Is The Handbag Spa Still in Business? (2026 Update)
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Look for The Handbag Spa on AmazonFull story →Freya and Judy Bass pitched a service that cleans and restores designer handbags, asking for £60,000 for a fifth of the business.
Nobody on the panel wrote a cheque, so they left the Den unfunded.
A trust-based service rather than a scalable product
Restoration work depends on skilled hands and word-of-mouth trust rather than one item that can be mass produced, which can leave investors wary even where genuine demand clearly exists. That kind of pitch is a harder sell in the show's format than a manufactured item with obvious unit economics.
The underlying demand appears to have held up regardless of the panel's verdict, since owners of expensive bags have a real financial reason to have them restored rather than replaced.
What later coverage claims
Sources describe the company growing its team and moving into bigger premises since the broadcast, working on bags from well-known luxury names, and looking into franchising.
Franchising is the natural next step for a service like this, since the constraint on growth is skilled hands rather than stock.