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Delivery Information

By Placing an order with us you are agreeing to the following terms of business:

We generally process orders in chronological order subject to order processing and despatch times below, but at busy times we will prioritise Priority and Courier orders first.

* Budget Delivery on all Mainland UK orders is charged according to the weight of the parcel, starting at £3.50 for smaller items. 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. This option will not be available for heavier orders.

* Priority Delivery on all Mainland UK orders is charged according to the weight of the parcel, starting at £5.00 for smaller items. The service we use will depend on the weight of your parcel, but is usually Royal Mail First class post. First class post is quoted to take 1-2 working days for delivery. This option may be unavailable for heavier orders.

* Courier Delivery on all Mainland UK orders is charged at a flat rate of £10.00 per order up to 20kg, for orders over 20kg, there may be a proportional increase to cover multiple parcels. Your order will be prioritised for pack and despatch, and fully tracked once it has been dispatched, but please note depending on parcel and location it may take an extra day for the courier collection or drop-off.

* Delivery on non-UK orders is charged in approximate price bands by weight and should be automatic. In the event that no option appears for your country and selected products may mean that we have not set up and appropriate option for your location (e.g. your products are very heavy and we have only set options for smaller parcels(, please contact us in this event.


* 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:

  1. 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
  2. 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 the 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, 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.

OVERSEAS ORDERS - We use various services depending on the delivery destination and the size/weight of the parcel. Most of these services take somewhere between 3-7 working days or maybe longer depending on the destination. Your dispatch confirmation email will detail a more accurate delivery time for your parcel/country. If the weight exceeds 2KG, we use an overseas courier such as DPD, ParcelForce or Fedex as examples. Expected delivery timescale for courier is available on request as it will depend on weight and destination.

OVERSEAS CUSTOMS CHARGES - Please be aware that any customs charges that an order might incur are payable by the customer. Unfortunately, the charges that customs apply are out of our control. Any orders returned to us due to unpaid customs charges will be refunded minus Postage and Packaging costs.  


* FAILED DELIVERY POLICIES

  • ROYAL MAIL - If you are out when the postal worker calls, if they cannot find a safe place to leave your parcel (or with a neighbour) they should 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 should leave you a calling card. They will usually re-attempt delivery twice, after which the parcel is held at their depot for a few days awaiting your collection before being returned to us as a failed delivery. 


* 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 in its own merit, but generally we cannot take any action until we can put a claim into 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.