Original Czech Tradition
Traditional Czech products are made of easily accessible natural materials - clay, wood, withe, straw, linen… Thanks to the tools and many years of experience, most product forms have developped in almost pinpoint perfection. Traditional products appeal by perfect accessibility of material, by its sensitive processing, by application of natural material as well as its utility value, quality processing, durability and not least by aesthetic value of the products.
Straw
Straw is a traditional material which was used in the plaiting of various vessels, moulds and containers for keeping foodstuffs, harvest festival wreaths and straw decorations.
Corn husk
Corn husk from ripe corn cobs serve as a material for the manufacture of puppets and figures representing various countryside activities, household chores, church festivities or other traditional celebrations.
Ceramics Bohemia is rich in quality raw materials for ceramics and porcelain. Current manufacturers respect tradition and enrich the original design. Ceramics is shaped either by a mere hand on a potter´s wheel or it is curved in plaster forms on the wheel.
Blueprint Blueprint is a fabric dyeing technique which has been used in Bohemia since 18th century. The regular patterns are printed on 100% cotton by engraved wooden blocks. The printed fabrics is then soaked in a cold blue dye bath.
Turned painted toys
Originally manufactured at Skašov near Nepomuk and in the vicinity of Hlinsko in the Czech-Moravian Highlands at the beginning of the 19th century. The toys reflected the traditional liking of children – dolls for girls and soldiers for boys.
Czech wooden toys
Current toy producers follow the tradition of wooden toys in Bohemia from 19 century. Contemporary wooden toys combine the beauty of natural materials with original design. They give children ample scope for developing imagination and skills.
MANUFAKTURA brand-name stores offers a wide range of cosmetics and interesting accessories for home spa.
Customers can expect: salt sold by weight, sliced handmade soap, range of MANUFAKTURA beer, wine and Carlsbad cosmetics, Dead sea cosmetics, original gift wrapping at customer´s desire, and much more. Flowers, wonderful scent and decoration in historical style evoke pleasant atmosphere of home spa.
MANUFAKTURA, OC CENTRAL Metodova 6, Bratislava
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 a.m. - 9.00 p.m., Sa + Su + Holidays 9.00 a.m. - 9.00 p.m.
Visit MANUFAKTURA Original Czech Tradition shops, which offer the widest range of traditional folk crafts in Prague: wooden toys, Easter eggs, straw ornaments, ceramics, nativity scenes, canvas, forging glass, handmade paper and blueprint.
MOJITO cosmetic range exploits favourable effects of essential mint oil and other precious ingredients – wheat extract, panthenol, E vitamin, shea butter and others...
Unique mint scent accompanied by citrus tone of limes will refresh you, raise your spirits and put you in good mood. Even ancient Greeks and Romans used to exploit abundantly beneficial effects of mint. Mint extract has refreshing and cleansing impact on skin, it stimulates brain activity at tiredness and restlessness, soothes headache, has antidepressant effect and helps clear sinuses when you have cold.
Notice: after using MOJITO cosmetics you get irresistible appetite for a glass of this delicious drink:-) Moreover, MOJITO cosmetic range is accompanied by fragrance for home and tea for time of relaxation and well-being.
Refreshing spring-summer limited edition of APRICOT brings an original collection inspired by beneficial effects of apricot and other precious natural ingredients.
Why just the apricot...? Apricot is a symbol of summer - full of sun, health and recollections of childhood. Manufaktura puts great emphasis on use of typical Czech natural resources and apricot meets these requirements perfectly - in South Moravia you find it almost in every garden. Extracts of this summer fruit are great for face care and are healthful.
Cosmetic products take advantage of beneficial effects of apricot oil or extract of apricot flesh. Emollient and regenerative apricot oil extracted from stones is ideal for fine, dry or delicate skin care. It contains high proportion of unsaturated essential acids and precious vitamins A and E. It fights against premature skin ageing, helps treat various skin diseases - acne and eczema as well. It calms irritable skin after sunbathing. Apricot flesh extract moisturizes skin appropriately. This cosmetic range is accompanied by fresh sparkling fruit aroma. Apricot tea and syrup are traditional "accessories" of this limited edition, eau de toilette is new. All the products are based on maximum use of natural ingredients, considerable proportion of handwork and, certainly, they are not tested on animals.
Limited edition of APRICOT offers: Shower & Bath Gel with Apricot and Olive Extracts, Hand Cream with Apricot Oil and Shea Butter, Lip Balm with Apricot Oil and Shea Butter, APRICOT Eau de Toilette Woman, Refreshing Fruit Tea with Dried Apricot, Apricot Syrup with Vitamin C and Natural Apricot Juice and Peeling Herbal Soap with Almond Oil.
A unique range of cleansing face cosmetics called „100% SENSITIVE FACE CARE“ brings extra soft care of delicate skin. It is free of dye, allergenic perfume, paraben, alcohol and petroleum products.
In contemporary industrial period our skin is constantly exposed to harmful substances free radicals, heavy metals, cigarette smoke, exhaust fumes and others causing skin hypersensitiveness and weakening its immune system. Face skin is more sensitive than other body parts so it is necessary to pay more attention to its care. Regular and quality skin cleansing removing harmful substances is basic for the right skin care. Face range of “100% SENSITIVE FACE CARE“ brings 3 basic products for skin cleansing: cleansing milk, lotion and soft peeling. All products are based on vegetable substances and active natural ingredients suitable for skin care. All products are subject to tight dermatological tests.
MANUFAKTURA Billing address: Český národní podnik s.r.o.
Melantrichova 17, 110 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Children´s cosmetics MANUFAKTURA Children´s skin is several times more delicate, vulnerable and weaker than adults´ one. Cosmetics for children thus demands exceptionally delicate and non-irritating composition.
MANUFAKTURA children´s cosmetics thus respects following principles:
1) All products are put to the strictest dermatologic tests.
2) The basis of all articles is the softest raw material got from quality vegetable oils for delicate children´s skin protection.
3) pH 5,5 typical of children´s skin
4) Delicate allergen-free scent.
5) Not tested on animals.
This range offers following products: Children´s washing emulsion with wheat germ, panthenol and camomile extract, Delicate children´s shampoo with wheat, panthenol and camomile extract, Nutritious children´s bath with almond oil, panthenol and camomile extract, Children´s oil with almond and apricot oil, Regenerative children´s cream with shea butter and almond oil and Children´s delicate soap from BIO vegetable oils.
Český národní podnik, s. r. o. is a 100% Czech company established in 1991. The main business activity is operation of MANUFAKTURA brand-name stores network with Czech folk craft and traditional wooden toys in Prague historic centre. Another significant activity is development, production, wholesale and retail sale of MANUFAKTURA cosmetics inspired by balneology and Czech natural ingredients.
MANUFAKTURA stores network in Prague historic centre:
We established our company with the aim to preserve and present Czech and Moravian craft which is in danger of disappearing nowadays. Gradually, we managed to join together more than 250 small craftsmen, former masters of folk production. They are upholders of tradition and owners of small Czech companies whose products are sold in the network of our stores. We help preserve many unique hand-crafted methods by assuring regular market and by collaborating at development, design and protection of their products. The idea of "Czech character and quality", which we have been faithful to since the beginning, makes us almost the only surviving tradesmen with solely domestic assortment in the mass of the Asian one, and thanks to it our stores are unique and diverse. We designed our shops to evoke the atmosphere of good old days and to make customers feel comfortable when visiting them.
In December 1995 ČNP s.r.o. was the first company to have won a prize of "Czech made" for stores network operation. In our shops, excellent customer service, educational information system, selection of assortment consulted with specialists and original interior arrangement are appreciated.
MANUFAKTURA stores - Home Spa in shopping centres:
Besides shops with Czech folk craft and traditional wooden toys we operate, as well, solely cosmetic brand-name MANUFAKTURA stores offering attractive range of products for home spa. These stores are also exceptional for inventive architectonic arrangement and original decoration raising pleasant spa atmosphere. Quality staff, who is regularly professionally trained and who can provide customers with information about idea and assortment of Home Spa in a gentle way, plays a strategic role in our shops.
MANUFAKTURA cosmetics
In 1998 we picked up the threads of ancient tradition of fresh glycerate soap production in former Kadlec soap-works in Libeň. Thanks to its success and demand for further products this soap was gradually supplemented by other cosmetic articles. In the course of time we managed to build small cosmetic operation at European level and we launched a few original cosmetic ranges. At development we are inspired by world-famous Czech spa tradition and we discover new effective ingredients - Czech beer, Moravian wine, Carlsbad thermal salt, curative herbs, etc.
We collaborate on unique formulae with prominent spa and cosmetic specialists and dermatologists. Connection of exceptional quality, original composition, favourable price and extraordinary design makes customers buy our cosmetics not only for personal use but even as a pretty and nice gift… We are the first Czech company to have received the only internationally recognized certificate of
HCS - Human Cosmetics Standard of not testing on animals.
„Beer Tradition Manufaktura Cosmetics“ is based on centuries-old tradition of the Czech beer, which is thanks to its exceptional quality generally recognized as the best in the world. Its unique strong taste, delicious hop bitterness, full flavour, clearness and gorgeous golden colour are highly appreciated. This toothsome beverage has been brewed in Bohemia since time immemorial - the first written mentions date back to 10th century. The unique climatic effects for hop-growing, centuries-old experience of our brewers and traditional production procedures contribute significantly to the unrepeatable quality and taste of the Czech beer.
Beer is a unique source of all B vitamines, trace elements and minerals, which significantly support skin regeneration and boost its resistance to adverse environmental effects. The hop cleans, calms and softens skin.
These evident soothening effects have inspired Manufaktura to produce original beer cosmetics range. All the products contain the pure Czech beer, brewer´s yeast or hop extract and are attended by delicious bitter-sweet flavour.
Carlsbad Spa Tradition cosmetics is inspired by the tradition and history of this famous spa town. It is based on use of precious thermal salt from Carlsbad mineral springs and high-quality herbal extracts.
The unique composition makes Carlsbad springs one of the most important mineral water in the world. Their exceptional effects on the organism as a whole have been proven through long-term balneological research.
Thermal salt cleanses the skin, stimulates the blood flow, refreshes, regenerates, and refines the skin in a very natural way. Thanks to the balanced combination of natural ingredients the spa cosmetics cares for skin, a wide range of aromas from the realm of herbs, fruit and spice have a favourable effect on one´s mind, and its original design will beautify every home.
Say NO to animal suffering. Say NO to cruel cosmetics in Europe.
On 11th March 2009, all animal testing of cosmetics in the EU stopped thanks largely to two decades of campaigning by the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE). But there is a catch. A ‘marketing’ ban that would also prevent the sale of new cruelly tested cosmetics in the EU is now in jeopardy.
Now some in the cosmetics industry want to delay the March 2013 deadline even longer. If they get their way it could mean 10 more years during which thousands of rabbits, guinea pigs, mice and rats could be injected, gassed or force-fed and killed worldwide for cosmetics products sold in the EU.
The cosmetic range of „Dead Sea Tradition“ is based on application
of unique Dead Sea salt and mud, whose excellent regenerative and antistress effects on human organism have been time-tested. Dead Sea is the saltest water tract in the world, thus it has exceptionnally high content of minerals - up to 30%. These minerals have a favourable effect on the whole organism.
Dead Sea salt and mud boost protective function of skin, remove its harmful substances and dead cells, have regenerative, anti-inflammatory and soothing effects, support treatment of skin diseases - acne, eczema, psoriasis… They are beneficial to rheumatic and articular pain and improve mobility of painful areas. They reduce signs of cellulite. The cosmetic range of „Dead Sea Tradition is linked with light fresh allergen-free scent and does not contain any colouring substance, thus is suitable for sensitive skin.
