Looking for the perfect Christmas present for the special woman in your life? Here’s our top beauty and skincare gifts for Christmas 2018!
A gift for the sensitive loved one who cares
If your special someone has sensitive skin and likes to use dermocosmetic skincare brands, give her one of the following new launches from Uriage this year – one of France’s leading thermal water brands. Uriage is the richest thermal water, with the highest concentration of minerals and trace elements, and is 52 times richer than any other thermal water brand available in Ireland – something to impress your loved one with!
This smooth cream acts simultaneously on the signs of ageing and daily aggressions that our skin face, such as blue light, UV, pollution, stress and fatigue. This multi-action cream is enriched with SPF 30 UV protection, which leaves the skin perfectly hydrated and protected.
It prevents and corrects the signs of ageing, decreases the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, fights against loss of tone and lack of firmness, helps to prevent pigment spots and restores vitality and radiance. Enriched with glycerine and Uriage Thermal Water for a supple and hydrated skin. The skin is protected from the pollution and harmful effects of blue light and those of the Sun, thanks to the patent BLB and UV filters for protection SPF30.
For your sister
Now we bring you the PHYTO Christmas Sets – the perfect gift for anyone who wants healthy, fabulous hair!
Phyto was the first all-natural hair care brand. Their exquisite, all-encompassing range of supplements, shampoos, hydrators and treatments have been painstakingly developed to nurture every hair type and texture. So, whether your sister has dry, frizzy, weakened, fine or thinning hair, Phyto have a super-charged botanical solution that is perfect for her.
First up is the PHYTO Phytodensia Set, which includes the Phytodensia Plumping Serum and Phytodensia Plumping Shampoo, for anyone with thinning, devitalised hair.
For anyone with damaged or brittle hair, the Phytokératine Extrême Set is the perfect gift this Christmas.
This set includes the Phytokératine Extrême Exceptional Cream and the Phytokératine Extrême Exceptional Shampoo.
For your BFF
Made from 10 ingredients from Yunnan, the oldest tea region in China, the final combination contains the finest powerful ingredients full of naturally occurring properties that help give an energy boost. This minty and refreshing tea with lovely notes of rose petal and hibiscus, lotus leaf and Garcina Cambogia is perfect for any discerning tea drinker who appreciates fabulous flavour.
Chi Fit Tea is available in 14-day resealable packs, and each tea bag can be reused a minimum of four times maintaining the flavour and benefits.
Chi Fit Tea is available nationwide or online at chifittea.com.
For the coffee-drinker in your life
Chi Fit Coffee is a healthier alternative to your morning brew. It boasts nine powerful ingredients in total, each specifically chosen to give you a well-needed energy boost. Ninety-five percent of this blend consists of Arabica Black Coffee, which helps eliminate fatigue and can even aid weight loss.
Chi Fit recommends you enjoy this delicious coffee as part of a healthy and active lifestyle
Chi Fit Coffee is available nationwide or online at chifittea.com.
For the one who’s all go, go, go!
Ch Fit Tea Sleep Blend is made from 11 of the finest natural ingredients to help drinkers relax and wind down at the end of the day. Every ingredient was expertly selected for its unique properties. Combining mint and rose petals as a base, Chi Fit then added chamomile, hibiscus, lavender and jasmine, as well as valerian root and lily to create a delicious balance of flavour.
Chi Fit recommends you enjoy this delicious tea as part of a healthy and active lifestyle
Chi Fit Tea Sleep Blend is available nationwide or online at chifittea.com.
For the premium person in your phonebook
We are loving these fabulous skincare sets from leading French skincare brand Lierac. Combining botanical active ingredients with high standards of science and technology, LIERAC provides excellent solutions to all skincare needs of all ages, promoting a plump, glowing and youthful complexion. The following gift sets come from the LIERAC Magnificence and the LIERAC Hydragenist ranges, and who wouldn’t thank you for one of these sets, including a beauty bag, moisturisers and melt-in creams!
All gift sets available in pharmacies nationwide and at gadistribution.ie.
For your mum
The Premium Silky Cream that corrects all the signs of ageing: deep wrinkles, loss of density, slackening, uneven complexion, dark spots, pores, skin texture.
Its active second-skin texture immediately replenishes the skin with incredible finesse and an unparalleled velvety finish, like an undetectable silky veil.
Filorga Time-Filler
Filorga’s expertise in anti-ageing aesthetic medicine comes together in a highly concentrated elixir that corrects all types of wrinkles, the Filorga Time-Filler. Proven results in just three days!
Tripeptide limits muscular contractions and relaxes the skin for a younger-looking face. Hyaluronic acid is used for deeper diffusion and a visible filler effect. After just three days, the appearance of frown lines is reduced by 19%. After 28 days, all types of wrinkles are dramatically reduced: crow’s feet -37%, frown lines -39%, forehead creases -30%.
Available in pharmacies nationwide and at grahamanthonyonline.ie.
World leading botanical haircare brand Phyto, created by Patrick Ales, inventor of the ‘Blow-Dry’, launches Phyto RE30 – the first anti-grey hair treatment that brings back colour to your hair without using colouring pigments. The RE30 peptide, which is the result of six years of research, is revolutionary technology that is able to boost the natural pigment production, while protecting from future depigmentation. The results are clinically proven: depigmented at the root, your hair grows back with colour, stronger and softer.
For your KK – beauty on a budget? These products are the perfect gesture for your KK
Through its elegantly designed collections and refined fragrances, GOA sets the standard in the home fragrance sector, perfect for the interior obsessed person in your life.
Goatiers come in a variety of formats; room sprays, candles, potpourri, room diffusers and scented oil burners. You’ll find yourself deciding to stay in over the festive period after you’ve gifted one of GOA’s beautifully scented products to a family member.
Our top pick? The Classic Goatier 300ml in Honey Vanilla!
This nourishing and absorbing Delarom Rich Lip Balm will hydrate their lips, preventing them from going dry, whilst also helping them to appear fuller.
Directions for use are to apply several times a day and night in thick layers to repair damaged lips.
Available in pharmacies nationwide and at delarom.ie.
Uriage Eau Thermale Water Mist SPF 30 50ml is a thermal innovation: for the first time, a thermal mist is available on the Irish market that will hydrate and protect your loved one’s skin from UV and pollution!
An easy and quick spritz that she can use all day long. As invisible as it is efficient, this dry and subtle mist will infuse her skin with its unique moisturising complex.
Available in pharmacies nationwide and at uriage.ie.
Uriage Eau Thermale Water Sleeping Mask 50ml is a unique night care ideal for the moisturising of dehydrated skin.
This mask is enriched with the Thermal Water of Uriage, which helps to reconstruct the cutaneous barrier to maintain an optimal moisturising level for your loved one’s skin. It also contains anti-oxidant Edelweiss extract that leaves the skin looking and feeling fresh and radiant.
Apply a fine layer every evening on a cleansed face. Leave on for the night. This allows this mask to infuse its active ingredients overnight for fresh and rested skin in the morning. Rinse off the following day with Uriage Thermal Micellar Water or spray the Uriage Thermal Water to prolong the moisturising effect on your KK’s skin. Skin is left feeling relaxed, moisturised, supple and soft, with a smoothed texture.
Available in pharmacies nationwide and at uriage.ie.
For the New Mum in your Life
Mustela have been the skincare expert and leading brand in Europe for babies, children and mothers for over 60 years.
They provide safe and innovative products that protect and preserve the health of the most fragile skin of infants, babies, children, as well as new and expecting mothers.
Their products are innovative, safe, efficient and always natural.
This year, Mustela has released two kits perfect to gift to anyone celebrating their first Christmas… or second!
And for the Soon-to-Be New Mum
Mustela Stretch Marks Prevention Oil is both rich in texture and naturally dry, so it feels silky on your skin and absorbs quickly. Improves skin elasticity and softness to contribute to preventing the appearance of stretch marks.
Specially formulated for expectant and new mothers, Stretch Marks Prevention Oil helps prevent the appearance of stretch marks, thanks to its unique combination of active ingredients and ingredients of natural origin.
Starting from the first month of pregnancy and continuing after birth, massage oil on the abdomen, hips, thighs and breasts, in the morning and evening.
Available in pharmacies nationwide.