SEAMS first Christmas has been a busy one! Most of December has been spent in our Hand Parlour at Fenwick Brent Cross, nurturing tense ‘Christmas shoppers’ hands with Seams now infamous Hand Shake massages. We have witnessed how much customer’s hands endure during the Christmas shopping season and if, like them you’ve been busy shopping and wrapping, your hands are most probably in festive distress too! Wrapping paper works like blotting paper on the hands, absorbing all of their moisture so fingertips get get that dry pulling sensation and become prone to paper cuts and rough snagging skin. One of SEAMS’ star ingredients – Shea Butter – works hard to moisturise parched hands, and because of its fast-absorbing texture that sinks in instantly, shopping, wrapping (or cooking) can reconvene straight away. Switching from warm heated shops to the cold air outside is another seasonal strain, making hands and cuticles really dry and sore!

It has been great seeing how instantly SEAMS transforms hands to look younger and feel softer like silk, and customers have been astonished at how a simple hand massage can de-stress. Join us for a very merry HAND SHAKE in our Hand Parlour! We will be in the Toiletries department at Fenwick Brent Cross until 24th December.

We have also added a soft eco- friendly  SEAMS gift bag to package SEAMS as a stocking filler, or as a neat way of storing SEAMS in your handbag, drawer or glove compartment. Being very eco-consious at SEAMS we have made sure that our gift bags and gift boxes can be recycled or re-used. We suggest using the gift boxes as storage for pens and paper, and  our gift bags as the perfect travel pouch.  It becomes very clear at this time of year, how much paper, cardboard and tissue is wasted on wrapping, but SEAMS love to recycle, simple  ideas like using delivery notes as scrap paper, tissue paper and bubble wrap for home storage and saving all your Christmas delivery boxes to re-use  can really help to lower waste.

We have had a busy month for press as well. I was honoured that SEAMS was featured on the beauty pages of Hello Magazine. It was lovely to be picked as one of the team’s favourite hand creams!

2013 has been a very exciting year for Seams and in 2014 we look forward to launching innovative SEAMS products that your hands will love. I will keep blogging with lots of practical advice, including a Hand Tip of the month to keep your hands looking and feeling healthy. On that note, I’ll leave you with December’s Hand Tip: Fingertips, cuticles and knuckles often get missed when hand cream is applied, (try yourself and you will see!) yet these are areas that suffer the most with dryness and sores. So to get the most from your hand cream, make a conscious effort to massage into these areas, and at night add an extra squeeze of SEAMS to your fingertips and around your cuticles..

Happy New Year!

Karen J