With some many festive beauty gifts in the shops, it can be hard to choose the best ones for your best people. So we’ve done it for you.
100 Acres is a botanical bath & body brand, creating luxurious, all-natural, British-made fragrance products that are, quite simply, bottled incarnations of the botanical British countryside. Their Relax Bath & Body Oil (£28 www.100acres.co.uk) blends top notes of sweet jasmine and fresh lavender with balmy sage, green rose geranium and their Signature (secret) 100 Acres base, to create a heavenly, luscious scent will transport you to the countryside - you’ll be yearning for summer.
Neals Yard Remedies has been a firm favourite for over 40 years thanks to its natural ingredients, iconic blue glass packaging and heady scents. The Geranium & Orange Hand Care Duo includes a hand wash and lotion, in one of its most popular fragrances. £33 from www.nealsyardremedies.com
BYOMA’s Skincare Heroes Kit (£22 from Boots) includes the brand’s bestsellers in a handy padded pouch perfect for slipping into hand luggage. Featuring the Creamy Jelly Cleanser, Hydrating Milky Toner, Hydrating Serum, Moisturising Gel Cream and Ultralight Face Fluid SPF50, it’s a great way to test drive some new skincare before investing in the full size bottles.
Milk Make Up’s KUSH gift set includes two of its iconic products. The Big Hit Volumising Mascara will leave lashes pumped up and ready for action, while the Lip Oil will leave your pout deeply moisturised for all those kisses under the mistletoe. It’s the perfect stocking filler. £29 from Space NK.
One for the gentlemen, the Mayfair Duo Set from The Savile Row Company (£117 Debenhams) includes a Eau de Parfum and body wash, with enticing citrus top notes mixed with spicy cardamom, softened with a floral heart of orange flower and nutmeg, then warmed with base notes of tonka bean, leather and amber.
We’re really rating Glow Recipe’s Plum Plump hyaluronic serum at present. Co-founded by skin care specialists Sarah Lee and Christine Chang (who share over 20 years of experience in the global beauty industry), Glow Recipe is built from a passion and commitment to demystify the recipe to your healthiest skin. The brand pairs antioxidant-rich fruit with gentle yet powerful actives to create a skin care saviours for your complexion's ever-changing needs and the hyaluronic will add a much needed boost of moisture to winter ravaged skin. £41 at Cult Beauty.
Floral Street’s perfumes have become firm favourites. Their Neon Rose Eau de Perfume is a clean, floral scent with notes of Pear, Galbanum, Bergamot, Cassis Kir, Apple Blossom, Sichuan Pepper, Cyclamen, Juniper Berry, Jasmine, Angelica, White Cedarwood, Peach Nectar and Crisp Amber - the result of which is the unmistakeable fragrance of walking through a rose garden in summer. Divine. From £23.20 for 10ml from www.floralstreet.com
You won’t be able to resist the quite frankly adorable Miffy x Cath Kidston collaboration at Boots. The Body Treats Tin includes a duo of scented body care treats, with a body wash and lotion fragranced with mouth-watering ripe apples, crisp green leaves, hints of apricot with notes of soft musk and woods. And yes, it’s totally OK to buy it just for the tin. £18.50 at Boots.
There’s no better toner than the Pixi Glow Tonic, and this Christmas it’s joined in a handy little trio with its two siblings. The Essential Tonic Trio (£30 atwww.pixibeauty.co.uk) includes not just the iconic Glow Tonic, containing 5% glycolic acid to exfoliate and purify, but the Rose Tonic - an alcohol-free toner with calming rose hydrosol to balance pH and soothe redness - and the Retinol Glow Tonic, with time release retinol to help smooth fine lines. A triple whammy of skincare.
