Best cruelty free and vegan gifts and gift-sets for 2022

This beautifully packaged collection is a mix of an advent calendar and gift set. With 12 individually boxed 3INA items, it’s a really fun and indulgent gift. Without ruining the surprise, it includes a variety of makeup items from highlighters, mascara and lipsticks through to makeup serum and pads. 

Sure, this isn’t technically a full gift set, but with 12 colours and a vegan brush, this is more than just a stocking-filler. Urban Decay palettes are world-famous, and this year’s best is the ‘Wild West’, which has some good earthy tones, but also some nice green colour pops plus: shimmery, matte and metallics! 

A fail-safe gift. This mani set comes with a festive red polish, along with base and top coats, a nail file and hydrating hand masks. Nails Inc has impeccable branding and this Christmas presentation set will make the perfect stocking filler.

BareFaced beauty has a couple of kits, but this one is the best and safest present. A classy range of nude lipsicks and glosses, which come in a lovely presentation box.

This is the gift that will keep on giving. For £59, a membership gives you (well, the recipient) a year’s worth of absolutely insane discounts (around 70% off RRP), on beauty makeup and wellness products. Note: while all beauty pie products are certified cruelty free, not all are vegan – check labels.

Makeup brush sets are a great gift. Especially if you’re like me and always forget to wash your current brushes (bad, I know). This set has bamboo handles, synthetic brushes and comes in a cotton bag. From buffing to blushing – there’s a brush for everything.

Cleanser? Check. Toner? Check. Moisturiser? Check. Aaaand: night firming cream, nutrient oil and hydration serum. This collection of minis really packs a punch, and comes in a beautiful presentation box along with a free bamboo cloth thrown in. Tropic skincare is gentle, incredible quality and uses natural and ethical ingredients.

A lovely Christmas box packed full of Lush-smelling gifts – handmade, and fresh. There’s even a snowman finger puppet bath bomb. No more words needed.

The Body Shop is packed full of festive gift sets, but we’ve chosen this especially Christmassy one, as it’s great value and everything is vegan. Also – who doesn’t love a limited edition set, and the scent of spiced orange?

Foamie creates the best bars around. For Christmas, it’s packaged up its bestselling Papaya and Oat Milk Body Bar (smells DIVINE), with a soap holder and a little soap bag. The real benefit of bars is they save water, and are therefore kinder to the planet.

REN is a clean skincare company and has highly effective, yet slightly pricey products. This particular set is all vegan and is a great intro into REN for anyone who’s a big skincare fan, or anyone wanting a pick-me-up in their skincare routine.

If your gift-recipient is anything like me, then they will welcome some products to help them sleep. So what’s in this gift-set? Body polish with magnesium, a coconut and rapeseed wax candle, and a body butter cream. All in beautiful purple pots, and all packed with essential oils – dreamy.

Aveda has a range of gift sets, but this one caught our eye. Hydrating leave-in conditioner and a treatment mask are perfect for hair that needs a boost without the heavy product. And to top it off, there’s a really chic Phillip Lim hair scarf in this set.

While every gift on this list is good, this gift is outstanding. With this set you get three perfumes (you can pick from two ranges), and each is wrapped in the most beautiful and creatively packaged cracker you’ve ever seen. The perfumes themselves are also not to be sniffed at (well, you should definitely sniff them) – good quality and lovely floral scents.

This is for anyone who loves 90s/00s nostalgia. White Musk Body Shop was one of the staple scents of secondary schools, and while Impulse o2 may have died a death, White Musk is actually really lovely. Fairtrade and vegan too.

Eden’s USP is to create cruelty free and vegan versions of fan-favourites (from Marc Jacobs to Dior). This gift set allows you to pick any perfume and a vegan candle from the range too – you don’t usually get this level of choice in gift sets.

A cute and ethical body-care mini set for pregnant women. This four-piece set has formulas carefully (and naturally) created to soothe, refresh and protect changing skin. All dermatologically tested and gentle on pregnant skin. Mama Mio also has skincare sets for new mothers and babies too.

A combo-set for preventing stretch marks and helping the skin to ‘bounce back’ from luxury skincare company, Pai. Fragrance free, but made from pomegranate and pumpkin, this is a gift future mums will thank you for.

There aren’t many gift sets out there aimed at mothers and babies. And there are even fewer that are vegan, cruelty free and with natural fragrance. This little kit combines pampering with the practical – from baby massage gel through to tummy rub butter, it’s perfect for new mums.