The BSA stamp means the products have to contain at least 70% organic ingredients, and everything else in their pots must meet the BSA’s strict safety standards. With their organic products 100% blended and formulated in the heart of England Pinks Boutique is an exemplary ethically responsible business.

The pampering time: I closed the bedroom door equipped with my bowls and clean towels and let some warm water run in the bathtub. I poured a few drops of the Indonesian Organic Massage Oil under running water to fragrance the atmosphere and made sure that laptops and phones were turned off. I started with the Hand Soak as my cuticles were out of control. What a fragrance!

Essential oils of sweet orange blossom filled the room as the natural mineral crystal and Dead Sea salts were slowly doing their work. I dried my hands in the towel that I scented with the Indonesian Elixir the night before. Just opening the drawer even today makes me think I’m in a Pinks Boutique Celebrated Spa.

Are you troubled by constant sneezing and an annoying cough that won’t go away? For the cold winter days ahead, why don’t you try Primavera’s Cold Therapy line? Eleni Sardi writes.

Primavera has come out with a great range of products that help you relieve respiratory troubles as they’re packed with Organic Eucalyptus Essential Oil. We tried the Bath Oil and the Aroma Tissue and we’re sold!

From the soil to your skin, Primavera is committed to providing you with a total organic experience. Every product contains natural or organic ingredients that were grown in the purest soil by regional experts.

The pure, organic oils are the foundation for every Primavera product and its quality standard ensures that each product delivers the full spectrum of nature’s aromatherapeutic, energizing, harmonizing, and healing benefits.

Primavera believes in ethical business practices and is actively supporting Demeter-certified organic farming, fostering ecologically sound agriculture throughout the world.

The Eucalyptus Bath Oil works as a vapour to help relieve respiratory troubles. Just fill the bathtub with hot water, add 1-2 tablespoons of the oil and you’ll immediately feel the eucalyptus scent unblocking your troubled nose. This organic essential oil is very supportive when treating colds and flu as it contains antibacterial qualities to effectively relieve respiratory problems associated with cold symptoms.

The Bath Oil also contains organic thyme essential oil which purifies the air with a warming, invigorating scent and organic lavender oil which comforts the mind and supports relaxation. It is certified by NaTrue as natural with organic ingredients.

If you need something to carry with you during the day, try the Eucalyptus Aroma Tissue which contains the same essential oils as the rest of the Cold Therapy products. It helps relieve congestion working as an inhalant or room fragrance if you place it on the appropriate surface. TLC on the go!

Available directly from Primavera.

One of the more resolutely pure approaches to beauty, here at Greenmystyle.com we’ve always loved organic beauty pioneers Essential Care. Not only does the company wholeheartedly strive to go beyond the Soil Association stringent organic standards, last year it also certified some of its products with the FAIRTRADE Mark.

The Organic Coconut Candy Scrub is one I’ve been excited about for some time, not least due to its award winning prowess. It won Soil Association Best Organic Bodycare Product Award 2009 at the Natural and Organic Awards, is a Green Beauty Bible Award Winner and came Highly Commended in the Pure Beauty Awards 2009.

So what makes it so great? Well stubbornly 100% organic and having been hand-blended in Suffolk, the scrub uses gorgeous fragrant virgin coconut oil and coconut butter to leave your skin feeling deeply moisturised. Using fair trade sugar cane crystals that are rich in glycolic acid, they work with poppy seeds to gently exfoliate the skin. On the tropical scent, unlike most fake, synthetic horrible coconut beauty products, this totally natural one smells truly divine and if you close your eyes (which I did) you could easily imagine yourself by some palm trees…

“Probably the tastiest product we’ve ever made!” say Essential Care founders, mother and daughter team Margaret & Abi Weeds.

Challenged by Debbie, Essential Care’s lovely PR that this product was actually pure enough to eat, I found myself digging a clean finger into the scrub and gave it a little lick. It was delicious, and I imagine would go rather go well with some organic vanilla ice-cream.

Instead, I scrubbed up with it in the bathtub and found it very easy to use indeed. What’s more, a little bit went a long way.

I found my skin still beautifully smooth and soft and wonderfully fragranced the next morning.  I’ll certainly aim to always have it in my prized beauty pampering collection.

Available at Essential Care, £28 for 200g.

So, the Christmas decorations have come down, the festivities are over and we all now face the seemingly endless trudge through winter’s blighted landscape before spring arrives. But while everyone around you is signing up for gym memberships they will use once, or renouncing carbs/sugar/dairy/wheat/meat, you can shake off the January blues in a trice with a new signature scent, and to make your life even easier we’ve sniffed out some of the most delectable offerings. Louise Black writes.

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Sarakan is free from sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS), fluoride, sugar, artificial colours or preservatives and is not tested on animals, making it a great choice for both adults and children as well as being suitable for vegetarians and vegans. Its powerful natural ingredient for good dental health is an extract of Salvadora persica.

The use of Salvadora persica was discovered over 30 years ago by an army doctor serving in India who noticed his patients had great teeth and gums despite their poor diet.  He discovered that many used a ‘chewing stick’ to clean their teeth and gums.  These sticks came from the shrub Salvadora persica – known as ‘the toothbrush tree’ which is still used in its natural twig state by many Middle Eastern nations who rub the stick on their teeth and gums.

On his return to the UK the doctor developed a toothpaste with the extract and Sarakan was born!  With the natural antiseptic properties of Salvadora persica and flavoured with natural peppermint, clove and geranium, Sarakan naturally cleans, freshens and helps restore natural colour.

Sarakan has been approved by the British Dental Health Foundation, organiser of National Smile Month. This year’s theme for the event is ‘Look After Yourself – Brush For Health’, and will involve a number of events around the country to promote the broader health benefits of good dental care.

BDHF Chief Executive Dr Nigel Carter BDS LDS (RCS) said “The Foundation is delighted to give its approval to Sarakan toothpaste. The product offers an excellent natural alternative on the market, and is free from strong chemicals such as SLS.”

Greenmystyle.com editor Sarah Woodhead has been using Sarakan for the past month. “I don’t like to eat food packed with chemicals, so why would I choose to use toothpaste with chemicals in? Sarakan gives my teeth a fresh feel without leaving an overpowering after-taste. It feels gentle and effective at the same time.”

Sarakan toothpaste (£2.01) and mouthwash (£2.89) is available from Holland & Barratt, independent health stores and chemists.

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Charlotte writes: With my skin looking duller than dull after all that Christmas partying, I decided it was about time I put the fresh back into my face. As I reach for TÊr Icelandic Silky Refining Scrub, I am hoping for some miracles. My skin is not looking its best and I have a party this time next week…am I asking too much?

TÊr’s products are renownd for their outstanding, indulgent and holistic properties, using only the purest natural ingredients, and this scrub is no exception. Containing the fundamental ingredients yarrow and angelica, this scrub claims to purify and detoxify, using fine walnut dust to gently exfoliate and apricot and lime oils to uplift and brighten.

On first use there is no denying this scrub’s luxurious properties. Using circular motions I gently buff my skin with the scrub, not only feeling the walnut dust exfoliating my skin, but also noticing how moisturising the scrub feels. Unlike other face scrubs which can sometimes feel a little abrasive and as though you are scrubbing away about fifteen layers of skin, TÊr Icelandic’s product is smooth and silky without that uncomfortable rawness that sometimes follows exfoliating. Oh and by the way, it smells incredible. Like cherries!

After a week of using the product my skin feels smooth and silky, and as someone who suffers from uneven skin around my nose and apples of my cheeks, I can see a marked difference in my skin tone. And that is saying something seeing as I never got to go to the party due to being bed-bound by the winter cold. Oh well… at least my skin is peachy even if I’m not!

TÊr Icelandic Silky Refining Scrub 100ml £19.50 – Available from www.musthave.co.uk and www.taer.com