Silvana de Soissons is the founder of Farm Soap Co. - a manufacturing business based in Dorset that makes botanical soaps and natural skincare products in small batches. She grows many of the herbs and flowers that make up the botanical formulations, to ensure organic, local sourcing and sustainability.

Silvana has written for a number of magazines and has worked for many years in food and lifestyle retailing, latterly setting up the shops and toiletries range at The Newt In Somerset, as well as owning her own businesses - The Foodie Bugle in Bath, whose blog won The Guild Of Food Writers New Media Award (2012), and Farm Soap Co.