Milly & Flossy Is Launched!

Rachael from milly & flossy is delighted to announce the launch of their on-line shop.

milly & flossy was created to make gentle, kind products for your baby.

We manufacture by hand and in small batches to maintain quality. All our ingredients are natural, we don’t use nasty chemicals, parabens, SLS or palm oil in our products. We only use synthetics where they are unavoidable, for example to preserve, and all products are suitable from birth.

• Gentle, natural and kind baby skincare
• No parabens, SLS, synthetics or palm oil
• Suitable from birth
• Hand-made in small batches

And now you can buy our products on-line at www.millyandflossy.co.uk

The best of luck with your new business venture Rachael!!

Cool As A Cucumber....

I hope everyone had a most lovely Christmas and are looking forward to a wonderful 2010. It's a bit chilly at the moment, here in the UK as I think it is throughout most of Europe at the moment. Bit of a contrast to midnight swims to try and escape the baking 37c heat being experienced in Australia (phew!). I hope everyone is finding means of staying at a comfortable body temperature both sides of the world.

I just thought I would give a little update about new developments at Fresholi....

I have just taken delivery of a small stock (for the time being) of the incredibly fine virgin cucumber oil. An incredibly light oil which hints the refreshing scent of cucumber and absorbs into the skin superquick - seriously, I don't think I have experienced any oil quite like this and would be incredible in eye treatments. I only have a small stock for now (as we would like to see what people think of this rather new product). This will be added to the site shortly so do keep checking back.

Also, over Christmas, a couple of new products were added to the site... Coriander essential oil and sodium cocosulphate.

I have recently took delivery of some old friends, emulsifying powder (naturally derived from a vegetable origin and widely used in both food and cosmetics) and cetyl alcohol. These will be added shortly.

I am just waiting for a new delivery of the gorgeous organic nilotica butter and awaiting the arrival of a new stock of orange flower wax, jasmine wax and tuberose wax. I anticipate increasing our range significantly throughout 2010 so if you have any suggestions, please, I would be most happy to hear them.

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous 2010!!!

www.fresholi.co.uk

Bye to the Noughties!!

This is a very quick post to wish each and every one of you a most fantastic, healthy, happy and wonderful new year. I would also like to say a very big thank you to everyone that has supported the site; customers, contributors, forum members and visitors. A very big thank you to those that visit the blog, followers and, of course, those that interact with comments. Thank you so much. May 2010 be a peaceful and lovely new year.






P.S. Kevin from Taonga Jewellery & Homescents has just submitted Part 2 of his tutorials on Making Wax Melts and Candles. Thank you so much Kevin for your generosity and willingness to share your knowledge.

New Tutorials

The Fresholi Community are so wonderful and there is quite a bank of resources building from their generousity.


Recently, Elaine from Briallen Traditional Crafts submitted a wonderful Crockpot Hot Process Tutorial with clear and descriptive pictures. This tutorial is available to registered Fresholi members.




Also, Kevin from Taonga Jewellery and Homescents has kindly submitted the first of a series of tutorials for creating wax melts and candles.









Sincere thanks to both for your kindness and to all the Fresholi members who contribute so enormously to the lovely community :o)

Back To Normal!!

Oh thank goodness!! It seems that some of the issues have been resolved at Royal Mail and the strikes that were planned in the run up to Christmas have now been called off (until the new year at least). This is such good news, especially for those in Europe, who wish to make small orders.

I rather missed my little chats with the counter staff and have certainly missed my regular bike rides to and from the post office (although I'm not sure how keen I am going to be to use my bike when the weather turns really wintery, brrr.....).

Anyway, the Royal Mail shipping prices have now been put back in place on the site so will be calculated automatically (up to 1.8kg for European parcels and 800g for UK parcels).

My thanks to all those who have showed tolerance and understanding during this awkward period.

Yay! We are back to normal!!!!!

The Postal Strikes - UK and Europe

What's happening at Royal Mail? If you haven't heard already, here in the UK we are experiencing 'dispruptions' in our postal service due to Royal Mail workers taking strike action by staging a series of walkouts.

There was a national strike last week and one is planned for next week and these are set to continue in the run up to Christmas (unless and agreement is reached between Royal Mail and the union). So far, the strikes have caused a severe backlog of millions of parcels and letters so obviously delays (or worse, losses/damages) are inevitable.

Contingencies for UK customers. I have put some contingencies in place to ensure customers still receive their orders quickly and reliably by switching all shipping to courier only (which would remain unaffected by the issues at Royal Mail) and I am able to offer UK mainland courier shipping at a rate much lower than previously.

My European friends. That is all great news if you live in the UK. However, it saddens me deeply that my friends across the channel are presently unable to enjoy the Royal Mail shipping rates for small orders. Nothing stings quite like having charge an overseas courier fee for a small order (which may not even be to the value of the shipping itself). Courier shipping to Europe still works out good value for larger orders though.

What now for orders to Europe? Well, this has all lead to my sitting down and think what else I can do. I am able to offer:

• Reduced courier shipping rates to France, Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium for £12.70 for up to 25kg

Royal Mail Strike Dodging for Europe. I am going to make attempts to try and 'dodge' the strikes for European orders under 1.8kg. However, this will be by Airsure (which is a priority service offered by Royal Mail) where it is available. If it is not available in the destination country, then it will be sent International Signed-For. It is worth noting though that orders sent through any Royal Mail system could be subject to delays that would be beyond my control :o(

Hopefully someday soon we can all get back to normal and a happy resolution is reached between Royal Mail and its workers.

Beer Soaps

Elaine Jones of Briallen Crafts has recently introduced a range of handmade beer soaps.

Briallen handmade Beer Soaps are made with beers carefully selected from local breweries in North Wales and include gently refined organic Shea Butter from a Fair Trade project in Ghana. The lather from these handmade beer soaps is absolutely fantastic!


The first of the regular beer soaps is Cwrw Du (The literal translation of "Cwrw Du" is "Black Beer", one of the Welsh names for Stout). The stout used in the making of the Cwrw Du beer soap is Welsh Stout, a bottled stout from North Wales Brewery near Abergele. In the pipeline is another regular beer, the intriguingly named Dark Side of the Moose from the Purple Moose Brewery in Porthmadog.

In the tradition of all good bars there will be Guest Beers in addition to the regular ones and the first is a Guest Beer for Halloween! "Mysterious Myrtle" made with myrtle stout from the Purple Moose Brewery - just once or twice a year Purple Moose brew a stout flavoured with the Bog Myrtle herb.

Visit Briallen to see these wonderful Beer soaps and more.......