Apologies for the delay - we have been beset by technical difficulties but all good now…

Anyway, Happy New Year one and all… 2010 will be a year of (hopefully great) change for us here at SOPHYTO HQ and we hope you will come along for the ride.

More on all that later, but in the meantime we can introduce the new-look airtight packaging for our hottest organic skin products - Multivitamin Skin Drops (formerly Skin Energising High Potency Concentrate) and Marine Peptide Brightening Treatment (formerly Purifying Active Mask). Gone are the single-use sachets and plastic mono-doses and now we bring you easy-to-use airtight pump dispensers that keep their contents fresh, right down to the very last drop.

The new products will be available from January 8, so if you have already ordered some, fear not, your booty should arrive haste post haste this week!

To celebrate the launch of the new-look SOPHYTO Organics e-newsletter, we are giving you the chance to WIN a full set of lovely SOPHYTO products for free.

So, that means we’ll be sending you the Deep Pore Foaming Cleanser, the Ultra Mild Silken Cleanser, the Tone & Balance Super Bioactive, the Purify & Energise Super Bioactive, the Normalising Day Face Moisturiser, the Mega Omegas Day Face Moisturiser, the (ELLE award-winning btw) Polyphenol Skin Drops, the Dual Action Exfoliating Treatment AND the BRAND NEW Multivitamin Skin Drops AND Marine Peptide Brightening Treatment… so you can see how well the products work together. Not bad, huh?

To enter the competition, you just need to click here and enter email addresses for 3 of your friends. Then we will email them about the competition and enter you at the same time… Go on, it will only take a second.

If you haven’t signed up for the SOPHYTO Style e-news blast, just click here and enter your email address at the top.

Best of luck X

We don’t just love Saffron Rouge because it carries the SOPHYTO range. That would be reason enough, of course, but we also love the whole ethos of the site. It only carries organic cosmetics and there are only a handful of brands - all big names in the organic market - and they have all been tried and tested by founder Kirsten Binder, a phytotherapist.

Every product carried is certified organic so you know you can trust its contents and SR includes a detailed overview of each brand as well as interviews with the brand founders so customers can get a really good feel for each brand.

Kirstin and her partner (and husband) Jeff obviously travel all over to find new brands. I was particularly delighted to see some European products on the site, including the only certified organic personal lubricant YES that I mentioned a while back.

Saffron Rouge has a truckload of great organic products that will enhance your skin’s health and you can rest assured that you will love them more than the chemical-laden products you used to rely on. They ship to anywhere in the world as well so if you have been struggling to find a great organic body cream at your local pharmacy, suffer ye no longer!

Check out Kirstin’s blog as well for regular organic skin updates. SOPHYTO’s Deep Pore Foaming Cleanser just happens to be listed as the perfect everyday cleanser for Summer, too… which of course it is