The 10 Best Holiday Gifts For The Skincare Obsessed
Incoming… under-the-tree beauty treats and skin-tastic stocking fillers, oh my!
December is here and the clock is ticking to crush the perfect gift for everyone in your life. So if you’re still making your list and checking it twice, we’ve put together a fabulous bunch of beauty must-haves to get you set up for gifting success. Because skincare is ideal for anyone who has skin and wants to look after it. So, yes, that’ll be your entire gift list.
Looking for a fun stocking filler for your significant other? NP. Want to put a smile on mom’s face and a pep in her step with a gorgeous bundle of skin-rejuvenating greats? We’ve got your back. In fact we defy you not to know someone to love every single one of the below. And heck, when in doubt, who better to gift than your good self? Go on, you deserve it!
Caffeine Facial Serum
You know ‘that’ person who has to have the latest products and always embraces the newest trends? Maybe that’s you, maybe it’s your bestie, but whoever it is, our new Caffeine Facial Serum has their name all over it.
Great for giving skin a much-needed energy zap (which is essential over the holidays when things can get a little stressful!), this facial serum helps boost collagen, improve blood flow to the skin’s surface, reduce inflammation and kicks some serious free radical butt. Caffeine is obviously it’s main mo, but it also contains niacinamide to help strengthen and fortify your skin’s very important barrier function; matcha tea and EGCG for antioxidant protection, and ginseng which offers further energizing powers to truly double down on flagging skin.
Soothing Cleansing Milk
A cleanser might not be the obvious gifting choice for the holidays but, trust us, our Soothing Cleansing Milk will bring joy to anyone on your gift list. The perfect cleanser for this time of year, its careful combination of oat and rice milk not only soothes and nourishes dry, winter skin, but it also contains tons of minerals, vitamins, gentle acids and antioxidants to encourage healthy cell turnover and even healthier skin as a result.
To say we’re huge fans of this baby would be the understatement of the year. So if you’re wondering what to get us this holidays. Ha, we joke, of course. Or do we?...
Age-Defying 3-Pack Bundle
Aging is both a privilege and a total pain in the butt. Most importantly, getting older should be embraced because not everyone has such luck. But when you look in the mirror and get annoyed by your ever increasing wrinkles or pesky sun spots it can be hard not to wish you could turn back time.
Full disclosure, we can’t turn back time. But, and it’s a big but, one of the best gifts you can give anyone who cares about defying the laws of skin aging is our Age Defying 3-Pack. This incredible trio includes the award-winning Vitamin C Facial Serum for daily antioxidant protection and amazing brightening powers, plus two of its best friends: Retinol Facial Serum for overnight rejuvenation and Hyaluronic Acid Facial Serum to hydrate and provide your skin with the nutrients it needs to stay youthful-looking, for longer.
Vitamin C Gentle Facial Scrub
Who doesn’t love a good face scrub? Answer: nobody. The thing with scrubs, however, is that some of them are just no good. Whether they’re made with crushed up nutshells that can cause micro tears in the skin (eek!) or they come packed with harsh alcohol that dries up your skin lightning fast (ditto!), finding a scrub that a) does the job, but b) cares for your skin is no mean feat.
Our Vitamin C Gentle Facial Scrub, however, is literally one of the best. How so? Because it’s packed with skin-loving ingredients like antioxidant-rich yuzu lemon and hydrating aloe vera and uses ultra-fine Bora Bora white sand to exfoliate skin gently but effectively. It’s fast becoming one of our biggest sellers and firmly deserves a place in every holiday stocking.
Longevity Regimen Bundle
Around a year ago we launched an entire new range to help the skin age healthily and beautifully. And we called it Longevity. Because, well, the name speaks for itself, right? Chock full of game-changing ingredients like bakuchiol (nature’s kinder-to-skin alternative to retinol), plus coffeeberry and lingonberry stem cells which are both so rich in antioxidants they’re almost too good to be true, the range included an eye cream, moisturizer and serum to give the skin a complete regimen of goodness. And it quickly became a mega hit.
Truth is, who’s your absolute favorite person on your gift list? Because whoever that is, they deserve to receive this gorgeous Longevity Regimen Bundle which includes all three formulas under the tree.
6% AHA, BHA + PHA Liquid Exfoliant
Do you have someone on your list who’s bang on it when it comes to skincare ingredients and can recite the exact difference between AHAs and BHAs without taking a breath? Then 6% AHA, BHA + PHA Liquid Exfoliant is the stocking stuffer for them.
Launched back in 2022, this leave-on exfoliating toner harnesses the powers of glycolic acid (the AHA), salicylic acid (the BHA) and a lesser-known PHA called gluconolactone. Together, these create a little bit of exfoliating magic, helping to improve skin turnover, encourage healthy collagen production, balance sebum and care for your skin without the irritation often experienced with powerful exfoliants. It's a genius in a bottle. See what we did there?
Daily Essentials Trio
Sometimes you just want to treat the loves of your life to some good, honest skincare. And we get that. Which is one of the reasons we created this Daily Essentials Trio which bosses three of the most important steps in your skincare routine – serum, eye cream and moisturizer. This bundle of joy doesn’t just contain any old serum, eye cream and moisturizer, however, but delights in the wonders of our best-selling Peptide Eye Gel, Vitamin C Facial Serum and Vitamin C Brightening Moisturizer.
Great for all skin types and perfect for gifting, you might want to pop an extra in your cart in case you’re loathe to give it up so easily. Which is highly likely.
Tea Tree Super Cleanser+
When it comes to hard-working cleansers that pass the ‘don’t be too harsh on my skin’ test, our Tea Tree Super Cleanser+ passes with flying colors. So good for breakouts (holiday season or not!) and even better for balancing extra oily skin, it targets dirt and debris with every wash, leaving the skin feeling clean and fresh all day long.
What’s more it smells divine. And yes, that matters.
Hyaluronic Acid Eye Cream
Hyaluronic acid is one of skincare’s biggest wins. Sure it likes to hog the spotlight but wouldn’t you if you could draw in up to 1,000 times your weight in water? That’s pretty impressive stuff right there.
We use HA in many of our skincare formulations but if you’re looking for the cutest stocking stuffer, our Hyaluronic Acid Eye Cream is right up your alley. Lush, lightweight and so very lovely, this eye cream is ideal for waking up tired, hard-working eyes while tackling things like dark circles, fine lines and dehydration.
What’s that they say about the best things coming in small packages? Proof in point.
Collagen Boosting Skin Supplement
Collagen is the key to great skin and we don’t know anyone who wouldn’t want to receive some of that this holiday season. So why not help build their collagen supplies from within with our Collagen Boosting Skin Supplements? Purposefully crafted to promote natural collagen production and thus improve the look and feel of the skin, it contains vegetarian collagen only (you’ll find none of that cow stuff in here, thank you very much!) plus biotin for glowy skin and vitamin C for, well, even glowier skin.
Glowing skin for the holidays? Hells yeah!
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Hangovers are bad enough. The headache. The foggy memory loss. The nausea. The maxed-out credit card. Oh the shame of it all. Plus there’s nobody to blame but yourself. Eugh, why do we do it to ourselves? You’d think we would have learnt better by now.
Ha, fat chance.
Another thing. Is it just us, or as we get older, don’t hangovers feel 3,000 times worse? And, hold on, but why does our skin look so freakin’ terrible? Surely that didn’t happen in our 20s right?
The truth is, hangovers do get worse with age because your body’s metabolism decreases allowing alcohol to hang around in your system for way longer than you’d like. Also, your liver becomes less efficient which means its less able to cope with all those toxins that alcohol throws at it. It will get there eventually but, again, it will take way longer than a 20-year-old liver. There are also other factors to take into consideration. Your body weight, whether you're taking any medication, all this adds up to longer, worse hangovers and ruddy-looking skin as a consequence.
Sigh.
How Alcohol Affects Your Skin
Alcohol affects your skin in a number of ways. Here are the biggest things you'll notice after a night (or two) on the sauce...
* Alcohol is a diuretic which means that it increases urine production, making you pee more frequently and therefore lose vital water. Cue dehydration and more visible fine lines.
* Excessive water loss also causes your body to miss out on vital vitamins, minerals and nutrients that help ‘feed’ your skin and strengthen its barrier function. Cue dullness.
* Alcohol causes your blood vessels to dilate. Cue redness and flare-ups in existing conditions like rosacea.
* Ever woken up after a boozy night out only to feel like you’ve slept for minutes, rather than hours? That’s because alcohol unbalances your sleep, causing you to wake up throughout the night. Cue dark under eye circles and puffy skin.
* Then there are all those free radicals that form and screw up your collagen and elastin. Cue accelerated skin aging.
5 Tips For Rejuvenating Morning-After Skin
No matter that we know how bad drinking excessive amounts of alcohol is for our health and our skin, we still do it. So if you find yourself experiencing some serious morning-after-the-night-before skin, here are five emergency sk-invigorating (see what we did there?) tricks to try.
1. Wake Up Your Skin
Even just stepping in the shower and letting the water fall over your body can instantly lift a hangover. But to really get your blood flowing and thus encourage oxygen and nutrients to flood to your skin, we recommend a good (but gentle) exfoliation session. Our energizing Vitamin C Gentle Face Scrub is awesome for hungover skin as it also contains brightening whizz-kid, vitamin C – c’mon, it’s right there in the name!
Offering the effects of a mini facial (but with minimal effort), exfoliation helps clear out your pores and get rid of dead, dulling skin cells from the surface of your skin. It also boosts collagen production and smooths out the skin making it better able to absorb all the other goodies you’re about to treat it with. And trust us, your skin needs all the help it can get right now.
Gently work your scrub over your entire face and neck, using circular motions to lift and smooth out the skin as you massage it all over. And if you can bear it, try a cool rinse to finish. It’ll feel pretty savage at the time but, trust us, it’ll make you feel a million times better in the long-term.
2. Calm Redness
Facial flushing and booze go hand-in-hand for many people so if that includes you and you find that your redness lingers way into the next day, keep your morning-after routine simple and calming. Avoid exfoliating acids like glycolic and salicylic, and stick with gentle cleansers, hydrating toners and treatments that contain de-stressing ingredients like ceramides, aloe, vitamin E and niacinamide.
We love treating our skin with Rose Water Refreshing Facial Toner after a particularly boozy night out. This one-ingredient-only (er, rose water) facial spritz instantly calms and hydrates the skin after cleansing, plus it feels cooling and refreshing which is perfect when, inside, you feel neither of those things!
TOP TIP: In future, try to stick with clear spirits rather than red wine or dark liquor. Clear spirits like vodka, tequila and gin contain less histamines and are less likely to aggravate the skin or cause inflammation.
3. Reduce Puffiness
Too much booze makes your body want to retain water in a bid to combat dehydration. And fluid retention is the pits for your skin, inevitably making your face – and especially the area under the eyes – look puffy and swollen. It doesn’t help that you’ve also been starved of quality sleep which raises your levels of cortisol (the ‘stress’ hormone) which alters the salt balance in your body and forces it to retain even more water. Ever woken up after a big night out with under eyes bags the size of China? Yeah, this is exactly what we’re talking about.
To help pep up your face and reduce swelling, try a deep massage with your morning cleanse. Your hands are a powerful tool for getting blood flowing and improving lymphatic drainage so spend a few minutes working on your face to help depuff your skin.
When it comes to your eyes, place cold, used tea bags, cucumber slices or teaspoons over them and relax for 10 minutes. Anything cool will help reduce swelling by narrowing the blood vessels. Then, for an extra shot of depuffing freshness, follow with Depuffing Longevity Eye Cream.
4. Enjoy A Hit Of Multivits
Similar to how your oral multivitamins will give your body a much-needed pick-me-up, their topical cousins will also make your skin feel (and look!) a hundred times better. Vitamin C helps boost energy while vitamin E soothes and calms your skin. Then there are your Bs, D, F and K which all work together to balance the skin, neutralize damaging free radicals, protect your collagen supplies and strengthen the barrier function.
Our Multivitamin Facial Serum is a great post-party treatment because not only does it contain all of the above but it’s chock full of minerals and electrolytes for a complete, healthier-looking skin overhaul. Apply just a few drops to your face and neck after cleansing and toning and nobody will ever know about that extra shot of tequila you downed when you should really have been getting an Uber.
5. Load Up On Hydration
Morning-after thirst is real. Not only for your entire sorry being, but for your skin, too. So as well as drinking plenty of fluids to reduce nausea and a banging headache, you need to rehydrate and moisturize your skin from the outside in.
If you have some kind of intensely hydrating mask at hand, that’ll go a long way to taking the thirst away from parched skin. Look out for ingredients that draw water to the surface. These are called humectants and include things like glycerin, aloe vera and the biggest crowd-pleaser of them all, hyaluronic acid.
Our Hyaluronic Acid Facial Serum contains all three of these big guns and believe us when we tell you that your skin is going to lap it all up! Apply it to damp skin to make the most of surface moisture, then finish with a rich day cream that contains botanical oils, ceramides and/or fatty acids to help seal it in for the rest of the day.
Our favorite post-party moisturizer? Undoubtedly Vitamin C Brightening Moisturizer which blends antioxidant-rich green tea with jojoba oil and a cheeky hit of vitamin C to really get your glow back on.
Now, who's ready for another night out? Anyone?
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