Plain Bases

Knots Elementals: Plain Bases

All my plain bases are a complete preparation in their own right, fragrance free and can be used on their own. The ingredients are all vegetable based, not derived from petro-chmicals, not tested on animals, contain no animal by products and are suitable for vegans. The manufacturer is BUAV approved. The focus is on using biodegradeable ingredients, with no frills packaging – you pay for the contents not the fancy boxes. No unnecessary ingredients have been added, any extra goodness can be simply mixed in to suit your needs. They are great value for money.

As ideal companions to the essential oils and herbal preparations, you can make your own lotions and potions either in single doses or whole bottles and jars of foot lotion, bath oil, moisturiser or hand cream to suit a teenager, grandparent, son, daughter, baby, husband, wife, aunt, uncle or friend.

You can use these bases just as housewives did in the old days to make your own simple potions for use in your home to combat infection, for general care of the face, body and hair and to create lovely fragrant aromas. A bespoke skincare workshop can give you some solid guidelines if you want to get to grips with blending and cooking for your body.

Barbara

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KNOTS ELEMENTALS BESPOKE SKINCARE WORKSHOP, TEDDINGTON


"As you sit arround her kitchen table, Barbara Sargent, founder of Knots Elementals, talks you through the properties of various base and essential oils. After an hour of concentrated note-talking, I attempted mixing a few drops of neroli, lemon and jojoba, and manage to create a divine-smelling shampoo. My fellow students are less smug: "Mine smells like stuffing", complains one, who has overdone the rosemary.

Indeed, home blends are fallible, but as each dose can be mixed individually, the cost of getting it wrong is tiny. Next, we are taught how to mix body moisturisers, along with all aspects of aromatherapy, such as how to create a mood or banish a skin problem. Sargent's enthusiasm is infectious, but as I trundle home with my exfoliating scrub, hand cream and few oils - all for about £21 - I wonder if I will still be mixing my own body scrub in a fortnight. However, it takes only 20 seconds to mix, so maybe I will manage.

A few weeks later, my main dilemma, apart from which oils to use, turns out to be what to do with the half-empty bottles of shop-bought products that still line my bathroom shelves.

Best bit: Sargent is a former operations director at Penhaligon's, so you are guaranteed good insider tips. And then there are the very cute glass mixing pots."

Beatrice Aidin, THE SUNDAY TIMES [JANUARY 13, 2002]


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