A pregnancy-safe scent balm born from personal experience, made for every woman navigating the overwhelming world of pregnancy smells.
I didn't set out to start a business. I set out to get through my front door without gagging.
During pregnancy, I developed hyperosmia — an intense, often debilitating sensitivity to smell that affects a huge number of pregnant women, particularly in the first trimester. Smells I'd never noticed before became unbearable. Cooking, cleaning products, even fresh air could stop me in my tracks. I found myself locking myself away, dreading the simple act of leaving the house.
Like so many women, I went searching for something — anything — that might help. What I found were products that weren't designed with pregnancy in mind, ingredients I wasn't sure were safe, and nothing that felt like it had been made for this specific, very real experience.
The one thing that gave me genuine relief? The smell of rain. That clean, grounding petrichor scent that seemed to cut through everything else and give me a moment of calm. It made me wonder — why wasn't there a pregnancy-safe balm made specifically for this?
Bump & Breathe is the product I wished had existed. A range of pregnancy-safe, natural scent balms designed specifically to help women manage hyperosmia, pregnancy nausea, and smell sensitivity — safely, simply, and without compromise.
Every decision I made was deliberate. Four ingredients only — jojoba oil, candelilla wax, vitamin E, and steam distilled essential oils — because when you're pregnant, less is always more. Vegan and cruelty-free, because there was no reason for it not to be. Made and packaged in the UK, because I wanted to know exactly where everything came from.
And five distinct scents — each chosen for a reason, each designed to support a different moment in pregnancy — because no two women, and no two pregnancies, are the same.
I'm not a big brand. I'm one woman, based in the UK, who went through something difficult during pregnancy and decided to turn it into something that might help others going through the same thing.
Every tin of Bump & Breathe has been thought about, tested, and made with the pregnant woman in mind — not a marketing brief, not a trend, not a profit margin. Just a genuine desire to give women something that actually works, that they can actually trust, at a time when trust matters more than ever.
If it helps even one woman get through her front door a little more easily, it was worth making.
Every ingredient chosen with you and your baby in mind.
No fillers, no synthetics, no unnecessary chemicals.
Candelilla wax instead of beeswax. Kind to animals, kind to you.
Crafted and packaged in the UK, with full transparency on what goes into every tin.
Whether you're in the thick of first trimester hyperosmia or just looking for a natural, pregnancy-safe way to manage smell sensitivity — there's a Bump & Breathe balm made for your moment.
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