A Healthy Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
Sweet Love! How About Self-Love for Valentine’s Day?
It’s said that St. Valentine of Rome inspired the holiday of love. He was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers (who were forbidden to marry). According to legend, during his imprisonment, St. Valentine healed the daughter of his jailer, and before his execution, he wrote her a letter signed “Your Valentine” as a farewell.
St. Valentine was also known as the patron saint of beekeepers, which makes him a personal hero. Did you know bees symbolize love, and beekeepers symbolize the protection of the family? Managing hives and caring for their bees, beekeepers ensure that their bee colonies flourish and the honey continues to flow.
“Love could inspire, it found existence, even for a day
as the honey kept emptying sunlight and he just kept buzzing! buzzing!” jodde taylor
With this in mind, I’d like to offer a healthy, cannabis and CBD-related Valentine’s Day Gift Guide.
We often think about couples on this romantic holiday, but what about self-love? Whether alone, with friends, or with a lover, here are some great inspirations for a general ‘feel good’ kind of day! I encourage you to check out some of these great products with an open heart and an open mind. Enjoy!
For the Mind, Body, and Soul
Valentine-X Cannabis Flower
Yes, there’s an actual strain named for St. Valentine. Valentine-X is a 50/50 hybrid sought after for its exceptional healing powers and a CBD:THC ratio of 25:1. It is a variant of the remarkable ACDC that is cherished for its healing properties. Many find Valentine-X to be a great help for seizure disorders and inflammation, also known to spark creative thinking.
Elevated has everything you need to put together a CBD Wellness Romance package including, bath bombs, gummies, tinctures, pain creams, caramels, and chocolates, but their winning product is their 1500MG Full Spectrum CBD Pain Relief Cream. I’ve tried many CBD topicals for pain, and this is my number one favorite! Elevated Wellness combines a revolutionary proprietary liposomal base, allowing for the immediate absorption of active ingredients. It literally disappears into your skin and immediately goes to work, without any smell!
V-Health for your V-Day! Specially formulated to nurture vaginal wellness, Hello Again products are made by women for women! They combine cannabis and botanicals to relieve lady bits from the symptoms of menopause, vaginal dryness, endometriosis, or general period pain. They even have one for hangovers! Available in both daytime and sleep formulas, Hello Again Vaginal Suppositories are reasonably priced and easy to use. I highly recommend this product to any woman! Hello Again provides consistent relief with zero side effects.
Draw a bath and slip into rejuvenating relaxation with 100% vegan CBD Bath Bombs. Dissolve away stresses and strains of the day with 100mg of fast-absorbing CBD. Hand-crafted using either lavender or rose flowers, this long-lasting bombs smell and feel wonderful.
Foria Intimacy Bath Salts with CBD & Cacao
This company’s tagline is, “Better Sex Starts Here,” and for good reason. Everything this company makes is top-notch, and I’ve been recommending them for several years to just about every woman I know. Foria is an innovative health and sexual wellness company offering cannabis and hemp formulas, and one of my favorites. Everything I’ve tried from this company is amazing. They were one of the first brands to create comprehensive product lines for intimacy, relief, and optimal well-being using cannabis, and specialize in intimacy products for women. My newest discovery is their Intimacy Bath Salts with CBD & Cacao. I had no idea a bath could be so relaxing. If love is on your mind, I highly recommend starting with their intimacy collection.
Give your loved one the gift of sleep! Not just your typical gel memory foam pillow, the CBD pillowcase is infused with millions of microcapsules filled with the highest quality CBD for deeper sleep, relaxation, and a more refreshing morning. The pillow is said to release micro doses of CBD all night long, guaranteed to improve your sleep.
Goldleaf sells exquisite journals, supplies, and prints. Their guided journals are designed for anyone interested in learning or working with cannabis, or any botanical passion. These leather-bound books are full of drawings, charts, and spaces for journaling and planning. They also sell precise little pens and artistic prints that focus on the science behind life's passions. Informative, visually pleasing, and a perfect choice for the discerning cannabis enthusiast.
Fun Flower Ideas
Considered the ultimate in cannabis accessories, Vessel offers some of the classiest vape and flower products on the market. This Korean-American-owned brand is known for its high-end designs. From the rose gold Helix one-hitter, the Craftsman series vale with real walnut, and a colorful Vista series of vape pens, Vessel has something for every taste. I am particularly fond of their lighters, grinders, and travel kits.
This fun company has a strong emphasis on pink smoking accessories, with a fun and ever-expanding product line. If you or a loved one is fond of flower, this is the place to get them everything they need! From pink rolling papers to cotton puffs, grinders, and fabulous, spinning rolling trays! For those wondering about quality, these products are extremely well-made, and the half-moon wooden trays are also great for keys, jewelry, and knickknacks.
This BIPOC-owned and CBD-powered beauty and wellness brand was founded at the beginning of the pandemic by athlete MacKenzie McClain Hill. This company is all about promoting beauty from within while staying happy & healthy. Their thoughtfully crafted, natural products are often infused with CBD, such as bath bombs, teas, honey, and tinctures, but they also offer skincare and hair care products, including weaves, extensions, and clip-ins. When you want to feel your best, look your best, and feel good about supporting women of color who believe in authenticity, drive, and confidence - shop this V-Day at Lumi-Bloom.
For those with some money to blow and a love for cannabis, look no further than Devambez for the ultimate in high-end cannabis accessories. They started in the 1800s as a fine paper printer and later served as an art gallery for printed art books, they debuted a line of rolling papers at the famed Parisian boutique Colette. Their papers are made with French hemp and packaged in 100% cotton cardstock from one of Europe’s oldest paper mills and assembled by hand.
Aphrodisiacs
Hot Honey
Combine and bring to a boil, a cup of honey (preferably local, for its health benefits), 1g (1000mg) CBD Rick Simpson Oil (RSO), and a 2-inch piece of ginger. Let simmer for about 30 minutes. Cap, shake well, and enjoy!
A new woman-owned, premium candy brand that harnesses the myriad wellness benefits of CBD in an elegant and elevated format. Founded by a busy mom Fleur Hudson’s Confectionery was founded with the simple belief that CBD offers important, healthful benefits – like improving your overall mood, increasing confidence, and treating a variety of conditions, including anxiety, sleep challenges, pain, and inflammation, without the psychoactive effects of THC. It’s time to treat yourself to Strawberry & Black Pepper for Clarity and Sicilian Lemon & Ginger for Serenity). Made exclusively with premium, flavorless and odorless CBD and 100% natural, high-quality ingredients that are rich in flavor.
An intense burst of velvety dark chocolate, ethically sourced from Madagascar, their Black Dahlia bon bons reveal notes of sensuous red fruit, sea salt and Carmel, or peppermint crunch, these are luxurious CBD chocolates.
Meticulously hand-crafted cannabis chocolates in beautiful packaging. These unforgettable dark chocolate are made with the finest ingredients.
A 5-pack of Dad Grass Hemp CBD Pre Rolls or Mom Grass CBG Pre Rolls discreetly concealed in a Dad Stash decoy pack sleeve that looks like a box of Valentine’s Day candy.
The Libido
I’m crazy about this natural health and beauty brand, featuring an intimacy line that facilitates, affirms, and celebrates healthy sex. Known for their Coconut Oil Based Lubricant and vegan, Coconut Water-Based Lubricant, and now they’ve added a heavenly Hemp Infused Body Oil. Coconu's products are made with organic ingredients including beeswax and cocoa butter.
HighOnLove Intimacy Products are wonderful, and for Valentine’s Day be sure to check out their Dark Chocolate Body Paint! HighOnLove is another woman-owned cannabis business, with a premium collection of hemp seed oil wellness and intimacy products designed to take your pleasure to new heights. Including bath oils, plumping lip gloss, and cult fave Stimulating Oil, each product is crafted in small batches to ensure the highest quality.High On Love Intimacy Products
The ultimate self-care gift for couples looking to conceive. Created for and by women. Track your fertile window with keg, a medical device that lets you easily track your fertile days with an insightful app and optional kegel exercises.
This Valentine’s Day, think outside the heart-shaped box and Learn More About Cannabis.
