Beauty Bible's Christmas Shopping Guide 2023: Under £50
Our Christmas edit this weeks brings you gifts that are under fifty quid – pretty special presents, then, but each of them items we’d happily find under the tree ourselves. (Hint, hint, husbands!)
One of the few clinically-proven sleep-beckoning ranges out there, we have been slavishly devoted to the This Works’s Deep Sleep range since it launched. This three-step routine (100ml Shower Gel and Body Cocoon and a 75ml Deep Sleep Pillow Spray) should help even your most insomniac friend. And we never travel without that pillow spray, ourselves.
£28 – buy here
Probably our favourite new bath/body range of the year, here’s a gorgeous introduction to this geranium-scented collection from Cath Kidston’s fragrant new venture: Bubble Bath and Hand & Body Lotion (100ml), plus a handbag-friendly 75ml Hand Cream, in a toile-sprigged box. We’re dreaming of summer already.
£45 – buy here
Bouclème Curly Hair Discovery Set
For that curly-haired friend or relative, a capsule collection of 6 x 100ml cleansers, conditioners, tamers, smoothers and gloss-enhancing products from a range that truly knows its stuff, curls-and-coils-wise. Good Hair Days, guaranteed.
£42.50 – buy here
Granado Glass Soap Dish & Soap
Our first sight of this Brazilian range had us swooning, ‘Gosh, this is going to be amazing at Christmas’ – and sure enough, the new-to-the-UK heritage brand has a gorgeously-packaged, eye-poppingly bright selection of gifts, including this soap dish, which they’ll treasure long after the two scented soaps have lathered its last.
£38 – buy here
Benefit Fluffin Fantastic Brows
Over the years, practically every Benefit brow innovation has scooped one of our Awards. This cutely-packaged trio is a dream for a make-up loving friend, offering Precisely, My Brow pencil, Gimme Brow+ and Fluff Up Brow Wax. Fluffin’ fantastic? You bet.
£33.30 – buy here
British bath and body care meisters Bramley REALLY get packaging, evidenced again in 2023 with their circus-themed gifts. Technically this is for little ones, but we’re deeply taken with it ourselves – so roll up, roll up for 100ml sizes of kind-to-skin Little B Hair & Body Wash, Bubble Bath and Sleep Spray, a 50ml Little B Body Lotion and 15g mini Magic Balm.
£45 – buy here
Bobbi Brown Confetti Crush Lip Trio
This threesome of Bobbi Brown lip gorgeousness represents absolutely fantastic value, with failsafe shades in two glosses and a Crushed Lip Colour (choose from a Pink trio or a Nude option), all glammed up in gold. Honestly, these lip treats would thrill anyone from sixteen to ninety, we reckon.
£32 – buy here
Gosh, Rituals have SO many gift options (and a couple of fab advent calendars, if you haven’t bagged yours yet) – in fact, if you want to sniff the whole lot #IRL, there’s a fab new store on Oxford Street we encourage you to check out. We’re very taken always with Ritual of Hamman range, with this set offering a Body Scrub (125g), Body Cream (100ml), Foaming Showergel (200ml) plus a scented candle (140g), for a proper at-home spa vibe.
£43.90 – buy here
Aromatherapy Associates Ultimate Bath & Shower Collection
This feels like the 37th time we’ve mentioned this set – and we don’t apologise; it has never failed to hit the mark with the many recipients we’ve gifted this to. Aromatherapy Associates’ top 10 potent and properly therapeutic oils feature here in generous three-bath sizes, and this goes straight to the top of our own Dear Santa list, year after year.
£45 – buy here
Last but oh, absolutely not least, a glorious trio of luxe handcare treats from Diptyque, whose chic monochrome packaging also never fails to wow. Their beauty products are way less well-known than the home fragrance, but this super-softening hand trio – 30ml Hand Wash, Velvet Hand Lotion, Rinse-free Hand Wash – will put them firmly on the recipient’s radar, with the sublime scent you’d expect.
£42 – buy here
