Great News

Great news Adventurers and Lovers of Fun,

Venture Blue has added a suncare shop to it's portfolio of web stores for the outwardly mobile.

In the past, buying decent sun tan lotion for that skiing or surfing trip abroad either during or just after a long UK winter involved various perils briefly summarised below:-

Scenario 1. Opting for convenience you pick up that orange coloured bottle in the supermarket with your grocery shopping. Sure it's a brand that neither you nor anyone else outside of the former Warsaw pact nations have ever heard of and it's contents seem to stretch to a unfeasibly large list. It's handy however and it seems to have the factor that's just right for your skin and your proposed destination. Problem sorted...................or so you thought!

Whilst next to a chilly frozen chicken cabinet the contents seemed to have a proper consistency, little did you imagine the effect that a bit of warmth would have on that bottle of goo. Once exposed to a temperature even approaching the Med in April the viscosity of your suntan lotion begins to resemble the (highly diluted) contents those tomato ketchup bottles, previously offered to the punters at a particular chain of roadside cafs, before the maestro Blumenthal worked his magic on them.

So it's towell down, swimming constume on, sunglasses adjusted and a little squirt of suntan lotion and it's......... NO! Ah Man look at that! As half of the whole bottle now slides off your body in a greasy cascade onto your new towel and into the sand. Needlesstosay your mates, with their stock of Hawaiian Tropic and Banana Boat, express their sympathy in the traditional way!

RESULT:- Blotchy skin, ruined towel and mockery

Scenario 2. Determined to get your favourite brand of sun products you use valuable time (and money) driving into town, paying for parking and working your way through all of the potential outlets that could possibly be stockists. First the Chemists where you inevitably end up in the queue with all the people needing prescriptions. Having finally witnessed the resolution of the debate over Mrs Miller's sleeping tablets you find that sadly your desired brand isn't stocked.

Next the chain stores. Boots are waiting for stock (but have you considered buying 12 boxes of Lindor Chocolates with tomorrows sell by date for the price of 7 sir/madam). Superdrug have some OK stuff but it's not really what you want so you pacify the salesperson with the purchase of a couple of books of stamps which seems to really make their day. John Lewis? Forget it! You'll die from inhaling all that perfume on the way in and then get lost.

Finally the niche retailers who may or may not sell suntan lotion (but we wouldn't dream of dissing them as they're generally good guys). Perhaps Milletts (you're grasping at straws now). Eventually it's back to Superdrug and the compromise solution that could have happened 45 minutes ago (without the stamps).

RESULT: Frustration

Scenario 3. What's the point of buying sun care products in advance and spending 10 minutes discussing their contents with security at the airport. Wait until you get to your destination and buy them there. And yes there is plenty of stock and.........no is that really the price and is 20 euros really £25 now and is that large looking tube full of lotion or air and Hmm looking at the volume I'm going to need two and is that really another 20 euros for the aftersun. And does that Spanish shopkeeper really think the offer of a free paper sunhat with every 100 euors spent is really going to have any influence whatsoever on my purchases.

RESULT: Expensive

Happily there is now a better way. Its called thesuncareshop.com.

With fantastic deals on some of the top brands and the added security of knowing that it's covered by the 'Venture Blue' high quality level of service and returns, why bother hunting around. Just visit thesuncareshop.com and have fun in the sun.

Adious mes amis.

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