Bob Marley Cover - Afternoons in Gaia Bathtime

The piano in our shop was initially a spontaneous  buy form a local junk shop. It turned out to have been a good buy, even a good piano. It sometimes attracts wonderful people making wonderful music for us, which transforms the shop for a little while into another world all together. Ike Leo, passing through Palma on his way home to Britain, after spending the summer making music in Ibiza, stopped buy and spontaneously asked to play our piano. We managed to record a small bit on our telephone.
The result we have loaded onto YouTube for your enjoyment.

http://youtu.be/fCmZPJfTdr8

We will be inviting you to step by in the days leading up to Christmas, spoiling you loyal customers with some chocolate treats.
 YES, we will set up  our chocolate fountain.

Until soon!

Gaia Natural Products in Spa Bellesa de Claret

Proud to be supplying the Spa Bellesa de Claret Capdella Mallorca

We are proud to be supplying wonderful and natural Spa Products to the Spa of Son Claret for the start of the new season February 2015.

Son Claret is almost a neighbour to our Gaia Finca and it is wonderful to be supplying them with products that are grown on the same land. Staying in line with the original brief that had us making a scent for Son Claret back in 2012, when we were asked to make it smell like their gardens after the rain, we have chosen natural ingredients and scents for the Spa Rituals. 

The Bellesa de Claret Spa will be offering the Gaia Rose Facial which works with ground, locally grown and harvested rose petals, a roses water hydrolate and lashings of cacao butter to deeply hydrate and nourish the facial skin and decolte.

Further they are adding to their menu an exfoliating body scrub made from almond oil, quince apple, grape seed and strawberry seed. The scent on the body glow is that of a walk through a Mallorquin forest, on the way to the beach to watch the sun set. It is perfect for the start of your holiday to prepare the skin for a beautiful even tan.

For lovers of a truly natural and simple treatment there is 'The Olive Tree Treatment' which is made up of all the elements of the olive tree, the leafs and pips of the fruit. It wonderfully rich, nourishing and perfect to fix your tan near the end of your stay so it will last you longer after your return to the real world.

A signature treatment with a specially prepared massage balm will carry the scent that is by now famous for Son Claret 'Jardi' . It is the scent of their garden after the rain!

We spend some time with the therapists in a training session to introduce them to our products and these are some pictures from the event.

         

Making a Perfect Blue Perfume

Working with Callum, who has the ability to smell colours.

This meaning that a scent to him has a colour and a colour has a scent.
We went in search of creating the Perfect Blue.

In conversation with this very gifted young man I found out that he can smell colours. Presented with all the essential oils in my collection he selected all the blue scents. He did this without reading the labels and then put them onto a colour wheel. According to him they ranged from light blues and turquoise to almost purply blues.





We then started by making a top note using citrus and fruit essential oils. Once Callum was happy and able to place the note on the colour wheel we proceeded to make a heart note in a separate vial.









When happy with this note and able to tell that it was going to make the light blue top note a little darker we put it together with the top note. Very happy with the result we repeated the step to make a bottom note. This also we added to the blend.

All it took was some very minor adjustments in quantity of essential oils in all notes and we had what Callum describes as a Perfect Blue.






He says the scent has the translucent turquoise blue of the sea in coves with sandy bottoms. When you wave your wrist about in front of your nose it smells like the sea lapping against some rocks.





       

             
To my nose it is a surprisingly rounded and perfect scent.
                                                   

While looking for a colour wheel I found this photo of the Colour Wheel that Johan Wolfgang Goethe made that symbolises the human spirit. In the blue part of the spectrum he has sensuality and fantasy.

We are currently looking for the perfect bottle, designing the perfect label and making the perfect blue velvet sacks to present them in. Hopefully it will all be ready in time for christmas.

calle Corderia 28

Palma de Mallorca

Fine Skin

Tips for taking command of bad teenage skin 

We have the occasional requests to help deal with teenage skin problems and here is advice on how best to deal with out breaks of spots and worse.

Cleansiness is paramount. 

1.Wash you face twice maybe even three times a day with soap and lots of clean water. 

2. Never touch your face with dirty hands .

3. Wash your hair daily while trying to clear up a skin condition to keep the hairline of the forehead and neck oil free and clean.

4. Have regular hair cuts and if you are a boy keep it short.

5. Watch your shaving routine. Always follow the routine of using a pre shave oil, open the pores with a hot towel, a good antiseptic shaving foam and use disposable shavers with three blades. Try to only pass over the skin once to shave. Always use an After Shave to close the pores and disinfect.

 6. Out break of spots occur always in the same areas so as a cure and a prevention use a T Tree / Rosemary/ Lavender essential oil neat to put onto these areas. Roll on twice a day even when the skin appears ok!

7. Buy yourself a really good Concealer and use it! A really good one is from the Bodyshop with T Tree oil in it. It makes your skin look clear, give you the confidence that you are looking good and this will stop you from continually touching the spots. Not touching the effected areas is a big part of  clearing your skin condition.
8. Use a daily light moisturiser, even if you think that your skin is greasy and does not need one. It will help your skin to find a balance and stop it from oscillating between over and under producing its own oils.
9. Last and not least …. stay away from sweet sugar drinks as they are truly bad for your skin. Also cheap sweeties …. dark chocolate is fine!

For a personal consultation come by our shop Gaia Bathtime in Calle Corderia 28 in Palma and we will help you find a routine to help you improve your skin.

Products you will find useful. 

Gaia Fine Skin Soap with Rosemary and T Tree
Gaia First Aid Roll-On with T Tree Lavender and Rosemary pure
essential oils.
Gaia Aloe Vera light Moisturiser
Gaia Man Pre Shave Oil
Gaia Man After Shave

All products available from our shop on line www.gaia-natural-mallorca.com

The Bodyshop Concealer you can find in all Bodyshops and at http://www.thebodyshop.co.uk/shop-by-range/tea-tree/tea-tree-concealer.aspx

Rich Aloe Vera Cream

Gaia Man Shaving Kit

First Aid Roll-On

People with bad skin have tendency to punish their skin for being bad and tend to use products that are way to sharp. If you want to have good skin treat it like that of a new born baby and soon you will have truly fine skin.

Female Company

On how spending time regularly with other women will enhance your well being

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” ― George Eliot

After spending a week with my daughter on a 'Girl Time Holiday' we both noticed how we felt really well. Not only did we decide to eat well, drink a lot of water and little alcohol, spend time every day swimming in the sea but we basically did all those girly things that we deny ourselves whilst living our daily lives in the company * mostly* of our men. I had noticed this feeling of wellness before when I have spend time living with girl friends while the men were away.

It got me to thinking how in the olden day household there would be a number of women from probably three generations or more living under the same roof. Doing their daily chores, caring for young and old and looking after the men folk. Women living together for prolonged periods all start menstruating together and it stands to reason that if such a balancing of hormones is possible pre menstrual women could be positively affected by post menopausal women and visa versa…. and as a result an improved feeling of wellness and physical harmony.

Spending time with girl friends means making small, healthy and pretty dishes as opposed to the high calorie, high protein, massive energy meals we make for our men. It means deciding to drink less together and agreeing on a Detox and sticking to it. It means being able to share our thoughts and feelings and actually feeling understood. This could leave us feeling revitalised  and positive.

The German Ladies in my Pilates class refer to the men away as "Schoner Wohnen' roughly translates as 'prettier living'!

So here is my plan…
I shall make a list of girl friends .
Call them regular
Meet up with one or more to have girl time together.
Do things like have light lunches together
Go to the Sauna together
Take a holiday together
Take time to go and swim in the sea and sit and chat.

On holiday with my daughter Georgia from
www.misscrofton.com

“True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.” 

                          ― Nicole Richie

Spread that Goddess Feel

Hello lovely Goddesses. 

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New Products in Gaia

Palmarosa Facial Cleanser and Argan Hair Elexir

New for summer our gorgeous pink coloured Palmarosa Facial Cleanser which we made with pink clay and rose petal powder. It is a very gentle daily facial cleanser which can be used to remove city dirt and grime as well as make up. It leaves the skin super soft, clean and tingly as the generous amounts of Palmarosa essential oils bring the blood to the surface and leaves you looking rosy and clean ready for bed!

60 ml of Palmarosa Facial Cream Cleanser 16.00 Euro

We have finally managed to source an organic Argan Oil which blended with Apricot Oil, Chamomile essential oil and Ginger and White Amber Perfume Oil makes a wonderful Argan Hair Elexir which can be put into the ends and the middle of your hair to hydrate it and leave it wonderfully soft and subtle. The Chamomile is there to repair sun and sea damaged hair. Use it daily or after washing into still towel dried wet hair. The scent is as delicious and rounded as a hug!

50 ml of Argan Hair Elexir
17.00 Euro

Come and try the new products…. at Gaia Bathtime Calle Corderia 28 or in Palma or at the Summer Nights Market in Sa Sagrera on the Paseo in Palma where Rosa is Godessing the Gaia Bathtime stand.

                

Blanca Goddess

It is time to pay tribute to our Blanquita, who sadly left us. She was of course our prime Gaia Goddess and there is no better way to pay tribute to her but through a selection of photographs. She was with us at Gaia for 5 years and was and will be an integral part of the success that has become Gaia Bathtime. In charge of Yoga and Therapies everybody that met her loved her. She ran the Spas of two successful 5 star Hotels in the old town of Palma and worked closely with me in designing Spa Rituals, Spa Products and trained the staff of various Spas to work with our Gaia Products. She was a perfectionist and strongly believed in a wholesome and natural approach to wellness. As far as humanly possible she aimed  for  perfection with a very personal touch which will be remembered by all that met her. She touched their lives, all our lives and we will never feel that she has left us completely as she leaves such a wonderful legacy behind.

http://gaiabathtime.blogspot.com.es/2013/11/ayurveda-in-gaia.html

http://gaiabathtime.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/261-women-s-marathon-foot-spa-marathon.html

http://gaiabathtime.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/april-in-gaiabathtime.html
http://gaiabathtime.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/join-us-for-impromptu-celebration-with.html

http://gaiabathtime.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/261-women-s-marathon-foot-spa-marathon.html

http://gaiabathtime.blogspot.com.es/2014/03/training-therapist-to-work-gaia-way.html

http://gaiabathtime.blogspot.com.es/2011/04/gaia-spa-time-en-el-hotel-albatros.html

http://gaiabathtime.blogspot.com.es/2011/12/merry-christmas-from-gaia-team.html

http://gaiabathtime.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/gaia-natural-on-ib3-televison.html

http://gaiabathtime.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/gaiabathtime-fundraiser-to-start-2013.html

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

~ Marianne Williamson