Keep it cruelty-free under the tree

Have a sustainable cruelty free Christmas this year by choosing gifts with a conscience.

Codex Bia is a range of plant powered gifts that are sustainable, and of course, cruelty free. Festive Bytes Skin Superfood (€19.95) is a hydrating and nourishing treatment cream for face, hands, and body. Made with BiaComplex herbal formula, this cream helps treat dry, flaky, or irritated skin, leaving it silky smooth.

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Holiday Soap is made of French green and pink clays combined with nettle and wheatgrass to help refresh and balance skin. Scented with orange, mint and spruce, it’s suitable for all skin types.

Full Cleanse Set Exfoliating Wash (€39.95) is a gentle everyday cleanser with exfoliating natural jojoba grains. It’s infused with elderflower water, grapefruit, safflower, and milk thistle oils for both toning and cleansing benefits.

Jane Iredale is an iconic brand that is a clean, cruelty free brand loved by skin professionals.

Celebrate the magic of the season with the Illuminating Lights Face Palette (€66), a decadent array of luxe, glowing shades to illuminate and elevate any festive look.

The set includes two blushes in Gleam (shimmery light apricot) and Beam (shimmery guava), two highlighters in Twinkle (shimmery sheer peach) and Starlight (shimmery sheer guava) and a finish powder in Moonlight (soft yellow pearl) to take your healthy glow to a whole new dimension.

Jo Browne, a pioneer of eco-friendly beauty and wellness products in Ireland, has just added a beautiful candle to her ever-expanding range of luxury skincare, aromatherapy, and homewares, just in time for Christmas.

Priced at €25, the limited edition candle also comes with a Jo Browne bag. The 220ml candle is scented with pure essential oils of orange, clove, cinnamon, cardamon, and aniseed. Also available for Christmas is the Luxury Gift Set, which includes Facial Cleansing Balm and a 100 per cent eco-friendly bamboo facecloth for €38.

The Blends Gift Set, priced at €65, is another set sure to please on Christmas morning.

It contains four 10ml blends for aroma diffusers, including Fresh, a citrus scent to awaken you and freshen your home using a blend of essential oils including lemon, lime, bergamot, pine, and white camphor and Signature, a blend of the purest essential oils including bergamot, neroli, palmarosa, and rosemary to destress, calm the mind, uplift and brighten your mood, reduce anxiety and helps to reduce anger.

Calm can destress and bring calm to your mind using a blend of essential oils including rose, sandalwood, jasmine, basil, and roman chamomile.

Finally Breathe which has anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties by using a blend of essential oils including thyme, peppermint, black spruce, clary sage, and eucalyptus.

Abbott Williams offer hand-poured luxury candles. Each one has been carefully curated with ethical ingredients eliminating the use of palm oil.

With Abbott Williams being vegan and eco-friendly, the natural aromas will invite a sense of peacefulness into your being and warmth to your space.

Caribbean Kisses Tropical Coconut and Lime Scented Candle (€20) is the perfect scent for your home or office space.

Naturopath Claire Brett began exploring recipes for hand creams in her kitchen as a hobby in 2012 and now, eight years later, Dublin Herbalists skincare range features an array of products tailored to fit modern skincare needs.

Shaped by her education and upbringing in rural Kildare, along with her passion for taking care of our environment and the living creatures it sustains, the company’s ethos and commitment to natural ingredients that are never tested on animals, positions Dublin Herbalists one of the best natural skincare brands locally and globally.

Honouring carefully selected and sourced natural ingredients, many of its products, such as the Hand Cream Gift set (€26.95) are vegan. Each set contains three tubes of hand cream, delicately scented with essential oils.

With three scent combinations, Lemongrass and Bergamot, Sweet Orange and Bergamot and Rose and Jasmine and Bergamot in handy 30ml sizes, it is a great gift for the special someone in your life.

Aveda is a brand synonymous with plant science.

The Sap Moss collection set (€45) is silicone-free and formulated with a blend of Iceland moss and larch tree sap extract to hydrate hair without weighing it down.

Sap Moss shampoo gently cleanses while the conditioner instantly detangles, and together they infuse hair with weightless hydration leaving it feeling perfectly quenched and manageable.

The Sap Moss collection is infused with Aveda's own pure fume aroma with jasmine and certified organic olibanum and cypress.

This set also comes with Aveda’s Botanical Repair Strengthening Leave-In Treatment.