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Best self-care gifts for all the women on your list that deserve a little pampering
From essential oils, candles, comfy slippers to tech gadgets - thoughtful gifts for those who need a little zen
Life can get overwhelming, busy and stressful, especially during the holidays when we have so many obligations, events, and travel plans and start thinking of our goals for the upcoming year. So many of these things we can’t control. However, we can control how we deal with things and how we choose to take care of ourselves.
Self-care nowadays is as important as ever, and it can come in different forms for all of us. Whether it is drinking your favorite cup of tea, getting a massage, wearing comfy loungewear, practicing a skincare routine, lighting up candles or journaling, all these things can make a difference and improve our mental and physical health.
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This Christmas season, give your mom, sister and all your lady friends a little bit of positivity and encouragement with gifts that help them pamper themselves, relax and relieve stress, or focus on their self-care and overall well-being. We rounded up some thoughtful self-care gift ideas for everyone on your list.
From a teacup warmer, a massage gun, essential oils, and must-have beauty products to noise-canceling headphones, they can practice self-love, get more rest or simply enjoy their me-time. Scroll down for our top picks.
A Portable Massager
If she spends hours sitting in front of the computer or has chronic back pain, a Theragun mini is a great gift to help relieve sore muscles and aches. This portable massager is a good option because it’s conveniently compact so it can be taken anywhere! Whether she works remotely and needs to pack it or she wants to take it to the gym for an immediate post-workout relief session, it’s perfect.
Comfy House Slippers
Manitobah’s best-selling Tipi slippers are the perfect gift for those who live in cold weather and need to keep their feet warm around the house. Trimmed with fur and crafted of soft, breathable suede, these Tipi moccasins will keep your loved ones comfy all winter long and make them feel good about the impact their gift makes in the lives of the Indigenous communities that work with Manitobah.
Manitobah Tipi House Slippers
Essential Oils
For hundreds of years, essential oils have been used for healing purposes, holistic medicine, and spiritual practices. An essential oils kit such as this Pocket Farmacy Mindful Edition from Saje is a fantastic gift to support your special someone’s emotional well-being. These oil roll-on blends are perfect for meditation or for invigorating your moods.
This collection also comes in an elegant forest green, 100% upcycled carrying case, making it a classy-looking present.
Scented Candles
Scented candles can offer a sensory experience and elevate soothing and relaxing atmospheres, perfect for unwinding and relaxing. LAFCO New York has some delightful aromas that can bring bliss to any space.
This limited edition Paradiso Fig collection, created by its founder and perfumer, Jon Bresler, was designed to celebrate the brand’s 30th anniversary. It has a vibrant aroma featuring earthy notes such as Sicilian bergamot, ripe peach, and the renowned Italian Paradiso fig. The candles also come in luxurious, specially designed handblown vessels, which can be home keepsakes after the candles have burnt.
A Spa-worthy Osea Malibu Set
This Osea Malibu trio is the perfect self-care gift for yourself or someone special on your list. It includes the celeb-loved seaweed-infused body oil, Undaria Algae Body Oil to hydrate your skin, its Salts of the Earth Body scrub for exfoliation, and a plant-based body brush to help you remove all the dead skin.
This set has everything you need to make your skin glow and feel incredibly soft and smooth. We are totally obsessed with this brand, and whoever you gift this to will be too!
Noise Canceling Headphones
A pair of noise-canceling headphones can be the perfect self-care gift for someone who needs a way to tune out. Sometimes it’s about dancing to your favorite songs on Spotify, and other times is about blocking out the noise from the neighbors so you can concentrate or get some much-needed rest; either way, a good pair like these JBL Live Pro 2 TWS is fantastic gift!
A Dry Brush and Body Stone
This Kate McLeod Daily Stone Starter Kit is the perfect gift for anyone who takes their bath or shower rituals seriously. It includes a dry brush and its signature Daily Body Stone to help detoxify and exfoliate their skin while energizing their senses and self-care routine. They will get all the benefits of dry brushing and a scented sensory experience with the stone’s subtle floral blend of rose, frankincense, and neroli.
The Daily Body Stone also has a moisturizing formula that includes cocoa butter, sweet almond, apricot kernel, avocado, and coconut, which will leave their skin feeling so soft that they will ask for the same gift every holiday!
A Daily Journal
Journaling is a great way to cope with stress, depression, and anxiety and helps the mind focus and track emotions. That said, this ‘Better Every Day Journal’ is a great gift. It is a guided journal with 365 prompts created to inspire self-love, reflection, and growth. It’s a perfect addition to anyone’s morning or nighttime self-care routine.
A Facial Cleansing Device
The Foreo LUNA 3 is an excellent gift for anyone that takes their nighttime skincare routine seriously. It helps clean the dirt, oil, and excess sebum that the skin accumulates from outdoor pollution or our makeup. According to their site, it is clinically proven to remove 99.5% dirt and oil from your skin. And if you need a celebrity to approve it, Kim Kardashian is a fan of this mini tool.
A Skincare Set
After your 20’s as you get older, a skincare regimen is a must in any self-care routine! Consider it self-care 101! Any woman on your Christmas list will appreciate an effective moisturizer and serum to nourish, protect and keep their skin looking young!
This Clinique Smart & Smooth: Anti-Aging Skincare Gift Set includes a wrinkle-correcting serum, a moisturizer for dry combination skin, and an eye cream...the basics of any superb beauty routine!
Clinique Smart & Smooth
A K-Beauty Skincare Best Seller
If she is into K-beauty, she will be delighted to open her gift and see the familiar Korean brand Missha and its best-selling product, the Time Revolution Night Repair Ampoule Balm Stick. This limited-edition holiday kit includes the balm stick, to help her wake up with incredibly smooth and supple skin, and its new The First Hydrogel Masks. Both are the perfect beauty regimen treat before bedtime.
This best-selling ampoule balm stick’s formula includes Extreme Biome and ten probiotics to help strengthen and firm skin, improve elasticity and radiance, all while sleeping!
A Smart Heated Mug
Drinking a hot cup of chamomile tea can be a soothing and relaxing experience. Now imagine that moment with cold or lukewarm tea; it just isn’t as zen! A heated mug will never let that happen, and it’s the best gift for any tea drinker, especially this cute one from Tease.
Designed in Canada, every mug is hand-crafted, including hand-painted and glazed. Plus, Tease has a fantastic collection of blends that support rest, relaxation & sleep to add to your gift.
A Japanese Clay Mask
Putting on a clay mask is the ultimate self-care activity. This Japanese clay mask, which “honors the renewing ingredients of the past”, is imbued with mineral-rich Kucha (sea silt) from Okinawa.
The Edobio Radiance Boosting Mask absorbs microscopic pore dirt, replenishes moisture, brightens your complexion, repairs skin, and prevents damage. It’s perfect for a slumber party with friends or a chill movie night.
Edobio Radiance Boosting Mask
An Electric Toothbrush
When we think about self-care, most of us think about candles, skincare and meditation, but oral health should be right up there! A cutting-edge Moon limited-edition OBJ electric toothbrush co-created with super bowl champion Odell Beckam JR. will take anyone’s daily routine to the next level. The electric toothbrush comes in three colors (platinum, gold and black) and according to their site, it is so powerful that it delivers up to 36,000 sonic vibrations per minute, compared to a manual toothbrush with a maximum of 300 strokes per minute.
This gift is essential for anyone wanting to look their best when smiling! (Any selfie masters in the fam?) One reviewer even said how much fun their self-care routine has become. “I didn’t think I’d actually look forward to brushing my teeth, but here we are. My teeth have never felt so smooth, and they immediately looked whiter and brighter.”
A Serum for Glowing Skin
Meet Gemini’s ‘The Daily Glow Serum’. This daily serum with hyaluronic acid, golden jewels, and revivyl helps balance redness and skin irregularities. This small present can be the gift of luminous and dewy skin, and who doesn’t what that? And as a bonus, the serum comes in a complimentary makeup bag!
The Daily Glow Serum with Hyaluronic Acid
A Smart Sleep Assistant
For those who struggle to get better sleep, the Hatch Restore is the ultimate gift, as it combines everything they need to get those well-needed ZZZs. It has a built-in noise machine, smart light, reading light, a sunrise alarm close, and more...This device could be the solution (gift) to getting more rest and waking up bright early and energized.
Hatch Restore - Smart Sleep Assistant
Biotin Gummies
These tasty strawberry-flavored GRO biotin gummies from Vegamour are the perfect gift for anyone who loves supplements and vitamins to support their wellness journey, especially for those who love haircare products. With a combination of vitamins and minerals that help nourish the scalp and support healthy-looking hair, these gummies will gift shiny and radiant hair all year long!
Eye Shields to maximize her eye treatments
These silicone Eye Shields made by Sireni are an excellent gift for beauty lovers looking for the most effective skincare regimens. These eye shields will help maximize her under-eye treatment so she can get the most out of her favorite eye serum or cream. It also comes with a big compact mirror so you can apply the shields on the go, and in reusable with eco-friendly packaging.
A Silk Sleep Mask
Some of our loved ones have difficulty getting to sleep and catching those much-needed ZZZs. A silk eye mask could be a great addition to their bedtime routine. This stylish sleep mask by MLE designed to block out as much light as possible to offer a relaxing and restful experience, is made with deadstock silk charmeuse and sustainable kapok fiber filling.
Body Lotions
Nothing is fancier and adult-like than applying your favorite body cream after a relaxing warm shower. Any skincare-obsessed person would be thrilled to receive this Cashmere Moon Gift Box Bundle. This set includes a Whipped Body Cream, an antioxidant-rich Vitamin C Whipped Hand Lotion, and a bottle of its Lavender Rose Glow Oil. A trio that will offer a luxurious feel while leaving the skin soft, smooth, and supple.
A Gua Sha Tool
A Gua-Sha, an Asian traditional healing tool, is a great little gift that relieves facial tension and relaxes jaw muscles; at the same time, it also helps minimize puffiness and wrinkles. This gift set from SoCal vegan brand PURR comes with White Jade Gua-Sha tool and its signature organic face serum made with all-natural ingredients such as jojoba oil and rosehip oil. Anyone on your list that wants to reduce stress or add to their daily skincare routine will adore this.
PURR Skincare Gua Sha Gift Set
A Mindfulness Affirmation Cards Deck
This cute gift is excellent for the ones on your list that could benefit from a little pause at the beginning of their day. Grado designed this 48 Inspirational card deck with handmade illustrations to inspire people to turn inward, connect with their true selves, and embrace their emotions. It could serve as a mini-meditation session every morning over coffee!
A Straw Tumbler
A straw tumbler is a perfect gift for anyone on the go that knows the importance of drinking water for your health. Whether for your yoga buddy or your sister, who is always running around, this gift will keep them hydrated wherever they are!
This one, made by Silipint, is made from naturally occurring silica: a durable, non-toxic material that is flexible, durable, and can even handle heat. It also has a beautiful design and comes in a range of swirly mixed colors, so cute that she will love to carry it around.
DeviDetox by Prakti Beauty
This creamy cleanser, whose name Devi is inspired by a Hindi word (day - vee) that means divine/heavenly, is a terrific self-care gift for everyone! Channeling the richness and Spirituality of India, this cleanser uses Ayurvedic ingredients such as Ashwagandha Extract and Rosa Canina Oil, among others, to purify and nourish your skin. It is the best way to remove your makeup and eliminate excess oil and pollution at the end of the day. It also leaves the skin feeling smooth and hydrated.
DeviDetox by Prakti Beauty
Silk Scrunchies
This cute scrunchies set by Good Side is a fab gift for any woman or girl that loves and takes care of her hair. Typically we don’t equate scrunchies with self-care, but when these trendy Y2K accessories are made with silk, they are actually good for you and protect your hair! Silk scrunchies help prevent thinning, frizz, split ends and tangling hair.
This set made with 100% Mulberry silk helps keep the hair hydrated, and it comes with three different sizes of scrunchies, an oversize one, a classic and three mini ones. So if anyone on your list is a ponytail fan, give them this adorable set so they can wear their hair however they want it guilt free!
A Hair Oil Treatment
This K-Beauty cult favorite, Annatto Hair Oil, from British M (a division of one of Korea’s top luxury salon hair brands), is perfect for those who strive for the shiniest and healthiest hair! Made with Amazonian Annatto, organic Pumpkin and Argan Oils, this lightweight formula helps strengthen hair leaving it silky smooth and shiny. It’s an eco-friendly, gender-neutral product that makes a lovely holiday present.
Fun fact: According to the brand, “it is a staple in major salons in Gangnam, the famed exclusive area of Seoul, catering to Korean celebrities, including K-pop girl and boy bands.”
Natural Sheet Masks
Almost everyone is delighted to receive a good sheet mask; let’s face it, it’s one of the most popular self-care beauty gifts. We found these vegan Kombucha-based natural masks that use natural ingredients such as turmeric, spirulina, shiitake, clay, and charcoal to deliver formulas that cleanse, brighten, nourish, and revitalize your skin. And did we mention that they are biodegradable bamboo sheet masks?!
Luxury Hair Products by Kérastase Paris
For those of us who dye our hair, self-care can manifest in the hair products and treatments we choose. So this holiday season, give them something to nourish, strengthen and preserve their gorgeous hair so they can indulge in a salon-like experience while at home. This gift set by luxury haircare brand Kérastase Paris comes with a protective shampoo, conditioner, and its best-selling gloss for color treated hair.
Kérastase Chroma Absolu Holiday Set
Agrestal - Refresh
This lightweight face mist made with Hibiscus and Hyaluronic Acid is an excellent addition to any skincare routine. It will break down dead skin and help get a fresh complexion. It also contains Rose Water and Witch Hazel to balance the skin’s pH and control excess oil. It’s the perfect refresher for your skin!
Agrestal - Refresh Hibiscus + Hyaluronic Acid Face Mist
An Affirmation Candle
All of us could you a little reminder, an affirmation to empower us to get through the day and stay focused on our goals and positive thinking. Made by a woman-owned Philadelphia brand State of Being, these aromatherapeutic candles with powerful affirmation statements were designed to trigger a positive mindset. Every candle has an encouraging message that begins with I AM...This gift will make your loved one feel supported.
A Menstrual Cramp Roller
If any of the extraordinary women in your life suffer from menstrual cramps, this little roller from the brand Somebody can be a great gift that offers them relief. It has therapeutic ingredients such as CBD, menthol, arnica oil, and essential oils, including aloe vera juice. One reviewer on their site called it a Miracle Worker! and another shared “It starts to work after about 15 minutes, and I keep it close to me at all times. This stuff has saved my LIFE!”
Somebody Menstrual Cramp Roller
Bath Bombs
Some experts say that products with CBD help reduce anxiety and stress. These bath bombs by Colorado-based company Susan’s Own, created with CBD and lavender flakes, offer a relaxing aromatherapy experience that is a perfect gift for someone that needs a soothing pause in their stressful life and an excuse to unwind with an uplifting bath.
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