Laughing Bird’s Luxurious Natural Beauty Products

If you need a good scrub, Laughing Bird’s ‘Honey and Shea Butter Sugar Scrub’ will get you lathered up. The paste-like consistency glides on, smelling fresh and leaving you feeling the same. It’s quite a gentle scrub, with plenty of satisfying grainy bits but it’s not abrasive. Packed full of good stuff - such as local honey, fairly traded shea butter, and organic lemon and ginger, to name a few – the ingredients run the length of the glass jar.

Massage it in to allow your skin to absorb the essential oils, you’ll feel smoothed, but without leaving a greasy film on your skin. Depending on your skin you’ll probably only need to lightly moisturise after using the scrub, making Laughing Bird’s ‘Honey and Shea Butter Body Lotion’ a perfect accompaniment. The lotion sinks in really quickly, which is really convenient in the morning, and the uplifting blend will alert, if not baffle your senses.

The blend includes rooibos, moringa and rose. The rose stands out when you initially pump it out of the bottle, which I wasn’t too sure of as florals aren’t my favourite scent, but once on the skin it became more ‘tangy’ with the citrus ingredients coming through, which was most definitely a good thing. It’s the kind of scent you keep inhaling to try and decipher the tones and work out what it reminds of you of. I came up with ‘sherbert’ although the intricate blend may well remind different people of different things.

Behind these master blends are Mark Thistlewaite and Helen Lowe, who use their wealth of experience as medicinal herbalists and a wealth of natural resources to create the products from their barn in the Welsh countryside.

The full range of natural beauty products is available through Laughing Bird’s site, or through health stores nationwide. Both products are sold for just under a tenner, it’s what I’d expect to pay for a really good scrub, but perhaps a bit more pricey for a lotion. However the price reflects the carefully selected and expertly blended ingredients which soak effortlessly into your skin. Ten pence from the profit of each product sold is donated to ‘Bees for Development’ which promotes good bee husbandry as a means to alleviate poverty.

Cost: Scrub £9.60 for 250ml, Lotion £9.85 for 300ml