(Review, Giveaway) Beauty Products That Smell Like Comfort Foods Gift Guide 2011
From comforting smells (hello mulled wine and cinnamon rolls) to the fir tree, the holidays are always about smells and the visuals. So, we bring you a variety of holiday products that are sure to evoke the comfort foodie in you. And, as with everything else that’s good for you, they’re calorie-free indulgences…how can you top that?
Laura Mercier Souffle Body Cream Sampler Set ($50)
This quartet of body creams is attractively priced when you know that an individual souffle body creme jar can retail well north of $50; four scents in one box is a great deal for the holidays. The scents come in new Fresh Fig, Almond Coconut Milk, Crème Brûleé and Crème de Pistache. Be careful you don’t put any on your fresh baked scones! Plus, the polyfoil tubes look tinsel-y.
The Body Shop Cranberry Joy Body Scrub and Soap ($18)
Nothing beats a jar of Body Shop Body Butter…at least that’s the saying in my household. This season, I love the way they’ve packaged the essence of cranberry into a delicious scrub and a complimentary soap. The scent is not too strong (no clothespin needed), and the packaging is all about the festive…the label looks like good wrapping paper, no?
L’Occitane Holiday Hand Cream Bouquet ($50)
If you’ve wanted a hand cream set that looks like pure luxury, smells like a hothouse, and is packaged like Kate’s Paperie, then you’ve hit the jackpot when it comes to L’Occitane’s new Holiday Hand Cream Bouquet featuring six mini Shea Butter Hand Creams. Seriously, it’s one of the finest items you can spend your money on this season, and the payoff is richly hydrated hands. Who needs wrapping paper and creme brulee when you can just gift this beauty?
The scents include Cocoa Flower, Desert Rose, Hibiscus Flower, Pivoine Flora, Shea Butter and Vanilla (all one ounce each).
L’Occitane Limited Edition Shea Butter Collection
The Cocoa Flower Hugs and Kisses Hand Cream and Lip Balm Set retails for $19 and makes a perfect stocking stuffer
With packaging designed by L’Occitane founder Olivier Baussan, the Limited Edition collection features the essences of indigenous African flowers. Think Desert Rose (which reminds me of Indian sweets), Hibiscus (which reminds me of Argo Tea’s Hibiscus Coolers) and Cocoa Flower from the Ivory Coast, which does smell faintly chocolate-y.
The products range from the Ultra Rich Body Cream ($21), Hand Cream ($10) and Lip Balm ($12).
Shiseido Honey Cake Soap
Did someone mention honey and cake in the same sentence? And wait, it’s green? This is the cult classic that launched in 1956 and it’s back for the holidays! These luxurious French-milled soaps are translucent and pretty delicious to smell too. Best of all, for only $7.50 you get a product that you can use for both your body and hair. It’s available exclusively online at Shiseido.com now through the holidays, in two colors: ruby red and green.
We are giving away one product from the above to a lucky winner. Leave a comment below to tell us what YOUR favorite holiday comfort food is.
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My favorite holiday comfort food is lumpias!!
I love pumpkin pie!
My favourite comfort food is shepherd’s pie
Pumpkin pie!
My favorite comfort food is PEPPERMINT! There is peppermint icecream (new addiction), peppermint coffee, peppermint hot chocolate, peppermit cheesecake, and so many other things. When all the peppermint flavors start rolling out thats when I know the holidays have begun! Something about it makes me feel warm and kinda happy. Silly I know, but I L.O.V.E peppermint.
My favorite Holiday drink is Ponche, a hot Mexican drink containing fruits, sugar cane, etc
I love Mexican hot chocolate this time of year. It is both sweet and spicy. mmmmmm…
Definitely a full turkey dinner!
Anything chocolate to feel happy, and anything orangey to feel energized. Orange flavored dark chocolate is absolutely amazing!!!!!
My favorite holiday comfort food is chocolate covered cherries:)
I LOVE pumpkin cheesecake!
My favorite food smell is vanilla
My favourite holiday comfort food has to be homemade shortbread cookies! My mom makes them with a special recipe that differs from normal shortbread so the cookies are lighter. She puts red and green sprinkles on them sometimes or with a blob of jam in the middle. Absolutely amazing!
My favorite holiday comfort food is my mom’s homemade cabbage.
I love bath products with food smells preferably anything vanilla. I’m such a fat kid food calms me and since I can’t always indulge coming home and taking a hot showers with a delicious scented by wash and slathering on a great body butter relaxes me and washes away the day…. Did I mention I work in retail…..NUFF SAID!!!!
My favorite food smell is chocolate chip cookie dough
Baklava! it reminds me of happy family holidays
I love pomagranite and cranbery salads, and dark chocolate/orange combo too!
My fav food is puerto rican dinner for xmas. To much to just pick one. Happy Holidays!!!
Fudge! It’s one of the first things my mom and I make every year.
Homemade manicotti on Christmas! Delicious!
The Laura Mercier creme brulee!
ahhhh….there are so many holiday smells to appreciate. I really love the spice scents, like cinnamon, clove, and then add in vanilla or orange or creme….wonderful!
So my favorite holiday comfort food is warm apple pie…. just the insides of the pie!
Cranberry sauce & turkey, sweet sugar cookies & buttery shortbread cookies, Almond Roca candies….thats enough. Now I want to start baking!
**I have some of the L’Occitane creams and they are fantastic!! would make a wonderful gift.
Cranberry bread with peanut butter-My grandmother used to make it from scratch.
my favorite holiday comfort food is pfefferneuse cookies. MMMMMM.
I love Red Velvet Cake!
My favorite holiday comfort food is cheesy scalloped potatoes
My fave is chocolate : death by chocolate and cookies!!
My comfort food is coffee flavored chocolate..It just sends me in a different world altogether..
Warm sugar cookies and hot chocolate!
I love pumpkin pie
Cinnamon
My favorite holiday comfort food is probably peppermint hot cocoa and peppermint meringues. So yummy!!
I love mashed potatoes and stuffing too!
I adore lobsters as Xmas food)
I love cheesecake!
My favorite holiday comfort food is chocolate chip cookies (has to be Toll House)!
I love having ham for Christmas dinner.
My favorite is homemade yeast rolls. I could eat a whole pan! Merry Christmas.
Mmm, definitely pumpkin pie with whipped cream!
my fave dish from christmas time is the chicken and noodles that my grandma used to make. unfortunately, she passed away a couple of years ago, but if i want to make it, i can ask one of my aunts for the recipe.
I love mashed potatoes with gravy and green bean bake with the crunchy onions on top! Thanks for hosting.
Shortbread cookies!
“Happy Holidays!” So many choices to pick from…
My favorite holiday comfort food is candied pecans!
Many thanks, Cindi
Seven layer bars! I have wonderful memories of making them together with my Grandma who lived next door. She was loving and sweet and never minded if I made a mess!!
My favorite holiday comfort food is sweet potatoes cooked in the crockpot with brown sugar and walnuts….
I love dressing and dumplings! ANY time of the year, they have been my favorite for years!
It has to be warm, tummy-filling stuffing and bread pudding! OK, OK, I know it’s two things… but they’re very similar, almost in the same family of foods!
pecan pie!!!!!11
My favorite holiday comfort food is decorated sugar cookies!
My favorite holiday comfort food is my grandma’s mashed potatoes and gravy (or grabey, as we called it when we were kids….. and still do.)
My favorite comfort food is pasta. I also love pretty much anything with cinnamon in it, I love the warm flavor of cinnamon.
Mine would have to be green casserole! No holiday dinner is complete without it
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Mine would have to be green bean casserole! No holiday dinner is complete without it
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It’s going to have to be chocolate German cake for me.
It’s kinda silly but I would have to say it’s english toffee! Every year I make it around this time and I find it comforting. Mmmmm
My holiday favorite food -mashed potatoes and stuffed duck. Also tiramisu.
my grandma’s eggnog and pecan pie. Both of equally sinfully good.
I love shortbread cookies!
Milk and cookies. Yum!
My favorite holiday comfort food would be snickerdoodles! Just enough cinnamon and sugar, and dipped in coffee in the morning!
My favorite Holiday comfort food is baked ziti. It’s something my mother’s made every year (along with ham and all the trimmings) It reminds me of the worry free, almost magical Christmases of my childhood.
homemade cinnamon – pecan rolls
Deviled eggs!!! Absolutely love ‘em!!
baked mac and cheese definitely
Pumpkin pie!
My favorite holiday comfort food savory is spiral ham with a brown sugar ginger crush, and my favorite comfort food sweet is gooey butter cake. Yummy this scream happy holidays for me!!!
sugar cookies
pecan pie and fudge!
My favorite comfort food is peanut butter chocolate mouse cake, is so moist and delicious it just melts in your mouth.
Gotta be my late mother’s turkey stuffing. She made it — excuse me, she composed it — the night before the holiday. Piquant whiffs of onion and butter and Bell’s seasoning filled the air as she combined the ingredients. Great eating, great memories …
My favorite is the Laura Mercier Body Lotion. Great product line always. I am sure they smell unique.
Mom’s rum cake!
Cinnamon cookies
Hot chocolate!
My favorite Christmas comfort food is ham.
I love hot chocolate or Starbuck’s Holiday drinks!
I love my mum’s sweet potato cake. Yum! Autumn and winter-time goodness.
Mashed potatoes…. delicious comfort food.
for me it’s gotta be chocolate!
My favorite holiday comfort food, is strangely enough a leftover “mashbowl”… Mashed potatoes from scratch, shredded tender ham, corn cut from the cob during the previous summer, topped with butter and sweet home made ham gravy! mmm!
Mine has to be mashed potatoes loaded with cheese!!!
My comfort food is mashed potatoes and gravy.No matter what meat we have every year I always make a cheesey mashed potatoe and gravy.Yum.
I love peach pie with vanilla ice cream and kahlua spiked hot chocolate.
Definitely ham! I could polish one off all on my own
My favorite is cinnamon rolls from Cinnabon!
Hot drinks (:
Homemade potica bread & pizelle cookies!! YUMMY!
hot chocolate with marshmallow and banana cream pie- I just had both, yum!
Any type of cheesecake!
I have a new favorite as of today, I love Pumpkin Pudding Bread!! So delish!!
I love mashed potatoes and gravy:)
Pumpkin pie!
My favorite comfort food is pizza with lots of cheese.
My favorite comfort food is sweet potatoeswith marshmellows ontop… soooo good!!! Happy Holidays!!
Homemade stuffing…. a simple recipe but so good!!!
I would have to say sugar cookies…. what makes it even more comforting then the taste is making them with my kids
Ohhh! Homemade eggnog! Gotta have it just once on Christmas.
My FAVORITE comfort food of the season is pumpkin pie! But of all time it’s oatmeal! I could eat that every meal of every day!
My favorite holiday comfort food is pumpkin cheesecake! Um-Um good!!!!!!
My favorite holiday comfort food is mashed potatoes!
MY favorite comfort food is turkey with stuffing and something chocolate for dessert like fudge! Maria H.
Chocolate chip ice-cream
My favorite Holiday comfort food is my homemade mashed potatoes yummy.
My favorite holiday comfort food is snicker doodles…these cinnamon cookies smell SO good while they are baking, and they taste absolutely delicious! The whole house smells wonderful while they are in the oven. My mom has been making them every year since I was a little girl, and I used to love helping her roll the balls of dough in cinnamon sugar. This year, my young daughter helped make them, and the look of joy on her face was priceless!
My favorite holiday food is shrimp cocktail! We only have it once a year, so it is special!
I love this brand and I’m always needing a good body or hand cream especially in the winter. I have horses and use my hands a lot so moisture is needed.
Tiramisu and canolli’s. Any Italian desert is a comfort food for me! Reminds me of Christmas’ past, The Feast of the Seven Fishes, Midnight Mass, and opening presents at Gramma’s and Grampa’s house with all the family there. Those were the best!
My mom’s Christmas cookies.
cheese grits casserole
My Mom’s crepes were the bomb, doesn’t feel like Christmas w/out them.
Oh & pistachios, mmmm!
Mashed potatoes with lots of turkey gravy!
I can’t let a Christmas go by without eating sweet potato casserole and fudge. Not necessarily in that order.
My holiday comfort food is green bean casserole, garlic mash potatoes and honey baked ham
My favorite holiday comfort food is Macaroni and Cheese and Banana pudding!!
dressing – love it!
Italian Cookies! I love them – my parents bring them down to my from NY.
My favorite holiday comfort food is homemade pierogis.
My comfort food is Chocolate Chip cookies! =)
Egg Nog. LOVE IT LOVE IT!!! LOL
My favorite holiday comfort food is the Pillsbury Christmas Tree cookies! they’re delicious and so yummy<3 ^-^
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