About Us
Here is your opportunity to 'meet' our staff and find out a little about the human side of the company. We like to think of ourselves as a great team who will go the extra mile for our customers and our colleagues, and we love getting to know you better too!
About Angela...
Satisfaction is: helping someone to talk through which essences they need, and having them come back and say we got it exactly right!
My soft spot: my beautiful gorgeous daughters who challenge and surprise me all the time, and my multi-talented husband
Best vice: Always trying to get it right
Favourite places in the world: Machu Pichu and the Greek Islands
Welcome distractions: Our morning coffee ceremony in the office and watching the rabbits play in the garden
Background bits: Banking, Business Analysis, Management Degree, Account Management
About Belinda: Her generosity of spirit brightens any space she walks into and reminds me of how special it is to really connect with others.
About Helen: Magnificent attention to detail! A kind and gentle soul and a great ambassador for the essences
About Raphaelle: My favourite New Girl! Great vision, a kindred spirit - I'm already learning lots from her.
About Belinda...
Love about work: I love having a job that I love, with people who love doing what they do and doing it well!! Cappuccino (environmentally gorgeous, of course) with cinnamon and nutmeg
Favourite things: smell of new books, taste of Montezuma Geranium chocolate, sound of my children giggling, touch of velvet, sight of snow
Don't really like: Celery, cold toes, turning a Land Rover over on a remote Scottish hillside and cleaning the porridge pan
Outside of work I like: Snowball fights (seasonal), singing Mozart, gliding
My favourite essences at the moment are: Cheetah from the Wild Earth Animal Essences for getting things done really speedily in the office. Star Ruby (Alaskan) for amazing focus. Sleep Easy candle from Indigo - helps my children zzzzzz - hurrah!
Background: Spent 12 years in corsets and big frocks as a stage actress. Worked with 5 - 15 year olds in Shakespeare in schools' projects. PA in Fine Arts auction house in London - surrounded by Chagalls and Kadinskys.... heaven. Ridden elephants in Thailand. Helped organise Buddhist Peace Convention in Geneva.
Best Quote: "A great revolution of character in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation, and further, will cause a change in the destiny of humankind." Daisaku Ikeda, Buddhist philosopher and writer
About Helen: Twinkly, warm toed and kind
About Raphaelle: Smiler and a visionary
About Angela: Soul Sister and infectious giggler
About Helen...
Things I love: The feeling of excitement and joy when a new customer begins to get excited about the pure, simple beauty and power of essences
Favourite food: HUGE question... Has to be Jeff's lentil dahl - so nurturing, made with love.
Outside work I enjoy: Colour, clay and nature
Some of my current favourite essences: Dove spray (Wild Earth Animal Essences), No fear (Indigo), I'm in Heaven (Indigo)
Background: 15 years in natural health. Sales - direct, retail and wholesale. Massage therapist and reflexologist etc - using essences of course! Travel Agent, Traveller
About Angela: Calmness, clarity, a warm heart and a naughty sense of humour.... oh yes, and those bunnies!
About Belinda: Ritual - coffee with warm frothy milk, a sprinkling of chocolate, just a little spice and panatone, shared with friends! Or should that be a bacon buttie on mushy white bread with lashings of REAL butter and ketchup?!
About Raphaelle: Strength, Presence, Enthusiasm
With thanks to...
Don Dennis, Suzanne Austin, Claire Dixon, Ann Callaghan, Barbara Callaghan, Daniel Mapel, Steve Priddle, Kanae Sanger, Dominique Roten, Janet Andrews and most of all: to our amazing families and friends who support us when we work late - very late, fly off to visit developers, who stick labels on envelopes while watching movies late into the night, build shelves for our stock, fit lights, babysit our children and are there for us unconditionally