DROYT NATURAL GLYCERINE SOAP

Just back from a trip to the US to see some members of my family in Massachusetts. It was very cold. One morning the outside temperature gauge said -14 deg C which I thought could not be right, but it was, and we even went out in it. I think I got frostbite on my ears. I am reminded of that as it was pretty chilly this morning on my way in to work, but the great thing at this time of year is that the days really are getting longer and I am commuting in daylight, which make me feel a whole lot better.

So back to work and my desk is looking untidy. Actually it was looking untidy before I went away, so maybe I will try to tidy it. Soon. The thing is, there is always something more important to do, like replying instantly to email, when really no instant response is required.

Having had our organic soap approved by the Soil Association, fragranced with Organic Lavender Oil, we are now looking at future varieties. I will now make the shock announcement that Sandalwood will not be featuring the near future as prices are approaching £2000 per kilogram. That is per kilogram, not per tonne. If we were to fragrance a liquid soap at 0.5% with pure Sandalwood oil, that would add £2.50 to the trade price of the one bottle, so as you can imagine, buy the time it gets to the shelf, you’d be handing over the best part of 50 quid. Just kidding, of course. Droyt Organic Liquid soap with glycerine and fragranced with organic lavender oil will retail at around £6, so with Sandalwood oil that could easily be £10. It would smell nice though. One of the (many) enjoyable aspects of working at Droyt’s is that I can make up my own blends. At home we have Sandalwood in the bathroom and Tea tree and Lavender in the kitchen. I once made a mint one with so much mint oil in that you could feel it on your skin. I liked it but it got vetoed by a higher court. I thought briefly about going to Appeal, but then I realised that while that might make me feel better in the short term, the long term disadvantages of such an action so enormously outweighed the short term benefit that it made even the mere thought of it a lesson in pointlessness.

My colleague Chris has just informed me that the batch coder on the overwrapper is not functioning properly. I suppose that rather than typing about it, I should be leaping up the stairs to fix it, so bye ’til next time.

Coder repair man