It takes a fair bit of elbow grease to fine tune a beauty product to utter perfection. Think of it like blending a superfood smoothie – try as you might, some concoctions just don’t work, while others form the basis of an antioxidant-packed glass of mouth-watering goodness.

This is where small batch products come into play. It’s the chefs of the beauty world that lovingly whip up some of the most nourishing, bespoke products imaginable – usually direct from their kitchens and formed, more often than not, of the most natural ingredients known to man.

There’s something about handmade beauty products that makes them so much more covetable, perhaps because every batch is a delicate yet intrinsic process and each product is slightly different from the last.  It’s a bit like the artisan food movement. There’s no production line or conveyor belt, just a few committed beauty junkies with vats of all-good natural products that have never even seen the inside of a factory.

Oh and the one key thing they all come equipped with? The honour of a low carbon footprint. It’s like a farmers market, but for your face. Click through the gallery above for our round up of the best beauty concoctions dispatched direct from the kitchen and into your bathrooms…