An Indulgent Self-care Shopping Guide
/10 must-have items for the ultimate in self-care
Inspiration to help you flourish
This shopping guide is filled with inspiring ideas for what you really want -- and deserve -- to leave you feeling fresh. Take care of you and treat yourself to one, a few, or all of these items.
Lightwater Harmony Essential Oil Blend
By creating a scent association in daily life, you build a scent-trigger that can easily help you slip into any mental/emotional space. Harmony essential oil blend is woody and herbaceous with fresh citrus and a resinous finish. Use Harmony for the heart, body, mind, and soul. Release the things that no longer serve. Protect from negative energy. Cultivate peace and balance. Diffuse for an uplifting and woody aroma, elevate your meditation practice, encourage the release of negative emotions, add a few drops to salts for a peaceful and rejuvenating bath.
Vicky Mina BB Cream
With a stunning selection of makeup that’s highly pigmented, super blendable, luxurious, easy to use, and affordable it’s hard to choose just one product to treat yourself with. This BB Cream Tinted Moisturizer has anti-aging serum built in and the finish is a beautiful glow. Available in four flexible shades that adapt to skin tones with sheer coverage.
BKIND Jade Facial Roller
In traditional Chinese medicine, Jade stone has been used since the 7th century in beauty treatments in order to stimulate acupuncture points on the face and offer many benefits. When you roll the jade stone from the middle to the edges of the face, it reduces tension and relaxes muscles while offering a pleasant massage. The cold stone helps to firm your skin, reduce puffiness and stimulate blood circulation in your face.
A Spa Moment
You deserve to make it all about you for a moment. Providing what you need for self-care and relaxation at home or while travelling, the Voda at Home Retreat is a self-care package delivered directly to you. Housed in reusable packaging the Spa Experience includes: a purifying cream cleanser, Raw juice mask, hydrating lotion, lip mask and conditioner, healing lip therapy, and a pocket comb. Treatment cards help guide you as you use each product to create the ultimate self care experience.
Available from Voda Curated Experiences
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Grazing Board
Treat yourself--and your appetite--to the ultimate treat. A fun-filled grazing board (or box) of sweet and savoury treats. A delightful mix of small bites, beautifully arranged for you by personal Chef Dany Duguay. Enjoy a selection of cured meats, a variety of cheese, crackers, olives, fresh fruits, nuts, maybe something sweet. Snack to your heart’s content. Perfect with a glass of wine and a good book, or with a few episodes of your current Netflix binge.
Available from Caper & Olive Catering Co.
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Honey & Lime Candle
Never underestimate the power of candle light. Lighting candles can provide a cozy atmosphere, inducing calm, reducing stress and inviting a sense of well-being. Candles can also be lit as a prayer for peace or request for healing. Plus they smell good! These hand-poured, all natural single wick eight ounce candles are hand-crafted in Nova Scotia and topped with a gold decorative twist-on lid. The Caribbean Coffee scented candle has a rich aroma of roasted coffee beans blended with vanilla and hints of hazelnut, while Snowva Scotia is a cool refreshing peppermint. Like the crisp cool winter air, this fragrance has just the right amount of Nova Scotia chill.
Nova 7
This iconic Nova Scotia rosé is slightly effervescent and perfectly celebratory, plus you can start drinking it at brunch. Pairs well with spicy foods, dessert and quality time with yourself. Of the 2020 vintage, the winemaker says “notes of freshly bloomed orchids are interlaced with a myriad of sliced papayas and starfruit...with energetic suggestions of key lime and honeydew melons. A refreshingly tonic and youthful Nova 7 blessed with both brightness and vibrancy.” Just like you.
The Gift by Dr. Edith Egers
Edith Eger’s powerful first book The Choice told the story of her survival in the concentration camps, her escape, healing, and journey to freedom. Now, in The Gift, Eger expands on her message of healing and provides a hands-on guide that gently encourages us to change the thoughts and behaviors that may be keeping us imprisoned in the past. Filled with empathy, insight, and humor, The Gift captures the vulnerability and common challenges we all face and provides encouragement and advice for breaking out of our personal prisons to find healing and enjoy life.
A DIY Craft Kit To Go
Tap into your creative side and take on an easy and practical DIY project. This crafty kit is available from Crafts by Megan and has everything you need to customize your own personal mug and wine glass. A perfect combination of making time and space to create something fun and a gift to yourself for enjoying your favourite beverages.
Available from Crafts with Megan
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Fresh Blooms
Treat yourself to a beautiful bouquet of fresh-cut blooms. Not the bunch of tulips at the grocery store check-out (those are nice too), but an all-out extravagant arrangement to make yourself smile, delivered to yourself! Flowers can instantly uplift your mood with a positive effect on your emotions, with your favourite colours on display and a fragrant smell that lingers for days. You know how nice it feels to send someone flowers, it's ok--and encouraged--to share the love with yourself too! It’s a nice thing to do for you. Callia is a female-founded company that delivers flowers across Canada. They arrive in a big beautiful 100% recyclable Callia box, the ultimate in indulgence.
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