New outlet for E-Nat products at Musbury Fabrics, Helmshore

We're pleased to announce a new outlet where you can buy a range of our products in lovely surroundings and at great savings too!

The Musbury Fabrics Mill Shop in Helmshore, Rossendale, Lancashire, has long been known as the place to go to get your home furnishings, curtains or fabrics. Or, for that matter, the place to spend a relaxing hour over a home-made cake and a cup of excellent tea or coffee in the well-run cafe.

But recently, Alex Mitchell, the Rossendale businessman who still retains his interest in horses to reflect his farming past, and Lisa Parsons, Warehouse and Shops Manager, have commandeered a space to show off something a little different, and perhaps a bit more upmarket, for the home. Many of the products on sale are locally made or made on traditional craft lines, and our range, I have to admit, fits in well.

We are pleased that we can offer appreciable discounts, and this will, I hope, enable customers who would not normally buy organic or natural products because of their price to try them out and see the difference they make.

Helmshore boasts a busy Farmer's Market on the first Sunday of each month, and there are other attractions, including, of course, the Heritage Museum where you can bathe in nostalgia or try to teach your children a little about the past in Rossendale and Lancashire.

So why not head over and take a look at our products? If you've never tried a soy candle you won't be disappointed. And if you have eczema or know someone who has, then one of our soaps or hand balms will just do the trick nicely.

Special Offers back!

It's been a while since we've had regular Special Offers on our site, and I'm pleased they're back!

We will be featuring new products every week or two, and they'll all be well worth your trying if you haven't bought from us before, or a good way to save a bit of money if you're a regular customer.

This week we've got three Specials, all with £1 off, and all with a free Gardener's Delight Hand Bar too!

But watch this space as offers will change. Order early to avoid disappointment as our stocks are lower at this time of the year due to staff holidays.

For all you EBayers

We all have to work that bit harder these days to get what we want. And all of us in business have to look for new markets and perhaps cut our margins a bit on the way.

Well, that's good news for all of you EBay addicts. We've put some of our products up for this week, and they're all selling at half price!

But I'm not going to tell you what they are - you'll have to find 'em.

But that should be no problem for you EBay addicts. OK, I'll give you a clue.

You can now search by brand (at least in the Soaps category), and if you don't know by now who Essentially Natural is, then you probably won't be interested in EBay either. :)

Special Offer to beat the budget gloom!

With news of the forthcoming budget this week, we decided to start our Weekly Offers again; and we weren't wrong, were we? How we're all going to manage with a VAT increase from January I don't know. I'm sure the  giant supermarkets will find a way, though, to beat the increase, at least for a while.

So we have three featured products this week, and if you buy any of them you'll get one of our Avocado & Fennel Hand Bars absolutely free!

This soap is excellent for people with skin allergies (including eczema and psoriasis), or for those with sensitive skin.

Based on organic extra virgin olive and palm oils, (the palm from sustainable sources), the soap has added organic marjoram and fennel essential oils with their antiseptic properties. An infusion of fennel seeds (organically grown in our own garden) gives this soap a heavenly anisseedy perfume loved by .

One not to be missed!

Bagsey me first!

OK, I have to admit, my wife Pia is awesome! Last year it was tomatoes and carrots, the year before was chillies and peppers. And that's apart from the wonderful rosemary and lavender and fennel we grow.
And then there's the potatoes...

But this year it's cucumbers. And she wants them to eat!

So, as said, I got in first. Well I had to for our Cucumber & Elderflower and Cucumber & Almond soaps.  but as always I lost.

So I did the only thing I could - let her buy some gherkin seeds. :)

Need a last-minute gift for Dad?

Just a quick note - there's still time to buy your last-minute gift for Dad (Father's Day on Sunday, 20th June here in the UK).

We're featuring three of our products for Dad on our home page, and you can get a free wooden soap dish to keep your soap fresh if you order one of our Organic Lime & Lavender Shaving Soap (Bath Bar size).

If you order by Thursday mid-day BST you should receive Dad's goodies on Saturday. To be sure, though, order today!

Treat yourself or a loved one like Cleopatra!

If ass's milk was good enough for Cleopatra to bathe in, then our Goat's Milk & Rose Petal Soap, made from all natural, ingredients with organic essential oils and milk from organically-reared goats raised in Lancashire is not a bad second best.

We have a '3 for 2' offer on our bath bars at the moment, and if three's too many for you then why not give one to a friend?

The offer ends at midnight BST on 14th June.