The Perfect Gift! ~ Women's Fashion

It's that time of year when we bring out the garland and the red ribbons, and hang decorated wreaths on our front door. There seems to be a little more magic in the air — Christmas is on its way!

While the holiday season is a season of joy, it also comes with a bit of stress, as I try to find the best gifts for my friends and family. Can you relate to this? It's easy to fall into the trap of wanting the gifts we give to be perfect. In the process, we miss out on the true spirit of Christmas: sharing joy and giving back to others.

This year, it's important that the gifts I give embrace this same sentiment. L’Occitane Holiday gift sets do just that! Based out of Manosque, France, L’Occitane offers high-quality fragrances and beauty products derived from organic, farm-grown ingredients. This speaks to me because I am super concious about the ingredients I put on my skin and I want to make sure that everything is natural and as organic as possible. Not only does L’Occitane use natural ingredients that leave your skin feeling soft and beautiful, but their assortment of body washes and lotions also smell absolutely delicious.

L’Occitane makes holiday shopping easy by providing curated gift collections that include a few of their fan favorite products. There’s a gift collection for each person on your list, from their Hand Cream Bouquet — which contains six floral scented hand creams — to their Nourishing Shea Body Care Collection that will leave your skin feeling smooth for days. L’Occitane covers it all…they even have stocking stuffers like the Nourishing Shea Holiday Ornament! I can’t wait to surprise my friends and family with their L’Occitane gift collections.

However, what makes these gifts even more special is the fact that each purchase of an L’Occitane holiday gift collection gives back to the women of Burkina Faso, West Africa. With a strong focus on women’s empowerment and entrepreneurship, L’Occitane works closely with the women of Burkina Faso to provide them with economic opportunities. For more than 30 years, L’Occitane strives to improve the lives of these women and their families, by providing work, literacy and financial education, as well as helping them to develop their individual client portfolios. By working with these women to harvest the shea butter used in many of their products, L’Occitane hopes to encourage the economic liberation of Burkina Faso women. As a businesswoman and entrepreneur, this is an initiative that I can completely support.

This holiday season, I encourage you to take this time as an opportunity to give back. This is just one of many ways that we can give back to our friends/family, local community, and now to the women of Burkina Faso. By gifting an L’Occitane holiday gift set, you are giving the gift that keeps on giving. Knowing that I am impacting someone’s life, even in this simple way, brings me the greatest joy, and is a reminder of that magic that we feel so intensely at Christmas time, but can now last all year long.