Looking for a little gift for a beauty lover? These beauty crackers make a great alternative to traditional table decorations – and come with a huge saving, too
Crackers are a traditional part of Christmas for many, but it isn’t just cheesy jokes and flimsy toys that you’ll find inside nowadays. Beauty crackers filled with mini pampering treats are hugely popular now, and make perfect stocking fillers, table gifts or Secret Santa presents for any beauty lover – and these ones offer a huge saving, too.
Popular monthly subscription service OK! Beauty Box has launched four limited-edition beauty Christmas crackers, each around a different theme, and each filled with not one but five products, including top brands such as Rodial, Bioderma and Aromatherapy Associates. They each cost £29.99 but the value of the gifts inside is significantly higher – worth up to as much as £100.
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If your recipient is a make-up fan, then the Glam & Glow Make-up Cracker is the one for them. Inside are five eye and complexion products worth over £75 in total, including a mini glowy Rodial blusher worth £25 – almost the cost of the entire cracker. Priced at £29.99, it means that you’re getting each of the five products inside for £5.99 – bargain!
Another that we predict is going to be super-popular is the Skin Therapy Skincare Cracker. Worth a whopping £100 (yet still just £29.99 to buy), it contains some real hero products from the beauty world, including a Bioderma cleanser, a full-size Nip+Fab face scrub and a gorgeous Aromatherapy Associates bath and shower oil.
There’s also the Merry Kissmas Lip Cracker, containing five lip products, and, coming soon to the site, the All Is Calm cracker, filled with relaxing favourites for the skin and body.
OK! Beauty Box isn’t the only brand doing beauty crackers this year. Next’s Prep to Party Beauty Cracker contains the likes of This Works, Dermalogica and Philip Kingsley and costs £22 with a value of £64, while Lookfantastic is selling this The White Company Winter Mini Cracker, containing a hand care duo, for £22.
OK! Beauty Box’s 2025 advent calendar, created with celebrity make-up artist Hannah Martin, is also already proving super-popular, with pre-orders selling out within hours last month, and customers rushing to buy it when it launched on general sale earlier this month too. It’s still available, priced at £99 but worth over £600.