Gift Ideas for Those with Dietary Restrictions and Scent Sensitivities: Vegan, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Gifts

November 22, 2023

When you’re shopping for someone with dietary restrictions or scent sensitivities, it can be tough to know what to get them. Until now! We’ve created this handy gift guide for you so you can have some peace of mind knowing that your gift will be juuuust right for the lucky recipient. Read on!

Gifts for Vegans

Food & Drink Gifts

Dark chocolate

Can you ever go wrong with chocolate? Rousseau’s toasted almond dark chocolate, dark chocolate sea beings, and Peace by Chocolate’s 70% dark chocolate bar are all vegan. As a bonus, the Peace by Chocolate bar is peanut free and gluten free as well! Please note these bars may contain milk, so would not be appropriate for someone with a dairy allergy or severe lactose intolerance.

Tea

Tea is a great vegan-friendly gift, and you’ll find a huge selection of every tea under the sun available for purchase in our online shop.

Other snacks

For more vegan options, check out:

Bath and Body Gifts

Did you know many vegans avoid honey and beeswax, which is found in some bath and body products? Here are some vegan-friendly bath and body gifts perfect for gifting:

Anointment’s artisanal lavender bath soak, pink grapefruit and lime bath soak, holiday spice soap, and petit fours soap set
Ashbury Bloom’s popular breathe and wake up shower steamers
Sealuxe’s beautiful ocean goddess bath tea and rainbow beach glass soap

Gluten-Free Gifts

We've got a variety of gluten-free items perfect for gifting, including:

Peace by Chocolate’s 70% dark chocolate bar
Dark and white hot chocolate
Everything in our tea collection is gluten free
Chandler Honey’s Creamy Chai and Lemon Ginger honey are both great options
Jingle bells pops, birthday cake pops, and sapphire popcorn
Jams (peach & prosecco, wild blueberry)
Traditional maple syrup
Made with Local’s Real Food Bars, including two limited-edition holiday flavours in gingerbread and festive fudge chip

Dairy-Free Food Gifts

All of the vegan items above are dairy-free, as well as all of Made with Local’s Real Food Bars.

Nut-Free Food Gifts

Tree nut and peanut allergies are a little complicated because food manufacturers are not required to label products that may contain an allergen. That said, we can say with certainty that Peace by Chocolate’s white and dark hot chocolate are both labelled as nut free, and their 70% dark chocolate bar is peanut free. All of Justea’s teas are also nut free. Otherwise, your best bet when shopping for someone with a nut allergy is to shop our body and soul or for the home collections.

Gifts for People with Scent Sensitivities

Though many of the scented products we carry are scented with essential oils and/or are phthalate-free, they can still be too much for someone with a scent sensitivity. For that reason, we recommend staying away from bath and body products when shopping for someone you know is sensitive to scents, and instead browsing through our sip and snack, for the home, and body and soul collections (but avoiding the skincare items in this collection).

Did you find this guide helpful? Would you like us to carry more of these types of items? Let us know by leaving a comment below, and happy shopping!