The gifting season is upon us. With the year that has been, it warrants to make this year special and thoughtful for our loved ones. Should you buy a book, fragrance, makeup, or gift cards? A growing trend is one of giving something thoughtful, personalized, sustainable, healthy, that makes them feel better physically, mentally, and spiritually? What if we curated a list of 5 amazing Ayurveda-inspired gifts for you? We have picked these unique items in a way that you can either gift them as a beautiful bow-tied hamper or pick any of them and give them as individual gifting choices and surprise your loved ones with. Every time they uncork one of the cute silky bottles from their aromatherapy collection, they are bound to remember you by and feel loved by you.
Though nothing can quite capture our love for those close to us, thoughtful gifts picked keeping choices and preferences of closed ones in mind, goes a long way in expressing our love right!
1. Gift for nourishing the olfactory senses: Aromatherapy
With the amount of stress, anxiety, and worry we have started to live with, an incredibly thoughtful gift can be an exquisite aromatherapy collection that contains aromatherapy oils to balance mind and emotions at the end of a long exhausting day. For example, Shankara’s Aromatherapy collection balances all the three doshas and combines together the following blends of essential oils with unique calming and de-stressing results:
Grounding and Centering : Essential oils from Cardamom, Sandalwood EO, and Vetiver
Cooling and Soothing: Essential oils from Sandalwood, Lavender, Geranium
Stimulating and Invigorating: EO from Lemon, Bergamot, Cypress and Grapefruit.
2. Natural aluminum-free deodorants
Popular fragrances can be common and boring. Also, the jury is out on their safety. Most fragrances have aluminum and paraben in them, that cause what is called endocrine disruption by mimicking female hormones and can be potentially carcinogenic. People with diabetes or other kidney disorders need to avoid aluminum in their fragrances.
You can instead go for completely natural deodorants that neutralize body odors and make you smell absolutely fresh, grounded and pleasant, and not over the top that will give headaches to people around.
Shankara’s natural deodorants-Aura Essential Oil Deodorant – Geranium & Ylang Ylang and Lavender & Vetiver make a wonderful and classy gift for your boss, family, relatives, or *whispers* parents of your girlfriend or boyfriend.
These deodorants can be applied directly to the skin and they are free from chemicals, aluminum, and alcohol. They are made using pure essential oil made from a blend of essential oils of lavender, Ylang Ylang, Tea Tree, Geranium EO (leaf) and Thyme that work with your body’s natural chemistry to neutralize unwanted body odors safely and effectively.
3 Gift from the ancient people-Kansa Wand
We need facial massages from time to time. This is so because facial massages guide facial muscles to remain soft, toned, and free of toxins released by thee lymphatic system. We also need it for better circulation of blood, stress and tension relief and better functioning of the lymphatic system that gathers and carries out toxins from the body. How about a gift that brings a professional authentic facial massage, home? Now one can give oneself the gift of best facial massages right from the comfort of one’s home, with the help of a 5000-year old technique using what is called the Kansa wand, a powerful metallic wand that has been in use since many millennia, that presses into the skin the therapeutic benefits of the oils being used along with the goodness of the metal. Here’s everything you need to know about Kansa wand, its uses and benefits.
4. Mineral Bath salts
There isn’t anything that says luxury and comfort like a well-crafted mineral salt. What makes it an ideal gift for the season to help our friends and family sail over the drying winters? It works because it helps soothe the aches and muscle pains in the season; have your body cleansed off pollutants, dead cells and pathogens; let the skin take in important minerals; and to lose oneself in the heady aroma of the essential oils and luxurious salts, Sundarya Mineral Bath salts are the perfect gifting option.
4.Gift for the perfect skin
The ubiquitous stress, lack of sleep, anxiety, and overthinking-all these eventually start showing on our skin, in the form of eye bags, fine lines, premature skin aging, or oxidative stress. You can put together a goody bag of calming masks, anti-aging serums, soothing body oils, herbal eye creams made from a rich blend of over 20 herbal extracts and essential oils.
Shankara’s Timeless Restorative Skin Elixir
This duo-Timeless Serum and Timeless Kumkumadi Oil-has been a big hit with people looking for totally naturally uplifting ways to take care of the skin, and prevent it from showing signs of aging, wrinkling and developing fine lines. This 100% active age control dual is popular due to concentrate of ancient super herbs including citrus stem, red gold (saffron), Sesame oil; Sandalwood oil; Vetiver oil; Pink lotus oil; Olea Europaea Olive Oil, among many many other essential oils and stem cell technology reduces the appearance of wrinkles and visibly brightens the skin. This Elixir delivers intense hydration for your neck, face, and the area around your lips and works best when massaged with the Shankara Kansa Massage Wand.
Calming Mask
This algae-aloe gel mask soothes and calms sensitive skin for instant, cooling relief. Ideal for all skin types, the blue chamomile and cucumber ease temporary redness and irritation. The coconut oil nourishes and hydrates and leaves the skin feeling calm, soft, and dewy fresh.
Anti-Age Eye Cream
Only for their eyes! This calming cream gently nourishes the delicate skin around the eyes, restoring it to a more youthful appearance. What makes it so good is that it is generously loaded in nutrients and antioxidants. It uses rose distillate, structured energized water, shea butter, oils like grapeseed, andiroba, rosehip seed, hazelnut, jojoba, kukui nut, foraha among others that are deeply hydrating and moisturizing.
To use it, for instance, gently massage a small amount around the eye contour until it is completely absorbed.
Fine Line Treatment Oil
Stress, fatigue and premature aging of the skin reflect on the face. And so, here’s a beautiful gift you can give to make these lines and patches go away. It unravels the young, glowing, supple health skin underneath. Now it is time to bid adieu to fine lines with this 100% pure unique oil blend from Shankara.
Here’s why you need the fine line treatment oil in your gift box this season. This treatment oil penetrates deep into the skin tissues to calm, protect, and rejuvenate it. It also maintains the balance in the T-Zone area for the skin to look healthy and radiant. It uses almonds, evening primerose, sandalwood, chamomile, mimosa, aloe vera, turmeric, grapeseed, jojoba, sunflower, licorice among other dozens of herbs. The oil is rich in nutrients and antioxidants. These help cool off the skin’s irritants, cleanses and balances sebum, restoring and maintaining the skin’s natural pH balance. It is a non-comedogenic product.
Hydrating body lotions packed with goodness of herbs
You can pick Shankara’s Hydrating Body Silk, for the drying vata winters lying ahead of us. This is a smart pick because it protects the body’s largest organ with body lotion rich in nutrients and anti-oxidants. It simultaneously calms, soothes, hydrates, and offers relief for the most sensitive and irritated skin. It comes loaded with the goodness of herbs like sandalwood, calendula and shea butter.
Hope this solves your worries about buying the most ideal, thoughtful gifts for your loved ones this season!