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10 Easy Swaps for Plastic Free July

10 Easy Swaps for Plastic Free July

We are big on sustainable living here at Florian Botanicals. It's Plastic Free July, and to celebrate, I thought I’d round up a few simple swaps an...

Benefits of Baby Massage - with Gayle Berry

The experience of massage for both you and your baby can be so rewarding.It is a chance for just the two of you to have a quiet, bonding moment. I ...

Sheepskin with a basket filled with natural objects

Treasure Baskets - Ideas to Keep your Baby Entertained.

Heuristic Play Part 1 - The Treasure Basket Heuristic play is a term coined by child psychologist Elinor Goldschmeid in the early 1980’s. It descri...

Child's foot covered with colourful paint.

Play Ideas for Babies

Hello dear friend, I hope you are safe and well during these extremely unprecedented times we find ourselves in. We are in #lockdown3 here in the ...

Mother's Day Treat - DIY Mother’s Day Body Scrub

What a fantastic time for women as we begin the week with International Women’s Day and end with Mother’s Day. After such a difficult year it feel ...

10 Books to Help Children Understand Uncomfortable Emotions and Support Their Wellbeing

First of all, happy World Book Day! We are still in lockdown here in the U.K. so I hope that despite these strange times, that you and your child f...

10 Books to Help Children Understand Emotions

The COVID -19 pandemic is having an impact on our children’s social, emotional, and mental well-being. Some of the challenges faced during these un...

Clean Beauty

Conscious consumerism has pushed the UK organic beauty and wellbeing market to an all-time high. There is an abundance of products to choose from a...

Red and green Christmas books on white textile

Our Favourite Christmas Books

Don't you just love this time of year with all its little traditions stirring up nostalgia and magic; the excitement and anticipation almost tangib...

Beauty lies in the eye of the consumer

In an age of information, the consumer is more clued up that ever. We know that not all that glitters is gold. All of the industries that govern ou...

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Introduction to skin microflora

We usually think of our skin only as it relates to beauty, but it's actually really important to our overall health. After all, it is the largest o...

Soft as a baby’s bottom

There's nothing quite like beautiful, unblemished baby’s skin. As parents we strive to keep our young as healthy and nurtured as possible. We want ...

Girl wearing a floral dress poking finger in a balm.

Let's Start at the very beginning....

HELLO AND WELCOME TO FLORIAN BOTANICALS It is with great joy, excitement (and a good dose of anxiety) that I write this first post. It has been a d...