From skincare and haircare to fragrances and even men’s cosmetics and gift sets, this gift guide to pampering has the answers for that special someone this Christmas.
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Far too often, our lives get so busy that we all forget to make sure we’re taking care of ourselves. But part of what makes Christmas so important is that we get to rely on the people around us for that.
We’ve put together a range of beautiful products and kit that provide the kind of treatments that will put a glow in your life.
Here you’ll find everything from home spa treatments to hair dryers to pillowcases of the finest silk. There are skin oils made from Aussie wine grapes, cleansers made from olive oil and moisturisers made using green tea extracts.
There’s even an awesome skincare kit for men here too.
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Marrok – Hammam at Home
Inspired by her travels around the world but especially to beautiful Morocco, Aussie owner-founder Nicole Brown discovered the skincare wonders that the souqs of Marrakech had to offer.
Her experiences in the hammams led her to bring some of these products and techniques back to Australia. These all-natural sustainable skincare products offer luxurious spa-like treatments in the comfort of your own home.
Marrok Moroccan Black Soap – $45.00
Both cleansing and exfoliating, this traditional soap paste, made with olive oil and water, is high in antioxidants and Vitamin E. Crafted to nourish your skin and leave it feeling fresh and rejuvenated, Marrok Black Soap provides a deep yet gentle treatment on your skin.
Marrok Mitt – $20.00
This gently exfoliating glove removes dead skin and polishes your body while encouraging new skin layers to grow and thrive. This mitt is best used in conjunction with Marrok Black Soap for a deep cleanse and that real hammam experience.
Marrok Argan Oil – $55.00
Well-known for its hydrating and anti-ageing properties, argan oil is the ultimate in spa-style skin treatments. Marrok’s pure 100% Argan Oil is great for using all over your body, from your hair to your face to your toes.
Marrok’s Whole Hammam Bundle – $110.00
For the true hammam experience, Marrok offers the ultimate all-in-one package that gives you all three components — the Black Soap, the Marrok Mitt and the Argan Oil — as a set. What better way to pamper the one you love this Christmas?
Caudalie Cosmetics’ Vinoperfect Range
Borne from a love of wine and inspired by a Bordeaux vintner, this luxurious skincare brand harnesses the antioxidant power of grape seeds and the rejuvenating qualities of grape stem sap, this incredible skincare product shows that there really isn’t anything that wine can’t do!
These two new products from Caudalie are the perfect skincare gift or even an impressive stocking filler for your favourite person.
Vinoperfect Brightening Micropeel Foam – $55.00
Featuring organic grape water, fruit acids and mandelic acid found in almonds, this foaming exfoliant gently removes dead skin cells and deep-cleans the delicate skin on your face and neck.
Perfect for daily use, Caudalie’s Vinoperfect Brightening Micropeel Foam enhances radiance and reduces dark spots — what more can you ask for this Christmas?
Vinoperfect Brightening Dark Spot Serum – $156.00
This pre-moisturiser serum is both gentle and effective on the skin, correcting dark spots and enhancing bright skin tone.
Caudalie’s Vinoperfect Brightening Dark Spot Serum uses the reparatory power of olive squalane and Caudalie’s patented Vineferine — the precious sap from grapevines that founder Mathilde learned can actively fade dark spots on the skin.
Whether they are from acne, sun, pregnancy or simply age, dark spots are visibly lightened with this magical serum. Who doesn’t love a Christmas miracle?
RoC
Known for its hyaluronic acid and retinoid products, RoC has been a market leader in the cosmetics world since it started in 1957. It’s depth and range of skincare treatments is dazzling, but this trio from the RoC Derm Correxion range, developed in partnership with dermatologists and plastic surgeons, make perfect Christmas gifts for your loved one.
Derm Correxion Fill + Treatment Serum – $59.99
It’s clear from the syringe-like packaging what this Fill + Treatment Serum does. With its advanced Retinol and triple hyaluronic acid formula, this serum reduces the appearance of lines and provides wrinkle-filling solutions with no injections required.
Derm Corrextion Dual Eye Cream – $56.99
RoC’s double-acting Duel Eye Cream is specifically formulated to target the different types of skin around your eye. The upper eye gel lifts and firms while the lower eye cream smooths, ‘depuffs’ and reduces dark circles.
Derm Correxion Contour Cream – $49.99
This moisturiser is also a firming cream to use on the face and neck in conjunction with the other two Derm Correxion products. Using Retinol and anti-inflammatory swertiamarin, Contour Cream visibly firms and lifts the skin on your face, neck and jawline.
Hada Labo Anti-Aging Oval V-Lift Hydro Cream – $44.95
From Japan’s number one rated skincare brand, this unusual jelly moisturiser feels amazing as you put it on.
Both somehow softening and toning the skin at the same time, its combination of super-hyaluronic acid, soy milk and ginseng lifts and smooths, giving a wonderful finish. Definitely a gift for the spa rat in your life!
Innisfree Green Tea Seed Hyaluronic Acid Cream – $43.00
From Korea’s first natural skincare brand, Innisfree’s Green Tea Seed Hyaluronic Acid Cream contains green tea sourced from Korea’s beautiful Jeju Island, a tropical island 100km south of the mainland.
The cream also has not one but five types of hyaluronic acid in it, making it one of the most hydrating moisturisers on the market.
LTN 25 momme Mulberry Silk Pillowcase – $79.20
There are wide range of health benefits to a silk pillowcase. Pure mulberry silk naturally repels mould, fungus, dust mites and allergens, but much sexier than that, a silk pillowcase lets you wake up with awesome hair!
The naturally smooth, delicate surface of a silk pillowcase reduces static and friction, which allows your hair to glide over the pillow as you sleep. This means no tangles or knots when you wake up, and also that your styling will hold for longer too.
Love Thy Nader by internationally awarded hair styler Anthony Nader have a 25 momme silk count, much higher than the average silk pillowcase.
Valanolia Cleansing and Beauty Products – $14.99-$19.99
Using award-winning olives from some of the oldest trees in Australia, Valanolia have crafted a beautiful range of products that are high in antioxidants, beta-carotene, vitamin E, polyphenols and squalene that occur naturally in olives.
Each of these products contains the essential extracts of at least 360 olives, each one formulated to moisturise, smooth, nourish and clean hair and skin leaving it looking youthful and radiant.
Valanolia’s groves were established in 1972 using olive varieties sourced from Greece, and the land in Markwood, VIC — part of the Alpine Valley region — was specifically chosen for its Mediterranean climate.
This range is the perfect plant-based pamper gift for Christmas.
Cloud Nine Starlight Collection AirShot hairdryer – $299.00
This beautiful, limited edition hairdryer from Cloud Nine not only looks the part with its shimmering matte silver finish and chrome-look details, new upgrades in tech provide incredible styling control while limiting heat damage.
Three levels of heat and air speed, as well as the all-important cool shot button, mean you can adapt this powerful 2000W hairdryer to your hair type quickly and easily. Plus AirShot’s Anti-Static Technology is engineered to reduce negatively charged particles in each hair strand, mitigating frizz and flyaways.
This limited edition hair dryer also comes with two styling nozzles (60mm and 75mm).
Airyday Glow From Head To Toe – Holiday Edition Kit – $99.00
Made in Australia, Airyday products not only keep you safe from dangerous UVA and UVB rays with SPF50+, they’re also formulated to look good on your skin and to make your skin feel good too. They’re also beautifully scented.
For $99.00, the Glow From Head To Toe Holiday Edition Kit contains $154.00 of value:
– Golden Glow Dreamscreen (RRP $51.00) leaves a beautifully luminous satin finish and is luxuriously scented with Champagne and peonies.
– Lip Me Watermelon lip balm (RRP $24.00) gives luscious glossy lips that are hydrated and sun-safe under SPF50+.
– Golden Shimmer Body Dreamscreen (RRP $39.00) vegan collagen, shea butter, hyaluronic acid and vitamins C, E and F all work together in this fast-absorbing, lightweight body cream that hydrates and illuminates, and gives amazing sun protection.
– Special Edition Canvas Tote Bag in chocolate (RRP $40.00)
Explore more of the Airyday range here.
Olaplex In Good Repair hair kit – $90.00
For all you non-believers out there, there is such a thing as a Christmas miracle. Olaplex has saint-like abilities to heal and fix damaged hair, and make it stronger and healthier too. We’re not going into the science details of it here — but if you want to know more, check out Christina’s review on Hair Romance.
This kit from Olaplex has all you need in one easy gift pack that will repair and strengthen hair, and also give it a healthy glow.
Applying the No.3 Hair Perfector in damp hair first, then shampooing and conditioning with the No.4 and No.5 Bond Maintenance products fixes broken hair strands and strengthens. Finally adding the magical No.7 Bonding Oil gives further strength to the hair but also a beautiful shine.
Perfect for split ends, dry or frizzy hair and for hair that’s been damaged by colouring and heat-styling.
Recreation Beauty Lost in Dusk Eau de Parfum 50ml – $119.00
Lost in Dusk is a sumptuous eau de parfum with exquisite layers of deep vanilla, opulent myrrh and an intoxicating bourbon infusion. Notes of saffron, plum, oakmoss, coffee and amber come in to create a rich, centred perfume that builds and lasts.
Environmentally conscious and truly elegant, this luxury scent from Recreation Beauty in Bondi, Australia uses no toxic chemicals, endocrine-disrupting ingredients or synthetic materials. Everything is ethically sourced and vegan, and even the packaging is centred on sustainability.
The perfect gift for the person in your life who is not only focused on low-tox living, but on smelling wonderful too.
Vitis V Skin TonIQ – $140.00
Founded by award-winning South Australian winemaker Susan Mickan, Vitis V Skin TonIQ is a beautiful face oil made from wine grapes that hydrates, repairs and rejuvenates. Seriously, is there nothing that wine can’t do?
Cold-pressing the seeds from unfermented wine grapes (vitis vinifero), Susan harnesses this pristine oil’s natural linoleic acid, beta-carotene, chlorophyll, squalene, y-tocotrienol and Vitamin E complex.
Within two weeks, your skin feels nourished and hydrated, and redness and inflammation is calmed. After 12 weeks, skin cells are regenerating, skin texture has improved, and collagen and elastin are protected leaving you with a youthful glow.
And on top of all this, the packaging is stunning. The black glass bottle keeps the oil safe from light strike and the even pipette — reminiscent of a wine thief sampler used for taking wine samples from winery barrels — has a luxury feel. What’s more, the box the bottle comes in is individually dated, batch numbered and signed like a high-end bottle of wine.
Shakeup Cosmetics Face 4ward Deluxe Kit – $150.72 (~$240 of value)
Men’s cosmetics have become such a huge market over the last few years. At its vanguard is Shakeup, who have developed an ever-increasing range of skincare products aimed specifically at men — though ladies, I’m sure it won’t hurt if you choose to use them too!
You can read more of our stories and reviews of men’s cosmetics here.
Of all the products that Shakeup Cosmetics makes, Face 4ward is their flagship range and this Deluxe Kit has the best of them all inside Shakeup’s soft faux leather wash bag ($30.00 RRP) to create the perfect skincare regime: wash, tone, treat, moisturise.
Multi-Action Daily Face Wash ($32.99 RRP)
Cleanses and gently exfoliates leaving the skin clean, soft and moisturised.
Clarifying Toner ($39.99 RRP)
Tones, reduces oil and shine, and minimises pores with glycolic acid and fruit AHA complex.
Pro-Youth Serum ($70.99 RRP)
Nourishes skin, helps reduce lines and calms irritation.
Matte-Effect Gel Moisturiser ($55.99 RRP)
Gives skin a supple, youthful glow while leaving a flawless matte finish.
