Nota Bene Vetiver Root Scented Soap
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The smoky earthiness of vetiver root combines with balsamic frankincense and deeply fragrant patchouli to evoke the precious woods and resins of an old apothecary. Completely natural, vegetable-based soap containing nourishing shea butter and hand made in a small English workshop. Each bar is cured for over a month then cut, stamped and wrapped by hand with tactile letterpress-printed labels.
A scent both simple and complex, and like all honest, natural products will develop and evolve when used. It is not strong nor overpowering, creating a more natural experience of fragrance inspired by the smells of English life past and present.
Ingredients: Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Olivate, Sodium Sunflowerate, Aqua, Glycerine, Sodium Sheabutterate, Cedrus Atlantica (Cedarwood) oil, Vetiveria Zizanioides (Vetiver) oil, Boswellia Carterii (Frankincense) oil, Pogostemon Cablin (Patchouli) oil, Citrus Aurantium (Petitgrain) oil, Linalool, Limonene. -
Nota Bene Wares was formed by Matthew Brooks in 2012 in Nottingham, England. It was bourne of a passion for hand-produced, thoughtfully designed objects that are simple, hardwearing and beautiful. This is overlaid with a great interest in history and in particular the history of everyday life and of design, and it is their intention that this is reflected in the products they sell. However, whilst you will see historical references in their products, they are by no means slaves to the past; they simply resurrect the bits that are today refreshingly different by contrast to the sea of disinteresting, ubiquitous items which fill our daily lives.
They will only ever use materials which are beautiful in their integrity such as pure essential oils, tactile, imperfect recycled greyboard, and rustling, opaque waxed paper, and all of their packaging is laboriously printed on an old fashioned letterpress, just because it gives a slightly embossed finish which can't ever be achieved through using digital printing.
The fragrances used in their scented goods are composed entirely in-house, using only natural essential oils and botanical extracts. They are inspired by the smells of English life past and present, and are designed to offer an olfactory re-imagination of warming woodland bonfires, fragrant Christmas pomanders, the cold stone and cut herbs of the still room or a brush past the scented leaves of the parlour geranium.