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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


UPDATED DECEMBER 13, 2023 12:57 PM EST

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.

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.

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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.

Theragun mini

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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

Herbivore Botanicals CLOUD MILK Coconut + Maca Firming Body Cream© Courtesy

A moisturizer that works & smells like a tropical vacay

Treat your loved one to a luxurious skincare experience with the Herbivore Botanicals CLOUD MILK Coconut + Maca Firming Body Cream. This delightful botanical beauty essential is enriched with maca root’s natural goodness, deeply hydrating and toning the skin, leaving it feeling firm, revitalized, and rejuvenated.

As one reviewer put it: “It’s like a nurturing butter for your skin. The texture is incredibly soft and cushiony, making it a sensory delight. Despite its thickness, it effortlessly spreads and melts into your skin. The fragrance is a smooth, vacation-like scent that adds to the luxurious experience.”

Herbivore Botanicals CLOUD Firming Body Cream

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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.

LAFCO New York, Paradiso Fig

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A wellness kit to radiate in and out

This holiday gift set is ideal for those who appreciate and want to elevate their well-being. The Osmosis Holiday Harmony Kit includes an Ageless Vitality Elixir and supplements that will help them rejuvenate their skin and boost vitality and mental clarity, providing renewed energy. Plus, it comes in a large clear bag perfect for those who travel a lot or are always on the go.

Osmosis Holiday Harmony Kit

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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!

Osea Total Body Glow Trio

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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.

Saje Pocket Farmacy Mindful Edition

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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!

Kate McLeod- The Body Routine Set

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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!

JBL Live Pro 2 TWS

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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.

Better Every Day Journal

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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.

Foreo LUNA 3

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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

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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!

Missha Time Revolution Night Repair Firming Care Set

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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.

Tease Smart Heated Mug

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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

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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.”

MOON x obj Platinum Electric Toothbrush

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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!

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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.

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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!

Vegamour GRO Biotin Gummies

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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.

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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.

MLE Silk Sleep Masks

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An adorable pill organizer

MyPillyPal is a cute gift for anyone managing meds or staying on top of their vitamins. Small and handy, it’s like a pocket-sized savior, making sure they are always prepared for anything, even those unexpected headaches!

This TikTok favorite with 8 unique compartments and a size just slightly larger than a credit card is a nifty and useful stocking stuffer that she will definitely use!

Cashmere Moon Moisturizing Trio Gift Box© Courtesy

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.

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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

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A fab moisturizer to combat aging and pollution

Winner of the Oprah Beauty Awards, Caire Beauty’s The Grownup Moisturizer is the ultimate gift for anyone serious about keeping their skin youthful and fresh. This cream is the outcome of a two-year science project from the Caire Lab, fighting off midlife skin aging and the nasties from external pollution.

It has all these fancy ingredients like Super Vitamin E, CeraLipids, and a Hyaluronic Acid x Fermented Peptide Pro-Collagen matrix – like your skin’s best friends. So, if you want to gift someone a daily dose of skin love, this is it!

The Grownup Moisturizer

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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!

Grado Live a Fulfilled Life Affirmation Cards Deck

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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.

Silipint Silicone Straw Tumbler

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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

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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!

Good Side - The Scrunchie Set

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Holistic Herbs to enhance their wellbeing

Give the gift of calm and well-being with the Holiday TCM Calm Kit from Elix Healing. The set includes the Daily Harmony and Stay Well blends, which support stress relief, mood balance, focus, immune health and more.

Crafted with clinical-strength hormone-balancing herbs and immune-boosting elements like Ginseng and medicinal mushrooms, these blends are more than a gift; they are a thoughtful gesture for your loved ones’ tranquility. They also make great stocking stuffer!

TCM Calm Kit

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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.

State of Being - Affirmation Candles

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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.”

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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?!

Earth Kiss Super Naturals masks

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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

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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!

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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

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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.

Susan’s Own Bath Bombs