August 29, 2017
Australian sandalwood oil is wonderfully suited to the human skin. The oil has a highly distinctive, creamy smooth woody odour; it’s traditionally been blended in the so-called ‘floriental’ family of scents, combined with jasmine, gardenia and orange blossom.
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August 16, 2017
Delve like a time traveller into the magical world of natural fragrances and you’ll drift through arcades of nutmeg, bermagot, sandalwood and patchouli until, your nostrils infused with the riches of Nature.
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August 16, 2017
A tidy space means a tidy mind, so if you’re feeling cluttered mentally and physically, it’s time to detox your living space and have a clear out.
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August 16, 2017
To many people, hand wash can just seem like an everyday essential that is only there to keep hands clean. However, at Aybury we strongly believe that hand wash can be so much more and with the right blend of ingredients, you can enjoy many benefits from using a luxury hand wash.
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August 16, 2017
Using essential oils is a great way to add a touch of luxury to your beauty routine, however, this is far from their only benefit. Essential oils have many health and skin benefits which is exactly why we include them in all of our Aybury hand washes, body washes and lotions.
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June 17, 2017
Rituals have been around since time immemorial. And nowhere was this more important than in the act of bathing.
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January 17, 2017
Frankincense - also known as Olibanum - is a fragrance with a rich and colourful history going back at least 5,000 years. As one of the two elements of the Aybury Limenence range (along with mandarin), frankincense is characterised by its spicy balsamic fragrance with sweet lemony undertones.
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January 17, 2017
Mandarin oil, a prime ingredient of Aybury’s Limenence range, has “a fragrant odour reminding of sweet orange oil…” according to Verrill’s authoritative Perfumes and Spices (1940). It’s obtained “by expression from the peel of the fruit of Citrus madurenis, a small tree found in nearly every lemon garden in Sicily. One tree produces about 1000 fruits per annum and these yield about 400 grams of a bright golden-yellow oil.”
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November 30, 2016
Geranium oil is an almost colourless to yellowish-green liquid extracted from the Pelargonium capitatum, or rose-leaf geranium, the leaves of which when steam-distilled give a rose-like odour approaching the attar (the essential oil) of roses.
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November 30, 2016
The lime - a native plant of India - is now grown around the world, although Poucher’s standard reference Perfumes, Cosmetics & Soaps, published in 1925, insists that the best supplies a hundred years ago came from the Caribbean, in particular the islands of Dominica and Monserrat, where the lime oils were extracted from the rind of Citrus medica either by hand pressing or distillation.
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