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Journal articles on skincare, fragrance, wellbeing and news
Inside Our Ingredient Philosophy
The beauty industry has long been shaped by language that promises purity and naturalness, but rarely explains what those words truly mean. As customers have become more discerning about what they apply to their skin, transparency has grown from a welcome gesture to a necessity. At Bath House, our approach...
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Movement, stillness, ritual
There’s a moment just before movement begins, a pause where everything is still. For dancer Angela Venturini, that space is just as important as the movement itself. It’s where awareness starts. Not performance, not pressure, simply paying attention to how the body feels. We first spoke with Angela several years...
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Fragrance as Wellbeing
Here’s to fragrance, not as a solution, not as a statement, but as a ritual. Not something to fix the day, but something that gently shapes it. Something that marks time. Something that says, quietly, this moment matters. If artisan fragrance could change just one moment of your day, which...
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Visiting Dora’s Field in spring
Tucked away off the main road in Rydal at the heart of the Lake District is a hillside woodland. For most of the year, this place feels ordinary and unassuming, it’s easy to pass it by on a walk to Rydal Water. But from early March, this forgotten corner bursts...
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Give to yourself to gain your life back
There is a kind of giving that leaves women smaller. It happens quietly. In minutes taken from sleep. In boundaries softened to keep the peace. In days shaped around everyone else’s needs before the self is even considered. It is so familiar it rarely feels like loss, and yet, over...
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Winter places quiet demands on the skin
Cold air, wind and shifting temperatures all influence how skin behaves, especially when time outdoors is followed by warm, heated spaces. In the Lake District, winter often means long walks, time on the fells, or simply being outside more intentionally, wrapped up against the elements. These moments are grounding, but...
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A spring skin reset, a simple three-step ritual
After months of cold air, central heating and winter routines, skin can feel a little out of balance as spring approaches. Oil production may increase, dryness can linger, and what worked perfectly in winter may suddenly feel too much. Spring is not about starting over, but about rebalancing, listening to...
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At the heart of the Lake District, a slower guide to the beauty of Ambleside
In our second journal where we give you an insight into our shop locations, we move north from the shoreline hush of Bowness to the steeper, slate-built heart of Ambleside. Here, at the top of Windermere, the town gathers closely around itself, tall grey houses, narrow chimneys, cobbled cut-throughs glistening...
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The flowers that appear first
There is a particular kind of beauty to winter that asks for patience. It doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t bloom all at once or fill the air with colour. Instead, it waits, pared back, damp with rain, shaped by frost and low light, revealing itself slowly, if you’re willing to...
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A love letter to sleep
Sleep has become something we negotiate with. We bargain for it, steal it back in fragments, track it, optimise it, complain about it. And yet, it remains one of the most instinctive, intelligent things the body knows how to do. Long before wellness became an industry, sleep was our most...
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