The best gifts are always made by hand. Especially bath and body products - they're both beautiful and useful.
Find holiday gift ideas below! We included projects for every skill level, craft, and budget.
Browse all our handmade holiday projects here.
Cold and hot process soap
Pink Peony Soap
For this design, we wanted something simple and sophisticated. It has a white base that's topped with a peony embed and bursting beads. It's the perfect project if you don't want something too seasonal.
Orange Spice Hot Process Soap
If you're looking for something that's festive and easy to make, give this project a try. It's made with Lots of Lather Quick Mix, natural orange peel powder, and a blend of cinnamon and orange essential oil. Nice and simple!
Cranberry Cocktail Soap
This is a quintessential Christmas recipe. It has a red and green color palette and it's scented with Cranberry Cocktail Fragrance Oil. The angled design is perfect for more experienced makers.
Melt and pour and rebatch soap
Lump of Coal Rebatch Soap
These are great stocking stuffers. To make them, heat Luxury Rebatch Base. Then, add activated charcoal, a pinch of Snowflake Sparkle Mica, and Sandalwood Vanilla Fragrance Oil. Feel free to customize these bars with your favorite additives!
Gentle Oatmeal Soap
Make these bars for friends and family with senstive skin. Oatmeal Melt and Pour Base is gentle and hydrating. The soap is scented with Golden Oats Fragrance Oil, which is a sweet mix of honey, vanilla, amber, and cocoa.
Gingerbread Man Soap
Piping melt and pour soap is an easy way to make your bars look special. For this recipe, we added a white outline and cute red buttons to the Gingerbread Mold. Once the bars are cool, they're ready to gift.
Bath bombs
Peppermint Candy Bath Bombs
This design is easier than it looks! Just mix green and red mica with rubbing alcohol and paint on the stripes. To complement the look, the bath bombs are scented with Candy Cane Fragrance Oil.
Gold Glimmer Bath Bombs
These will take you all the way through to the new year! It uses a similar mica painting technique, but it doesn't require as much precision. First, roll the bath bombs in Snowflake Sparkle Mica and then drizzle on King's Gold Mica mixed with alcohol.
Sparkling Snowball Bath Truffles
You can make 18 truffles with this project, which is plenty to gift. Maybe keep a few for yourself too! They're made with skin-loving butters and topped with biodegradable glitter. An ice cream scoop creates the fun shape.
Body care
Peony and Amberwood Massage Oil
Massage oil is the perfect romantic gift for your partner! This one is extra easy too. You only need two ingredients - our skin-loving massage oil base and Peony and Amberwood Fragrance Oil.
Floral Body Salve
This all-natural recipe will keep skin moisturized all winter long. It's a mix of olive oil, beeswax, and coconut oil infused with marigold petals. Lavender essential oil adds a subtle floral scent.
Maple Pecan Solid Scrub Bars
Maple Pecan Fragrance Oil will be your new favorite in no time. It's a must-have for the holidays, so we added it to these scrub bars. The combo of butter, sugar, and walnut shells leaves skin feeling smooth and hydrated.
Skincare
Oatmeal and Honey Face Mask
This one is perfect for those with sensitive or extra dry skin. Ingredients like jojoba oil and honeyquat hydrate, while kaolin clay and colloidal oatmeal add a soothing feeling. It's naturally colored with yellow clay and left unscented.
Floral Lip Scrub
You get a lot of bang for your buck with this one! The recipe makes 15 giftable lip scrubs. Along with sugar and cocoa butter, they're made with Rose Gold Mica and Passionfruit Rose Flavor Oil.
Rose Eye Serum
This serum is packed with natural ingredients like rosehip seed oil, jojoba oil, and evening primose extract. We chose them because they're hydrating without feeling too heavy, which is perfect for the sensitive skin around eyes.
Candles
Hickory and Suede Candles
There's nothing cozier than these candles. They fill the room with warm notes of sandalwood, spiced musk, suede, and lavender, along with the natural smoky scent of yellow beeswax. Plus, the wooden wicks make a soft crackling sound as they burn.
Frosted Fir Layered Candles
This design is more advanced, but the results are definitely worth the work. Ombre green layers complement Frosted Fir Fragrance Oil, which is a fresh mix of wild berry, spruce, plumeria, and musk.
Gingerbread Candles
You don't need to bake to make your home smell amazing! Just light one of these candles. Golden Wax 464 carries the sweet and spicy notes throughout your home. Bonus - the jars fit perfectly in Christmas stockings!
