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If you are looking to incorporate more organic products into your skincare routine, the change of season is a good place to start by trying a new cleanser or moisturiser. People with sensitive skin in particular may benefit from using products with fewer chemicals. Sometimes the packaging can be a little rough and ready, though, as the market grows, so does product sophistication. Here are some of our favourite organic facial beauty buys.

Organic Surge Let\'s Face It Blissful Moisturiser

This light-textured, value-for-money moisturiser contains two key ingredients: green tea extract helps to reduce inflammation and balance hormonal activity, whilst chamomile soothes and calms the skin.
£6.99 Boots

Neal\'s Yard Honey & Orange Scrub

A blend of ground rice and kaolin to exfoliate and sunflower oil and honey to moisturise and heal, this is a superb deep cleanser for normal, oily or problem skin. Orange and neroli oils give the scrub its gorgeous smell.
£8, www.nealsyardremedies.com

Moa

Great for soothing and re-hydrating very dry skin, this green balm can also be used as a cleanser. It\'s made on an organic farm in Iceland from 100% organic herbs, including yarrow and tea tree, plus oils of coconut, sweet almond and soya. You can use it to help heal burns and scarring too.
From £9.50, 0175 3759 720

Skincare Café Organic Grapeseed & Aloe Vera Cleanser

Wipe or wash it off, this cleanser effectively removes daily grime and makeup. Grapeseed is a rich source of skin-protecting and rejuvenating anti-oxidants, while aloe soothes and heals the skin. Good for all skin types.
£11.99, 0870 44 327 44

The Organic Pharmacy Anti-Oxidant Face Cream

One of the most potent and popular organic anti-agers we\'ve found, this is packed with vitamins and botanical extracts to firm and nourish the skin. Best for normal to dry skin types, it has a light, easily absorbed texture and features, amongst other ingredients, skin-firming Sicilian lemon and grapefruit extracts.
£43, www.theorganicpharmacy.com

Origins Organics Nourishing Oil for Face

Restore your skin\'s natural moisture balance with this feel-good facial oil. Seven essential oils (patchouli, clary sage, geranium, clove, ylang ylang, lavender and bergamot) known for their uplifting and rejuvenating aroma and effects, are blended with safflower and grapeseed oils. Massage morning and evening into clean skin.
£25, 0800 731 4039

Trevarno Organic Rosewater & Camomile Skin Toner

A gentle, sweet-smelling way to refresh your face and remove any traces of cleanser, this toner works for all skin types, including sensitive. The flower waters are blended with essential oils of chamomile, benzoin and lavender to give antibacterial properties.
£14.95, 01326 555977

Green People Vita Min Fix Day and Night Cream

A great 24-hour moisturiser packed with do-gooding ingredients. Pro vitamin A and green tea protect and repair, while extract of marshmallow, avocado and seaweed promote the production of new skin cells. Result? Healthy-looking, glowing skin.
£11.99, www.greenpeople.co.uk

Juice Beauty Green Apple Peel Sensitive

With a hydroxy acid complex of organic apple, lemon, grape juices and cane sugar, this dissolves dead skin cells, leaving a more glowing, even skin tone and texture. Designed for sensitive skins, it also contains anti-oxidants and hydrating nutrients to nourish and protect.
£33, 01273 408800

Spiezia Organic Night Cream

A handmade nourishing and firming cream that\'s packed with ingredients naturally rich in anti-ageing vitamins, E and A (in the form of beta-carotene). Try it in conjunction with the Night Time Extra, which is applied directly on wrinkles.
£35 Harvey Nichols and mail order 0870 850 8851