Award winning Aveda was founded in 1978 with the aim of providing beauty professionals with high performance, botanically based products that would be more beneficial to their clients and also for the planet. You’ll find their famous plant based hair care, skincare, cosmetics, fragrance and lifestyle products here for both men and women, most of which is very reasonably priced. Use www.aveda.com for the US.
Laline is new range of bath, bodycare and home accessories, hand-made with natural oils and fragrances such as Shea butter, aloe and citrus oils, all sourced in France and beautifully packaged. The range includes soaps, body creams and souffles, body oils, face masks plus products for men, babies and home and prices start from around £4.
You can find Caudalie products to buy on other health and beauty websites but I don't think you get the full feel of the products and what they are aiming to achieve, other than here. So have a good read about Vinotherapy, the basis for this range of skin and hair care and then buy products with names such as Crushed Cabernet Scrub, Vinoperfect Radiance Serum and Merlot Shower Gel, all reasonably priced.
Temple Spa have combined the expertise of designers from Scotland, skin care laboratories in Switzerland and aromatherapists in the UK to bring together a range of preparations and treatments on a 'spa-to-go' basis so that you can take some time out and indulge yourself wherever you might be. Try their Power Breakfast nutritious scrub and mask or Windows of the Soul eye treatment - or dip into their Pic and Mix mini range for your next trip away.
All of the products here are 100% natural and suitable for Vegetarians. There's also brief information next to each brand name to show which brands are organic or contain organic ingredients, rather than those which are purely 'natural'. Brands available include Balm Balm, Akamuti, Aubrey Organics, Dr Bronner, Suki and Trovarno Organics. Products range from general skin and hair care to specialist skincare and travel sizes
This is a family run business offering a comprehensive and affordable collection of high quality, natural health and beauty products. Inspired by Martha Hill, who launched her own herbal based, cruelty free skin care products over 30 years ago. The Beauty Naturals collection encompasses all aspects of natural beauty and includes skincare, cosmetics, hand and nail care and bath and body products plus a wide range of specialist products by unusual and hard to find brands.
There's a huge amount of information available here on Love Lula's organic apothecary website, from which natural products to buy for stress, acne, chapped lips and stretch marks to the online skincare consultation and 'Ask Lula' email option. There are lots of products to choose from, including gifts and special ranges for mother and baby and everything's very clear and easy to see.
You may well have heard of Origins, who are specialists in natural skincare which uses aromatic plants, earth and sea substances and other natural resources to produce products as close to nature as they can be. Now you can buy the full range online, including their luxurious Ginger Soufle Whipped Body Cream, Jump Start Body Wash and Pomegranate Wash cleanser. You really do want to try them all.
Quite a lot of online retailers offering natural and environmentally friendly products think that we want to see them looking as natural as possible. Personally I don't think we do - buying lotions and potions online should always be a treat. Here at Mysa both the natural and treat elements meet beautifully, think Pink Grapefruit Hand and Body Lotion, Ginger Loofah Soap or Sweet Jasmine Body Scrub and you'll get the idea. Packaging is chic and minimal and there are great gift sets here too.
Available only in her boutique and online, Jo Wood offers a range that contains the highest possible percentage of organic ingredients from accredited sources. You’ll find bath oils, body lotions and soaps plus natural soy wax candles all exquisitely presented in glass bottles and jars. Note that because of the lack of chemical ingredients here your products need to be stored out of sunlight and to be used within nine months.
You've almost certainly visited this great fashion and beauty store, whether in London, Dublin, Edinburgh or elsewhere. The list of modern brands they offer is always excellent, up-to-the-minute and totally in line with each season's trends. Now you'll be delighted to know that the store has opened it's online shop for exclusive and hard to find beauty products and has expanded the online range to include brands such as Amanda Lacey, Korres, Ole Henriksen, Robert Piguet and Soap and Glory. There's also lots of information on fashion and beauty trends plus online booking for their restaurants. Enjoy!
You may well have read about Dr Hauschka's natural skincare products through its press celebrity connections. When you look at the products online you'll find that they're not overpriced and there's lots of information about each one, not just what it's for, but how to use it and a full ingredients list. When you find something you like, check to see if a trial/travel size is offered before you splash out.
Nice Touch offers REN, Aromatherapy Associates, Dermalogica, Trilogy botanical skincare, Xen-Tan self tanning range, St Tropez, Pacifica soy candles and prettily packaged earth friendly baby products. They pride themselves in helping you make informed choices about the products that you put on your skin as there's all the information you need about each brand including the ingredients of the products, their suitability for your skin type and the ethics of the companies who make them. It's an excellent website.
Created by Australian Rebecca Korner; Korner Skincare is a product range formulated in Paris, using rare plant, marine and mineral extracts with cell restructuring and regenerating properties sourced from around the world. The range includes Radiate Presence day cream, Look Famous purifying mask and Seem a Dream cleansing wash and for each product there’s plenty of seductive information to make you want to give them a go.
Seboni is a new range of luxury aromatherapy toiletries from a company based in Cornwall. They contain no artificial fragrances, no parabens, lanolins, petrochemically derived ingredients and no animal products. Bath and shower gels, body lotions and beautifully packaged soaps and gift sets in fragrances with names such as Heligan Haze and Citrus Grass are just some of the products on offer.
Recognised for their fun, quirky, bovine-inspired names such as, Dirty Cow Hand Wash, Until the Cows Come Home Gift Set, and Grumpy Cow uplifting candle, Cowshed products contain theraputic blends of herbal infusions and high quality pure essential oils from around the world. The names derive from the original Cowshed spa at Babington House in Somerset, There's a cute Baby Cow range here as well plus candles and gift sets.
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.
This is a gorgeously designed website with lovely photographs of luxurious natural beauty products you're bound to want to buy, such as Patyka, Chocolate Sun, Ginger & Smart, Hamadi and Perfect Organics plus REN, l'Artisan Parfumeur and Mama Mio. The site is extremely quick to get round and not over busy so it's a pleasure to browse. Delivery is to UK, Ireland, Australia and the USA.
All the products you'll find here have been tested by the team at So Organic, on the basis that you wouldn't recommend a product to a friend without testing it, so they're not going to recommend anything to you they haven't enjoyed using themselves. There's a wide range of beauty and everyday organic products here, from brands which include Badger Balm, Earth Friendly Kids, John Masters and Spiezia Organics and there's something for every member of the family plus excellent gift ideas.
Based in the Channel Islands, Beautiful Pure was launched with the aim of providing customers with a carefully selected range of skin care products that represented the honesty and purity of island life. So you'll find Abahna sensual bath products, Balm Balm organic skincare, John Masters' excellent natural range of hair care and La Compagnie de Provence liquid soaps and bubble bath to name but a few. Delivery is free when you spend over £20 (at time of writing).
The Organic Pharmacy is dedicated to health and beauty using organic products and treatments. Fully registered with The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, they choose to specialise in herbs, homeopathy and organic skincare. They promise no artificial preservatives, colourings or fragrances and everything they offer is hand made in small batches. Look for cosmetics, skincare and gorgeously fragranced candles here plus mother and baby care.
Mandala Aroma - a luxury organic Aromatherapy company set up by ex - Fashion Buyer & Qualified Aromatherapist Gillian Kavanagh. Here you'll discover bath oils, body treatment oils and aromatherapy candles all under the headings of Wisdom, Love, Courage and Strength. Click on the item of your choice and you'll find out more about the ingredients and benefits.
Here you can discover the properties of essential oils with their natural soaps, beauty products, aromatherapy boxes, carrier and massage oils, enhance your home with oil burners, incense, resins, candles and vaporisers and find Bach flower remedies and the Rescue Remedy range of herbal supplements. Their suppliers include Edom Health and Beauty products, Meadows aromatherapy and Arran Aromatics. They offer free next day delivery on orders over £30 and they'll deliver throughout the EU.
Beauty Xposure is a Dermalogica skin care salon based in Hertfordshire, and on their clear and cleanly designed website they offer three ranges for you to buy online: Dermalogica - which produce the skin care system researched and developed by The International Dermal Institute (and also includes skincare for men). Fake Bake - a really great fake tan that will last up to a week recently voted best self tanner in the New York Times) and the Nailtiques natural nail care system. If you're not sure which Dermalogica products you should order just fill in their questionnaire and they'll give you lots of advice.
This is a natural beauty website with a difference, as it offers lots of their own, different, really prettily packaged products such as Rose Petal Bath and Shower Creme, Lavender Shampoo and luxurious gift boxes plus J & E Atkinson fragrances I Coloniali, Rice and Segreti Mediterranei, Yardley English Lavender, 4711 Cologne and Soir de Paris. Their Aromatherapy products remedy oils and creams and massage oils, all blended by Caroline Rose, who trained at the Tisserand Institute.
G. Baldwin & Co is London's oldest and most established Herbalist and if you pay a visit to their shop you'll find that it still has a nostalgic atmosphere of stepping back in time, with wooden floors, high old fashioned counters and shelves stacked with herbs, oils and ointments. You can shop online from the complete ranges of both Bach Flower Remedies and the Australian Bush Flower Essences, their own brand aromatherapy oils, natural soaps, creams and bath accessories and herbs, seeds, roots and dried flowers.
This attractively laid out website is just about aromatherapy (rather than offering you lots of other products as well) and the selection of Essential Oils is huge, with pictures of the fruits, flowers and herbs themselves rather than dinky little bottles. For each product there's a great deal of information, on the properties and how to use them. They will ship all over the World and you need to contact them if you want courier delivery.
This is probably one aromatherapy and herbal remedy retailer you have heard of. It was founded in 1981 by Romy Fraser, whose aim was to supply alternative medicines in a way that was both informative and safe. From the first shop located in Neal's Yard in the heart of London's Covent Garden, Neal's Yard Remedies has grown into one of the country's leading natural health retailers and on their attractive website you can buy a wide range of their products, from aromatherapy, body care, luxurious bath products and homeopathic remedies plus attractively packaged gift sets.
Potions & Possibilities produce natural toiletries and aromatherapy products, ranging from soaps and bath oils to restorative balms and creams. Everything is blended and created using the highest quality essential oils, and you can find their award winning products in Bloomingdales (in the US) and Fenwicks in the UK among other stores and of course online. Resist if you can and choose from bath sizzlers, bath and shower gels, shampoos, fragrance and gift collections.
All the products on this website are seriously natural, from fairly traded laundry baskets to organic cotton bedlinen. They also have a Personal Care selection which includes brands such as Organic Options (natural soaps), Faith in Nature (aromatherapy body care) Barefoot Botanicals (skin and body care) and lots of natural pampering products and gift ideas. In their Wellbeing section you'll find Sage Organics vitamins and minerals and Bath Indulgence Spa sets.
On this really attractive website you'll find a wide range of handmade soaps from the Highlands of Scotland, beautifully packaged and with names like May Chang and Lime, and Rosehip and Patchouli. Alternatively there's Mango Butter, Wild Nettle and Heather and exfoliating soaps with natural loofah (I'll definitely be trying one of those!). They offer bath bombes, body crème and luxurious hand wash plus gift boxes, bath accessories and their services include overseas shipping and gift wrapping.
This is a really clear and modern aromatherapy website, where you can immedately see all the products on offer, including essential and massage oils, aromatherapy kits, candles and accessories, vaporisers and ionisers and bodycare for all the family. They have a very good gift section (although make sure that your intended recipient is into natural treats as not everyone is) and an attractive selection of candles.
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.
Products at Willow include oils, soaps and fragrances made with certified organic ingredients including delicate fruit and flower essences. They're also beautifully packaged in silk boxes packed with tissue and rosebuds and so would make perfect pampering treats or gifts. Have a browse round; with luxurious bath gels and body lotions, moisturisers, soaps and fragrant candles you're sure to find something here.