NEW! Orange Chocolate Body Butter

"You could use it to make yourself more eatable."

I love the way Johnny Depp says "eatable" in Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory.

Speaking of chocolate...

Wild Orange & Tangerine with Chocolate in a lavishly rich base of virgin coconut oil and cocoa butter. Presented as a hunk...I mean a chunk... of creamy body butter wrapped in soft muslin cloth.

"If there's no chocolate in heaven I'm not going"

Seriously good body butter!

"It's like people icing"

The rest is entirely up to your imagination.

BUY NEW BODY BUTTER! €7.14

White Witch Natural Beauty Products - Where it all Began

Since Ruth Ruane was a young girl she loved experimenting with food ingredients to make her own natural beauty products. She owned a book given to her by her sister and it had some really great natural recipes. The book was entitled Vogue Natural Health and Beauty. Ruth tried every recipe. Some of the ingredients she used were avocados, oatmeal, olive oil, tomatoes, cucumbers, yogurt, tea, and honey. They must have worked too, because as a teenager Ruth never suffered from acne prone skin or spot outbreaks. She laughs now when she thinks of how her mother used to give out to her, saying she was wasting good food. Ruth remembers making beer hair shampoo and smelling like a brewery and crazy egg conditioner that turned scrambled when she used very hot water to rinse it out. Saturday bath times were a ritual for Ruth.  Sometimes it ended in disaster, like the porridge bath, (funny story) and sometimes it ended well. The best bath Ruth ever had was when she collected four shopping bags full of dried bladder wrack seaweed from a beach near Galway. The seaweed expanded to fill the whole bath and she soaked for an hour. Ruth still recalls the glowing feeling she had after.

Now Ruth Ruane manufactures products using all natural ingredients. She does all the mixing, blending and experimenting so that you just have to enjoy them and reap the benefits without all the mess and hassle. One of her favourite products is Mermaid, the pure seaweed bath that gives you the same glowing feeling Ruth remembers from childhood only this one is all contained and concentrated in a biodegradable sachet. Just add the sachet to the hot bath and watch the water turn green while the kelp infuses. There is very little mess left on the tub (just a bit of seaweed residue that is easy to rinse off) and you can even take the used sachet and throw it under your rose bushes when you are done, they make great fertilizer and are completely bio-degradable. You can buy two Galway Kelp Seaweed Baths for €4.90.  The sachets are hand filled and made right here in Galway.