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Thursday 24th June 2010
Pure Nuff Pirate Punch
What. A. Night. Chapel Street had an Open Evening last night (part of the Golowan Celebrations). We dressed as pirates and gave out a rather stunningly strong but tasty rum punch - as a result it's all rather quiet here today. Thank you so much to all our local customers for coming along to support the evening and for making it the raucous end of the street :) If we get our collective acts together we might even post the pictures up on Facebook, I'll let you know if we manage it.
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2009/09/01 - Magazines
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2009/03/10 - Grow your own drugs - did you see that on telly last night?
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2009/03/02 - A day in the life of a whiteboard....
2009/02/23 - Twitter, we have succumbed
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2009/02/10 - Mobile phones, I'm now properly scared
2009/02/05 - Good reference books on the subject of vile chemicals in toiletries
2009/01/29 - Hormone disrupting
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2009/01/05 - Happy New Year!!!
2008/12/23 - Happy Christmas to everyone
2008/12/19 - Quick hello and apologies for recent quietness
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2008/11/16 - The links page has been updated
2008/11/11 - Back to the natural cleaning discussion again
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2008/10/22 - Meep! We just had a famous person in the shop, we're all starstruck
2008/10/20 - Borax a RESOUNDING success - I have finally banished bleach from the house forever!!
2008/10/09 - Onward and upward now, an explanation of why we hate phthalates
2008/10/07 - We're a bit sad at the moment
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2008/09/16 - Another question
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2008/09/04 - Conditioner, Creams and Christmas
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2008/07/28 - What do you use to wash your clothes with?
2008/07/16 - Natural Toothpastes
2008/07/15 - We're just ordering some new brushes and scrubby things
2008/07/07 - Oh we love summer
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2008/05/28 - Well how exciting....
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2008/05/08 - Channel 4 - Dispatches, The truth about Beauty Creams I think the programme's called
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I'm actually not too worried about potassium sorbate to be honest, it has a job to do and does it with minimal impact in my opinion. And in this application, where it's sitting on hair, which is - not to put too fine a point on it - dead anyway, then I don't have an issue with it. It's pretty widely used though, not just in skincare, but home brewing and in many foodstuffs, how do you manage to avoid it altogether?
I do understand general caution of course, but I think that with the job it does (and you're right, it inhibits bacterial growth) I can accept that some protection is necessary to keep the product fresh. The only alternative would be to buy "single use" size products and accept all the extra packaging this would produce and I'm not comfortable with that. I do hope this helps put your mind at rest.
And I get you about the Tat Pat, it might seem odd, but the argument I hear on the other side is that the art of tattooing is probably older than the art soapmaking, the human race has been self-decorating for a long time. So we're not about to convince the comitted that we're right and they're wrong, but we can prove to them that natural is best as far as healing is concerned. The inks used in tattooing have changed hugely in recent years too, so perhaps the message is getting out there.
Customers who've asked us to produce a healing balm that won't affect colour are asking because they've been recommended to use other more chemical-laden products for tattoo aftercare and they don't want to, so we obliged. I'm a blank canvass myself, so I won't be getting inked any time soon (in truth, I'd be a bit scared to I think, plus, I'm an old lady now!), but I'll happily help those that wish to :)