Happy Gift Giving
This is the best vegan gift guide, ever. It truly is, and the best part is that this gift guide doesn’t just have to be for the holidays. It can be for any time. Think about birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other celebration you’d give someone something for. With this guide, you don’t even have much thinking to do. You definitely don’t need to stress out about it because everyone will love these amazing gems! There’s something for everyone in this guide, so look no further for the perfect and most thoughtful gifts that people will actually want and use.
For The Travel Devotee
Fillgood and Plaine Products both have refillable bottles you can use to travel with, and CocoTube has tubes you can put coconut oil in to travel with. Matt & Nat has awesome weekender bags, and Bags From Beyond backpacks are great for travel as well. LunchSkins are another great option for storing food in their reusable and dishwasher-safe sandwich, snack, gallon sized, and lunch bags. Radius has a travel toothbrush along with vegan floss sachets made to travel with. Quagga Green has two different travel size bags (Festive Foil Zip Pouch and Party Clutch) that are perfect for travel. Live Vessel has beautiful travel mugs that keep your drinks warm or cold, alkaline, and won’t spill.
For The Beauty Lover
100 Percent Pure has lovely options for vegan, cruelty-free, and chemical-free makeup. Clean Faced Cosmetics is so cool, has pure ingredients, and is zero waste. Crazy Rumors has the best lip balms, Dimension Nails has the best nail polishes, and Shhhowercap has the best shower caps. Every single one of Soapwalla’s products are pure, cruelty-free, vegan, and chemical-free. So perfect. Their deodorant cream is the only deodorant I use, and I’ve been using it for years. This ice roller is so fun and wonderful, a wooden brush is a must for your best hair, and Nemat Perfumes, Tsi-La Organics, and Lilly Be are perfumes that are chemical-free, cruelty-free, and vegan. Kimberly Snyder has created her own skincare, and it’s super amazing. Dr. Bronner’s soaps and coconut oil are the best. S.W. Basics has the best floral water facial mists, and their rose water is my favorite. GingerChi has super pure adn high quality aromatherapy, oils, and skincare products. Their jute meridian body dry brush is amazing.
For The Eco-Friendly Aficionado
Stashers can replace plastic zipper bags, are reusable, silicone, and can be put in the dishwasher, freezer, and fridge. Lunch Skins are reusable bags can also replace plastic zipper bags. Lifefactory has the best water bottles. Glacce has glass and stainless steel water bottles with real crystals inside of them. Coconut Bowls has such awesome and pretty bowls plus utensils you can take anywhere and use forever. Simply Straws are perfect. Simple Ecology has a big variety of produce bags and totes to take to the store and everywhere else. Marley’s Monsters has fun reusable paper towels, napkins, cotton pads, and more. Glasslock containers are the best for food storage to take anywhere. Branch Basics has such a wonderful system set up. You pick your refillable bottle, choose your soap, add water to it, shake it up and clean everything with it. This is great for everyone.
Molly’s Suds has the best powder laundry detergent plus lots of other great cleaning products to get stains out of clothes, sink scrub, brushes, cotton towels, and glass spray bottles. Mother Erth creates beautiful bags and accessories made by women artisans from discarded plastic, so every time someone buys one, they are essentially helping to clean up the environment. Goods Holding Company has such helpful and amazing glass jars that are pre-weighed for bulk bin shopping (powders, herbs, spices, grains, beans, legumes, nuts, seeds, etc.). Brilliant!
For The Healthy Living Enthusiast
There are so many phenonemal cookbooks, so here are the ones that literally everyone will like and love: The Vegan 8 Cookbook by Brandi Doming, Blissful Basil Cookbook by Ashley Melillo, The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon, No Excuses Detox by Megan Gilmore, Simply Delicious Vegan by Caitlin Shoemaker, The Plant-Based Cookbook For Women by Shannon Leparski, and Everyday Detox by Megan Gilmore. All of Kimberly Snyder’s books (The Beauty Detox Solution, The Beauty Detox Foods, The Beauty Detox Power, Radical Beauty, and Recipes For Your Perfectly Imperfect Life) are life-changing, and so is The Happy Hormone Guide by Shannon Leparski. LEKfit workouts are fun, challenging, and effective. There is a digital subscription available, and new workouts are added every week. Misfits Markets is an affordable produce subscription box available in two different sizes filled with organic fruits and vegetables. Imperfect Foods is also great as a food subscription box. So incredible and simple! Calm is a subscription service paid for monthly or annually through an app that includes meditations, sleep, and relaxation with music, nature scenes, stories, masterclasses, and more.
Kimberly Snyder has created the best probiotics, digestive enzymes, and cleansing oxygen supplements that all work beautifully together, and there’s a subscription option. She also has some helpful digital programs that everyone can benefit from: Cooking Videos + Recipes Course, 30 Day Roadmap to Healthy Weight Loss, and The Beauty Detox Power Yoga Series. Herbs and spices are super important, last a long time, and have a lot of benefits when adding them to food. The best ones are Frontier Co-op and Simply Organic (owned by Frontier Co-op). Vanilla also adds great depth to foods, and getting the real and best kind makes all the difference. The Spoonk Mat is an awesome acupressure mat that helps with stress, tension, anxiety, and muscular pain. The Pranamat is another great option. Vital Red Light is LED red light therapy that can help with healing, rejuvenation, and more. The Flexistretcher is amazing for improving your flexibility and has been created for you to stretch in many different ways benefiting you and your body.
For The Knowledge Fanatic
All of these books teach something and are fun and interesting to read: all of Cara Alwill’s books, Rich As F*ck by Amanda Frances, Danielle LaPorte’s books (The Desire Map, The Fire Starter Sessions, and The White Hot Truth), The Daily Laws by Robert Greene, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, My Gentle Barn by Ellie Laks, Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals by Rory Freedman, Keep It Simple Keep It Whole by Alona Pulde and Matthew Lederman, Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert, The Complete Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life by Twyla Tharp, The Story of Film by Mark Cousins, Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon, Atomic Habits by James Clear, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, and Keep Going by Austin Kleon.
Subscriptions and memberships are the gifts that keep on giving, and they’re definitely my favorite. Everyone will love these: Masterclass (everything from film, tv, writing, sports, photography, business, leadership, music, fashion, and a lot more from the world’s best experts), Grow You (Life Coach Natalie Bacon’s group coaching is the personal development membership for your mind complete with a new theme every month, a course, a workbook, calls with her, a written coaching forum, and bonus courses), Girl on Fire Collective (Cara Alwill’s group coaching membership with monthly themes, calls, workbooks, guest speakers, journal prompts, worksheets, and a private Facebook group), The Solluna Circle (Kimberly Snyder’s Online Community with a different theme every month along with audios, videos, mothly elixir recipes, monthly meditations, monthly calls, and journal PDFs that support your wellness), Criterion (every film lover will love and need this subscription of films hard to find anywhere else plus interviews, commentaries, and more), Filmatique (every film lover wiill also appreciate and love this one that has independent films and foreign films), and Met Opera On Demand (any opera lover will appreciate a subscription to watch it all any time anywhere).
Jewelry & Crystals
Mostly everyone loves beautiful jewelry and stunning crystals. There are so many awesome jewelry makers who all create such lovely jewelry everyone wants to wear: Jewels by SJB, Worthy Wands, New Breed Crystals, Mantra Band, and Spiritual Junkies.
Crystals are everything! These are all high quality ones: Zaraluna, The Colourful Dot, All That Shimerzz, Mantra Minerals, and Illuminate Your Vibe.
Candles & Essential Oils
It’s all about the smell when it comes to candles, it’s also important that they’re made from coconut or soy wax of high quality, and you can use the glass jars for storing things in or as decor when the wax is all gone. These candles are perfect: Cadence Candle Co (candles with a playlist, so genius and cool!), Salt & Shore (southern lifestyle candles), Starling Project Candle (the candle that gives back), The Astral Boutique (candles infused with essential oils, herbs, and crystals), Soul-Terra (mystery pyramid candles), Zen Den Candles (the crystal candle), Paddywax (each candle has a story), Wandering Essentials (candles that have unique scents and are made with coconut wax), and Amethyst & Amber Candles (the coolest looking candles that are handmade with crystal, geode, and agate).
Essential oils are so amazing! Here are the best ones: Aura Cacia, Essential Oils Wizardry, and Saje Natural Wellness. Oil diffusers are also amazing. This Positively Poosh Diffuser Kit by Saje Natural Wellness and Poosh is one of the best, plus they have many more amazing diffusers and blends.
Chocolates & Teas
So many people love chocolate, so check out Food Empowerment Project’s chocolate list to find choclates that aren’t sourced from areas where there is child labor and/or slavery. When you go to the brand of chocolate website, you can read the ingredients to find out if they are vegan.
Teas are amazing for wellness, and they’re great for any occasion any time of the year. Here are the most top notch real teas available: Traditional Medicinals, Organic India, Triple Leaf, Numi, Yogi, Arbor Teas, and Rishi.
Message Tees & Apparel
Everyone loves a great message tee. All of these have a vegan message and are made with eco-friendly materials and are sweatship-free. They’re so awesome and fun: Humane Apparel, FTLA Apparel, Vegan Supply Co, Compassion Co, The Herbivore Clothing Co, Vegetaryn, Alba Paris, and Aesthetic Kale Clothing.
Unique & Gorgeous Gifts
These are so stunning, beautiful, and gorgeous! They’re unique finds that everyone will love, and threy range from decor, bags, leggings, planners, mugs, accessories, to other unique gems. Here are the beauties: Essarai Ceramics (Seriously, I don’t know how he does it, but these are incredibly stunning!), Chelseas Flowercrowns (My goodness, these crowns are absolutely breathtaking!), Garden24 (postitive, meaningful, and thoughtful prints, stickers, notecards, magnets, and apparel by artist, writer, and designer Morgan Harper Nichols), The Sweet Karma Bar (beautiful stained glass art), Mystic Earth (pretty and awesome wands, wall art, and more), Natural Life (a variety of cool and fun rando things, like clothes, accessories, stationery, pillows, blankets, decor, mugs, bags, pouches, etc.), Note and Shine (eco-friendly pretty manifestation and self-love stationery, journals, and planners), Goddess Provisions subscription box (crystals, ritual tools, self-care, altar adornments, sacred space decor, divination tools, jewelry, and spiritual books), and Obvious State (beautiful literary gifts).
Thistle Farms (handcrafted soaps, candles, essential oils, baskets, accessories, and jewelry made by women who are survivors), Farm Sanctuary Shop (apparel, bags, hats, jewelry, home goods, and sweets that when purchased, help the animals at the Farm Sanctuary) The Gentle Barn Store (books, bags, apparel, mugs, cups, and art that when purchased, help the animals at The Gentle Barn), Purusha People (the most precious and perfect handmade leggings made from materials from the earth), Gunas (the best most gorgeous vegan bags, ever), Jewels By SJB handmade, beautiful, unique bookmarks made with genuine gemstones, Freq Rituals (modern manifestation tools of mist, elixir, and bath salts), Bloomscape (beautiful plants delivered to you), and Kinds of Grace (beautiful handbags and wallets).
More Vegan Gift Ideas
Some other awesome vegan gift ideas are vegan recipe books, making something, like vegan granola, cookies, cake, bread (banana bread, zucchini bread, sourdough bread, pumpkin bread, etc.), bars, muffins, etc. for them, gift cards to your favorite vegan businesses, plants, pillows and blankets, kitchen appliances (blender, juicer, mini fridge, dehydrator, steamer, air fryer, instant pot, dishes, mugs, cookware, food processor, cutting, board, etc.), a basket filled with vegan snacks, coffee table books (fashion travel, photography, interior design, decor, home, Hollywood, themed, quotes, etc.), filling a notebook with affirmations you think of for them, writing a series of letters for them to read throughout the year, puzzles and games, gift certificates to a spa, salon, restaurant, etc., a guide/playlist of podcast episodes, videos, movies, songs, tv episodes, blog posts, etc., that you pick specifically for them, and a day dedicated to them filled with their favorites and surprises you think that they’ll love.
Ending Thoughts
I hope you and yours love these gift ideas! I spent time thinking very thoroughly which ones were great enough to make this guide, so that only the best are on this list. Vegan, cruelty-free, pure ingredients, high quality, mostly small companies, sweatshop-free, ethical, eco-friendly, useful, helpful, fun, unique, beautiful, thoughtful, and meaningful. Keep your standards high, and never settle. Have an amazing, fun, and happy holiday!
