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As part of our ongoing infographic series, Bathshack has teamed up with fellow local business, Bathe Botanicals, for a special collaboration which gives you the chance to win a fabulous body care hamper and bath caddy bundle worth £200.
With the hamper packed full of beautiful Bathe Botanicals goodies which can be used by both males and females alike, this is a competition you’ll definitely want to enter … Featuring everything from doughnut bath bombs, luxurious bath milk and body oil to sumptuous shower steamers and Bathe Botanicals’ signature cold-process soap, this is a gift hamper brimming with indulgence.
There’s also bodywash, lotion and whipped soap from the Bathe Botanicals ‘Bathe Bloke’ range, along with deodorant and a luxury beard and body oil. You can then use Bathshack’s Viktor Benson Bamboo Bath Caddy and Bath Board to hold your haul.
As a local family-run business Bathshack is excited to collaborate with Co Armagh-based Bathe Botanicals, who make small batches of luxury natural bathing products which will transform your body care routine. With Bathshack supplying the luxury bathroom-ware and Bathe Botanicals the products to use with them, it’s a match made in heaven.
As part of the Bathshack/Bathe Botanicals collaboration you can win this fantastic prize hamper and a bath caddy, worth £200.
“There were three prongs to launching Bathe Botanicals. Firstly, I was off work and looking for a hobby. The second was that it was around the time of the pandemic and I was looking for things to do. I saw a video on YouTube about how to make soap and decided to try it. Thirdly, it was about wanting to be more sustainable at home, as my background is in waste management, recycling and sustainability, as well as beauty.
“It’s not something I ever set out to do but it sort of fell into my lap. I watched a YouTube video on soap-making, had a go and it snowballed from there. I was rubbish at science at school and now I think it’s funny that I’m doing chemistry every day. I’m also about to start a STEM degree.”
“I wanted to create a brand that was sustainable and good for the environment, so that’s at the core of Bathe Botanicals. I think that with COVID hitting at the same time, my skin was ravaged by hand sanitisers and the science showed that soap was more effective than them, if you washed your hands properly. I wanted to use more luxurious products, so it was all about finding natural alternatives. The difference was unbelievable when I used my own soap.
“My plastic consumption has also just gone down so much, since starting the business, which is amazing. I was having to shower every day at one stage, because of my job in waste management and I’d gathered so many plastic bottles of shower wash and shampoo. I was keen to develop a brand which could eliminate plastic.”
Bathe Botanicals founder, Christine Mccaughey with Bathshack's Marketing and e-Commerce Manager, Lorraine Kelly.
"In a nutshell: Artisan soap, bath and body products."
“I’ll begin with an idea in my head of something I might like to try. I write that down, noting the key ingredients I would like to try in it and then build it out from there. I also look online to see what would go well with those ingredients and do research, like looking up the benefits of the ingredients. It can be quite a lengthy process.
“For example, I’m formulating a new deodorant at the minute, as I was asked to create a push-up stick. Sometimes, I also buy similar products and test them all, writing down what I like and don’t like about them. As my knowledge of products and ingredients has grown it’s become an easier process from that perspective.
“I then do test batches and once I’m happy with the final product it then has to be cosmetically assessed and I need to see if it can be produced easily. For example, I used to pour 10 loaves of soap at a time and now it’s 50. It’s all about the systems put in place now to make the process more efficient.”
“I have two top favourites – my natural deodorant and the seaweed shampoo bar. The deodorant is great because it doesn’t leave you wet under the arms. Mine is sodium bicarbonate-free so you shouldn’t have any itches or rashes. It’s got coconut oil, shea butter and mango butter so it’s really soothing. You feel lovely and dry and comfortable – you want to show off your armpits!
“With the shampoo bar, I’ve had every colour in my hair and am very tough on it, so I love this shampoo because, according to my hairdresser, my hair has never looked better since using it. I went from washing my hair every day, which stripped out all the natural oils, to now being able to get away with washing it just once a week. The shampoo has a lovely creamy lather – and smells amazing. My shampoo bars are also gentle enough to use all over the body as well. It’s a really cleansing bar.”
The Bathe Botanicals shampoo bars are very popular with customers and are included in the prize hamper.
“There are three products I can think of right away that sell really well – the shampoo bar, deodorant and soap. The seaweed shampoo bar is relatively new, but all our shampoo bars are big sellers – and the natural deodorant is also very popular, along with the soap, which is our core product and on a constant production line.”
“The whole collaboration came about because Bathshack got in touch about working together for the giveaway and our visions both very much aligned. We also love supporting local. We’ve worked with other NI companies before and I buy local ingredients and employ local people. ‘Local’ is at the heart of my business and Bathshack is also a local business, so it made sense to work together.”
“Our plans are to keep expanding throughout Ireland and to source more stockists in the south. We’re excited to be a growing business, which is great, especially in the current economy.”
The "Bathshack at Bathe Botanicals" prize hamper includes soaps, bath bombs, bath milk, salts and much more!
Visit www.bathebotanicals.com/ to view their full range of luxury body care products and find out more about the business. Meanwhile, for all your bathroom-ware needs, check out bathshack.com.
if you'd like to be in with a chance of winning the bumper prize hamper of Bathe Botanicals body care goodies, then simply answer the question below. You'll find the answer in our Bathroom body care trends infographics, so once you've got that, let us know and you'll be entered into the prize draw!
Products from the Bathe Botanicals Bathe Bloke range.
Name two Bathe Bloke products mentioned in the 'Bathroom body care trends' infographic.
1 X Viktor Benson Bamboo Bath Caddy and Bath Board
