Busy, Busy, Busy!

Yes, I'm a busy little bee at the moment, making supplies for upcoming shows. Lip Balms yesterday and Gardener's Balm today. I can't do much more today as I have a Council Meeting this afternoon.

Gardener's Balm is a unique product that I created to help people who have trouble with really dry, cracked skin on their hands. Of course, it's not just for gardener's, it's excellent for farmers.
Gardener's Balm contains urea, a skin softener, plus allantoin which is known for it's healing properties. Olive Leaf Extract contains flavonoids which stimulate connective tissue and promote regular growth and balance in the skin. Olive and jojoba oils along with pure organic cocoa butter provide emolliency and softening to the skin.

I have a fabulous testimony from a customer who came to me last year at the Newdegate Field Days and showed me her cracked, bleeding hands. She helps her husband run a cattle farm and was despairing at what to do as working in the yards had become difficult with very sore hands. She went away with a tub of Gardener's Balm and two weeks later rang me to exclaim how thrilled she was that her hands were healing! I knew that the balm would help soften the skin in order to allow healing to take place, but had no idea that it would happen so quickly or so dramatically!

What wonderful news. She came to me in Newdegate again this year to show how good her hands were as she's been using Gardener's Balm religiously since then.

NEW PHOTOS
If you check out my website, you'll notice some lovely new photos. Kellie Guest (nee Dolan, from Nyabing) has been photographing all my products to ensure consistency throughout the website. Up until now, I've been taking them and they're a mish mash of different lighting, backgrounds and effects!

Such a horrible day weather wise today. Hot wind making everything even more dry than it is and now a movement ban so we can't shift any sheep to water.  It's been a shocker of a season for grain farmers here and everyone will have to tighten their belt next year. It's good to know that I can provide good quality skin care products at reasonable prices so my local and other farming customers will still be able to afford Skinflint

New Diffuser Oil Fragrance!

Skinflint has a released a new fragrance in the Reed Diffuser Oil range. Apricot Freesia is a combination of fruit and floral. It's a wonderful fresh fragrance that doesn't have the cloying sweetness of many floral fruit fragrances.

Red Tea & Lychee will be phased out as it's not a particularly popular scent. I'm pretty sure this new one will be very popular!

I'd like to introduce one more fragrance. What would you like?

Berry?
Vanilla?
Lemony?

Add your comments at the bottom!

Reed Diffusers

Reed Diffusers have been pretty popular, but I'm having trouble getting hold of the glass bottles at a reasonable price. The bottles are a good price, but postage is ridiculous!

So, I've decided to let customers either purchase or re-use their own glass bottles and can supply the reeds and diffuser oil for them. This makes it a really economical way to scent your home. The other benefit is that I'll be able to supply a larger range of fragrances including essential oils for the diffusers.

Diffuser Oil is available in a range of fragrances in a 130ml bottle for only $12.50 and Reeds are in a bunch of 6 for $2.50. You can buy gorgeous coloured bottles at discount stores and have your reed diffusers match in with your decor.


Be sensible, be a Skinflint!

New Look Blog

This is my third blog post today! So much is happening in the world of Skinflint and I have to tell everyone about it.

My blog has a new look thanks to my favourite web designers redlimeweb. Cherie and Joe have been fantastic in helping me get the look I want with the minimum of fuss. They're always available by email, day or night - do you guys ever sleep?

I thoroughly recommend redlimeweb to anyone who is contemplating getting a web site for their business. Please let me know what you think of my new blog design by leaving a comment.
Everyone who comments receives a free lipbalm!!

New Logo Style

Have you noticed my logo? It's had a re-vamp. I loved my old logo, but the graphic designer who developed it for me has gone AWOL. Not answering emails or phone messages. I needed my high resolution file for a banner that I'm having made and I lost the file when I had a computer crash in May. So, there was nothing more for it than to get another logo made up.

I turned to my favourite graphic designers and illustrators, Two Funky Girls . Gillie and Virginia did a fantastic job. They also designed my leaflets, which I'm thrilled with. Thanks again girls!

I've used my favourite flower, the lily to include in the design. I love the colours and the design and hope you do too! Please leave a comment and tell me what you think.

Soy Wax Warmers

Skinflint has just introduced two new soy wax warmers to complement the Home Care Range.

The first is a delightful little warmer that uses a tea light candle to heat your soy wax melts to release their delightful fragrance. These are available in Arctic White with a rusty coloured insert or Glossy Black with a red coloured insert. They're packaged in a clear plastic box, so make great gifts, along with a few Skinflint Soy Wax Melts.

The other is an Electric Wax Warmer. These are just fabulous, I'm using one right now and my house smells of roses. Since they're self regulating, you don't have to worry that they'll ever get to hot. The warmers maintain a temperature of between 70 and 80 degrees celsius and can also be used with essential oils.

The Ceramic Wax Warmers are $20.00 and the Electric Warmers are $35.00.

More Soap!

Whew! I've been busy these last few days making soap.
Unfortunately, at the moment I'm totally out of three of the six fragrances in my range. I was caught short recently by some large orders.

A batch of Blackberry Sage and a batch of Lemongrass & Tea Tree are now sitting on their racks curing. Tomorrow I'll be making Peppermint Choc Truffle.
Handmade soap takes about 4 weeks to cure. Some of the water evaporates and the soap continues to saponify.

Soap is even better if it's left for 6 months or more. Recently, I found some of my experimental soap, made about 3 years ago. It's one of the best soaps I've used in ages. Rock hard, but still bubbly and creamy, we used it until it was a little sliver. The fragrance was divine, but I haven't got around to searching through my archived notes to find out what it was!

I will continue to make batches of soap over the next month or so to build up my stocks for Christmas. Soap is always a welcome gift for people of any age and handmade soap is even more welcome. People who can't use supermarket soap because of allergies and the dryness it causes can always use Skinflint Handmade Soap.