I now need to start thinking about the actual products. I will start with a very rough straight off the top of my head list. I can come back to it to research it, edit it and think about it later. Continue reading →

Now for the hard bit. I need to decide how I am going to manage this spa range project. There are a couple of restraints – the most important being that it doesn’t have an immediate client so I need to work in such a way that I can pick it up and drop it to fit in with more urgent tasks as they arise. Continue reading →

So why develop a spa range? It seems obvious to me, but may well not be so to anyone else so let me explain. A spa treatment has to be really good. It is applied by a skilled technician directly on to a paying customer. If it is in any way substandard, it will be noticed very quickly. You just have to meet the expectations of the end users or you will be getting the worst kind of feedback very rapidly. Continue reading →

I don’t have my lab books to work from, but I have kept a lot of notes over the years. In particular I have a set of hard backed notebooks, photo above, which I have used for various jottings and note taking. I have been dipping into them while working up my spa range ideas. It is easy to get distracted by them though. They go back to 1992 and there are a lot of memories in them. Continue reading →

It is a feature of working in a lab that your lab books are the property of the lab you work in. When you move on, you leave them behind. How could it be different? The whole point of the work you do is to create products and the first drafts in the lab book are a part of that product. Continue reading →