Gower Lavender is proudly a small, independent Gower business. Our range of handmade soaps, hand creams and lavender hearts is natural and eco-conscious without compromising on luxury.
The company is run by local couple Rae Howells and Phil Poucher. We’re passionate about natural ingredients and making sure our business is sustainable for the planet. We love bees. We love using local ingredients. And we love lavender.
What started as a few lavender plants in our garden has now expanded to a field overlooking the sea near Three Cliffs, a corner of a meadow in Murton and a consultancy partnership with the National Trust at their lavender fields on The Vile at Rhossili.
We grow eight varieties of culinary lavender, from traditional purples like Munstead and Hidcote, to more delicate pink Rosea and white Edelweiss varieties. We also grow lavendula intermedia Grosso for its large, plentiful and late blooming spears. That means we have lavender growing from early May right through to October.
We are committed to a ‘bee kind’ method of growing and making – so our lavender is hand-weeded and watered with our (rather plentiful) Welsh rain. We don’t use pesticides or herbicides. And we harvest late in the growing cycle to give pollinators time to feed first.
Our soap-making takes a similar approach. We use quality, ethical ingredients like olive oil, shea butter and coconut oil, which we source from local suppliers. We support local businesses and producers by choosing great quality local ingredients such as Mumbles Brewery beer and Selwyn’s laverbread. We avoid palm oil and single-use plastic. Our packaging is unbleached kraft from sustainable forests, is printed using vegetable inks, and is fully compostable and recyclable.
We hope you like our soaps as much as we do. Please drop us a line or contact us and let us know what you think.
Rae and Phil
