Wish List: Best local beauty gifts for Christmas

Make Christmas gifting lovely and local with these beauties. Lisa Millard shares her wondrously-fragranced winter wish list

Fruits of Nature Original Remedies Amber Bath Essence, £15, Iris and Violet, St Mary’s Passage, Cambridge and irisandviolet.shop

Elegant enough to add grace to any bathroom shelf, this luxurious bath essence is fragranced with the scent of amber and formulated with natural ingredients that include no nasties. Pour from the recyclable glass bottle into a bath to create milky swirls of heady essence that leave skin hydrated and happy.

No. 2 Calm Ritual Bath Melts, Cambridge Soap Company, £14.91, thecambridgesoapcompany.co.uk

Handmade in small batches in the Cambridgeshire countryside, these botanical bath melts invite you to add the calming aroma of a flower-filled summer garden to a relaxing soak. Enjoy the hand-picked mix of vintage rose, orange, rose geranium and ylang ylang combined with cocoa and shea butter to make the most of bath time. Check out the gift boxes too – look gorgeous.

French Girl Lumiere Jasmine Body Glow Oil, £37, Pure Source, Bridge Street, Cambridge

A luxe, moisturising and synthetic-free body oil featuring a blend of nourishing organic oils to leave skin velvet-to-touch and glowing. Warm and spicy jasmine meets ylang ylang, clementine and petitgrain to create a bright and breezy scent that is uplifting – massage into skin, dab to pulse points or add shimmering drops to a bath. Lush.

English Garden Bath Salts, £5.50, Soap and Clay,13 Magdalene Street, Cambridge and soapandclay.co.uk

Soap & Clay are artisan makers of natural and eco-friendly soaps and bath products and the clay that is part of the brand name is also a star ingredient of the products to create a spa experience. This bespoke blend of Epsom salts, May chang, Indian geranium and rosemary all infused with botanicals of lavender, calendula and rose make for an indulgent and therapeutic bath – May chang and rosemary are good for headaches. The shop also sells pottery by local artists and other things of loveliness.

Norfolk Natural Living Mid-Winter Eau de Parfum, £14.95 (10ml), Cuckoo, Burwash Manor Farm, Barton, Cambridge and cuckooclothing.co.uk

This Norfolk-based brand brings a deep love for the power of plants to its range of everyday products – from home and laundry to skincare, wellbeing and fine fragrance. The scents are divine and this small but beautifully formed eau de parfum is a prime example – bergamot, orange blossom, eucalyptus, amber, cedarwood and vanilla are combined to create a fragrance that is cocooning, tranquil and contemplative.

Handwash and Hand Moisturiser in Sandalwood, £15.99, Suffolk Soap Co, suffolksoap.co.uk

Family-run, this clean beauty brand uses high-quality ingredients to produce its range of bath lovelies, essential oils, burners and incense. This duo comes with the option to choose a fragrance – aloe vera and cucumber, sandalwood, coconut and lime, vanilla and patchouli. The moisturising ingredients are natural but effective – as is the 40% discount for Velvet readers, add VELVET40, in place until the end of December.

Cecile Satin Body Oil, £38, To the Fairest, tothefairest.com

We are totally bewitched by this range of fragrances inspired by imagined landscapes, literature and love. The body oil combines bergamot and mandarin, rose absolute, amber and a subtle trace of coconut in a formula that leaves skin soft and lightly scented. Simply spray after a shower or bath. Sumptuous.

Silk Jasmine Mulberry Silk Sleep Mask and matching Bracelet Band, £32.99, silkjasmine.co.uk

Slip the sumptuously soft and soothing sleep mask over eyes and a blissful night’s sleep will be yours. Blocks out light and gentle to the delicate skin around the eyes, the sleep mask comes with a matching silk bracelet band that will not snag hair.

Isle Soap Company Cedarwood and Lavender Body Butter, £18, islesoapco.com

Ely-based Isle creates its range of bath and beauty products with nature and nurture in mind. Scented with cedarwood and lavender essential oils the whipped body cream is luxurious and hydrating. Perfect to add a little pamper after a long soak ir morning shower to leave skin soft and delicately scented.