PAMPER

The second of our Christmas gift guides, brings you all our favourite pampering gifts. It’s up to you if you choose to give them away!

Getting your beauty sleep is so important when it comes to looking and feeling good. These gorgeous lavender scented eye masks from Holistic Silk will not only help you sleep the whole night through, but you’ll look stylish doing it! Backed with luxurious velvet, these masks would be a lovely treat for anyone who loves a good night’s sleep! You can purchase them for £41 at www.holisticsilk.com We also recommend checking out their silk massage slippers, they look beautiful!

We’re predicting that facial oils will become a cult product in 2013. Often people shy away from oils as they make your skin feel, well, oily! However, there are a new generation of facial oils that are being developed, which are changing all of that. Our ultimate favourite is Skin Saviour Facial Oil from luxury aromatherapy brand Beatitude. Made from pure essential oils and containing Immortelle, Rose & Neroli, applying this oil to your skin at night will ensure you wake up with smoother, plumper and more radiant looking skin. In its beautiful glass bottle and all natural packaging, this is a brilliant present for those lovers of luxury. Priced at £36, you can buy it from www.beatitudeproducts.co.uk

For those of you who are looking for natural skincare gifts, you can’t go wrong with the Ginvera Green Tea range from Janiro, based on traditional Asian beauty rituals and ingredients. One of their best sellers is the Ginvera Green Tea Marvel Gel, which you apply before a cleanser to exfoliate deep into the skin to rid you of pesky pimples and blackheads. At the moment you can buy one Marvel Gel for £22 and get one half price, which means you’ve got one for a friend and more importantly one for you! You’ll also get a free cleanser if you spend over £30! Take a look at www.janiro.co.uk

As you all know, we’re Temple Spa devotees, and we love their Star Performers collection. It contains 7 miniature 15ml pots of their bestsellers, including our favourite In the Beginning cleanser and the legendary Skin Truffle. An ideal present for any ladies who love pampering, and an excellent intro to Temple Spa. Priced at £75 from www.templespa.com

Give the gift of silky soft hands with this Nourishing Shea Butter Blends Hand Cream Trio from Arbonne. With three different scents, all enriched with shea butter, you’ll be in the good books with this gift. Purchase from www.arbonne.com for £22.

Got a friend who loves to party? They’ll love you forever if you give them these ingenious EyeSlices, cooling gel pads filled with botanic ingredients including aloe ferox, regu age, biodynes, pentavitin and peptamide 6. These magic little pads will with red eyes, dark circles under the eyes, tired eyes, puffy eyes and wrinkles.Find out more at www.calla-salon.co.uk

If you’re trying to find a gift for a hard-to-please teen or young woman, the Perfect Skincare Set from Amie is ideal. The set contains a gentle eye makeup remover, purifying face wash, exfoliator and matte-finish moisturiser. As with all Amie products, they’re created from 95% naturally derived ingredients and are completely free from parabens, sulphates, petrochemicals, mineral oil, GMO or animal extracts, perfect for young skins. Available from www.amieskincare.com priced £19.95

If you’d like to give to a charity as well as a loved one this Christmas, why not consider some of the charity beauty products available. We really like the National Trust range of Hand & Body Washes, Creams and Eau de Toilette’s. The collection is made in England using fragrance extracts from British fruits, flowers and plants, features four distinct fragrances inspired by the coast, countryside, gardens and woodland looked after by the National Trust. Giving these as gifts will make you feel very virtuous in more ways than one! Prices start from £9.50 and are available from www.boots.com or www.nationaltrust.org.uk.