We’re crazy about beautiful aromas!  We love when someone picks up one of our products and says “Wow” (which happens often).  Our amazing scents are an important part of the luxurious experience of our products, so we are very, very selective in choosing them.  We combine nature’s finest scents with essential oils to create a truly pampering experience. You may not know how important scent really is or the affect scent has on us. In fact, the strongest sense tied to memory is scent!

Some Hugo Naturals scents are: calming lavender, energizing grapefruit, refreshing spearmint or comforting vanilla and sweet orange.  We’d like to share with you a little bit about the “scent sensation” of three of our popular scents.

French Lavender
The essential oil of lavender has a calming, sedative, and anti-convulsive effect. This helps with conditions such as stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia, headaches and mental fatigue. In fact, up until World War I, Lavender was used to treat various injuries and illnesses!

Vanilla & Sweet Orange
Vanilla has a similar calming effect like lavender; it helps reduce stress and anxiety. Vanilla is also known to be a mood booster and create a more positive, uplifting spirit. The refreshing scent of fresh orange also helps reduce feelings of depression

Patchouli & Sandalwood
Patchouli and sandalwood are both considered romantics scents that may actually simulate human pheromones. Its warm and woody scent creates a sense of warmth and balance. Sandalwood also has a sedative, calming affect that will help reduce anxiety or stress. Patchouli has proprieties in it that may reduce nausea.

It’s amazing what scents can do! So, whether you need to relax from a long day at work or energize yourself to keep up with the kids, we have you covered with a wide array of 100% natural scents to help you revive, rejuvenate, refresh or simply pamper.

What’s your favorite scent? We have so many to choose from!  Grapefruit, Wild African Rose, Mango Guava…check them out!

What does the word “artisan” mean anyway? Well, according to Dictionary.com the term “artisan” means, “a person or company that makes a high-quality, distinctive product in small quantities, usually by hand and using traditional methods”

What this definition tells us is that our products are truly artisan. We go through great lengths to make sure our artisan products (well, all of our products) are pure, natural and created with hand-made quality. Hugo Naturals started from selling our hand-made soaps at farmers’ markets! And our handcrafted approach and our passion for pure ingredients hasn’t changed. We create our luxurious Artisan Soaps with 100% natural, kosher vegetable-derived glycerin, pure essential oils of Jojoba, Sweet Almond and Coconut, and nutrition-quality Vitamin E to gently cleanse and deeply moisturize skin of all types. No matter what your favorite product is; bath salts, handmade soaps, or lip balm know it was handmade with love from Hugo Naturals.

Don’t believe us? Watch for yourself; check out our behind-the-scenes tour of our factory; also known as, our kitchen.

When was the last time you took a soak in your tub? Many of you have mentioned on our Facebook page that one of your New Year’s resolutions is to focus on creating a happier, healthier you. Don’t forget to have some “me” time every once and awhile. What is more relaxing than a bath?

I want to share some factoids with you about the benefits of some tub time in the hopes of encouraging you to take the time to pamper yourself with a relaxing bath!  Some people avoid bath salts because they are afraid they will dry out their skin.  And it’s true, they can.  However, we whip our bath salts up with great oils (jojoba and almond) that moisturize your skin while you’re enjoying your bath.

Sea salt is full of minerals and nutrients that benefit your skin and body.  As a matter of fact, it’s been known for centuries for its ability to help alleviate such conditions as arthritis, poor circulation, and muscle soreness. It’s a powerful detoxifying agent as well.  Sea salt infused with essential oils are a great way to transform your normal bathing experience into a healing one by combating stress, anxiety, insomnia, muscle aches, joint pain, and skin conditions.  What a simple remedy for de-stressing from the holidays!  You can make your own very simply by mixing salts with some moisturizing oils, and essential oils.  Or, of course, we offer many different scents of salts. We have bath salts you can buy online or artisan bath salts you can find at a participating retailer.

What is my personal favorite?  It really depends on my mood and time of day, etc.  But I always keep some Eucalyptus on hand in the winter.  It’s so therapeutic that we make it in both our Effervescent (foaming) Bath Salts, and our new Exfoliating (can also be used as a scrub) Bath Salts.

I hope I have inspired you to take some time out for yourself and take a nice long bath. Happy New Year!

Debra