Balance is the world's first non-flavoured, bottled, spring water containing flower essences.

By combining flower essences with natural spring water, Balance has created a pristine, clean refreshing water source offering the additional benefit of helping our bodies stabilise the stress and rigor of modern life. The founders of Balance Water Company, Peter Maher and Martin Chalk, introduced Balance into the market in September 2005 and in doing so created a new category of bottled water. The inclusion of flower essences that promote calmness and help relieve some of the stress and anxiety we all face as part of everyday life, separates Balance from the multitude of sports style, electrolyte enhanced waters.

Balance products do not contain any flavours, colours, preservatives, artificial additives, sugar or calories.

Flower essences have been used by many cultures for centuries, most recently in preparations such as Rescue Remedy™.

"What we are doing here is nothing new. We have not invented some new magical ingredient or structured water. Flower essences are used in 66 countries and have a 70-year track record. We just decided to combine the best spring water with the flower essences into a convenient everyday format and give people a non-flavoured functional wellbeing beverage."

Peter Maher, Balance

Sourcing the appropriate flower essences for each Balance product involved extensive research to ascertain the properties that naturopaths and homeopaths tend to associate with a particular function. It is the combination of these flower essences that promote different benefits such as 'Focus and Concentration'. All ingredients are clearly displayed on the bottles and more information on each flower essence is also available on the website: www.balancewater.com.au

"I must say I was wary at first” says Chalk “I had a traditional biochemistry and immunology background and was sceptical of homeopathy and naturopathy. However the more research I did and the more people I talked to, and case studies I came across, the more impressed I was at the popularity and efficacy of flower essences."

Martin Chalk, Balance

As consumers embrace the health benefits of drinking several litres of water a day, they are seeking out functional alternatives to what has been available to date. Balance is fast becoming a popular choice, as indicated by the many well know Australians who have incorporated balance into their life.

'We encourage people to educate themselves with beverages by always reading the label carefully to avoid hidden sugars, acidity and preservatives. With our product range, we hope people will learn about flower essences, look at our web site and drink the water. We are confident that they will not only enjoy the taste of the product but also benefit from the additional effects of the flower essence over time. We are not inventing something new here; we are just changing the format of a long standing product to make it more convenient for the mainstream to access”

Martin Chalk, Balance

Balance Company also offers merchandise with the profits donated to health programs to help remote Australian Aboriginal communities. Both founders of The Balance Company wanted to give something back to the elders of the land. In addition Balance also supports other worthwhile causes with a 'Breast Cancer Awareness' version of it's Water for Women that it releases for 3 months of the year with 25% of the profits going to breast cancer causes.

Balance 1Litre bottles RRP $4.25 and Balance 500mL bottles RRP $2.95

Balance is available from at selected Woolworths, Coles Express/Shell, Macro Wholefoods, Harris Farm markets, Newslink Stores, Caltex Flagship Stores and Kemeny's.

Many well known Australian haveincorporated balance into their life

www.balancewater.com