?
Mix equal parts of white vinegar and water to make a cleaning solution that will leave your mirrors sparkling. To wipe off the solution, you can use newspaper or a dry cloth. It’s an easy and effective way to achieve a perfect reflection.
The fresh citrus smell of lemons is often used in natural cleaning products. Rinsing a dirty container with lemon juice can help remove stains and smells. You can also use a combination of lemon juice and salt to clean your chopping board.
Lemons are also a perfect natural cleaning agent when mixed with baking soda. This solution can be used to deep clean all metal surfaces, including taps, showers, sinks, cutlery, and hob surfaces.
Declutter and donate
Spring is a great time to declutter in your home. Why not take this opportunity to get rid of any items that you no longer need or use? By donating your clothing, furniture, and household items to local charities, you’ll not only reduce waste but also give back to the community, so everyone benefits!
Goodbye tea and coffee stains
Do you have a favourite cup that you use for your daily tea or coffee? Over time, it may accumulate some stains, but there’s an easy and natural way to remove them.
First, mix baking soda with a small amount of water to form a paste. Next, apply the paste to the stained areas of the cup and gently scrub using a washing-up pad or kitchen cloth. Finally, rinse the cup thoroughly with water and Eco-Max Lavender Washing-Up Liquid for a stainless shine.
Eco-Max special offer
While it is great to make your own natural cleaners with store cupboard ingredients like vinegar, lemons, and baking soda, if you’re short on time, or find the idea too complicated, then simply switch to eco-friendly plant-based products such as those made by Eco-Max.
For a limited time, save 15% on the Eco-Max range* and embrace the feel-good factor of reducing energy and using cleaning products and accessories that prioritise your health and the planet, for a more environmentally friendly spring clean.
