We tapped our longtime Guide, Nora — who loves giving gifts — to put together this year's holiday gift guide, which is a little different in a beautiful way. Here's how she describes it:

"This holiday season, we thought we would frame our gift guide less as a 'here are a bunch of cool products to give' (which of course, this guide is full of cool stuff) and more as a 'here is a feeling we would like to evoke within our loved ones.' Mudita is the Sanskrit term that means 'the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people's wellbeing.'”

(Fun fact: Nora grew up in a Buddhist household.) Check out the guide below, and book a complimentary 15-minute personal consultation — for gift-giving, for your skincare routine, for hair and makeup tips, for supplement selection help — with this absolute gem of a person right here.

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We chose the word Mudita to frame our gift guide because gift giving should feel personal. A way to connect with ones you love by saying, “I see you and I love you.” The products we chose for this year promote the sense of ease, calm, and contentment that we long for ourselves — and that we most certainly hope for the ones we love. 

In the spirit of Mudita, herewith, our favorite things for this holiday season. Picture your loved ones as you read through, and maybe smile at the gift of calm that you could offer those around you.  

After a long day of working outside the home, or in, we invite you to light our most coveted Le Prunier Harvest Smoke Candle. This is a gorgeous candle with notes of plum, blackcurrant, cedarwood, and orris root, tinged with a pleasant smokiness that is the most excellent antidote to a winter day’s work. It is sure to bring a welcome glow to your environment and perhaps may inspire some excellent winter cooking. 

 After everyone is tucked in, snuggled in their beds, spray your pillow with Les Fleurs de Bach Anti-Stress Treating Fragrance, an anti-stress atmospheric fragrance that brings a sense of calm and serenity while you run your bath. And may we suggest you use the Dara Kennedy Sea Soak, our famed detoxifying, remineralizing treatment for body, skin, and scalp, as your bath choice? It is designed to be a profound way to witness the power of individual ingredients in their natural state, at the highest level of quality, and at the peak of freshness — as close to a spa treatment as you can get without having to leave your house.

Once you are soaking in your bath and the gel starts to excrete from the seaweed, massage the gel gently onto your skin — and might we add, use the Cecily Braden Facial Mushroom Tension Tamers tools to release jaw and neck tension alongside this gel. These are among our favorite tools that can be used for easy, intuitive massage along with breathwork to ease tension, encourage circulation, and set you up for better lymphatic flow.

If you prefer to use straight up bath salts to guide your bath, please do. de Mamiel Soothe Bath Soak,  for example, is a calming bath soak designed to ease feelings of stress and anxiety. While the salts do their thing, you can gently apply the Kristina Holey + Marie Veronique Micronutrient + Hydro Mask, a beautifully hydrating mask that is just what you should reach for when skin looks and feels dull, dry, or depleted. The Tension Tamers would be excellent to massage the mask into the skin here, too. 

Spend some time luxuriating in the spa you have created at home. Breathe deeply. Relax.

Once out of the bath, may we suggest applying one of our richer body creams, such as the TWELVE Beauty Rewarding Body Balm or the de Mamiel Salvation Body Oil? You  cannot go wrong with either and really it is a preference of texture. To cream or to oil. That is the question! 

To cap off your excellent evening choices, tuck yourself into bed and use the Luzern Nuit Eye Balm — the creamy, dreamy overnight eye treatment that brightens, hydrates, and helps with puffiness, dark circles, and firmness. 

Your final step in this exceptional evening is applying the perfect sleep mask. Our The Goodnight Co Silk Sleep Mask is a soothing sleep mask made from the highest quality silk available. This will help block out light that can decrease your melatonin, the important sleep hormone. 

Happy giving. And please let us know how we can help; we love this stuff.

Thanks for letting me be a part of your day. 

XO 

Nora