Astral Hygiene

  Astral Hygiene Ltd – Your Trusted UK Partner for Comprehensive Cleaning and Hygiene Solutions  27th June 2025  | By Yewan Armstrong Astral Hygiene Ltd is a leading UK supplier of professional cleaning products, hygiene equipment, and PPE. With over 30 years of experience, we provide businesses across multiple sectors with trusted, high-quality solutions designed to keep environments safe, clean, and compliant. From powerful cleaning chemicals to advanced cleaning machines and eco-friendly options, Astral Hygiene is your reliable partner for all your hygiene needs. Astral Hygiene Ltd – Your Trusted UK Partner for Comprehensive Cleaning and Hygiene Solutions In today’s fast-paced commercial world, maintaining a clean, safe, and hygienic environment is more important than ever. Whether you manage a bustling hospitality venue, a busy healthcare facility, an educational institution, or an industrial site, having a reliable hygiene supplier is key to your success. That’s wher...

  Care Home Case Study – Uric Acid and Odour Control  21st March 2025  | By Anna Armstrong   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene Following on from last weeks case study, I thought this week I’d expand and discuss the best way and the appropriate products to help to control the odours associated with incontinence. The urine odour that is associated with urinary incontinence is caused by the water products from the kidneys, including ammonia, urea and other compounds. These water products are encased by protein, which is made up of amino acids – amino acids are inherently sticky, so they stick to any surface that isn’t completely smooth. This characteristic means that uric acid sticks in between tiles, to grout and to the fibres that make up mattresses. The thing about uric acid, the smell comes from the break down of urea into ammonia. In dementia patients dehydration is an important factor, as many patients forget to drink and become de...

  How to set up your Hygiene when running or opening an abattoir…  28th February 2025  | By Anna Armstrong   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene I was recently engaged to set up the cleaning & hygiene practices in a newly established abattoir. This was a newly built project, and the client had engaged a health and safety team, and a consultancy to design the building, ensuring sinks etc were all in place. At the final stages when the build was almost complete, I was engaged to ensure that all cleaning and hygiene practices met the standards that were required by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) who are responsible for inspection of the hygiene standards but also the inspection of the environmental impact of an abattoir. I arrived on site, to do a site audit, and take the brief in terms of what meats they would be processing, to find that we were starting from the ground up, there were no chemicals onsite and we had a single qualified...

  Environmental Health Assessment: Fish Processing Plant case study  7th March 2025 I was recently engaged by a start up firm who had plans to begin processing a specific type of fish and then selling it on their website. This fish was line caught, so sustainably caught and the client wanted to process this fish in new premises. The client had no previous experience with processing raw foods, so needed comprehensive guidance prior to a scheduled environmental health assessment to allow him to open and begin trading. After finding out about his vision and what he wanted to achieve from our meeting, I firstly began with the PPE requirements needed on site to ensure that contaminants from outside weren’t being brought in to the factory. I provided  mob caps  which are food safe and comfortable to wear,  overshoes  were also delivered, as shoe protection.  Waterproof aprons  completed the ensemble. Finally, we provided nitrile gloves as hand protectio...

  Royal Warrant Appointment from His Majesty King Charles III  20th December 2024  | By Yewan Armstrong We are thrilled to announce that Astral Hygiene Ltd have been appointed as Royal Warrant Holders by His Majesty The King for Cleaning & Janitorial supplies. This huge honour has been appointed to Astral Hygienes as a mark of recognition for the ongoing supply of goods and services to the Royal Household. In 2024 HM The King and HM The Queen granted their first two sets of Royal Warrants of Appointment of the new reign. The grants were made as part of a review of all companies that held Royal Warrants at the time of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. Companies holding Royal Warrants of Appointment represent a huge cross-section of trade and industry, from sole traders to multinationals. They are united by a commitment to the highest standards of service, quality, excellence and craftsmanship. The history of the Royal Warrant can be traced back to medieval times, when...

  How to prepare for your Environmental Health Inspection  20th May 2024  | By Anna Armstrong   |  Environmental Health This is such a massive topic I’ve decided to spit it into five separate blogs which will be released over the next five weeks. We all know that Food Handling Operators are regularly inspected by the Environmental Health, and for a lot of you out there, the thought of an Environmental Health Inspection can be so terrifying it can make you a little nervous. This blog is meant to alleviate some of that fear, and to let you know that Environmental Health are there to make sure the food you are serving is safe, well cooked, prepared hygienically and most importantly is not contaminated with E-Coli or any other nasty micro-organisms which will make your customers ill! The first point I’d like to make is that Environmental Health will almost never arrive at your premises and ‘shut you down’ unless you are behaving totally unreasonably, and have vermin...

  Supply Chain - Why are investors moving away from China?  31st May 2022  | By Anna Armstrong   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene ,  Sustainability ,  Coronovirus Bloomberg, The Sunday Times and websites like Investment Monitor have recently reported that large investment firms are strategically re-evaluating their investment portfolio, with a decisive focus on China.  Both the European Chamber of Commerce and the US Chamber of Commerce have reported a dramatic impact on business operations in these countries retrospectively. Importantly though the British Chamber of Commerce in China have reported 74% of businesses in the UK have reported decreased revenue projects by up to 58% and 51% of shipments have been disrupted. There has been a reduction of 49% in new investment according to the report published in (1) April 2022 by the British Chamber of Commerce in China. This is all as a result of the numerous out...

  Astral proud to have been awarded Royal Warrant by HM The Queen  20th April 2022  | By Anna Armstrong   |  Cleaning Tips ,  Environmental Health ,  Hygiene ,  Sustainability ,  Coronovirus This great privilege allows Astral Hygiene to display the Royal Arms on our fleet of vehicles, our premises, stationary, and marketing which demonstrates the Royal Household prefers our services and products over others. View the Royal Warrant Holders Association website  here .  Astral Hygiene Ltd have a long-standing arrangement with the Royal Households, and have been supplying  cleaning  and  hygiene  supplies and advice and consultancy for many years. A Royal Warrant of Appointment is granted as a mark of recognition to people or companies who have regularly supplied goods or services to HM The Queen, HRH The Late Duke of Edinburgh or HRH The Prince of Wales or their households.  Astral Hygiene Ltd is family busines...