Welcome to Ellënoire
Unique Indulgences for Body, Bath and Home.
Let me tell you a story.
My name is Noëlle. Long ago and far away in the depths of the 1970's when I was in elementary school, my mother Thalia used to spend the summers collecting rose petals from our garden. She was always covered in scratches & had thorns embeded in her finger tips from many hours in that garden. In the fall, she would start creating huge tubs of real, historically accurate pot-pourri from recipes she found in an old book. Soon after, she turned our kitchen into a candle making factory, using scented oils from the local health food store. in December she sold these things at the local church "Holly Fair" bazaar to make some extra money to supplement the family income.
Enter adolescent me.
I was always fascinated with the projects my mother got up to. She was a master at stretching a dollar to feed us, clothe us and make some extra money. Sewing, cooking, baking, jam & preserve making of all sorts, and the crafts and things she thought she could sell. Somewhere in there I used to sneak her scent oils and wear them as perfume, make my own clothes out of whatever I could fix up or scrounge (pants made out of an old bedsheet & dyed in a dorm bathtub come to mind) and accidentally learned an insane number of skills from her, all the while making my own facials from kitchen scraps using magazine recipes & falling in love with obsure fragrances.
In the 80's, Mom got a new job. Soon after, I met her new office-mate. Marguerite! Marguerite had bleach blonde hair, acid wash jeans & smelled like heaven on earth. Her scent, I learned was patchouli.....and soon, she gave me a glimpse into what became our mutual love of essential oils blends.
Fast forward to the 90's, after years of dreaming, planning, blending... I started ellenoire with a couple of gallons of shower gel, some lotion and 11 oils to scent them, ready in time for Christmas 1994. After a lot of work and even more dreaming, ellënoire has grown over the last 30 years to become an elegant retail boutique, a full service e-commerce website and a very busy naturally curly hair salon.
Phew! Did you get through that? A long story?
Don't even get me started on how I somehow I became a curly hair stylist....stay tuned!
It is our intention to bring to you an exciting selection of Body, Bath, Home & Curly Hair Products from around the world. We believe in providing excellence in customer service and products of highest quality that are not tested on animals.
You will always find our own brand, ellënoire, developed and handmade in the boutique by Noëlle and the “ellёnoire elves” The ellënoire brand is designed to be a customers' favourite because our specialty is to offer unscented products that can be custom scented to your specifications. You will also find Naturally Curly Hair products with no sulfates, and no silicone to go with our sulfate/silicone free salon services.
We have a large selection of ready-made products from companies you may have never seen. Visit soon to experience the scent of natural products, the sounds of happy clients chatting & sampling the skin loving products
Natural, Organic, Obscure, Fun.