Delivery & Returns Policies (Retail)
By Placing an order with us you are agreeing to the following terms of business:
* Budget Delivery on all Mainland UK orders is charged at a flat rate of £3.75 per order, this is regardless of how much you order and how much your parcel weighs. We do not charge extra for heavier parcels despite the delivery charge quite often not covering our cost. The service we use will depend on the weight of your parcel, but is usually Royal Mail Second class post. Second class post is quoted to take 2-3 working days for delivery.
* Priority Courier Delivery on all UK orders is charged at a flat rate of £9.00 per order, this is regardless of how much you order and how much your parcel weighs. Your order will be prioritised during pack and dispatch, and fully tracked once it has been dispatched. Your order will be sent using a next-day service.
* Delivery on non-UK orders is charged at cost and is calculated automatically by weight.
* PLEASE ENSURE YOUR ADDRESS IS TYPED CORRECTLY! We are unable to replace items lost in the postal system if your address is not input correctly. If your parcel is returned to us unable to be delivered due to an incorrect address being input by the customer, we will need to charge delivery for re-sending the parcel to you at our actual cost (which may be less or more than the original delivery charge paid). This is especially important for overseas orders - please check your address is in the correct format for your country.
* PLEASE ENSURE SOMEONE WILL BE AT HOME TO RECEIVE THE PARCEL - Failed deliveries can cause frustration and complications for you and us! Here are some points to consider:
- Please consider delivery to your work or neighbour if you are likely to be out when your parcel arrives
- If you would like us send your delivery on a specific date (excluding weekends), or if you will be out a particular day and would like to request for the delivery not be made on that day, please state this in the customer comment box at checkout.
If your parcel is returned to us for any reason that is not a fault of our own, including but not limited to being unable to deliver, incorrect address, failure to collect at sorting office, we will contact you and reserve the right to give you the following 2 options:
- You can pay a further P&P charge (at cost, please note courier re-deliveries can be costly) for us to re-send your item to the correct address or an alternative address, or
- You can request a refund, less our original P&P costs plus 10% of the cost of the items as an admin and re-stocking fee.
We are reasonable people, and this policy may be waived under exceptional circumstances, we do not wish to profit from this, it is merely to recoup our postage costs, which are usually already generously subsidised by ourselves. Please also see the failed delivery policies below.
* IMPORTANT: We have many requests to leave the parcel in an unsecured place such as a porch or greenhouse if no-one is in. We will write this information on the parcel for the postman if requested. However, we are not responsible for non-delivery of any parcels left in this way. We cannot guarantee these requests are met as it will depend on the delivery person, and also whether the parcel needs to be signed for.
* ORDER PROCESSING & DESPATCH TIMES
- We despatch orders Monday - Thursday.
- Orders received before 12 noon are usually processed the same day (excluding hand-prepared and aromatherapy items) Orders received after 12 noon are processed and usually despatched the following working day, although sometimes we will despatch the same day, depending on how busy we are and how complicated the order is! Please note these quoted times are stock dependent and sometimes subject to conditions beyond our control (including the postal/courier collection service) so should not be relied upon 100%.
- Aromatherapy and hand-prepared products are hand-prepared to order and are usually despatched in 1-5 working days.
- We will advise you within 2 working days of placing your order if your order will not be despatched within these quoted time frames by email, or phone if you do not have an email.
- Some items will arrive under separate cover, so please be patient if you only receive part of your order, although we will always inform you of this on the packing slip (which will be in a document enclosed wallet on your package).
* DELIVERY TIMES & DESPATCH METHODS
UK ORDERS - We currently use Royal Mail Second Class post, higher value orders may be sent Recorded Signed For. We also use a next-day courier (currently DPD Local and sometimes Evri) for larger and bulkier items. Both companies offer a complete online tracking service. Your tracking number is quoted in the email you are sent to let you know your order has been dispatched.
- If you require your order urgently, please contact us by phone or email to request an Express Guaranteed Service. This service is subject to an additional supplement of £5.00. (UK only). Requests for urgent orders must be received before 12 noon for next-day service, and this may also exclude aromatherapy items which are hand-prepared to order. You are best to contact us for advice.
- Courier charges for deliveries outside the UK mainland, and including some of the Scottish Highlands can be considerably high and can be in the region of £25+VAT. We will therefore send to these areas by the most efficient possible method (usually Royal Mail Standard Parcels) which may mean a longer delivery time. Speedier courier delivery is an option but we will need to charge an additional supplement, so please contact us if this will affect you.
* FAILED DELIVERY POLICIES
- ROYAL MAIL - If you are out when the postal worker calls, they will usually leave you a card to say your parcel needs to be collected from the sorting office. PLEASE NOTE: often the card is not received by the customer for some reason (maybe caught up in junk mail or failed to be delivered), so if your order is delayed it is worth ringing the sorting office to see if your parcel is there even if a card is not received.
- COURIER - the delivery person will leave you a calling card. They will usually attempt delivery twice, after which the parcel is held at their depot for 4 days awaiting your collection before being returned to us as a failed delivery. This information should show up if you track your parcel using the tracking information we provide you with at the time of dispatch.
* DELAYED DELIVERIES
If you have not received your parcel in the stated time, you are welcome to contact us so we can confirm that it was definitely sent and by which method. Please also refer to the failed delivery advice above. We will deal with each case on its own merit, but generally, we cannot take any action until we can put a claim in with the despatch company for the loss. However, please contact us as we will always try to help in any way we can, or we can usually offer a mutually agreeable solution.
Please note that proof of postage records are only available for 3 months after despatch of order, so any queries must be received within this time or no claim can be made.
Damaged Deliveries received by the courier must be reported within 24 hours of receipt or no claim can be made.
* PACKAGING A LITTLE SCRUFFY? - WE ALWAYS TRY TO REUSE PACKING MATERIALS SUCH AS BOXES AND BUBBLE WRAP TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT AND KEEP OUR PRICES LOW. We hope you will appreciate this as we like to do all we can to help the environment, and we feel that re-using something is much more environmentally friendly than recycling it!
* ORDERS FOR COLLECTION
We can prepare orders for collection from our warehouse in Bedwas, South Wales, saving you the postage. If you wish to do this please place an online order and select the relevant option at checkout.
RETURNS POLICY
* ITEMS EXEMPT FROM OUR RETURNS POLICY:
We regret that due to hygiene reasons, we cannot accept any returns for any item in the following categories:
- Health Care Equipment such as Enema equipment and neti pots which are not factory sealed
- Aromatherapy items which are not in tamper-proof containers
- custom made items
- any item which has been opened, or missing the safety seal/ tamper evidence protection - even if it is unused.
If any item returned to us is not in the condition it was sent and is deemed unsuitable for reselling, we reserve the right to refuse the refund request and charge you for postage to return the item to you.
Requests for returns need to be made on the form obtainable in the Customer Services section at the bottom of the website, within 14 days of receipt of order, and items returned within 7 days of receiving authorization and a RMA code. This form is only available if you are logged in and have a completed order on your account. It is really helpful to return your packing slip or original email order confirmation with returned items. Please write the return code and other required information you may be asked for on the packing slip.
**Return postage is the sole responsibility of the customer. We advise you use a tracked or signed for service as proof of sending is not proof of our receipt.
* Returns received outside of our 14 day policy will not be processed except for exceptional circumstances, and it will be at our discretion to charge you re-stocking fee or a return postage charge.
* FAULTY/DAMAGED ITEMS
- Items received damaged will be reimbursed. Please contact us if you receive a faulty or damaged item (within 24 hours of receipt if damaged in transit).
- Items returned to us as faulty or damaged will be inspected. If they are found not to be faulty or damaged, we reserve the right to refuse the refund request and charge you for postage to return the item to you.
- Return postage for faulty or damaged items will be reimbursed or compensated by mutual agreement, or we may arrange collection at our cost.
- In some circumstances, photographic evidence may be acceptable.
* Returns received outside of our 14 day policy will not be processed except for exceptional circumstances, and it will be at our discretion to charge you re-stocking fee or a return postage charge.
Your Right to Cancel under the Consumer Rights Act
Your right to cancel an order for goods starts the moment you place your order and ends 14 days from the day you receive your goods. If your order consists of multiple goods, the 14 day period runs from when you get the last of the batch. Goods must be returned within 14 days.
Your right to a refund
You should get a refund within 14 days of us receiving your order back which must be unused and unopened.
- A deduction 20% restocking fee will be deducted from your refund. This will be increased at our discretion if the item has been excessively handled.
- Where P&P was paid on your order, this will be refunded at the basic rate of £2.95, even if you have paid a premium for express or overseas shipping.
- If you wish to cancel a part of your order and not the whole order, please refer to our returns policy above.
There are some circumstances where the Consumer Contracts Regulations won’t give you a right to cancel.
These include:
- CDs, DVDs or software
- perishable items
- tailor-made or personalised items
- goods with a seal for health protection and hygiene reasons that's been broken
- goods that have been mixed inseparably with other items after delivery.
Services (e.g. Hair Mineral Test)
Services that have commenced before the 14 day cancel period are exempted from your right to refund. (eg. if you have ordered a hair mineral test and this has been returned to us and sent to the lab for processing).
You will still have the right to cancel, but you must pay for the value of the service that is provided up to the point you cancel. Therefore if the sample is already sent to the lab, you will need to pay for this service but not the Nutritional Therapist report if she has not started it yet (cost of test alone is £69). You will then receive your results with the lab report only.
Your right to cancel is lost during the cancellation period if the service is provided in full before the 14 days elapses.
See also our Terms and Conditions