Currently a bit under the weather, but feel much better today and doing a quick email with updates. We have a lot of restocks on the way and expect to have very few teas out of stock starting from 1-2 months in the future and ready for Winter.
Anxiety and Stress Herb Promo
Since last weeks promo went okay, I've created the same promo as last week but for Anxiety and Stress teas.
Click the link above to be taken to that category and if any two are ordered from that range, 15% off is given. You can combine this with other teas outside of the range but the discount won't apply to those certain teas.
From that range I strongly recommend Damiana, Valerian, and the classics like Lavender and Chamomile. Blue Lotus is very popular but quite pricey unfortunately.
Since I'm a bit stuck for content this week i'll leave some interesting tea facts below and get back to recovering :)
Tea Facts
1. Tea has more caffeine than coffee – but it's not as simple as that.
"Weight for weight, tea has more caffeine," Kate Woollard, tea expert at Whittard, tells BuzzFeed. "But you use more coffee to make a cup of coffee. So you're using less tea, which means less caffeine."
For example: Cup of black tea = 40–70mg caffeine per cup.
Cup of black coffee = 100–200mg caffeine per cup.
2. The practice of putting milk in first is to do with social class – not taste.
According to Fortnum and Mason, low-quality china cups would crack when hot tea was poured in them, so putting the milk in first meant your cups would stay intact:
"When finer and stronger materials came into use, this was no longer necessary –so putting the milk in last became a way of showing that one had the finest china on one’s table. Evelyn Waugh once recorded a friend using the phrase ‘rather milk-in-first’ to refer to a lower-class person, and the habit became a social divider that had little to do with the taste of the tea."
3. Tea was so valuable in the 18th century that it was kept in a locked chest – which we now call a tea caddy.
Tea, introduced into Europe in the late 17th century, was a valuable commodity. It was kept securely in elegant boxes with secure locks. At that time, these were usually known as 'tea chests', although they are now generally referred to as 'tea caddies'. Such boxes often contained two or more compartments for different types of tea, or for sugar, stored in small metal containers known as 'tea canisters'.
4. Earl Grey tea was named after the actual Earl Grey.
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey was born in 1764. According to his government biography, "he reputedly received a gift, probably a diplomatic present, of tea that was flavoured with bergamot oil. It became so popular that he asked British tea merchants to recreate it."
I hope everyone has a good weekend! - Toby @ Tea Life
