Suffering from dry skin is irritating enough, but it’s a whole lot worse when you work, live and play outdoors.
Our family live and work on a farm in Mid Wales, caring for and riding horses, running, cycling and kayaking are among the many sports activities we participate in.
We have all from an early age, suffered from dry skin which can become itchy, sore and chapped on the face and body, and worse still, feet and hands, are prone to soreness and cracking, particularly in the winter and when going barefoot in the summer.
Over the years, we have tried many off the shelf high street creams and salves to try to alleviate this but to no great success! We then decided to combine with these, some natural additions of our own, lanolin, arnica tea tree and beeswax (from bees we keep on our farm), to provide a more stable and healing salve. What a difference we started to detect!
Not happy, though with many of the ingredients used in high street skincare products, we decided to undertake some further research into making or own organic and naturally based formulas.
We were fortunate in finding a local chemist formulator who had spent 20 years working for and developing products for The Body Shop.
And so the idea for Balmy Fox was born!
Balmy Fox is our new, start-up business with a mission to manufacture and supply a positively different range of natural skincare products for active people, just like us.
Socially conscious, as well as using organic, ethically sourced ingredients where we can, and with 10% of our profits going to environmental and social causes and projects that support a fair and sustainable natural world.
To show our commitment to social and responsible causes, we have chosen three charities for this year to partner with, the World Land Trust, Paralympics GB and Plastic Oceans.
Because we’re equally as passionate about products that truly work on skin complaints caused by the beautiful outdoors, and the environment, we make sure we use organic, ethically sourced ingredients where we can. Currently, around 80% of the ingredients we use in our products are organic and ethically sourced.
As we grow, and as better, kinder, more fairly traded ingredients become available to us and the market, we aim to make 100% of products organic and sourced from ethical farms and plantations. We also aim to become fully accredited as an organic company too, something we’re really excited about!
We hope you will join us on our journey!
Paul (C.E.O – Chief Ethical Officer)
We believe that whilst looking after our bodies through activities and sport, we should also be looking after the world we live and play in, so we decided to base the business at our farm site in Mid Wales along with our joint conservation project in North Devon.
Due to the conservation work we have put in place. many once rare species have made their home on the farm, including Barn Owls, Marsh Fritillary, Butterflies and both Heath and Spotted Orchids.
In keeping with the organic and natural ethics of the business, we include beeswax in many of our formulas, with some of it coming from bees we keep on the farm.
We hope that if you share our beliefs and values that you will choose to join us on this Active journey.
It's amazing... I love the earthy ingredients and aromas and the philosophy behind Balmy Fox. It's a product designed for me as an individual. As a family, we spend a lot of time mountain biking, in Wales and the lakes and our skin suffers, particularly from the friction and chafing – not any more!!
I love using Balmy Fox; it resonates with my values. It’s all natural and earth friendly. After using the range, my feet in particular, which take a pounding on the board and beach feel so much better. I am pleased to have the inflammation busting ingredients like arnica on board.
I have always suffered from dry skin, as a climber my hands and feet have probably suffered more than most. Thanks to my repair program using the Balmy Fox Hand and Foot Repair cream, I now have it under control. The soreness and dry calluses gone or considerably reduced. Thanks Balmy Fox – I am so glad I found you!
I received a tin of Balmy Fox Hand and Foot Repair just before the London Marathon. I decided to use it on my feet for the two weeks training before and for the marathon day. I can tell you I did not have ONE blister or skin rub, It's all natural, and I highly recommend it!!
The Balmy Fox Lip Balm is a great product, and a proverbial breath of fresh air...it doesn't depend on petroleum-based ingredients to get results and gets its natural fragrance from lemon oil and works. My lips after a day in the water can be pretty cracked and sore – this beats it! – what’s more, I love the natural ingredients.
This stuff has helped to prevent blisters in boots that had given me blisters before. As a lake climber and hiker, I’m prone to dodgy feet and hands, blisters, calluses and sores, but using the Balmy Fox Hand and Foot Repair has really helped, it's natural and goes a long way.
Being a sailor and on the water for days at a time, I have really bad dry hands. Super bad. This is the Balmy Fox Hand and Foot Repair is the only lotion that works, it absorbs a lot fast, but leaves a protective thin film. I can also put it on my face to help moisturise, I’ll always have this product on board.
A friend recommended this to me, who loves to ski in the Alps, I had to give it a try. I love it! It does a good job holding moisture in, and staying on, even in the super dry climate the protection is great. Best hand and foot protection I’ve ever used, and the small tin fits easily in my ski jacket.
Excellent stuff. This is my second tin, and I'll buy more when it runs out. I usually struggle with most products like this, they usually leave my hands feeling greasy and oily and dirty, but this stuff dries, almost like a thin clay or similar, and they feel moisturised without the dirty feeling. And it smells great! It is highly recommended!
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