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In 1974 Penny's mother Shirley became interested in aromatherapy in order to treat her mother who had arthritis. After many training courses, including some abroad, Shirley set up as an aromatherapist, blending and creating her own creams for customers in her busy hairdressing and beauty salon. She went on to found Shirley Price Aromatherapy.

Penny and her brother Matthew were soon involved and were helping with mixing creams and filling pots. Penny's interest grew and she decided at the age of 22 to be an aromatherapist. In 1986, Shirley's company had grown enormously into a training school and product manufacturing plant and Penny trained as a teacher to take on the role as College Tutor.

After many successful years in business, Shirley and her husband Len sold the company to enable them to retire. Penny found it extremely difficult to work with people who were not family and soon left the company, which shortly afterwards, went into administration. After completing a Masters Degree in education at Oxford University Penny began to think of founding her own company.

The Company
In May 2003, the Penny Price Aromatherapy and the Penny Price Academy was formed and began to trade. Within 2 months of trading Penny had two international contacts through the website.
Chieko Shiota from Japan was the first overseas contact to offer PPA products and courses - PPA now have three schools there. Jen Aromatherapy from Taiwan opened two schools shortly afterwards.
A product distributor in Greece was also among the first to be part of the PPA network. In April 2004, Sandra Day School of Health was bought by the company and in May of 2004, distributors from Cypress and Ireland were trained. Since then PPA also has schools and/or distributors in Korea, Australia, China, Norway, Sri Lanka, United States, Brazil, and hopefully more to come!

Penny spent time hand-blending every recipe until the aroma and the consistency of each was right. Over 400 different products, falling into about 11 ranges - some for babies, some for men, some skincare, some therapeutic were developed. Penny's daughter Ellie and husband Bob have now joined the business, who along with the other staff, work hard to develop the company and introduce people to the wonderful world of therapy.

The range of aromatherapy courses and aromatherapy products is updated and expanded regularly

THE ENGLISH AROMATHERAPY COMPANY - We guarantee your complete satisfaction with our aromatherapy products and aromatherapy courses or we will replace your products or retrain you.

NB Shirley Price would like to point out that she is no longer connected in any way whatsoever with 'Shirley Price Aromatherapy'. She now fully supports Penny and acts as consultant to the Penny Price Academy along with her husband Len.