Gower Lavender

Aug 13

Leaving the bees to it… yes, we’re taking the week off to chill out with the kids. We’ll not be posting out website orders again until 22nd August but if you need something urgent you can still buy from loads of local stockists:

💜 @nationaltrustgower
💜@oystergallerymumbles
💜 Mumbles Health Shop
💜 Dunvant Farm Shop
💜 @williamspetandgardengowerton
💜 @shepherdsgower
💜 @penclawdd_pharmacy
💜 @gowerton_pharmacy
💜 @threecliffsbay
💜 @themuddymailroom
💜 @gowerfreshchristmastrees

See you on the other side!

#holiday #gowerlavender #lavender #gower #buylocal #supportsmallbusiness #wearegower #stockists ...

Aug 4

Oh my. Candy coloured soap dishes 🥰

Made for us by the amazing @starlingpots - coming soon to our website… Waaah when?! Well, actually, the exact time is: as-soon-as-we’re-back-from-our-week-off-so-please-bear-with-us-o’clock 😅💜

We’ve got small ovals made to measure for our holiday size soap and bigger squares made for our regular soaps and we have them in blue, green, purple, yellow and pink so all bathrooms, tastes, preferences and eventualities are hopefully covered. Got to have one? I know! Promise we’ll post when they’re live.

#gowerlavender #handmade #soapdishes #ceramic #ceramicsoapdish #gower #starlingpots #wearegower #vegan #eco #luxury #soap #handcream #gifts ...

Jul 31

Such a great day at the Gower Show! Thanks so much to everyone who came by to say hi and sniff our lavender goodies. So glad I packed that extra box of soaps last night and thanks to Mr Gower Lavender for bringing us extra hand creams 😅

And to everyone already buying Christmas presents, we salute you! Organisational ninjas! We’re in awe!

#gowerlavender #gowershow #gower #lavender #handmade #vegan #eco #luxury #soap #handcream #gifts ...

Jul 30

Well we got a bit soggy as the mist turned to drizzle and then good old proper Welsh rain, but the rest of the lavender harvest has been brought in. Hooray!

It’s not ideal to bring it in wet but today was our last chance before our holiday, and we’ll make sure we spread it out to dry properly while we’re away.

We’ll be at the @gowershow tomorrow and we may well bring a few bunches along for you to sniff. See you there!

#gowerlavender #lavender #gower #lavenderharvest #wearegower #madeingower #madeinwales #handmade #vegan #beefriendly #eco #luxury #gifts #soaps #handcreams #gowershow ...

Jul 29

Harvest time… always a nice moment to pause and reflect, because I never know whether to feel happy or sad when we bring in the lavender. Happy because it’s another bumper crop for us to squirrel away for our soap and cream making for the rest of the year, sad because the plants will be green and quiet again until next year. No more choirs of bees singing in the purple stems 😢

Although, as you can see from the photos there are still plenty of bees and butterflies in the patch so we only brought in half… honestly we’re proper softies when it comes to pollinators. But it makes me happy!

Big props to the eldest for helping with the harvest and posing for photos. A whole day of her summer holidays sacrificed!

Anyway there’s loads going on… catch us at #uplandsmarket tomorrow and @gowershow on Sunday. Ooh and we’ve got new sweaters - can you spot one in the pics? Check out our Stories for other updates…

#gowerlavender #lavenderharvest #lavender #gower #wearegower #gowershow #pollinators #butterflies #bees #merch #uniform #branding ...

Jul 18

Llwynderw School Summer Fair. Check out my enormous purple gazebo! You can’t miss us now, can you? Eh? 💜🎪💜

Diolch am ffair haf wych! Joion ni cwrdd a sgwrsio gyda chi gyd, ac mae’n wir braf cael cefnogi ysgol ein plant 💜

Thanks for a great welcome. We loved meeting everyone, and it’s especially nice to be able to support our kids’ school ☺️

#gowerlavender #summerfair #gazebo #llwynderwschool #wearegower #westcross #supportlocal #handmade #vegan #plasticfree #eco #luxury #soap #handcream #gifts ...

Jul 14

Big emotions today! We just boxed our 200th batch… which means we’ve made an incredible 10,000 bars of soap! TEN THOUSAND! 😱

And then I thought about it and realised we’ve been growing lavender on Gower and making it into stuff for five years now, but we’ve never really celebrated a birthday. So I thought I’d look back through all my photos and make a retrospective of our first five years.

Of course we’re a family business, so in that time there’s been a lot of life going on too - kids growing up, a puppy, a pandemic… and lots and lots of soap. And a team of lovely helpers and staff and sisters and nieces and nephews and parents - our purple people - who make it all happen too. So a big thanks and a woohoo to them 🥰

So here it is, from our first prototype boxes to our 10,000th bar with a bit of life thrown in. Hope you like it! (You might want to play it with the sound on, it took me a long time to make sure the photos matched to the beat of the music and I don’t want to have wasted the effort lol!)

Ooh I should probably give you all a discount code too, right? How about 20% off our website? Just use the code TENTHOUSANDBARS at the checkout 💜

#gowerlavender #retrospective #fiveyears #gower #wearegower #celebration #discountcode #lavender #supportlocal #handmade #vegan #eco #luxury #soap #handcream #gifts ...

Jul 11

If you do nothing else today, just give yourself a moment away from the noise, and listen to the bees 🐝

(PS Isn’t our lavender looking glorious? There are HUNDREDS of bees feeding in it)

#calm #bees #lavender #gowerlavender #gower #natural #eco #luxury #soaps #handcream ...

Jul 3

Pardon the weeds, we’re feeding the bees!!

Don’t try and stop us, we’re feeding grasshoppers!! 🐝🦗

We still haven’t mowed… and it’s because of all the tiny baby grasshoppers in our lawn and we just can’t because they are so teeny weeny and jumpy and cute and they go popping off in all directions when you walk through the grass like tiny popcorn 🥰🍿 Which makes them extraordinarily sweet but impossible to photograph so you’ll just have to take my word for it! I did manage to paparazzi a grown up one sunning itself on the wall though. Bees are also pretty tough to photograph on account of being too busy pollinating all the flowers to pose. But I captured a honey bee on a mission at the 432nd attempt so yay!

Anyway, I digress. We love pollinators. The end. 😆

#pollinators #pollinatorparadise #wildgardening #rewilding #grasshoppers #bees ...

Jun 26