Celebration at Portsmouth’s home of natural skincare

One year on from opening a natural skincare apothecary on Albert Road, Southsea Bathing Hut is staging a day of celebration on Saturday 3 August.

Founded in 2015 to revive Portsmouth’s lost heritage as a soap-making city, Southsea Bathing Hut makes a full range of original skincare products. All are natural, vegan, cruelty-free, and made by hand on the shop premises at 2&2c Albert Road.

After three years of trading at events, online and via stockists, the business grew successful enough to open its own shop in 2018. Expanding into the premises next door a year later. This has created space for a brand new workshop, which enables anyone passing to see the small team at work making their products. There will also be a private treatment room offering exclusive natural skincare and well being therapy.

On Saturday 3 August, founder Samantha Worsey will welcome the community into her shop for a special celebration to mark the occasion and introduce new offerings.

The workshop will be open, with demonstrations of product making throughout the day. The team’s Natural Skincare and Wellbeing Therapist will also be available to show customers the boutique treatment room and explain what treatments and product experiential are on offer.

The first 50 people to visit Southsea Bathing Hut that day will each receive a free gift of natural skincare (no purchase is necessary!).

Samantha says, "It’s always been my dream to offer experiences and treatments to go alongside natural products that make your skin happier. I am so excited to have been able to bring my business so far, after starting on the kitchen table four years ago.

The open day is our chance to share the excitement with anyone and everyone who is interested in what we do - whether because they love great skincare products, are passionate about being vegan or using less plastic, want to learn how to make their own skincare for fun, love being pampered by a highly skilled therapist, or just want to keep the pound in Pompey by supporting a proudly local business that’s doing something different and flying the flag for Southsea."

Southsea Bathing Hut will be open from 11am – 4pm with events happening throughout.

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