Saltridges - Lotions and Potions, Burlington

On a bright, sunny and extremely cold Saturday a few weeks ago, your intrepid Spa Travellers made a road trip to visit Saltridges, located in the scenic town of Burlington on Lake Ontario, about an hour's drive outside of Toronto. The main purpose of our trip was to buy Lipstick Queen lipsticks as, unfortunately, Lipstick Queen do not ship from their on-line store to Canada. Luckily for us, in our search for lipstick, we discovered this delightful shop filled with all manner of niche lines of make-up, perfume, body products, and home fragrance. The store sells only natural products which made us extremely happy and made it even more of a find.

Saltridges Lotions and Potions, Burlington

 

Our kind of store - Beauty with a Conscience 

Saltridges was started by two friends and product lovers, Deborah Lamarche and Nancy Salter. The store is beautifully laid out with chandeliers and products very tastefully arranged throughout the store. We had a guided tour of all the products by the two lovely ladies staffing the store, who were extremely informed on the products, where they were sourced, ingredients, background, etc. It was like having our own personal shoppers. It was better than kids in a candy store. It was your ultimate product lovers in a store filled with all manner of natural, hard to find products.  We really didn't know where to start first.  But when in doubt, perfume is always a good bet. And so we started with the natural perfumes.

 

A beautiful natural perfume by B-Essential, based on essential oils of patchouli, jasmine, woods, florals and ambers. Ummm, exquisite!

 

A selection of natural perfumes by D'Orsay, Paris.  I want one of each!

  

  

A beautiful potpourri from California made with dried roses and oranges.  Heaven.

Decorative compact mirrors with Swarovski crystals.

  

After sniffing our way through the perfumes, we then we moved on to the different product lines.

This fun line Doll Face is from California and aimed at a younger shopper.

  

Key Lime Coconut body scrubs

Love Fresh is a wonderful line of body products, containing no harmful ingredients, made in Canada.

We continued through the store oohing and ahhing, testing, and sniffing all the wonderful lines.  There were products from all over the world, Terre from Italy, based on glacial mud, Juara from Indonesia based on botanicals like rice, tamarind and candelnut oil.  There was Coola, a range of organic suncare products for body and face.  Belli for mothers to be and their babies, products formulated by a medical doctor. Lalicious body creams and scrubs.  There was a wonderful smelling hand sanitizer by Jao with lavender, eucalyptus and tea tree oils. There were Hourglass cosmetics, Geisha Ink from Japan, an entire section of men's products, a section of home fragrances and candles, and finally, last but not the least, we made our way to the display for Lipstick Queen.  By this time we were a little in overwhelm but we still managed to swatch Saint lipsticks, Sinner lipsticks, and Butterfly Ball, so many decisions to be made and so little time.


All good things must come to an end and after spending more than 2 hours in product heaven, it was time to pay for our [many] purchases and say our goodbyes.

Our purchases were packaged in tissue with gold cherubs and these stylish red bags, made from recycled products, which seemed to sum up the essence of Saltridges - beauty with a conscience.

If you would like to have as much fun as we had, contact Saltridges for directions by telephoning: 1-905-333-5959.