☁️🪻 Discount on Clouds & Lavender Wax Strips + 🛍️ Update Shop — February 2025

This post was originally sent as a Cosmeau newsletter in February 2025.

Summary Mailing

• Discount: ☁️Cloud Cover + 🪻Lavender Wax Strips 20%
• 🌀 Discount:Dishwashing strips 20%
• 🛍️ Updateshop Haarlem,​ production, food bank

☁️🪻 Discount: 20% on Cloud Cover and Lavender Wax Strips + 10% on associated scented beads

This scented pearl fits perfectly with the drizzly and cold weeks: Cloud cover. Nice and fresh with a hint of floral. Lavender adds relaxation and calmness. Take advantage of a nice discount this month to end the winter in style!

☁️ Cloud cover
Do you ever dream that you can fly? Feel the fresh breeze on your face and between your fingers, with a wonderfully fresh scent. Wash your bedding with Wolkendek and imagine yourself in a dream flight! This universally fresh scent, with a hint of florality and a refreshing aftermath, was rated best at the Huishoudbeurs.

🪻 Lavender
Imagine: you are walking through a vast lavender field and let the tips of your fingers slide along the leaves. Close your eyes and smell the calming scent of lavender. Wonderfully zen – a classic for good reason! These lavender scented pearls are warm and floral, but not overpowering. Enjoy subtle hints of warmth for a soothing and calm atmosphere.

🌀 Dishwashing strips
A convenient and environmentally friendly alternative to dishwasher tablets. These strips are light, easy to dose and biodegradable. Now with a 20% discount: 60 sessions from €12.99 for only €10.39 - that's only 17 cents per session!

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🛍️ Update Shop Haarlem

We are now in week 3 of the renovation and are on schedule for the opening at the end of March. What a lot of work in terms of preparation! Not only the construction - fortunately we don't have to interfere with that with our two left hands - but especially all the details surrounding the decoration of the store. It will really be a special store!

BEFORE

AFTER 😀

Don't mind the mess! 😬 The suspended ceiling has been removed to make everything more spacious. The holes in the wall are preparations for floating cabinets, because the plaster wall cannot support the weight itself. The floor has also been removed; which is replaced by a beautiful, warm shade of linoleum.

We have been preparing for a year: from the store design to the bags, products, price tags and more. Our goal of opening in November turned out not to be feasible. Because the purchase of stocks had to be tailored to the extra sales of the store, we now have more stock than normal and 2 full containers were added last week. Our warehouse is overflowing, and all paths are full of pallets.

This is what it looks like 😨At the bottom left you see the scented bead machine, which we can no longer access. So we're slowing down production of this for two reasons: one, we don't have space, and two, we're exploring alternatives that are more environmentally friendly, cheaper, and easier to produce. In this industry we see promising innovations that can offer us more than the current production process. Relocating and connecting electricity costs us around €10,000, so if we switch to a different process, we would rather invest that money in other projects.

We could create extra space by increasing the height, but then we would have to adjust light lines, buy new racks, nail them into the ground and work with reachers. Since this hall will only serve as a production hall in the future, we think it would be a shame to invest in it. Next month we will meet with our landlord to look at expansion options on our site: about 2,500 m² of extra hall, with loading docks! 🎉

🤔 What is a loading dock?In our previous mailings we already talked about our wish for a loading dock. This is a pit in which a trailer drives backwards, so that the loading space is level with the warehouse floor. This makes loading and unloading containers, pallets and machines a lot easier!

Here you see Jolijn (our store architect fromStudio Kees) and Jason look at the materials for the cabinets and price tags together. The ceiling, the wall of the Bamboozy shop-in-shop and the floor get a beautiful, soft shade. More about this soon!

💚 Food bank update

Visiting Food Bank Ijmond-Noord

Last month, Jason and Vivienne visited the IJmond-Noord Food Bank to get acquainted. The friendly Martien Herruer, general board member, answered our questions and gave a tour. Of course we donated more than this bag, this was the sample package 😉

We learned a lot about how a food bank works. In the past, we sometimes sent boxes without consultation, but that is not always convenient. Food banks also suffer from a lack of space, and donations must be matched to demand. We will go into this in more detail in an interview that is still being edited.

In addition to detergents for the people who use the food bank, we also wanted to encourage the employees. That's why we donated detergents to everyone who works there: from volunteers at the distribution locations to packers and drivers. These are more than 100 people who work selflessly to help those who are having a hard time. Together with your support, we will continue to make an impact - that's what we aim for!💚

To reinforce this, we have displayed our mission on a large scale behind the cash register. This way we don't forget what we're doingall of themfor doing!

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