Make sure you come back regularly to check out our new Events page.
It has details of the events where Green & Nutty Corporate or Green & Nutty Stockists will be with soap nuts in hand for you to check out for yourself. Keep your eyes peeled for when we will be in your area. Make sure you also scroll down to the current date because approaching events may be further down the list!
Check out our soap nuts and pick up a bargain from stockist Emma of Brindabella Baby at the Canberra Baby & Kids Market. Be sure to invest in some of her soap nuts as well as many other goods she'll have available because she has told me that:
20% of all sales from Brindabella Baby during February to the Red Cross bushfire appeal.
Just another reason to invest in businesses that love Green & Nutty's soap nuts!
Green & Nutty and a number of stockists will be providing a portion of their business profits to various appeals for bushfire victims. Below are the details of what Green & Nutty and businesses that stock Green & Nutty's Soap Nuts are offering.
Direct from Emma Davidson of Brindabella Baby:
I'm donating 20% of all sales from Brindabella Baby during February to the Red Cross bushfire appeal.
Green & Nutty Trust are offering to donate 20% on all full retail price purchases, including all MiEssence products at their everyday 10% off RRP, to go towards goods and emergency relief for bushfire victims. Also, for every unit of product sold either wholesale or at a discounted price Green & Nutty will allocate 100 grams of soap nuts to be supplied in tangible donations to victims.
20% on all full retail price purchases and 100g of soap nuts for every unit of product sold wholesale or at a discounted price
Green & Nutty will be distributing the funds raised from this to a combination of the direct donation to a relief appeal bank account (25% of proceeds) and the purchase and shipping of resources to home schooling families who have lost their homes and possessions (75% of proceeds). We are aware that home educators sign away their right to educational support resources from their state government and are therefore not eligible for the same educational support that other families who have been displaced are.
This offer is valid for all transactions undertaken between 9 February 2009 and 30 February 2009. Green & Nutty reserve the right to extend this offer.
Green & Nutty and their stockists offer donation of money and goods to Bushfire Appeal
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Dear Valued Customers!
As some of you aware we have faced temperatures this past week of beyond 45°C which has, of course, limited our operations to the hours before it reaches 38°C (which has been as early as 10.00am). This heat, I believe, has also affected Telstra's phone services over the past week although they have not yet worked out what is wrong or why at this stage.
We hope that a technician will be able to shed some light on it tomorrow. We have no telephone communications on our line (no dial tone), yet, have intermittent internet access which indicates to us that the problem does not lie with us but rather at the telephone exchange where the phone and ADSL are split off.
In the mean time, should you need to reach us please note that our phone line is redirected and an alternate facsimile number is also provided on our contact page. As this intermittently affects our internet access please be aware that there may also be delays in notifying you that your order has been received and the shipping details also.
Thank you for your patience with Telstra as we, too, attempt to remain patient with them.
To our delightful customers,
I hope you are enjoying the warmer weather whilst avoiding the harsh summer rays and keeping those fluid levels up.
As an environmentally conscious organisation we have opted against air conditioning this summer with a preference for staff to cease work when it becomes too hot for work to be effective. This is then saving the environment the burning of additional fuels and, as a customer, you don't have to wear the addition power costs in our product pricing.
Today has tested heat tolerance and we have determined that we will close early for the day once the weather hits an ambient 38°C. We reached this temperature in the last hour and eveyone has been discharged early for the day.
We thank you for your understanding.
Urgent notice to customers regarding the shipment of soap nut orders and business communications.
Green & Nutty will not have email, telephone or facsimile communications (and perhaps power) in the coming days due to a significant tree fall overnight.
We will ensure that all orders are processed but apologise in advance that you may not be advised of the receipt of payment and the impending shipment of your order.
Last night I had the amazing privilege of attending the Business SA Annual Dinner and Export Awards as part of the SAYES entourage. As we have had some temporary staff losses to a virus I chose to go in the wonderful company of Carlee Palmer, owner of Black Pea skin care.
For both of us this event saw only to give us some things to work towards over the coming year in respect to our interest in international markets. I have no doubt you will be hearing more about this in months early in the New Year.
It has also reinvigorated my interest in what we can add to our range for the benefit of household budgets, personal health and our environments in the coming year also. Stay tuned as we have a lot cooking behind the scenes here at Green & Nutty!
One of the greatest issues we face bringing a relatively new product into the Australian marketplace is consumer awareness. Even to the person who is a die-hard, product-savvy green consumer or one who has watched loved ones battle skin reactions from excema, psoriasis or chemical sensitivities the notion of soap nuts, a natural and raw alternative to laundry powders can be a hard one to fathom. I mean, how can nuts clean my clothes?
This week I have been in South Western Victoria answering those sorts of questions. Most predominantly is the question as to why someone called them soap nuts when they are really berries and when allergies have people wary of any reference to nuts. For your reference, I do not know the answer to this, it is not a reference we have created, so my best guess is that the person who did was nuts themselves.
A very big part of Green & Nutty's role in the community to is provide resources to both retail outlets and community groups, as well as the public, to allow them to educate themselves on the the natural product alternatives that are in the Australian marketplace and that they don't have to settle for some market dominating products which can contain harmful chemicals to both humans and animals alike.
We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the area and we were glad at the response that we got to our visits. It is my strong hope that we may have picked up a stockist or two along the way. Of course, time will tell.
It is always the phone call that comes in the last hour of business hours, particularly on a Friday, that stress me out the most. As I rifle through my desk trying to pull together all that I need to get it cleared away for the day I received a call from a Melbourne-based freight forwarder. They are the handlers for my shipment's arrival. They called me for further information and were able to establish for me that the soap nuts are scheduled to arrive at Port Adelaide on the 30th of May 2008. They expect that the Certificate of Arrival would be issued by the 24th of May.
It is amazing how quickly that a curve ball can come out of nowhere to take you by complete surprise. In my case, it has been the process of gathering the information that is required by Customs that has brought a curve ball my way.
I contacted the exporter for further information and to locate our Certificate of Arrival which should have been issued the week before they arrived. There was a reason, of course, that I had not received it. Yes, my shipment was not on a direct route but rather put on a cheaper indirect route via Singapore.
I was so impressed with the speed of the service, you even phoned to say there would be a delay on the delivery but they were here the day after your phone call. So quick and friendly. Very impressed. I'm really happy with the soap nuts and have just ordered the 2 for 1 special so I can now try them as a shampoo too. - Helen, Sheffield TAS, Australia
