It’s early January and time for New Year, New Year skin care and grooming routines. I want to be scrubbing, polishing and generally buffing my body back into some kind of shape but alas this year it’s not to be. The stresses strains and excesses of the festive season have wreaked havoc with my skin. It has gone into super sensitive mode with eczema flare ups from my eye lids to my little finger and so something more soothing is called for.

Simple skin care (not not the brand of that name, I mean truly natural stuff!) is the order of the day. No fragrance, even pure essential oils can be too much for some extremely sensitive skin, short ingredients lists made of pure natural ingredients, minimal preservatives and foamers are what I need when my skin gets stressed.

This year thank goodness there is something that feels like a little treat even though it’s as pure as can be. Lavera Neutral range for extremely sensitive and eczema prone skin has been given an overhaul and has 4 super useful new products too.

Lavera Neutral Range for Allergy Prone and Extremely Sensitive Skin:
NEW Cleansing Foam £9.90 – Wash your face without stripping your skin
NEW Intensive Face Mask £2.90 – Treat your skin to a little “me-time”
NEW Intensive Treatment Cream with Silver £12 – A natural antiseptic treatment for when things get really tough
NEW Sensitive Tooth Gel £4.50 – Fluoride free and suitable for use during homeopathic treatment

Add these to the facial fluid, face cream, hand cream, shower shampoo and body lotion already in the range and I have everything I need to tackle my New Year flare up. Fresh clean packaging that looks fit for the New Year mean that for once this is an allergy prone skin care range that I want to have on the bathroom shelf.

Try out the Lavera Neutral Range  if your sensitive skin is making you suffer, it’s helping me and I hope it will help you too. Other good bets for sensitive and allergic, eczema prone skin are No Scent by Green People and the Very Gentle range by Trilogy too.

Autumn is on its way; time to snuggle up and get cosy, and what better way than with a gorgeous new set of silk bedding?

Silk Duvet Review: "I have slept under a long fibre mulberry silk filled duvet for the last 6-7 years. It is feather light and drapes beautifully keeping me wrapped in comfort all night long. It is warm in winter, cool in summer and is very breathable allowing me and my husband to both feel comfortable. Even though with regular duvets we prefer different weights, we both love our 9 tog silk filled duvet and use it all year round. When staying away from home no other duvet ever comes close, even when staying at good hotels we always can’t wait to get home to the comfort of our silk filled duvet! Unfortunately the company we used to get our Silk Duvets from is no longer around. I am so happy to have found Natalie and Snow Blossom to be able to once again offer our customers the joy and comfort of sleeping under silk. The quality of the Snow Blossom products is the best I’ve ever seen."
Sam (So Organic Founder)

 I had never heard of bedding containing bamboo before coming across a luxurious bedding stall at one of the country shows. Just touching a sample pillowcase made of this fibre was very intriguing. It seemed to take away all heat from my hand. Sleeping all night in a heat wave does not diminish this curious phenomenon and both hubby and I awake not at all grumpy!

Panda lovers need not worry, as it is not the same genus of bamboo that the dear creatures like to eat – it is harvested especially for fibre production. I did ask that question as there has been so much fuss and worry about panda feeding habitats.

Happily Snow Blossom bamboo bedding and silk filled duvets and pillows are now available here at So Organic. If you need some advice in choosing, please call our product specialists on 020 8465 5600, they'd love to help.

With their stylish shiny cases, gorgeous colours and sophisticated textures you’d never guess that the beautiful new Lily Lolo lipsticks come at such a miniature price.

At just £8.99 these lovely lipsticks are less expensive than many high street brands yet contain none of the usual nasties such as petroleum based oils, parabens and synthetic fragrance. Instead their fragrance free formulation includes nourishing vitamin e, rich plant waxes and organic Jojoba oil.

These are natural creamy lipsticks for beautiful and nourished lips. They apply beautifully with a smooth, even, cream application that just glides on.  Each shade gives a stunning natural glow while protecting your lips with the natural antioxidant properties of Vitamin E and Rosemary extract.

6 On Trend shades:

Intense Crush – A natural, coral peach.

Demure – A natural, peachy beige.

Romantic Rose - A rich, rose pink.

Love Affair – A dusky, brown pink.

French Flirt – A warm, mid-toned red.

Desire - A cool, intense red.

Since 2005 Lily Lolo has been leading the field in high performance affordably priced mineral make up. The long awaited lipsticks are a real delight and already attracting a lot of attention. We’ve got our fingers crossed that mascara will be next on the Lily Lolo agenda.

If you fancy giving the new Lily Lolo lipstick a try all 6 gorgeous shades are available now with free delivery.  

We’re so excited to announce the re-launch of Skin Blossom products at So Organic.

It’s rare to find a range of organic products that ticks so many boxes at such a tiny price. Beautifully package, certified organic formulations which are suitable for vegans and do exactly what they supposed to.

The Skin Blossom products range starts at £4.95 and nothing costs more than £7.95.

Now with 10 products, the Skin Blossom products range has been re-launched for summer 2012 and includes:

 Organic Skin Care:

• Organic Face Wash £5.95


• Organic Cleansing Milk £5.95


• Organic Replenish Moisturiser £7.25


• Organic Nourish Moisturiser £7.25

Organic Body Care:

• Organic Hand Cream £4.95


• Organic Body Wash £6.95


• Organic Body Lotion £7.95

Organic Hair Care:

• Organic Shampoo £6.95


• Organic Conditioner £7.95

We’ve put them through their paces and are thrilled to be able to say that we love the lot. The bumper sized 350ml bottles of Body wash, Body Lotion, Shampoo and Conditioner are around the lowest priced in our range so Skin Blossom products are perfect if you’re looking for big bottle value for the whole family.

If you fancy giving them a try there’s no better time. Spend over £20 on Skin Blossom products while stocks last and receive a free Skin Blossom organic eye cream to complete your routine. UK delivery is Free too.

It’s hard to believe that Lavera Faces has been around for over 12 years, it just goes to show that when brands launch products that work they’ll run and run.

Lavera put a huge amount of research into every single product they launch and are constantly striving to refine and improve their formulations.  For the Lavera faces range that means that 2012 is the year the entire range gets a complete makeover and the results are stunning.

Fresh and up to the minute packaging that clearly communicates what the product is supposed to do, and the ingredients that make it so effective, as well as the products organic credentials which are very high.  The entire Lavera faces range is certified organic by Natrue and is also suitable for Vegans too.

A simplified range that’s a vast improvement:

In an effort to de-clutter and simplify the range, cleansing, toning and scrubs have been divided into two groups:

Gentle, for dry, sensitive and mature skins, and the Purifying-invigorating line for Oily and Combination types.

Normal skin types (lucky devils!) can pick and choose whichever they like.

The cleansers remove make up brilliantly, but Lavera does also make an eye make up remover should you need it for extra stubborn mascara. The toners are refreshing without stripping and the Lavera faces scrub offers gentle effective exfoliation without a hint of scratchiness.

Choose what’s right for your skin type:

The next stage of skincare more closely matches the Lavera faces range skin types we have grown to love so well, but the formulations have been enhanced and brought right up to date for skincare that really feels like a treat for the skin.

Dry skin is nurtured by the Wild Rose range, it suits mature skins too, but these are now brilliantly catered for by the Lavera My Age line.

Normal to combination skin should choose the calendula range, which now boasts a new addition in the form of a special mask for combination skin, as well as an enhanced formula for the much loved Lavera Faces balancing cream.

The products for Oily skin are a vast improvement with a much more sophisticated formula for the moisturiser which helps to mattify the complexion but also features hyaluronic acid to give hydration without greasiness. The jewel in the crown however, has to be the Lavera Faces 2 in 1 Anti Blemish treatment. Previously just a lipstick style medication concealer stick that was hard to blend and felt heavy, it now incorporates two brilliant treatments in a handbag handy product. An organic serum packed with ingredients specially chosen to purify the skin and aid healing in a clever little roller ball that applies the product just where it’s needed. At the other end is a soft and creamy concealer in a neutral shade that’s easy to dot into position with a wand to be blended to perfection with a (clean!) finger.

I’m really delighted to see such a fabulous revamp of a much loved range and hope you’ll love it as much as I do.

If you feel like giving it a try why wait? UK delivery is Free so why not order some Lavera Faces Skincare and see for yourself?