A growing Cosmetics business has opened its second store in the centre of York.

Lancashire-based Scentish has taken over 22 Stonegate, which previously contained the Saffron gift store.

The new store sells its handmade products such as bath bombs, whipped soap, body care, hair care and fragrance.

Its owner Nicola McLaughlin says she chose York to be the home of their second location, after falling in love with the city.

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The business started seven years ago in Nicola’s kitchen, making vegan and cruelty free cosmetics.

It reports ‘an incredible growth journey’ over the past few years to making more than a million bath bombs a year, plus hundreds of thousands of other products too, both for their own brand and for thousands of other businesses.

This has all led to a growing team of 18 staff in Nicola’s home town of Rossendale, Lancashire, where Scentish has a store and factory.

Nicola said: “We always received a warm welcome from other store owners, bars and restaurants in York, and the city itself is amazing, so when the opportunity came up to open a store there, we jumped at the chance.”

Scentish says one of its key ethics is ‘affordable luxuries’, making good products with high quality ingredients, but not charging over the odds for them.

Nicola added: “I enjoy what I do and want to keep growing my business by introducing our products to more people, I try to keep the prices as low as possible so they can treat themselves without breaking the bank, and with a cost-of-living crisis going on, I think this is the right thing to do. Not all businesses are money orientated.”