Beauty Bible Gift Guide 2025: The best gifts from £15-25
We figure that many of the gifts our readers will be offering will fall into this £15-25 category. Trust us: the world is not full of people who casually lavish hundreds of quid on everyone in their circle, despite what the glossies and the Sunday papers give the impression of.
We honestly would be thrilled to receive any of the gifts featured this week, from some of our most stalwart brand faves – that’s our filter, when it comes to choosing the offerings in any of our Gift Guides: would WE like to find it under the tree, ourselves…? (Note: we’ve put recommended prices but we’re in the midst of Black Friday madness, so you might bag some good deals.)
Weleda Skin Food Glow Up (main pic)
Skin Food is a never-fails-to-please skincare line, and this is a great ‘starter’ kit (or top-up for the legions of Skin Food-lovers out there), featuring good old Skin Food itself – that all-over nourisher for dry skin – along with Skin Food Lip Balm (one of our fave all-natural lip treats) and Skin Food Ultra-Light Dry Oil, a spritzable, skin-nurturing mist featuring extracts of pansy, calendula, chamomile and rosemary, infused into the base oils. (We reviewed it here, and have lost count of the number of times Skin Food has featured on Beauty Bible.) The value of these goodies is £33, BTW.
£24 – buy here
Reckon we’re all going to be needing one of these, over the holiday season. (When it all gets too much, Jo plans to go and stand in the cupboard in her office, where she keeps her stationery, and which is the tidiest place in her house). Here, enjoy a small Real Luxury Scented Candle (lavender, jasmine, sandalwood), alongside Multi-Mineral Body Milk, which is infused with the same scent.
£15 – buy here
Cath Kidston The Christmas Journey Games Tin
Created by our friends at Heathcote & Ivory, who really know their hand and lip stuff. And their tins. Boy, do they know their tins; we can’t ever bear to part with them, always giving each tin a second life for sewing stuff, paperclips, etc. Well, this cute offering already comes with a set of cards and of dice, along with a super-softening hand cream scented with Yuletide Red Berry & Cedarwood, and an Eggnog lip balm powered by coconut oil, vitamin E and shea butter. Game on!
£16 – buy here
For the L’Occitane Almond-lover (and gosh, there are loads out there!) A really darling little set with that sweet, almond-y, nothing-like-it-out-there fragrance, and a trio of the absolute Almond bestsellers Almond Shower Oil (35ml) – literally the best thing for shaving legs we’ve ever found – plus Almond Milk Concentrate (20ml), for bodies, and Almond Hand Cream (30ml). Worth £19.50 – and at fifteen quid, most definitely worth every penny of that.
£15 – buy here
One of our favourite lip balm discoveries of 2025, in a quartet of dinky minis, delivering a sheer sweep of colour: Vanilla Beige (a beige neutral – doesn’t make lips looked washed out!), Cherry (gorgeous wine-y burgundy), Pink Guava (pinky-red) and Sweet Mint (shiny, clear, zingy). Absolutely no excuse not to have one in every pocket, after they’ve been given this.
£25 – buy here
Nails Inc Cherry Noir Polish Set
What a gorgeous pair! Absolutely classic shades, in a gel-finish-that-isn’t-a-gel formula (and thus, won’t trash your nails). One is a classic deep burgundy, while the other offers a shimmering, glimmering version of almost the same shade, which will have them ferreting out their favourite sandals to show this off. (Too cold to get your toes out? Classically chic for a manicure, too!)
£15 – buy here
Barrier-building brilliance from BYOMA, who really got the dialogue about this subject going, big-time, and their skincare ‘icons’ feature in this gift set, based around hydrating, nourishing, protective ingredients like , ceramides and niacinamide: Creamy Jelly Cleanser (30ml), Hydrating Milky Toner (30ml), Hydrating Serum (15ml), Moisturising Gel Cream (15ml), Ultralight Face Fluid SPF 50 (10ml). No huge savings, here (just £3 off the list price of these individual items), but we’re crazy for the useful zip-up bag that it comes inside. (They call it ‘purple’. We call it ‘Beauty Bible pink.’)
£22 – buy here
C.Atherley Geranium No.3 Hand Cream
Sometimes, simple is best. This hand cream from Cath Kidston MBE’s new venture – which we’re pretty bonkers about – is divinely skin-smoothing and velvety yet sinks in fast, veiling hands with the most gorgeous, sherbet-lemony scent of Mabel Grey scented pelargonium. There are some fab gifts in this range, but we can’t think of a soul who wouldn’t love this. (Though there are two other geranium scents in the same product on the site, too. It’s your call.)
£18 for 75ml – buy here
Neal’s Yard Remedies Restoring Bath Collection
When you give someone bath goodies, it’s like saying: ‘Lock the door on the world and take some time for YOU.’ In this set, a trio of Neal’s Yard Remedies’ iconic infusions: Seaweed & Arnica Foaming Bath, Aromatic Foaming Bath and Geranium & Orange Foaming Bath. Bliss.
£25 – buy here
