Small Business Saturday: Small Business Gift Guide

Small Business Saturday is a reminder to shop at small businesses too. Small businesses are the cornerstone of our economy, so it’s important to support them! 

Candles, soap, and bath and body products make wonderful holiday gifts for anyone on your list. They represent self-care, indulgence, and self love. Giving artisanal products makes them even more special. 

This list includes some of our favorite small business makers and their amazing products. These gifts will help your friends and family pamper themselves. They deserve it!

Gifts for those with sensitive skin

Gold and Water Co is a company that specializes in soap and bath products made in small batches and created to provide a lavish pampering experience. As a company, Gold and Water Co also supports local anti-abuse organizations and those addressing mental health care needs in their community, Philadelphia, PA.

For anyone on your gift list with sensitive skin or a sensitive nose, they offer this BARE Signature Handcrafted Soap. It has no added fragrances or colors, and is rich with coconut milk, soothing oatmeal, and skin friendly oils like coconut oil and shea butter. It’s the perfect basic handmade soap bar. Each 4 oz bar sells for $10.00.

Gifts for bath product addicts

Do you have someone on your gift list that’s positively obsessed with bath and body products? 

Michigan based Little Flower Soap is a family-run body care company specializing in handmade gifts and home goods. They focus on using quality ingredients and producing their products in small batches so they’re the best they can be.
For the bath and body addict on your list, they offer this beautiful Complete Spa Gift Set. The set includes:

• 1 3.5 oz soap of your choice.
• 1 lip balm of your choice.
• 1 4 oz package of bath salts.
• 1 muscle rescue balm
• 1 skin rescue balm

This is beautifully packaged and gift-ready in a kraft gift box topped with a ribbon and gift card!
We love this gift set because the choice of soap and lip balm makes it easy for you to get just what that person on your gift list will love. It’s also a wonderful deal at just $28.00.

Gifts for masculine folks

Eden Body Care is a family company in Las Vegas, Nevada. After starting their own little homestead there, they discovered a passion for clean living. Looking for ways to get away from chemicals they were uncomfortable with in their everyday life, they started making their own soap.

They now sell goat milk soap made from milk from their very own herd of goats.

Pampering bath and body products are for everyone! For the gentleman in your life that loves having healthy, clean, and soft skin, this Leatherworks Goat Milk Soap is made from a base of coconut oil and olive oil. It’s supplemented with skin friendly oils, like shea butter and cocoa butter. It has a rich leather fragrance and is colored with cocoa powder and mica.

This is an approximately 4.5 oz bar of soap, and sells for just $8.00. It’s a great gift for the special guy on your gift list, or for anyone who just loves the rich scent of leather.

Gifts for flower children

Cocoa Body Co is a company dedicated to producing soap and bath products using natural, vegan ingredients. They create products that are better for you and better for the environment. With deep roots in mental health, they donate a portion of all profits to organizations that provide mental health resources and outreach, with a focus on the BIPOC community.

Their Signature Body Polish offers gentle but effective exfoliation in a creamy base to help protect your skin. The brown sugar and coffee grounds sweep away dead skin, revealing smoother, brighter skin. Letting the polish rest for a few minutes before rinsing helps to moisturize the skin surface even more. 

With natural, vegan ingredients, the environmentalist you know can indulge without feeling guilty.

Gifts for kids or the young at heart

ABCD Farmhouse is a family run business using their own farm products to make handcrafted soap and other body products. For ingredients that they can’t grow themselves, they purchase from reputable suppliers and make sure that everything that goes into their products is skin safe. 

Kids love making bath time fun. Playing in the water is a different experience to playing on the floor, after all. What’s more fun than a bubble bath? This Bubble Bath Dough is a solid bubble bath mix that can be played with and molded like play dough! Scented with essential oils (available in lavender or citrus) and colored with micas, it’s safe for kids to use in the tub. 

This container has 4 oz of dough, and sells for $8.00.

Gifts for those who need a little pampering

Whether you’re a busy parent or the breadwinner of the household, or just dealing with stress in general, sometimes you just need a little pampering. The bathtub is a perfect place for a time out, especially when you can surround yourself with colors, smells, and silky oils that relax and restore you. OMG Bath Treats has a big assortment of bath bombs, artisan soaps, salts, and more to choose from. You’ll definitely find something to pamper that person on your list who needs a chance to slow down, even if it’s you.

Gifts for any budget

Artisan soaps are a wonderful gift to give, but they can be expensive. This is because they’re often made in small batches with high quality ingredients.
 

Bittersweet Soapworks makes artisan soaps that use skin-friendly oils. Their products are vegan, cruelty free, and made with high quality, natural ingredients. That means they’re friendly to the environment as well as your skin.
If your budget is limited, they have a great deal; Oopsie! Twin packs! Sometimes soap batches don’t turn out quite as expected. These bars of soap still work great and build a beautiful lather, but they may have slight imperfections. You get two bars for less than the price of one. 

Perfect to pamper someone without breaking the bank.

The Oopsie! Pack comes with two imperfect bars of soap for only $5.95.

Gifts for the magical ones

If someone on your list has a fondness for the strange, the dark, and the mysterious, it might be hard to find bath and body products. A lot of product lines are all sunshine and flowers. 

Fortunately, Bathroom Cult has the answer. This company produces magical themed items like soaps and candles that are perfect for those friends and family members who wish every day was Halloween.

This Tasseomancy Bath Potion is perfect. Tasseomancy is the age-old practice of reading tea leaves, and this salt bath combines green tea leaves and green tea extract for a magical, soothing experience. 

The Tasseomancy Bath Potion retails for $14.00, and comes in a 6 oz jar.

Gifts for vegans

It’s important to know what’s in your bath and body products. This is especially true when buying gifts for folks who live a cruelty-free or environmentally friendly lifestyle. You wouldn’t want to give a friend or loved one a gift that they couldn’t feel good about using.
 

Carnation Soap Company offers a line of artisan soaps that are vegan. They come in a range of fragrances, like this Summer Blackberry Soap, and have the ingredients used listed on the product page. This means that you can make sure that no animal fats, dairy products, or other animal products are in any of their products. They’re affordable, too! That means you can pair these soaps with a scrub, lotion, or shower steamer, too.

The Summer Blackberry Soap is approximately 4.5 oz at $6.00 per bar.

For gifts that last

Maggie Ann Soap started in 2014, and is dedicated to selling bars of soap that are sustainable and beautiful. Every bar of soap is a work of art! She also sells bath bombs, scrubs, lip balms, and more. The company prides itself on being 100% sustainable and almost 100% vegan. Their products use no artificial ingredients, no detergents, and no animal fats. They also look for sustainably sourced ingredients, and use locally sourced ingredients whenever possible.

This company offers a subscription service that can ship soap to a special someone on your gift list monthly. They have two tiers; the first, the scrap club, delivers a pack of at least 5 end-pieces of soap for a monthly charge of only $9.50/month.

The All My Favorites subscription, you’ll receive an assortment of items each month, including lotions, candles, lip balms, soap, and more, each month. This subscription is $24.00/month. These are gifts that can keep pampering the recipient for months.

Gifts for the art lover

Everyone likes to receive something beautiful, but some folks are just crazy for art. Grey Fox Candles, based in Alaska, offers candles and bath products inspired by the natural beauty in the great white north. In addition, her products come labeled with gorgeous watercolor art on the labels.

One product heavily inspired by their home in Alaska is the Alaska Honey Sugar Scrub. This scrub comes in 16 different scents, like Girdwood Blueberry and Mahogany Apple. But what makes this scrub extra special is that it’s made with green glacial silt from, you guessed it, Alaska! Glacial silt has a high mineral content and a moisturizing effect on skin. It’s also a natural gentle exfoliant.

While $35.00 per jar may sound steep, this scrub comes in a hefty 16 oz jar.

Gifts for the maker on your list

If you’re buying something for a friend or family member who is already creative and loves to make things, you can help them make their own bath and body products! When you give DIY projects, you’re not only giving the adventure and satisfaction of creativity, you could be giving someone a new hobby.

Bramble Berry offers this Natural Lip Balm Kit that contains all the ingredients needed to make handcrafted lip balm; even the tubes to put it in. The balms are made with beeswax, sweet almond oil, and soothing chamomile. Scented with orange essential oil, they’ll be a delight to use as well as make.

This kit makes between 30 and 35 lip balms and sells for $43.99. With that many balms, your friend or family member will have plenty to share with others, too!

Everyone on your gift list deserves a little luxury and pampering. By choosing bath and body products as gifts, you’re helping them take care of their soul as well as their body.