  The end of a thermal inflation era, driven by the rolling of a flaton field
coupled to the curvaton, cause a huge increment in the curvaton mass and decay
rate while the curvaton is still frozen. It is shown that, if this increment is
enough for the curvaton to immediately decay, low scale inflation with Hubble
parameter H_\ast \sim 10^3 GeV is achieved for more natural values of the
flaton-curvaton coupling constant \lambda (10^{-10} \lsim \lambda \lsim
10^{-4}) and the curvaton bare mass m_\sigma (m_\sigma \lsim 1 GeV).
