(Soap dishes)
In stock€8.00
Christmas cosiness has no exact recipe, but it does have a few reliable ingredients: the scent of orange and cinnamon in the bathroom, a festive shower, lips protected from wind and frost and candlelight on the table. This set has all four — and together they do what the name promises.
What is in the set?
Christmas Cottage, in its paper box, is a soap shaped like a little gingerbread house, with a snowy roof and a cinnamon stick for a chimney. It smells of sweet orange and Ceylon cinnamon from pure essential oils, and every cottage is decorated on its own, so no two are alike. We make it by the cold process, with no palm oil. The cinnamon stick is purely decorative — take it out when you start using the cottage.
The Scent of Christmas shampoo bar weighs 40 g and has a box of its own. It is solid like soap, but it is not soap: it washes hair with gentle surfactants derived from coconut oil and has a conditioning ingredient right in the bar. The creamy white bar with golden swirls smells of cinnamon, lime, fir, lemongrass and star anise — again from essential oils, not from a fragrance blend.
The natural lip balm is deliberately free of scent and colourants. Beeswax wraps the lips in a protective film against wind and frost, and cocoa butter gives the stick its firmness. While the cottage and the shampoo bar bring the scent, the balm gets by on what is not in it. The fourth piece is the Christmas Cosiness soy candle — the one that shares its name with the whole set.
Straight talk: the cottage and the shampoo bar are vegan, the balm is not, because of the beeswax. And since the scent of both the cottage and the shampoo bar is carried by pure essential oils, they also contain natural fragrance allergens — not added substances but part of the plants themselves. Our article on allergens in cosmetics explains why there is no need to turn them into a bogeyman.
Between washes, give the cottage a soap dish that lets the water drain away, and the shampoo bar a dry spot. You will find more festive combinations among our gift sets. To lather is human. Feeling cosy over Christmas is human too.
