Sanflora Wellbeing

02/06/2026

Can you smell this? Because I absolutely can. 🌹
Rose is one of those botanicals that does something to people before they even think about skincare. The scent alone calms the nervous system, lifts the mood, eases anxiety. In aromatherapy it's known as a heart opener — and honestly, standing in this garden with my face in a rose bloom, I get it completely.
The rose I work with most is Rosa damascena — the Damask rose. It takes around 60,000 hand-picked blossoms to make just 30ml of pure rose essential oil. Which is why it's so precious — and why I use rose hydrosol (the floral water) as a base in several of my products rather than the oil alone.
Two products that are all about this sensory, feel-good side of rose:
✨ Rose Damaskus Facial & Aura Mist — organic Rosa Damascena hydrosol with Geranium Rose, Palmarosa and Frankincense. Spritz it on your face, your neck, around you. It's a mood as much as a skincare step. $20
✨ Rose Water Hydrating Toner with Hyaluronic Acid — rose water base with dual-weight hyaluronic acid, rosehip extract and aloe vera. Deeply hydrating, plumping, calming. $32
Both at the link in bio/www.sanflorawellbeing.nz🛒

31/05/2026

I mean, just look at these roses. 🌹
I'm staying with my brother and sister-in-law in a tiny village in the Bündner Herrschaft in eastern Switzerland, and roses are blooming everywhere. Late spring, everything lush and green, and the air just smells incredible.
Rose has been part of human culture for over 5,000 years — and not just as a pretty flower. The ancient Greeks dedicated it to Aphrodite, goddess of love. The Romans scattered rose petals at celebrations and pressed them into oils and perfumes. In Persian and Arab tradition, rose water was considered sacred — used in mosques, in medicine, in food. Medieval European monasteries grew roses for healing: rose hip tea for colds, rose petal tinctures for grief and a troubled heart, rose water for the skin.
And that connection to the heart is real. Rose is one of the few botanicals that has always been linked to both physical and emotional healing — to love, tenderness, and self-care. Not romantic love in a greeting-card way, but the deeper kind. The kind that says I'm worth looking after.
That's actually why rose became central to Sanflora Wellbeing. Skincare as self-love, not vanity. Taking a moment for yourself because you deserve it.
This week I'm doing a full Rose Week — the plant, the science, the Sanflora collection. Let's share the love 🌹

28/05/2026

From the tropics to the Alps in one heartbeat. 🌿
Last week I was in Thailand, soaking up warmth, spices, and the most extraordinary botanical ingredients. Now I'm sitting in my family's garden in Switzerland — Both are and feel like home.
This is my winter slowdown, and for the next two months I'll be wandering slowly through Europe as a Herbal Nomad — tracing the healing plants of Switzerland, Italy, France, and Spain, and sharing them with you along the way.
🌼 The daisy (Bellis perennis) feels like the perfect plant to open this journey. It brings up my inner child, reminding me of all the daisy crowns we've crafted as kids, playing on the wild meadows we've been surrounded with. Medieval herbalists called it the "woundwort" — used for bruises, skin irritation, and inflammation. In the language of flowers, it means new beginnings. That'll do nicely.
And while I wander — Sanflora is still very much open! All your favourite products are available online, ready to travel straight to your door. 🛒 Link in bio. (www.sanflorawellbeing.nz).
Two months. Four countries. Countless plants. Let's go. 🌿

23/05/2026

20/05/2026

In Thailand, frangipani isn't just a garden flower. It has a presence. 🙏

You'll find it floating in ceremonial water bowls, laid at temple altars, worked into traditional herbal preparations used in Thai massage and body treatments. The flower's connection to calm and relaxation made it a natural companion to Thailand's rich tradition of healing arts.

In Thai herbal medicine, frangipani has long been valued for its soothing, anti-inflammatory properties — used to ease tension in the body and quiet an overactive mind.

Walking slowly through a temple garden here, frangipani overhead, I understand completely why. Some plants teach you something just by being near them. 🌸

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19/05/2026

"If jasmine is subtle mystery, frangipani is a warm open embrace."

New week. New flower. Same love for this country. 🌺

Frangipani — dok champa in Thai — has been greeting me at temple gates and gardens for thirty years. You almost always smell it before you see it: warm, creamy, tropical. And then you look up and there it is, a tree full of perfect waxy blooms in white, yellow, pink and blush and gold.

What I love most is how generous the frangipani is. The colours of their flowers are bright and vibrant. It drops its flowers freely — you always find them scattered across paths and steps, offered without asking. Lovely and sharing, just like the Thai people are.

This week, we follow the frangipani. 🌺

17/05/2026

From Thailand, with love — Jasmine Dream Perfume Oil & Jasmine Hand Cream

I'm writing this from Thailand — surrounded by the very flower that inspired these two. 🌸

Jasmine Dream Perfume Oil — a soft, intimate fragrance to wear close to your skin. Jasmine blooms captured in a silky carrier, releasing slowly and beautifully through the day. Every time I smell it here, in the source, I feel proud of what we made.

Jasmine Hand Cream — all the skin benefits of jasmine in a formula that melts in, leaves no grease, and lingers just long enough to remind you to breathe.

Made in Queenstown. Inspired right here. Available online on www.sanflorawellbeing.nz 🛍️

Which would you reach for first? 

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14/05/2026

What jasmine actually does for your skin and your mind — and why it belongs in your selfcare rituals.

Sitting in a jasmine-scented courtyard in Thailand, it's easy to understand why this flower has been trusted for centuries — not just for its beauty, but for the way it makes you feel. 🌿

Jasmine is rich in antioxidants that help protect skin from environmental stress. Its natural antiseptic properties make it gentle and supportive for sensitive skin. And it supports elasticity and moisture — the kind of nourishment that shows up quietly over time.

But the most immediate benefit? Scent. Aromatherapy research consistently points to jasmine as one of the most effective florals for lifting mood and easing anxiety. You apply it to your skin and something in you settles.

That's the kind of skincare I believe in. 🌸

12/05/2026

One of the things I love most about Thailand is how naturally ceremony is woven into daily life. 🙏

The phuang malai — the traditional jasmine garland — is made fresh every single morning. Not for special occasions. For every day. Hung on spirit houses, offered at temple gates, placed in the hands of someone you love as a gesture of respect, luck and welcome.

Jasmine-scented water, nam ob dok mai, has been used in ceremonial bathing for generations — to purify, to calm, to honour. The Thais have known for centuries what science is only now catching up to: this little flower does something profound to the nervous system.

When I created the Jasmine Dream Perfume Oil, this is what I was reaching for. Not just a scent. A feeling. ✨