L'Occitane is another brand you're sure to have heard of, offering products ranging from personal care to home fragrance and all manufactured in traditional ways using natural ingredients, primarily from Provence.

The range includes fragrance, body and hand care, bath and shower products, skin care, hair care and home fragrance with Verbena Harvest, Eau d'Ambre, Lavender, Oranger and Green Tea forming the bases for Eau de Toilette, soaps, hand creams, shower gels and shampoos. They offer a beautifully packaged gift selection and travel sized options as well.

Time to Spa offers Elemis face and body products, La Therapie solutions for acne, scarring and hyper-pigmentation and Steiner Haircare. This is not a retailer so much as a beauty salon, where you can register with them for an online consultation by one of their team of therapists on your beauty regimen, find out about food and fitness for health and have your beauty questions answered. If you purchase from their online shop you'll find lots of gift ideas, excellent Elemis travel collections and gift wrapping.

If you want to find something a little unusual, beautifully presented and well priced than look no further than Arran Aromatics where you can discover bath and body products, candles and much more with names such as After the Rain, Angelica, Bay Citrus and Parfumeur. The packaging is very pretty and you can select from individual items such as living fragrances, shower gels and bath soak grains or their excellent gift boxes.

White Flowers, Wild Garden, Magnolia Grandiflora and Rose (plus his Original fragrance) are some of the fragrances you'll find on this pretty website, presented as candles, tea lights, shower gel and body lotions, room colognes and pot pourri. His packaging, in flower printed blue and white boxes turn his products into perfect gifts and you'll find travel sets and prepared gift boxes here as well.

You must have heard of Muji, the Japanese based company offering functional and marvellous value products for the home and office including stationary, storage solutions, cookware, bags, luggage and accessories. Did you also know that you can, on their online store, also order from their excellent (and probably unique) range of tiny spray, flip top and screw top bottles waiting to be filled with your favourite products. Nylon vanity cases and their own hair and body care ranges are available as well.

Here you’ll find soothing, natural and gently scented products for bath and body with unusual names such as Energy Bank or Deep Calm Bath and Shower Oil, Muscle Therapy and Enjoy Really Rich Lotion or Hot Stone Essences, and all have been created by Vogue beauty expert Kathy Phillips to high acclaim. The collection also includes bath and shower gels, moisturisers, lovely gift ideas and irresistible travel kits.

ZPM specialises travel accessories that are always easy to spot, they’re cleverly designed and all come in really pretty fabrics. There’s everything here from small zip purses to hanging weekenders, classic washbags and vanity cases plus shower caps and beach bags as well. Nothing is over priced so when you’re buying that Barbarella Mag Bag for a friend you can slip a Fashion Girls zip purse in for yourself too.