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This season, we’d like to give you a break from the drama of holiday shopping. We’ve put together six gift sets, each on a theme, and each designed with your most challenging gift recipients in mind. Every gift set comes in its own wrap-ready box, already assembled and lovely.

Today, we’d love to introduce you to our borough-centric Brooklyn-Made Holiday Gift Set, and our Tea Lover’s Tea Time Gift Set!

Borough-Centric Brooklyn-Made Holiday Gift Set 

It’s just the thing for your best Brooklyn-o-phile, and your loveliest locavore. Or, bring a bit of Brooklyn with you when you travel home.

This set comes with seven products, and each of them lovingly hand made by artisans who reside and work in everyone’s favorite borough!

By gifting this set, you’ll support your local economy, and support the wellness of the recipient and the planet: each item is all natural, without any GMOs, petro-chems, parabins, colorants, or animal testing.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Soapwalla Deodorant Cream (made in Gowanus)
• Peony Rose Apothecary Soap in Signature Scent (Carrol Gardens)
• Remedies Brand Nourishing Body Oil in Signature Scent (Carrol Gardens)
• Cow Fart Goo Remedy Salve (Colombia Waterfront)
• Up in Her Room Facial Serum (Greenpoint)
• Absinthe Lip Balm (Bushwick)
• Bed of Roses Perfume (Bushwick)

Product Spotlight: Deodorant Cream from Soapwalla Kitchen, Gowanus

After Soapwalla founder, Rachel Winard, was diagnosed with systemic lupus, she began a quest to find pure, effective skincare products. That quest led her straight to her own kitchen! Soapwalla now operates out of an airy Gowanus loft, and this deodorant cream has become a fan favorite in and out of New York. Learn more about Soapwalla Kitchen.

Product Spotlight: Peony Rose Apothecary Soap in Signature Peony Rose Scent

Jo Anne Richards, of Peony Rose Apothecary, is a maker of all-natural herbal skin care, hand-crafted in small batches right in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Jo Anne is not your average soap-maker. Among her other cred, she’s a Certified Holistic Health Coach and studied The Wise Woman Tradition of Herbal Medicine with Robin Rose Bennett. You can find her behind the counter at Remedies twice a week, always ready to share her herbal wisdom with you. Peony Rose soap contains saponified oils of olive, coconut, and sustainable palm, Rosa damascena, essential oils, natural fragrance oils and reiki blessings of love, joy and wellness. Learn more about Peony Rose Apothecary.

Product Spotlight: Cow Fart Goo Remedy Salve

From Between You and the Moon Herborium, Cow Fart Goo is handmade in Brooklyn’s Colombia Waterfront District (an area that used to just be called Red Hook, but hey, times change!)

This remedy salve is powerful enough to soothe discomfort from bacterial infections and ringworm, but gentle enough to use on small babies. Plus, it’s really fun to say out loud. Learn more about Between You and the Moon Herborium.

Tea-Time for the Tea-Lover Holiday Gift Set

The tea enthusiast can be every bit as discerning as an oenophile, and just as hard to please. This elegant collection includes a glass infuser mug, hand-selected teas, and single-use tea bags. If there’s a tea lover in your life, feed their herby habit with this gift set.

In the Abundant Set, you’ll find: ($46.00)

• Grossche Glass Tea Infuser Mug
• Hand Selected Teas, six bags
• 18 single use tea bags, tied in a ribbon

Tea Time for the Tea Lover Set: ($29.00)

• Grossche Glass Tea Infuser Mug
• Hand Selected Teas, five bags
• 10 single use tea bags, tied in a ribbon

Product Spotlight: Grossche Glass Tea Infuser Mug

Messy mesh balls are for the birds! Every tea lover should have their own infuser cup. Made from 100% borosilicate glass, this mug is safe for hot liquids and is flavor-neutral. It’s naturally BPA and lead-free, and is dishwasher safe. It’s also a beautifully made, elegant glass piece to compliment any end table or desktop.

Product Spotlight: Hand Selected Teas

Cherie, Proprietor of Remedies Herb Shop and Lead Tea-Selector, has chosen from among her favorite loose teas and herbs for a well-rounded selection to suit all tea palettes.

In the abundant set:

2 oz. Organic Assam Black Tea

2 oz. Organic Jasmine Green Tea

1 oz. Organic Chamomile

2 oz. Organic Peppermint

2 oz. Organic Hibiscus

3 oz. Organic Roosibos

In the regular set:

1 oz. Organic Ceylon Black Tea

1 oz. Organic Jasmine Green Tea

1/2 oz. Organic Chamomile

2 oz. Organic Hibiscus

1.5 oz. Organic Roosibos

Come By Our Shop, Online or In Person

Save yourself the headache. We’ve done the heavy lifting. If you’re in the neighborhood, please stop in! We’d love to wish you a happy season. If you can’t make it in, all our gift sets are available on the website.