Press
Brief news updates:
January 2008
Eco-certified by Oliver Heath
As part of our attendance at the exclusive Top Drawer trade show,
our products are approved as superbly green by eco design guru Oliver Heath.
September 2008
'Biobar' is now a registered trademark!
The Biobar's year-long progress through the UK Intellectual Property Office's rigorous examination and publication process ends with success. This is now a protected trademark!
February 2009
New Biobar 'Red Label' enters market.
The new red label "Biobar Super Pumice Hand Soap" gently and easily lifts ingrained muck from even the filthiest gardener, sweep or mechanic! As with all our products, it relies on the incredible potency of 100% natural materials to do its amazing work.
May 2009
Chelsea Physic Garden becomes a stockist.
We're thrilled to announce that Chelsea Physic Garden now stocks Pot of Gold, Carrot Custard, Avocado Custard, Rose Butter, Honey Lips, Tudor washballs and the Little Bag of Comfort in its shop. The Physic Garden was founded in 1673 for the purpose of training apothecaries to identify medicinal plants, and, as the second oldest botanic garden in England, still fulfils the traditional functions of scientific research and plant conservation. The Garden also undertakes to educate and inform as well as to provide the amenity of a walled "secret" garden in the heart of London. Among other things, it aims to demonstrate to all who visit the many uses of plants, and particularly the heritage of the plant world as our common medicine chest. Its Patron is H.R.H. The Prince of Wales. Chelsea Physic Garden is to be found at 66 Royal Hospital Road SW3, and is open on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons between 12 and 5pm, and on Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays between 12 and 6pm.
Notes for editors:
CL Leavey & Co was founded in 2006, and is headed by Claire Leavey, a former classic motorcycle journalist, now a designer, inventor and domestic history specialist. In addition to selling a growing range of traditional household items of all varieties via our website, we also make the 'Biobar', 'Apis', 'The Still' and 'Salt of the Sea' ranges in our own little manufacturing works – a former chicken house in darkest Worcestershire. We have more than 25 years' expertise in traditional, ancient methods, materials and recipes for home and personal care, and in beekeeping, and domestic herb technology. In addition to our own unique lines, we also produce a variety of personal and home care products under contract to a select band of high-profile high-end retailers. The blue-label 'Biobar Super Household Soap' is sold in Oxfam branches throughout the UK.
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