Only 7 Days to get your Christmas Orders in!

Only 7 days to get your Christmas orders in!

To encourage you to get your last-minute orders in early, and so that poor Janet doesn't have a truckload of orders to make up on the last day in the office, we're offering a fantastic discount on all our products.

If you order today we'll give you a massive 50% off!

Tomorrow (Friday) it will be 45% off, and each day the discount will go down by 5%.

The last day for posting is a week today, and if you MUST leave buying your last-minute presents till then we'll still give you a 20% discount as our own Christmas present to you.

Please Share this with your friends and anyone else you know - it's too good an offer to miss!
(As usual, please note that this discount cannot be used in conjunction with other offers or discounts and is an online discount only).

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Our latest newsletter is available!

Just a quick note to let you all know that our November Newsletter is out today% If you subscribe (from our home page www.e-nat.co.uk) you will receive �5 off your first order.

if you just want to read it, go to http://www.e-nat.co.uk/newsletters-25-w.asp.

if you are a trader or interested in buying wholesale from us, our trade website is up and running at http://www.enat-trade.co.uk.

We can take debit/credit card payments so no need to worry about purchase orders or delays in processing. It's not too late to order those last-minute items to fill the shelves for Christmas.

With best wishes for Christmas and the new year from Dennis and all of us at Essentially Natural.

A look at some of our Christmas products

We're in full swing getting ready for the Christmas rush, so we thought we'd show you a few of our products being made.

Tony's been with us for exactly 5 years, but hates being in front of a camera. We'll catch him out one of these days, but in the meantime, watch these YouTube videos to see how everything we make is done by hand, with care and with love.

We've always loved making soy candles in star tins, so this year, as well as our Frankincense Star Candles, we've decided to make our popular Mandarin and Cinnamon as star tins for an extra Christmas Cheer. Once lit, these will fill your room with the smell of spices and tangerines that will last for hours and hours.

For those of you who have children and pets so are a little anxious about having candles around the house, our Organic Reed Diffusers are a safe, no-flame alternative. We use the same essential oils as in the candles, and you can "regulate" the amount of scent released by using fewer reeds. Use less reeds for a smaller room or to make the scent last longer.

When you're out and about to escape a family argument after Christmas, or just to clear your head the morning after, our Organic Peppermint Lip Balm will ensure your lips aren't damaged by the cold or damp. Made from organic sweet almond oil, you'll taste as good as you smell too, so watch the mistletoe!

Our newest product is just a must for the kitchen or wherever you have a wash basin. Once your friends and family have used it, I can guarantee they'll never look at another hand wash in the same way. Lime and ginger make a perfect combination and thoroughly clean your hands while leaving your skin soft and silky and the organic olive oil base is suitable even for the most sensitive skin.

Hi I'm Matt

Hi I'm Matt the new IT Apprentice,

I've been working on the new Trade website for all you traders out there. The trade site should be online any time soon and at first you may find a few bugs but all we ask is that you report these bugs and we will sort them out as soon as we can.

While I've worked at Essentially Natural I have had first hand experience with the soaps, candles and bodycare products and they all smell wonderful, I enjoy the smell of the Orange & Lemongrass candle because it great .

I like the aspect that all the products are made on site and none have any toxins.

It is very enjoy working at Essentially Natural, everyone here is pleasant and always welcoming, and it is very interesting working with someone that cannot see because everything you do is different you have to tell Dennis everything you are doing so that he knows. The only bad thing about this is he has the best hearing in the world and when my phones on vibrate he knows I'm using my phone =P

Matt

New Products, Loyalty Points and Offers August 2012

A lot has been happening since our last newsletter, so let's get started!

Firstly, you will notice some changes on our website E-Nat. We have streamlined our product ranges, have some new products online, some offers to save you money on our Limited Editions soaps, and you can now start saving up for Christmas with our new Loyalty Points on everything you buy.

Matthew, our new IT Apprentice, has been hard at work, and he's just putting the finishing touches to putting up information on the essential oils we use in our product ingredients. So if, for instance, you want to find out why we use organic jasmine in our Sensual Bath and Massage Oil, or the properties of Roman Chamomile in our Roman Chamomile Bath and Body Bar, you won't need to call us or Google it. Just click on the ingredient to find out more!

New Organic Hand Wash

Many people prefer to use hand washes rather than bars of soap these days, and so we have come up with one of our own. Our Organic Lime and Ginger Hand Wash uses a pure, organic liquid soap base made from organic olive oil. Lime essential oil is well known for its cleaning power, and this, combined with calming ginger, will leave your hands feeling silky smooth and smelling wonderful! No feeling of soapiness in this at all--just clean silkiness.

For those of you who prefer not to have the naked flame of our Soy Aromatherapy Candles, we are now producing our Reed Diffusers in bigger, better-value 200ml bottles. At the moment we produce our three standard scents of Citrus, Floral and Spice, but we are open to any suggestions you may have for new alternatives. The proviso, of course, being that we can only use organic essential oils, so no "Fresh Bread" or Sea Breeze" I'm afraid!

Limited edition Soaps

You may notice that we have taken some familiar products off the site as they were not selling as well as we had hoped. But, because they are popular with some of you, we will continue to produce Limited Editions of these in smaller numbers. These will be updated regularly. Read Here to see what's available now!

And finally something for you every time you buy

I've never really liked having to type in coupon codes to get special offers, and much prefer to be given points to spend when I like. We’re very pleased to be able to offer Loyalty Points to spend at the time of your order or to save up for a later occasion. When you order you will receive details of how many you currently have and how much they're worth. Spend them now or save them for a rainy day, the choice is yours!

And a final reminder that we are still keeping our prices on our Soap and Candle Club at their current level, despite increases in inflation and postage. You can join for a minimum 3-month period for £30, or pay a full year's subscription for £100 and save £20. And don't forget you'll also get 100 Loyalty Points saving you an extra £5!

Best Regards, Dennis Freedman

How does lime and ginger grab you?

Good news for our EU customers

A bit late, I know, because of the floods, but we have good news for you if you have friends or relatives in the EU or if you yourself live in the EU.

But first, the results of our own EURO2012 competition.

did you guess the country with the most orders during the Euro2012 football tournament?

 The winner was…

(Trumpet fanfare…)

F I N N L A N D

And the runner-up…

 S P A I N.

As a result of the interest shown by customers in the EU, we are pleased to be able to extend our discount offers to EU countries in the future. So if you live in the EU or have friends or relatives there, keep an eye out for upcoming offers from us.

And as a thank-you, a little gift will be winging its way to all our Finnish customers.

Back to normal after the floods

You will all be aware of the dismal summer we're having, and some of you may have seen our little village of Irwell Vale affected by the floods on Breakfast TV. We were fortunate that our home itself was not affected by the flash flood but the workshop was. Despite the hard work needed to get everything cleaned up, it has given us time to freshen up the workshop and our ideas too. This is just in time for our new IT apprentice starting next week, but more about that next time.

We're now up and running again and back to normal production and all delayed orders are being sent out this week. Thank you for your patience and understanding if you've had to wait longer than usual for out-of-stock items to be made.

And finally, a question

We are developing an organic hand wash (with no synthetics or nasties of course), and are interested to know which fragrances you prefer? Our top choice at the moment is lime and ginger, but we're very much open to your ideas.

Please let us know by emailing dennis@e-nat.co.uk or calling 08000 664 916 (free from most UK landlines), or mobile 07976 761 208. You can also let us know using FaceBook (www.facebook.com/essentiallynatural) or Twitter (@e_nat).

Dennis.

Our solid shampoo bars Number 2'd in 'Top 5 Ravel essentials' on Florida Holidays blog

We are pleased to have been selected as the number 2 product by Florida Holidays in their recent blog article on travel essentials.

 

In fact, ours was the only shampoo selected, so I think we deserve an extra pat on the back!

 

This is a great blog to visit, with lots of informative and interesting articles for anyone intending to visit Florida on holiday, or even for the casual reader wanting to find out more about this part of the world.

 

You can read more at http://blog.floridaholidays.co.uk/top-5-travel.

 

A 20% chance4? Let's celebrate Euro2012 together!

Well, England are through their first match (albeit a draw) and so are still in with a chance. What with the new manager still finding his feet (or should that be keeping his eye on the ball?), Wayne Rooney still out of the picture, and the tough opposition within the group, I guess I'd rate our chances of winning at about 20 %. At a push.

If you missed the match you can read more here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18076341

'But as we're all optimists here at Essentially Natural, while at the same time trying to stay impartial to our EU neighbours, we're putting our mouths where our money is.

From now until midnight on 5th July we're offering a 20 % discount on all our products (except, of course, Clearance products) for all orders online. But not just to UK customers this time.

And perhaps, you never know, England may actually come out on top and defy the pundits!

Celebrate with my family this weekend

Having the family with us at holiday times is always a pleasure, especially as some of them live a fair distance away. This Jubilee Bank Holiday is again going to be full, and no doubt as chaotic as usual. Although Stefan and Mikiko (in Japan) aren't able to be with us, and Josef, our youngest, is finishing his year abroad in Australia, we'll have the other five kids with their partners, and our two grandchildren, aged 18 months and 4 weeks.

And there's a tradition at Essentially Natural that Dad has to stop messing with computers and checking that discounts work while they're with us. (I've even known Max unplug the router to stop me going on the internet before now).

So this means, in practice, I have to get discounts or special offers up and working properly before they arrive.

This time the first (with the grandchild of 18 months) arrives from Devon this afternoon, and they are staying until Tuesday. So this gives you, dear customer, the chance to have an extended Bank Holiday lookaround on our website and an extended Bank Holiday discount.

So while I'm getting some well-earned rest, no doubt having too much to eat and drink, enjoying the party with the villagers and our family, you can be sure that the 20 % discount will be taken off your total at the checkout, from now until the kids have all disappeared back to their respective homes on late Tuesday evening.

Have a good weekend and let's hope for some sunshine after the rain.

Janet's been playing at Pick & Mix

As the end of the month comes around, it's time to put our Soap & Candle Club parcels together. Dennis wants each customer to be able to choose what they like best, and we still manage to do this even with member numbers growing. It's an interesting challenge.

Some of our customers have been members for years and have their favourites, but others want us to choose for them. Some are vegan so we have less choice of soaps and skincare although all our candles are vegan. I like to leave at least six or seven months before sending them the same again. One of our members is allergic to geranium, so that cuts out our rose products, one of our summer favourites and another doesn't like anything too flowery.

So quite a mixture this month, from our Rose & Cocoa Butter bath bar and Patchouli & Geranium travel tin to Chamomile shampoo & body bar and Orange & Lemongrass travel tin, with Cucumber & Almond, Peppermint & Cinnamon and Lavender & Geranium thrown in.

We decided with the summer weather to send out as an extra some of our new Citronella tea lights that we're getting ready to sell. I look forward to hearing what our members think of these. I do love it when members tell us how much they look forward to getting their parcel from us at the end of the month as I feel I know them better than when people just order things from us from time to time.

So I'm on my way to Helmshore Post Office loaded up with parcels after an enjoyable morning. I just wish I'd not picked the hottest day in the year!

Tony's been busy!!!!

Hmmmm, Tony’s just been in the office to ask us to smell test the Lavender and Citronella candle mixture he’s currently making. Smells Divine! We’ve decided to put them in our new glass jars – which will look great on tables for alfresco dining or those vintage tea parties that we will all inevitably go to over in the next month or two! .. I will definitely be putting one of these aside for myself to buy! (I could do with my own shelf in the stock room.. can’t get enough)… nothing like the smell of organic essential oils.. Purity at its best!  (AND NOT MADE IN CHINA!)

Do you burn candles in the Summer?

Hi, I'm Jo and I work with Dennis. Me and my friend went for a toottle round Hebden Bridge on Saturday... Love to people watch from cafes there - such an interesting place! We went round all the quirky shops. One thing we noted was that shops seem to be streamlining the number of suppliers they use, especially in the skincare, candles and soap department. In some shops where I expected to see candles - there were none at all. I personally still like to light a candle on a rare evening that I am chilling in the lounge watching TV or a movie. I find it relaxing and warming. But do you stop burning candles altogether in the Summer? I do find it especially reassuring that burning a candle from Essentially Natural means I am not releasing any toxins in the enviroment and it wasn't made in China!

Our deals with joy through FaceBook

It's been a while since I've written on my blog, but I hope we're now back in business with something for you all.

I'm writing mainly to other business owners here, but if you're not one, just skip to the last paragraph.
As the internet has taken over our lives, new things have come and gone, but one thing is here to stay--Social Networking.

I'm very aware that many of our customers are past there youth, but even if they themselves are not on FaceBook, many of their sons, daughters and grandchildren are, for more time in the day than their long-suffering parents/teachers may like.

And FaceBook is a great way to make new "friends"--people you have something in common with, whether it's where you live, about your working or leisure interests, music, films, games, hobbies, etc.

And We've discovered a great way of tapping into that resource to spread the word about what we do, why you should buy organic/natural/fairly traded products, and, yes, in the end, why you should look to us for some of your needs in this area.

DealsJoy at www.dealsjoy.com have launched a little app that allows businesses with a FaceBook page to offer "deals" in the form of voucher codes to customers in a simple, effective way.

Once you set up an account, type in details of your location and install the "app" on your FaceBook page you're ready to go.

You can offer deals that you know you're customers will want to share with their friends, and as this happens you'll end up with more fans on FaceBook.

Currently we have two deals online. One is 20 percent off one of our limited edition soaps, and the other is for a free month's subscription to our Soap and Candle Club to give customers the chance to beat postage increases coming into effect on Monday in the UK.

Whether or not DealsJoy will overtake the troubled GroupOn is to be seen, but they are to be commended for offering something at no cost to businesses who are struggling in this recession to overcome stiff competition and point consumers their way.

Well done, DealsJoy!

If you want to see what our deals look like, or to see what our current deals If you're a consumer rather than a business or company, why not head over to our Deals page. Let your family and friends know if you yourself aren't on FaceBook, or why not dive in and try FaceBook as a way of keeping in touch?

Click here to go to our Facebook page.

[If that long link doesn't work for you, try the shortened one below]:
http://on.fb.me/HYtjsz

Sale now on! Buy 2 and get an extra one free!

To help get us all through the January blues, we are offering a ‘buy 2, get an extra free’ on all our soaps and skincare products this month.

 

Take advantage of this while stocks last!