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How to Naturally Balance Your Hormones During Perimenopause and Menopause

Key Takeaways at a Glance

  • Hormonal shifts during perimenopause and menopause are completely natural.

  • Symptoms like mood swings, fatigue, night sweats, and skin changes are messages from your body asking for support.

  • A natural approach, using botanicals, minerals, touch therapies, and lifestyle rituals, can help your body recalibrate its hormonal rhythm.

  • Skincare, sleep, gut health, nervous system regulation, and lymphatic support all play powerful roles in hormonal balance.

  • With the right tools, you can experience perimenopause and menopause as a time of strength, renewal, and deeper self-awareness.

 

 

Insight Shared With Kindness and Clarity


If you're experiencing shifts in your sleep, mood, energy, or skin, and you're in your late 30s, 40s or 50s — chances are you're moving through perimenopause or menopause. This stage of life can bring physical and emotional turbulence, but it also brings an opportunity to slow down, recalibrate, and deeply care for yourself.

Many women feel unprepared for the hormonal changes that arise, and even more feel unsure of where to turn for support. At Botanical Balance, we believe the answers are already within you, and nature offers the tools to bring your system back into balance.

Our founder, Louise, has worked with over 20,000 women in her 20+ years as a holistic therapist and reflexologist. She created Botanical Balance out of a desire to offer daily, accessible, plant-based support for the hormonal shifts women face during midlife after hours of listening to women just like you, and wanting to do more. Her deep understanding of the body, hormones, the needs of women and natural medicine has shaped a skincare and wellness collection that honours this important transition.

Rather than overpowering the body, natural hormone support works with your systems. Plant extracts, therapeutic rituals, and everyday rhythms can profoundly influence how you feel, function, and glow.

 

 

The Science and Strategies Behind Natural Hormone Balance

Supporting Oestrogen and Progesterone with Plant Compounds

During perimenopause, oestrogen and progesterone levels fluctuate before eventually declining. This impacts sleep, skin, mood, and metabolism. But nature has a quiet intelligence that mirrors our own, and certain plants contain compounds that support hormonal balance without interfering with your natural rhythms.

Phytoestrogens, found in foods like flaxseeds and herbs like red clover and sage, bind gently to oestrogen receptors. This can help ease symptoms like hot flushes, dryness, and emotional swings.

Adaptogens such as liquorice root and ashwagandha help buffer stress by regulating cortisol. This is essential, as high cortisol levels can further destabilise sex hormones.

In the Botanical Balance skincare range, these principles are put into action. Our Hydrate Day Serum contains liquorice root and low-weight hyaluronic acid to calm, hydrate, and support hormonally sensitive skin. The Rejuvenate & Restore Night Tonic features evening primrose, rosehip, and seabuckthorn oils to nourish, repair, and provide essential fatty acids that support skin resilience and hormone function.

Gua Sha and Facial Reflexology for Hormonal Regulation

Hormonal balance starts deeper than the skin, but your skin reflects it. Gua Sha and Facial Reflexology are two touch therapies that connect surface beauty with internal wellness.

Gua Sha, a traditional therapy using a sculpted stone tool, improves lymphatic drainage, circulation, and muscle tension. When done regularly, it helps reduce puffiness, soften fine lines, and relieve jaw or brow tension that often builds with hormonal shifts.

Facial reflexology maps organ and endocrine reflex zones onto the face. Stimulating these areas helps regulate the nervous system, support hormone-producing glands, and encourage whole-body equilibrium.

These therapies aren’t just beauty rituals, they’re deeply therapeutic techniques that support the balance between your outer glow and inner vitality.

Magnesium and Sleep Support

Quality sleep becomes more elusive during perimenopause and menopause. Oestrogen and progesterone both influence the body’s natural melatonin production, so when they decline, your ability to fall and stay asleep often declines as well.

Magnesium plays a vital role in restoring restful sleep. It supports muscle relaxation, calms the nervous system, and helps regulate sleep-wake cycles. When applied topically, magnesium can bypass the digestive system and be absorbed directly into the tissues.

Our Relieve and Recharge Magnesium Oil is a targeted solution for this. A few pumps on the feet or abdomen before bed can ease tension and promote deeper rest. It’s a simple but profound way to help the body transition into restorative sleep, which is essential for hormonal balance.

Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Cortisol Regulation

The vagus nerve is your body’s master communicator. It connects the brain with nearly every major organ and helps regulate heart rate, digestion, and hormonal function. When stimulated gently and regularly, it activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which is essential for healing, sleep, and hormone regulation.

Simple ways to support your vagus nerve include:

  • Gentle humming or singing

  • Slow, extended exhalations through the nose

  • Journaling or meditation

  • Facial massage around the ears, jaw, temples and down the side of your neck.

Chronic stress is a major disruptor of hormonal health. By activating your vagus nerve, you help the body lower cortisol levels and return to balance. Louise has woven these techniques into guided sessions and wellness resources for women who want to regain calm and clarity during this transitional time.

Gut and Liver Support for Detoxification

Detoxification is primarily cleared through the liver and digestive system. If this process becomes sluggish, we can be left with symptoms like bloating, irritability, or skin eruptions.

Supporting healthy detoxification includes:

  • Eating bitter greens like dandelion, rocket, and turmeric to stimulate liver flow

  • Ensuring plenty of hydration and fibre for bowel regularity

  • Supporting healthy gut flora with fermented foods or prebiotics

  • Avoiding synthetic chemicals and hormone-disrupting preservatives in skincare

Every Botanical Balance product is free from synthetic fragrances, parabens, and endocrine-disrupting ingredients. This is more than just a label,  it’s a commitment to helping your body eliminate what it no longer needs while nourishing what it does.

 

 

A Reflection

Perimenopause and menopause are not conditions to be treated. They are transitions to be supported. Your body is already wise, already trying to find its own balance. The role of natural support, whether through skincare, touch therapies, or mindful living is to help it do so with ease and grace.

This phase of life can be one of great strength, creativity, and self-knowing. With a little support and a lot of kindness, you can emerge from it with more vitality and self-trust than ever before.

Our founder, Louise, created Botanical Balance to help women navigate this powerful phase with tools that are botanical, beautiful, and backed by wisdom. Each formula, each ritual, is designed to honour the whole woman, her skin, her nervous system, her rhythm.

You are not alone in this. You are not losing yourself, you are becoming more fully you.

Explore the full collection and discover how Botanical Balance can support your unique journey at www.botanicalbalance.co.nz

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