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It's not too late! Make an easy cupcake bath bomb for Mother's Day

by Rachael Lythgoe March 08, 2018

Spending the time to hand-make a gift for Mother's Day is a really special way to say 'I love you.' Mums especially love home made presents, and ap...

Posted in bath bomb, bath fizzer, DIY gift, gift, Mother's Day, present

Beat the winter chills with a DIY mustard bath

by Rachael Lythgoe March 02, 2018

Whether you’ve spent the day battling through snow, you’re exhausted from great day's sledging or even if you've been hunkered down with the doors...

Posted in bath soak, DIY bath soak, Epsom salts, essential oil, foot soak, mustard bath, present, relaxing, snow, warming, winter

No cash? No worries! We've got a card machine!

by Rachael Lythgoe February 21, 2018

Life's full of problems. Like when you come across the perfect mother's day present at the farmers' market and you've spent all your cash on herita...

Posted in card reader, Farmers' Market, gift, iZettle, Mother's Day, pay, rose geranium

We've gone N A K E D !

by Rachael Lythgoe February 10, 2018

You read it right - we've thrown off our clothes and we're parading proudly in the buff. Of course we mean our soaps - we've made them available pa...

It's our first birthday! Celebrate with us at Stroud Farmers' Market on Saturday 27th January

by Rachael Lythgoe January 21, 2018

We're nearly one! Come & celebrate with us at Saturday's Stroud Farmer's market where we'll have lots of gifts & giveaways! And what a yea...

By invitation from Tewkesbury Abbey - College Green soaps are now stocked in the abbey gift shop

by Rachael Lythgoe January 20, 2018

"I received one of your soaps for Christmas, I love it!" is one of the nicest starts to a phone call we can think of. But it gets even better whe...

Gorgeous ginger - why it's so fantastic in soap

by Rachael Lythgoe January 03, 2018

We add a touch of ginger essential oil to our natural beer soap, as well as lemongrass, may chang & oats. Used as a medicinal ingredient...

The simplest new year's resolution of all

by Rachael Lythgoe January 01, 2018

Happy New Year! New year’s resolution anyone? We have just one. It’s so simple, yet will have a huge impact: we’ll be making our lives a little b...

Posted in blog, clean & green, cleaning products, green, green alternatives, Happy New Year, New Year, New Year's resolutions

Posted in Christmas, Farmers' Market

College Green customers have started their Christmas shopping early

by Rachael Lythgoe September 30, 2017

"Can you bring some more soaps?" said the urgent voice on the phone. "Someone's just bought fourteen and we've only got two left." So we filled a b...