• Gift Guide,  Health,  Los Angeles,  New York

    Are you 6 in 10 Americans traveling this Thanksgiving? ✈️ Travel Essentials by PlaneAire Have Landed!

    Clean everywhere you go with Travel Essentials by PlaneAire®. Explore PlaneAire‘s 99% plant-based travel products made with pleasing, purposeful and powerful ingredients including the proprietary PlaneAire Blend of 6 essential oils: peppermint, lemon, oregano, rosemary, thyme and lavender.

    PlaneAire is thrilled to introduce their new Travel Essentials.  Packed in a ready-to-go, reusable zip-top bag, the plant-based Travel Essentials includes one Clean Surface & Air Mist, six individually wrapped Clean Surface Wipes, and one PlaneAire Hands hand sanitizer blend of your choice—ensuring a hygienic journey from Point A to B.

    3 simple steps, everywhere you go.

    1) Spray Clean
    Spray the air and surfaces around you to hygienically clean, freshen and deodorize. Don’t forget to bring it with you to the restroom.

    2) Wipe Clean
    Wipe the surfaces you are going to touch. If you’re in a window seat, don’t forget to clean that window before you rest your head on it.

    3) Sanitize Hands
    When you’re all done cleaning the space, sanitize your hands and enjoy the moisturizing ingredient and pleasing scent.

    What makes PlaneAire Clean Surface & Air Mist and PlaneAire Clean Surface Wipes unique?

    PlaneAireSurface & Air Mist and Wipes hygienically clean using fruit acids and the proven PlaneAire Blend® of pure certified organic essential oils: Peppermint, Lemon Peel, Oregano, Thyme, and Lavender—providing you with a fresh kind of clean.
    Learn more about the science behind PlaneAire® Clean.

    What makes PlaneAire Hand Sanitizers unique?
    From moisturizing ingredients to mood-enhancing scents, PlaneAire hand sanitizers create a sensory experience that will wash away your travel woes and leave your hands feeling surprisingly nourished. Unlike other scented hand sanitizers, PlaneAire Hand’s fragrances come from plant-based ingredients. Choose from a variety of sprays, gels, and first-of-their-kind lotions, and eight enticing scents—there’s a blend for every hand. Learn more about the ingredients.

    PlaneAire® is a woman-owned small business in Princeton, NJ. They strive to offer modern, proven solutions with thought and purpose behind every ingredient. Made in the USA, all ingredients are plant-based whenever possible and responsibly sourced. All products undergo extensive laboratory testing, even when it’s not required, but are never tested on animals. Their unwavering integrity continues to set them apart.

  • food,  Health,  New York,  San Diego

    Healing can be so sweet, SIIKA Herb & Honey: Infused Traditionally, Created Intentionally

    While taking part in self-care and self-love rituals year-round is critical to your overall wellbeing, we have to admit, the holiday season can be a bit more stressful and taxing than other times.

    Gift yourself something too! Its so easy for us to buy or take time for others, but listen here, honey, you deserve something amazing too! So often, women buy for everyone else but it’s a good idea to remember that you deserve something beautiful as well.

    This could be any number of things.  It could be actually buying yourself something you really want, or going to get your nails done, a massage or a facial. Let’s not forget, time is also a gift!  We can get so caught up in what to do or other people during the holidays that we forget ourselves. Taking time for yourself could include taking a ice bath, quiet reading time, or literally just laying on the bed with a DIY sheet mask on daydreaming! It all applies. Just make sure you take time out just for you. It really does make a big difference.

    SIIKA (n/adj): gold, wealth, luxury; extreme beauty or riches

    While wealth is initially thought of in financial terms, wealth is also found in love for self, family, and friendships. With herb and honey infusions, SIIKA reclaims the rituals that restore, refresh and reconnect you to yourself and to loved ones, so you can savor, delight and indulge in the sweetness of life.

    Mama | Mint & Rosemary Honey

    Named after founder Makuyo’s great-grandmother, Elnora, whom her family affectionately called Mama.

    Founder Makuyo, her mother, and grandmother shared a connection with gardening and sewing. She remembers sewing patchwork quilts and working in an urban garden with her mother and grandmother, as a adolescent. This love and fellowship through gardening and sewing can be directly traced back to Mama who grew all varieties of vegetables and herbs alike, for her family on their land in Mississippi.

    Makuyo’s most recent Indigenous ancestry, as the original inhabitants of this country, is also directly traced back to Mama. As such, many Native American tribes believe that Rosemary is a gift from the Creator and widely used varieties of mint to treat a plethora of conditions.

    Although Mama passed when Makuyo was very young, and she has few memories of Mama, Makuyo’s great-uncle has told her countless stories about Mama, of her kindness and self-lessness.

    Pair Mama with berries, teas, cocoa, coffee, or any other comfort beverage.
    Infused with Love: Raw Honey, Mint, Rosemary, Calendula

    Yaayo | Vanilla & Lavender Honey

    Founder Makuyo’s namesake.

    Makuyo’s paternal ethnic group, the Krobo (of present-day Ghana) name their children by position and/or characteristics in birth. It happens that both her grandmother and her were the fourth child of their fathers, so they are both named Makuyo. By her children and grandchildren, she is known as Yaayo. Though Makuyo speaks little Ga, and she spoke no English, somehow they still found a way to communicate and connect.

    The Vanilla and Lavender in this blend is the perfect balance of determination and gentleness, just like Yaayo.

    Yaayo is excellent with chai teas, coffee, on waffles, pancakes, or ice cream.  Try this with our Sankofa blend!
    Infused with Love: Raw Honey, Vanilla Bean, Lavender

    Herb + Honey Candles

    Signature SIIKA Candles in Honey and Herb.

    Honey: Sensual, gourmand blend with notes of amber, lavender, and sandalwood.

    Herb: Light, uplifting and sweet blend with notes of citrus, basil, and agave.

    Hand poured in small batches, SIIKA Candles are made with 100% natural beeswax from small & local bee farms and organic coconut oil.  SIIKA uses wood wicks and paraben free fragrances for the epitome in clean burning and sustainable aromatherapy.

    About Siika Herb & Honey:

    Siika Herb & Honey Co. is a Miami-based brand infusing raw honey with organic herbs to provide a natural way to heal our spirits. They take inspiration from the sensual and real-world healing properties of honey as well as our everyday rituals. Siika is rooted in the founder’s Ghanaian heritage and culture where they value love and strong community as personal riches. The brand’s infused honey and tea blends provide consumers with a path to reconnect to themselves and to nature despite their hectic lives. Follow them on Instagram @siikaherbandhoneyco

     

  • food,  Gift Guide,  Los Angeles,  New York,  San Diego

    Let the festivities begin with a Christmas charcuterie gift!✨

    The countdown to Christmas has begun, finish all of your shopping with Christmas Gift Baskets from GourmetGiftBaskets.com! They make it easy for you to experience the joy of holiday giving. Choose from a selection of thoughtfully crafted gourmet gifts and gift baskets, beautifully packaged and delivered right to their door!

    Ultimate Christmas Gift Basket

    As you may imagine, Christmas is the brand’s favorite holiday. In preparation for this December 25th, they tracked down the most delicious foods imaginable to create an incredible basket that’s like no other. They traveled over snow-capped mountains, across brisk tundras, and through arctic wonderlands to find the greatest holiday snacks in the world. And they succeeded! This basket is full of superb, award-winning treats that are unsurpassed. Plus, they’re recommended and approved by holiday elves. And when it comes to Christmas, elves know what they’re talking about.

    The Corporate Show Stopper Christmas Gift Basket

    Get noticed this holiday season with this Corporate Christmas gift basket! Perfect for clients and team members alike, this generous arrangement boasts an unparalleled selection of delicious gourmet snacks and exquisite treats. Complete with decadent chocolate, cookies, gourmet cheese, and handcrafted popcorn. Send the gift that everyone is guaranteed to love!

    ‘Tis The Season Meat and Cheese Gift Tower

    This lovely ‘Tis The Season Meat and Cheese Gift Tower makes it easy to send holiday cheer! Inside six festive gift box layers, your gift recipient will discover a delightful collection of exquisite gourmet treats. Complete with rich sea salt caramels, crisp cookies, and handcrafted cheese and crackers. This cheery gift delivery is the perfect way to make this holiday season bright!

    Christmas Snack Gift Basket Jumbo

    Impress anyone on your holiday list with this stunning jumbo Christmas Snack Gift Basket! Inside one of GourmetGiftBaskets.com signature baskets, your recipient will discover an unparalleled selection of exquisite gourmet foods that only the brand largest basket would hold. Complete with everything from sweet to savory, like handcrafted popcorn, chocolate wafers, chocolate truffles, and all the fixings for a meat and cheese charcuterie, this generous gift is one that’s impossible not to enjoy! When the brand named this the “Jumbo” gift basket it was because it truly is loaded with items and is perfect for the large family, office, or as that impressive statement gift!

    My basket – Christmas Gift Basket Classic

    Christmas is a time for gratitude and bringing smiles to the faces of friends, family, co-workers, and everyone else on your Christmas gift list! This classic Christmas Gift Basket has proven to deliver some of the biggest smiles to recipients worldwide every holiday gift season! GourmetGiftBaskets.com experts have once again crafted the perfect holiday gift, filled with the delicious flavors of the season, such as peppermint, caramel, and of course, chocolate. As an original product offering, this year marks the 20th year that this gift will be the best way to share the season’s joy.

    The holidays are meant to be spent with close friends and family, and there’s no faster way to get everyone to come together than with a delicious Christmas charcuterie board. Charcuterie gifts are truly versatile gifts that can be sent for almost everyone. Here is the entire collection for the 2022 Holiday Season from GourmetGiftBaskets.com. Order now to have your gifts delivered in time for Christmas!

  • Beauty,  Gift Guide,  Los Angeles,  New York,  San Diego

    British M Annatto Hair Oil is one of my most loved products for creating long-lasting shine and leaving hair soft and silky!

    British M Annatto Hair Oil is a must-have for holiday styles and makes a perfect gift for the beauty lover who has everything! Find out for yourself why beauty editors, influencers, and celebrities can’t get enough of this AMAZING product for shiny, healthy hair! The finest Amazonian Annatto Oil, Organic Pumpkin and Argan Oils blend for perfected results that instantly absorb to leave hair naturally smooth, strong, and shiny. The light and sophisticated scent is a customer favorite that gets tons of compliments.

    British M is vegan-approved! Annatto Hair Oil is officially certified with the Certificate of Vegan Registration from the UK Vegan Society, one of the world’s biggest vegan organizations. Annatto Hair Oil does not contain any animal-derived ingredients. It’s also free from animal testing, genetically modified sources, and cross-contamination with non-vegan products.

    Annatto Hair Oil has perfected the optimal ratio of organic Pumpkin Seed and Argan Oils with pure Annatto Oil harvested from the Amazon rainforest. The smaller-sized molecules of Annatto Hair Oil immediately penetrate into hair, leaving it moist without feeling sticky, greasy or heavy.

    * For badly damaged hair: add an extra layer of Annatto Hair Oil to strands before drying.

    * Annatto Hair Oil has a natural color that may slightly fade in UV light. To avoid this, keep the bottle away from direct, long-term sunlight. However, the color does not effect its potency in any way.

    * Recommended Usage: Short Hair (pea-size drop) / Long Hair (almond-sized drop)

    Excellent hair protecting effect

    Annatto Hair Oil helps protects strands from heat styling stress as it penetrates deeper into hair to nourish and keeps delicate outer cuticles more resistant to environmental stress and heat.

     

  • Beauty,  Gift Guide,  Los Angeles,  New York,  San Diego

    British M Flex Gentle Brush is perfect for gently detangling hair and adding volume while you dry

    Top celebrity and editorial stylists love British M Gentle Flex Brush! So do I! This detangling brush is extra-gentle on hair and scalp, while flexing to your head’s curvature. This wet hairbrush brought to market by the cult K-beauty brand that the Allure Beauty Awards named “Best of 2022,” this patented brush is a standout for curly or textured hair to easily detangle or unknot.

    A flexible design, it follows the contours of one’s head, glides through hair and is made to speed drying time. Perfectly boxed and priced right for holiday gifting.

    This patented breakthrough maze-shaped wet brush is extra gentle, ventilated to speed hair drying, and detangles all textures. It is a new maze-shaped brush uniquely frees dryer air flow to pass through during styling for faster, easier results for all hair texture and types. The unique design uses a special pliable synthetic rubber to absorb impact on the scalp and allow smoother results with less stress on strands.

    Recommended for

    ⓥ Those who want fast hair drying and hair styling

    ⓥ Those who are looking for a smooth brush that does not simulate

    ⓥ Those who have badly tangled hair

    ⓥ Those who feel their wrist stressed when using a brush.

    Point 1

    The head designed with a flexible structure helps easy hairstyling without stimulating the scalp

    Point 2

    Wind passes between maze-like brush heads to save some time from drying your hair, and it easily helps to make your hair look voluminous.

    Point 3

    Elastic nylon brush teeth tidy up your tangled hair smoothly

    Point 4

    Diamond-cut design to prevent the product from slippering and ease grip allow users to use the product easily without putting stress on the wrist.

    British M Gentle Flex Brush is available on Amazon.

     

     

  • food,  Gift Guide,  Los Angeles,  San Diego

    Make winter holiday-themed Brazilian brigadeiros at home with tinyB Chocolate Truffle Creation Kit

    tinyB, the San Francisco-based chocolatier specializing in Brazilian Brigadeiros (a creamy relative of the chocolate truffle), is launching their Holiday Chocolate Truffle Creation Kits on Monday, November 28. Featuring all needed to make winter themed Brigadeiros at home, instruction videos are included to create snowmen, trees, and wreaths. The kits include dark chocolate, vanilla and red berries, and orange milk chocolate cream centers, a jar of Brigadeiro spread, and sprinkles. Each kit produces 20-25 Brigadeiro’s (enough for four people to enjoy).

    “Our DIY kits get any holiday party started and they’re a great way for both kids and grow-ups to express their creativity and holiday cheer,” said tinyB Chocolate founder Renata Stoica. “The dessert table is extra sweet when your kids know they had a hand in producing it!”

    Classic DIY Brigadeiro Kit (1-2 people)

    This at home Chocolate Making Kit is a great way to explore your creativity by rolling and decorating delicious chocolate truffles – the brigadeiros – on your own or with a friend! No cooking required!

    Make Chocolate at Home!

    When you’re ready to roll, you’ll be able to embark on a choose-your-own experience by combining ingredients based on taste, texture, or appearance. There’s no right or wrong way to make brigadeiros, they are easy to make, fun to roll and delicious. DIY Instructions are included!

    This at home chocolate making kit contains 2 kinds of chocolate centers and 4 fun toppings, all perfectly packaged in our colorful tinyBox. It’s enough to make 12-16 brigadeiros of your own creation!

    Are you ready to make your own chocolate truffles?

    DIY Chocolate Kit includes:

    2x brigadeiro centers (Dark Chocolate and Quatro Leches), 4x fun toppings, accessories, DIY instructions

    – Serves 1-2 people
    Gluten-free and preservative-free
    – Keep refrigerated
    Made in San Francisco

    Looking for a FUN team building experience?

    tinyB DIY at home Chocolate making kit can also be a fun virtual team building activity hosted by one of their chocolatiers. Over 1,200 teams and 52,000 participants in 54 different countries experienced the DIY truffle making experience. Are your team going to be the next one?

    About tinyB Chocolate:

    Brazil. Bossa nova. Beaches. And now brigadeiros! That’s the essence of tinyB chocolates. They capture the excitement, romance and richness of Brazil in the magic of its favorite national chocolate treat. Luscious chocolate brigadeiros. Available now for the first time ever in the San Francisco Bay Area. Made fresh to order with two-day delivery guaranteed anywhere in the continental US, tinyB offers the hands-on care and service of a local family-owned business blended with international charm and panache.

    At its heart, tinyB is about the happy love story between Renata, a beautiful Brazilian chocolatier, and Andrei, a San Francisco tech entrepreneur. They fell in love, got married and started tinyB in their kitchen as a way to share their love for each other and for brigadeiros with San Francisco and the world. Renata’s special recipe heightens the chocolate intensity, without the bitterness of dark chocolate or the sweetness of extra sugar. Hand-dipped coatings offer a variety of sensational taste treats. Perfect for sharing, giving and enjoying. Client gifts. Wedding favors. Personal presents. Each tinyB is handcrafted and gently placed in gift boxes that are detailed with care because we want you feel that they’re made just for you – which they are.

    tinyB Chocolate ranked #770 on Inc Magazine’s rankings of the fastest growing companies in the United States in 2022. For more information, please visit https://www.tinybchocolate.com/ and follow tinyB Chocolate on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook or Twitter @tinyBchocolate.