Badger Sleep Balm

This is one in a range of products from the Badger company, who specialise in natural body care. The product is organic, it comes in a cute small round tin, not unlike Vaseline and can be found in a lot of high street stores, such as Boots, or on the web. It costs around £5 a tin, and seemingly lasts forever! This particular balm (there are others in the range) is a combination of Rosemary, Ginger, Bergamot, Balsam Fir and Lavender. As with most essential oil products, if you don't like the smell then the intended effects of the product will not work for you. However, it smells divine. Rosemary is used to clear the mind, for thinking and memory. ...  Read the complete review

I didn't buy my Badgers Sleep Balm- to be honest it would never have crossed my mind to do so. But following my Mother's death, a close friend bought it for me. It is on sale in Boots for just over £4 but no doubt online you can get it cheaper. Now I cannot say that it worked for me straight away- but that really isn't surprising given the emotional place I was at- I couldn't even sleep with the light off. After a while, I found myself enjoying the routine of rubbing the ointment into my brow relaxing in itself, it was like the rubbing sensation was telling my body and mind, that the time for rest had arrived, You need very little and so the small 21g pot ...  Read the complete review

I have worked night shift for nearly four years now, but my shift pattern is a little bit odd, as I also do one day shift a week too. As I'm sure you can imagine, working such strange hours can totally mess up your sleeping pattern, and although after all this time I've just about managed to sort it out, there are still the odd days when things get messed up and I can't sleep. Not only that, but having to sleep during the day can be a pain in the neck, especially where I live as it's often quite noisy, and you'll just be drifting off to sleep when the mother of all arguments kicks off outside, or the council decide to turn up and dig up the road or ...  Read the complete review