Bath fripperies

I’ve been buying bath fripperies in preparation for the big bath unveiling that will happen this week.

We’re making good progress now, and the toilet and washbasin are plumbed in alongside the bath. We need another evening to make sure that the sealant has set fully, apparently, then we’ll be all go for bath testing tomorrow!

In preparation I’ve bought some of my old favourites, aromatherapy bath products from Neals Yard. A few of their signature blue glass containers have already arrived and are lined up waiting patiently.

I used to buy from their Covent Garden store when I lived in London and I still have a great nostalgia for their blue bottles and strong herbal scents. There are many new young pretenders on the bath scene now, but as far as I’m concerned nothing matches Neals Yard Remedies. Organic, all-natural products, good ethics as a company, and they smell fantastic.

Having waited so long for this first bath in our new home I’m determined to enjoy it. Seaweed and arnica, lavender, citrus and geranium.

Isn’t it strange that when I was growing up, bath salts were considered very old fashioned and something that only your grandmother would use! We young pretty things favoured bath foams and exotic bath concoctions filled with unpronounceable ingredients that have now been discovered to be extremely undesirable.

And yet bath salts are still around – repackaged and re-marketed with new essential oil blends and fragrances to seem new and organic and funky. But essentially the same as they’ve always been. I bought some Neals Yard lavender bath salts for the sheer nostalgia of the smell, and I’m happy to report that I don’t feel at all ancient.

Or at least no more than normal.