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.

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.

Cult Beauty is a new kind of online beauty boutique and e-zine, retailing some of the best beauty and grooming products and combining it with editorial and beauty news. This is your beauty hall of fame, where you can discover model beauty secrets, the top products, info and expert advice and brands such as Blinc, Acca Kappa, Duwop and Kirstie McLeod.

You may well have heard of this company, as their products are now sold in over twenty countries worldwide at exclusive hotels, spas and retail outlets. You can also buy them elsewhere online, however the dedicated site is so clear, informative and easy to use I thought you should be able to click straight to the beautifully packaged bath, body and skincare collections for yourselves.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Sign up for Bliss Beut e-mails and stay in the 'Glow'. Does that give you some idea of the tone from beauty online from New York and London's hottest spa. If you don't have the time to visit these spas you can at least now buy the products online and relax at home with your own treatments, shower gels and shampoos with simple names like Body Butter, Rosy Toes and Glamour Glove Gel. Some of the products are reasonably priced but you'll also find some of their marvellous anti ageing products will set you back a bit. It'll be worth it though.

Soil Association Certified Circaroma offers organic standard skincare incorporating rose otto, jojoba berry, ylang ylang, wild frankincense and bergamot amongst their ingredients. Products include cleansing balms, skin serums and body butters and this is a seriously good place to shop if you want to move to a totally natural regimen. Every product is clearly described and attractively, but simply packaged.

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.

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!

Jurlique has been developing biodynamic beauty products since 1985 and every product here begins with a Jurlique biodynamic blend, with plants and flowers from the founders' farms in South Australia. Order their beautifully packaged cleansers, moisturisers, treatments and lotions here and know that everything you buy here is designed to leave the smallest possible footprint on the planet.

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.

Green Tea Massage, Espresso Scrub and the MicroWrap Emergency Nail Repair Kit are just some of the products you can find here alongside Ink, Amethyst and Makes Men Blush nail lacquers on this excellent salon online store. When they talk about the Coconut Melon Juicie I have to say I thought we'd moved over to food and drink but no, everything here is beautifully beauty related and you should definitely take a look.

This is a 'Very Interesting' website, and without a doubt if you haven't already visited you should do so now, it'll lift your spirits almost immediately. Products include such items as Ibiza Party Shampoo, Sweetie Pie Shower Jelly and Frosty Glitter Bubble Bars and if those don't make you want to take a peek this is probably not the site for you. Lush make all their products by hand and believe in 'long candlelit baths........and filling the world with perfume'. Don't we all?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Founded in 2000 as a herbal apothecary, Planet Botanic is dedicated to natural healthcare and wellbeing and offers a lovely collection of soothing, calming oils, lotions and luxuries. These include Diptique candles, Badger Balms, Claus Porto body washes and Creed fragrance as well as their own comprehensive range of essential oils.

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 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, 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.

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 also something for every member of the family plus excellent gift ideas.

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.

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.

If you haven't come across designer Timothy Han's collection then you should have a look round now, at a lovely and luxurious range of home fragrance reed diffusers, scented candles, travel candle sets and bath and body products. This is a small, exclusive and exquisitly presented range.