Beauty and the Bees

Jill Saunders founded Beauty and the Bees in Hobart in 1993, making soaps and haircare with Tasmanian ingredients. The team still makes products in small batches, using Tasmanian leatherwood honey and beeswax gathered from ancient Tarkine wilderness rainforests, alongside Tasmanian hopped beer, grass-fed tallow or cold-pressed olive and coconut oils, and pure spring water from Mount Wellington.

Its solid conditioning shampoo bars and apple cider vinegar hair rinses offer a way to skip some plastic bottles in the shower and the maker lists formulas without sodium lauryl sulphate, silicones or parabens.

The soap bars cure for four to six weeks before being wrapped in cellulose or recycled paper. Check the individual product for its ingredients and care instructions, especially if you have sensitive skin or an allergy. Beauty and the Bees remains independent, palm-oil-free across its entire Tasmanian range, and wholly family owned and made in Hobart for over three decades.