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LITTLE BEAU SHEEP

About

Naturally British. A celebration of British wool through a unique range of hand-made laundry and body care products. Handmade in the UK.

Little Beau Sheep came into the world when we moved our young family into a top floor flat whist major working was being carried out on our house. As any parent to young children will know, there is a lot of washing to be done! I found myself elbow-deep in washing with no outside space for drying laundry (and very little inside space for that matter) and the tumble dryer became my guilty indulgence. In an effort to speed things up, I invested in plastic dryer balls. Besides being unbearably noisy, they broke and just added to the world’s unwanted plastic problem.

Inspired by the sheep that I could see grazing on Ilkley Moor, as an avid 'felter' I started making the laundry balls out of different wool (nature's natural fabric softener) and to made them look like the different breeds of sheep that the wool had come from – and Little Beau Sheep was born : )

Sheep wool dryer balls
Felted Soaps
British Wool

Award winning business

Winner The 2019 Wool Innovation Prize

NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards – Regional Finalist 2019 and 2021

Rural Business Awards – Regional Finalist 2018/19, Regional Runner-Up 2019/2020

Theo Paphitis Small Business Sunday Winner

Chosen as one of 100 impressive small businesses from across the UK to mark the official count down to this year’s Small Business Saturday UK

Wool Innovation Prize

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