Our Story So Far
JustBe Botanicals, Award-Winning Aromatherapy, Hand-Blended in Scotland Since 2009
At the heart of JustBe is the desire to restore emotional balance and enhance a sense of wellbeing.
JustBe is a natural range for the face, body and home that includes spa treatments, herbal teas and chocolates.
Every product is hand-blended in Scotland using purely natural ingredients with the sole purpose of making you feel consciously alive. Our core values are authenticity, passion and positive intention.
Not only do the products smell gorgeous, they are emotionally nourishing and are packed full of therapeutic benefits.
Meet Gail Bryden, Founder of JustBe Botanicals
JustBe Botanicals was founded by Scottish Clinical Aromatherapist Gail Bryden to encourage others to just be themselves.
“How would you like to feel?”
It’s the question Gail often asks her clients and is a question she asked herself when she hit her own “life reset switch” right in the middle of a successful corporate marketing career working for some of Britain's biggest brands: Kimberly-Clark, Heinz, Scottish & Newcastle and Diageo.
After so much ‘doing’, it was time to embrace ‘being’. Accepting she had burnt out, Gail retrained, reframed and rebooted her life, choosing alternative therapies as a way of navigating the rocky road of recovery from mental and physical exhaustion.
Tapping into her inner GPS, she opened up to new possibilities. Learning the ancient Hawaiian healing rituals of Lomi Lomi, blending massage oils and training as a clinical aromatherapist all led to the creation of her own wellbeing and beauty brand, JustBe Botanicals.
Clearing a path in her own life, helped Gail guide others through the relentless busy-ness of life to a point of new found health, purpose and wellbeing. “We all have an innate ability to create our own reality. You already are what you’ve been searching for, it’s all within. Whatever we want on an emotional basis is available to us in any given moment. It’s all about our intention, perspective and connection to ourselves and others. When you tap into that place where there’s nowhere to go and nothing to do except ‘just be’, then you experience the sense that all is well.” explains Gail.
Her all natural, aromatherapy inspired skincare, home fragrance, herbal teas and aromatherapy chocolate collection quickly picked up awards and the products won the endorsement of two of the UK’s most influential beauty writers.
What the Beauty Experts Say About JustBe Botanicals
Skincare expert Caroline Hirons described JustBe’s Cleansing Balm as her new cleansing balm obsession. “This is one of the nicest cleansing balms I have ever used. I know you know how many cleansing balms I have used in my lifetime. It’s that good. Highly recommended”
Beauty journalist Fiona Klonarides, founder of The Beauty Shortlist shared some of the boxes JustBe ticks. “Natural + Authentic + Artisan + ‘Aromatherapeutic’ + Gentle + Simple + Ethical and you can tell Gail really has put a whole lot of passion and thought into her now extensive range (she does gifts and teas too).”
The JustBe Philosophy, A Different Approach to Wellbeing
JustBe Botanicals doesn't organise its products by skin type or product category. It organises them by mood, by how you want to feel. Seven aromatherapy collections: Happy, Tranquil, Energised, Active, Detox, Pure and Kind. Each one a direct answer to that founding question.
“JustBe uses positive language to encourage us to focus our attention on what we want. Aromatherapy's a powerful way to bypass the conscious mind and access the place in our brain where memories and emotions are stored. Which is why our sense of smell and aromatherapy can change the way that we feel.”
The range has developed into a full sensory experience,: spa treatments, skincare, body care, herbal teas, aromatherapy chocolate, candles, music and Inspiration Cards, allowing each of us to make sense of ourselves through all five senses.
"One of the original signature blends, JustBe Happy, remains the most popular, because in essence, we all want to be happy."
"I'm delighted to have received so many awards and glowing feedback from those who have used the products and experienced an increased sense of wellness. It's my intention to inspire others to simply just be themselves." Gail Bryden
From a kitchen table in Edinburgh to 40+ industry awards, features in Vogue, House & Garden and Condé Nast Traveller and a stand inside No.10 Downing Street, the story of JustBe Botanicals is the story of what happens when you build something with genuine purpose and refuse to compromise on it.
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JustBe: it’s in our nature.