Our courtyard garden at Le Riche Naturals in Pringle Bay is filled with fragrant and medicinal indigenous plants. Ok, it doesn't rival the Harold Porter Botanical Gardens down the road, but we are fond of exploring the little garden during our Fragrance Workshops. The fragrances of our indigenous flora are surprising, captivating and thought provoking. My favourite indigenous fragrant plants are: Pelargonium Graveolens Roseum (Rose scented Geranium) Pelargonium Tometosum (Peppermint Scented Geranium) Pelargonium Citronellum (Lemon Scented Geranium) Lippia Javanica ( African Lemon Bush) Coleonema Album (Cape May) There are many more, but these are truly the crowd pleasers! For more information on our indigenous species and their medicinal value visit: pza.sanbi.org/pelargonium-citronellum Happy exploring and next time stop to smell the Fynbos! XXX...
November 2017 we opened the doors of our gorgeous premises in Central Road, Pringle Bay. It has been exciting! Should you ever visit us, you would be able to walk through our courtyard garden filled with fragrant and indigenous plants, shop in our retail space, glance into our manufacturing lab and have a chat in our office. It's like a one stop shop! We have even decided to host Fragrance Workshops to promote unique Fynbos essential oils and natural fragrance blending. It has been a great idea that we thoroughly enjoy. One of the great joys in life is to see the excitement someone experiences when they have created a divine fragrance that resonates with their being. Currently, we are have Friday and Saturday mornings...
"Le Riche Naturals Rich Body ganache for sensitive skin has enabled me to wean my daughter from cortizones that was not a sustainable solution for her eczema. After using it for a year I can say that her skin looks bettter than it has ever looked and we need less and less of the cream. Her skin is nourished and healing itself without damaging medical interventions. I am grateful to have discovered such a wonderful product that gives my daughter better quality of life. Thank you Le Riche Naturals!" Marelé Dicks, Western Cape, South Africa Feedback like this, from a Mommy struggling with her daughter's eczema touches my heart, because I know exactly how it feels. It is frankly...
Interview questions for Lushinka Louw 1. Is Le Riche Naturals your first business you've started-up? No, I've tried a few things, but this was the first enterprise that had a life of it's own. The feedback I received from my formulations was so great, that I simply had to sell it to people or they would get angry at me. I even received a call at 9pm at night requesting emergency products, because a customer simply couldn't go on holiday without it. It felt to me like I had finally caught a wave and I'm still surfing. 2. What gave you the business idea? Like most things, it was born out of a crisis. My little girl was 18 months old at...
We tend to strip oily skin of all excess oils and mattify the life out of it. This is not the answer, especially if you have sensitive oily skin. Three very basic rules govern my approach to oily skin. The first rule is that the skin is a self-regulating organ. Our skin works day and night to maintain itself. In short, if the skin is good at producing oil and we strip it of all its oils, we might find it starts producing oil with a vengeance. Keep it gentle, but cleanse deeply. The second rule is to use oils with the correct fatty acid composition. Here, it is especially important to look at non-comedogenic oils that...
