Sleep is a primary need, critical to our physical and mental well-being. Consider giving everyone on your list the gift of rest this holiday season. It’s a gift they’ll appreciate all year.
Our Gift Guide Concierge to Help You Pick the Perfect Present for Everyone on Your List
We each have our own preferences when it comes to sleep, whether it’s sleep position or bedroom environment. No two sleepers are exactly the same. Our Holiday 2025 Gift Guide offers options to fit the different personalities and individual tastes of each person on your gift list.
1. Gifts for the Sleep Enthusiast
Sleep can be negatively affected by so many things: daylight savings time, the change of seasons, ambient light and sound, and the stress of our daytime lives. The first, and simplest, step toward getting sufficient quality sleep is to create a bedroom environment conducive to sleep. That means a cool, dark, and quiet room, and bedding that is both hygienic and lusciously cozy.
We’ve put all the information we’ve learned about building your bedding from the mattress up in “How to Layer a Cozy Bed for All Seasons.” We highly recommend beginning with a waterproof mattress pad and zippered pillow protectors, the unseen layers of comfort and protection. From that base, you can build your bed to support the way you sleep by choosing soft and breathable sheets, a comforter in a weight that aligns with how warm you sleep, and decorative touches that meet the aesthetics of your room. Of course, you cannot forget the pillow. No matter what size, shape, or style someone prefers, a pillow is the personal gift that means you care.
2. Gifts for the Spa Devotee
Spas focus on the rituals that calm our minds and bodies to put us into a state of relaxation. Those same rituals can be part of a bedtime routine designed to get you ready for sleep.
We’ve devoted articles to a variety of the rituals that we’ve found to prepare us for sleep. Whether it’s “Mindfulness Meditation,” a “Sleep Diary,” or “Reading Before Bed,” the goal of these rituals is to refocus your mind away from the concerns of the day. Calming the body with a soothing scent or a soak in the tub can be a spa-like experience when you “Consider Your 5 Senses.” Our spa devotee amenities support these “Bedtime Rituals for Better Sleep.” A robe, terry tub pillow, and heart twist spa head towel offer an invitation to relax in the tub and step out soothed. Add a gemstone candle or a cup of herbal tea to create the scent and feel of a total spa experience.
3. Gifts for the Hostess
Whether you’re preparing to host overnight guests and need to freshen up the guest bedroom and bath, or you’ve been invited to someone’s home and don’t wish to arrive empty-handed, you’ll want to be prepared this holiday season with all the necessary bedding, bath, and gift amenities.
Having spent decades working with executive housekeepers around the world, we know what makes an inviting guest bedroom and bath. You can read the “5 Ways to Set the Stage for Holiday Hospitality” and “The Secret to Creating a Luxe Guest Bathroom? Hotel-Quality Bath Towels, Rugs, Robes, and Slippers” to be sure you’ve thought of everything before your guests arrive. Freshen up your bathroom with new towels and a delicious bath rug from our gift guide.
If you’re looking for a hostess gift, we have some suggestions from our Holiday 2025 Gift Guide. Our silk eye masks, tiara silks® aromatherapy pillowcases, and gemstone candles make lovely gifts. Each comes in its own beautiful packaging, making each the perfect present to grab and go.
4. Gifts for the Travel Aficionado
Travel is the great destroyer of sleep, particularly when you travel across multiple time zones. It’s also awesome so you’re not going to give it up. Instead, you’ll do whatever you can to minimize its negative effects on your sleep. Read our “11 Tips to Travel More Calmly and Comfortably” and “5 Ways to Make Yourself Comfortable on Long Flights in Coach” to learn a few ways to make sure you’re ready to roll upon arrival at your destination.
We suggest you pack a personalized amenity kit. Most airlines provide amenity kits only on long-haul or international flights. They typically include a toothbrush and toothpaste, lip balm, eye mask, earplugs, and socks. Some airlines ramp it up with designer kits and additional goodies like toiletries and cosmetics. You can do the first- and business-class amenity kit one better by assembling your own to meet your personal needs.
Be sure to include a travel pillow, eye mask, one-time-use slippers for trips to the lavatory, and cashmere socks for while you’re seated. Add lip balm, saline nasal spray, a package of soft tissues, and a couple of individually packaged eye drops to combat the dry air on the plane. Now, sit back and enjoy.
5. Gifts Under $100
This holiday season, we’re introducing a couple of wonderful products we discovered during our Aura Sanctuary NYC experience. The spirit oracle deck by fine artist Nicole Buffett contains 88 individual cards that can be read in the morning or at night as part of a bedtime routine intended to prepare your mind and body for sleep. Each card contains one of Nicole’s beautifully designed mandala paintings, a poetic description of an aspect of our being, and an affirmation to help us to recognize the beauty in that part of our being. The other new addition is the chakra 6 -third eye chakra – amethyst tourmaline gemstone candle from auratherapy. Whether your personal rituals include reading, meditating, journaling, or simply breathing, our new chakra 6 candle provides the beautiful light and subtle scents of frankincense, myrrh, and oud to soothe all your senses.
These gifts are ideal for the people you might not know as well but want to acknowledge, including your children’s teachers. They’re also perfect to keep on hand as hostess gifts in case you’re invited to a last-minute holiday party and don’t want to arrive empty-handed. If it’s a white elephant party, your gift will certainly be stolen again and again. Your pet-owning family and friends will kvell when you bring a doggie down® waterproof dog pad for their furry member of the family.
The gift of rest shows you care.
-Team at down etc
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About down etc
For over twenty years, down etc has worked with hoteliers and professional housekeepers in hotels around the world to manufacture and provide pillows and bedding that will offer hotel guests memorably great sleep. Through our retail website, we seek to provide products that will result in the same quality sleep for our customers at home. We believe in the restorative power of a great night’s sleep, whether at home or away. That’s the reason down etc wrote the book on it, Roll Into a Perfectly Made Bed: All You Need to Know About the Art of Bedmaking.
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