Hand Care Tips for Hard Working Gardeners
Gardening can be punishing on hands. It can lead to all sorts of problems such as sore dry chapped skin, cracked fingers, scratches and dirty finger nails. If you are about to step out in the garden and get your …
Top Problems for Gardening Hands and How to Treat Them…Naturally
We love our gardens and so we should. Is there truly anything better than a warm summer’s day, enjoying the rewards of our hard work: lush green grass, beautiful scents, scintillating colours and the drone of happy bees. The problem …
What are the Best Natural Ingredients for Your Hands?
It’s very easy to take our hands for granted. Each day they do our bidding. Work or play, it’s our hands that do the graft. From the joys of washing up and gardening; working outside come rain or shine; even …
Seven brilliant uses for Miracle Balm
Miracle Balm has become a firm friend of mine and, in the words of one customer, ‘It really does work a miracle!’ But one balm can be used in so many ways… 1. Cracked and split hands: Yawn, yawn. Let’s …
Top FIVE best natural ingredients for eczema
Itchy, rashy, sore…. …Eczema is an increasingly common skin condition typified by extremely dry skin, patches of inflammation and redness. It can be frustrating, painful and downright difficult to live with. When our wee daughter – Josie – started to …
John the bee man’s queen bee
You may well know that, out of utter fascination, us lot here at SkinnyDip have decided to stalk John’s bees. We now have a photo of the lady who rules the roost; good old Queenie surrounded by her growing brood. …
John the bee man’s honeycomb
It was my difficult hunt for local beeswax that started my bee education. In the BeeHaus, John has used sheets of foundation wax to give his bees a helping hand to start building their hexagonal wax cells from. Some get …
John the Bee Man
Now, I’ve developed rather a fascination with bees ever since my almighty struggle to get my hands on some Malvern beeswax. So it was extremely exciting news to hear that John (of Ad-Lib Design Partnership who, along with Stew, actually …
Another fine mess you’ve got us into
Whilst tackling my huge chunk of beeswax with a hammer and chisel this afternoon, I had a blinding flash of realisation that I don’t actually have an office job any more. My days of jamming the office photocopier have now …