Holiday Gifting for Wellness
Gifting essential oils offers something far more lasting than the usual holiday present — it’s the gift of wellness, mindfulness, and natural living. Each oil carries its own story, aroma, and purpose, providing support for both body and spirit throughout the year.
Essential oils invite daily use and personal connection, helping loved ones create comforting rituals and balanced environments. The 12 Days of Christmas theme turns this tradition into an inspired wellness journey — each day revealing a new aroma, benefit, or self-care moment to explore. From calming lavender evenings to invigorating peppermint mornings, this guide transforms gift giving into a celebration of health, peace, and joy that continues well beyond the holidays.
🎄 The 12 Days of Christmas — doTERRA Style 🎁
When it comes to thoughtful, meaningful gifts, few things capture the spirit of wellness and joy like doTERRA essential oils. Each bottle offers a pure botanical experience — a way to nurture, refresh, and bring peace to those you love. So, in the playful spirit of the season, here’s your “12 Days of Christmas” gift list, infused with aromatic cheer and lasting wellness benefits.
🎶 On the First Day of Christmas: Peppermint for Energy!
Peppermint essential oil bursts with menthol freshness that enlivens both body and mind. Diffuse to sharpen focus during long holiday preparations, or inhale directly to relieve mental fatigue and motion sickness. Peppermint’s natural cooling properties help ease head tension and soothe tired muscles when massaged with a carrier oil. Add a single drop to warm cocoa or tea for digestive comfort and a festive flavor. It’s a crisp reminder of winter mornings and renewed vitality.
Shop Peppermint🎶 On the Second Day of Christmas: Lemon for Bright Cheer!
Lemon essential oil is distilled from the peel, releasing a clean, sparkling scent that brightens every space. Add to water for gentle internal cleansing, diffuse to neutralize household odors, or use in DIY cleaning sprays for toxin-free freshness. Lemon’s natural limonene content promotes positivity and clarity, helping chase away winter gloom. Its cheerful aroma energizes the spirit and purifies the home, making it a perfect partner for a fresh start to the new year.
Shop Lemon🎶 On the Third Day of Christmas: Lavender for Calm!
Lavender essential oil offers floral tranquility that supports rest and emotional balance. Add to your diffuser or a bedtime linen spray to encourage deep sleep, or blend with aloe for soothing minor skin irritations and sun-exposed skin. A drop on pulse points helps melt daily stress and fosters a sense of serenity. Lavender also pairs beautifully in DIY bath salts, body butter, and calming tea blends. It’s the essence of peace wrapped in a purple ribbon.
Shop Lavender🎶 On the Fourth Day of Christmas: Citrus Bliss for Joy!
Citrus Bliss, doTERRA’s “invigorating blend,” combines orange, lemon, grapefruit, mandarin, tangerine, bergamot, and a hint of vanilla bean. Its bright, sweet aroma immediately uplifts mood and combats winter dullness. Use in a car diffuser for an energizing morning drive, or add to unscented lotion for a cheerful body moisturizer. The blend’s natural cleansing action refreshes the air, while its sunny aroma reminds us that warmth can always be found — even in December.
Shop Citrus Bliss🎶 On the Fifth Day of Christmas: Frankincense the King of Oils!
Frankincense has been revered since antiquity for spiritual grounding and skin renewal. Rich in alpha-pinene, it soothes inflammation, promotes clear breathing, and supports cellular function. Add a drop to daily moisturizer for radiant skin or diffuse during prayer and meditation for deep connection and peace. Frankincense’s earthy, resinous aroma fosters reflection and gratitude — a sacred oil for the sacred season.
Shop Frankincense🎶 On the Sixth Day of Christmas: On Guard for Wellness!
On Guard is doTERRA’s signature protective blend featuring wild orange, clove, cinnamon, eucalyptus, and rosemary. It strengthens immune defense, purifies surfaces, and fills the air with a cozy, spiced aroma reminiscent of mulled cider. Use in cleaning sprays, apply to the soles of the feet for immune support, or diffuse to safeguard family gatherings. Warm and welcoming, On Guard is wellness wrapped in holiday spice.
Shop On Guard🎶 On the Seventh Day of Christmas: Breathe for Clarity!
Breathe — known as the respiratory blend — merges eucalyptus, peppermint, cardamom, melaleuca, and lemon to open airways naturally. Diffuse at bedtime to ease congestion or apply to the chest with carrier oil during cold winter mornings. Breathe promotes calm inhalation, supports the sinuses, and helps you rest easier through dry, heated air. With every breath, it refreshes body and spirit alike.
Shop Breathe🎶 On the Eighth Day of Christmas: Wild Orange for Joy!
Wild Orange essential oil is cold-pressed from the rind, capturing the fruit’s natural sweetness. It inspires optimism, refreshes stale air, and adds gentle immune support through its high antioxidant content. Blend with peppermint for an energizing diffuser combination or add a few drops to homemade surface cleaner for a burst of citrus purity. Its aroma reminds us that joy can be as simple as breathing in sunshine.
Shop Wild Orange🎶 On the Ninth Day of Christmas: Balance for Peace!
Balance, the grounding blend, layers frankincense, spruce, ho wood, blue tansy, and osmanthus for emotional steadiness. Ideal for meditation or stressful gatherings, it promotes tranquility and reconnects you to the present moment. Massage into the soles of the feet each morning for day-long stability, or diffuse to transform tension into calm. Balance’s woody notes anchor the soul — serenity in a bottle.
Shop Balance🎶 On the Tenth Day of Christmas: Serenity for Rest!
Serenity, doTERRA’s restful blend, combines lavender, cedarwood, ho wood, vanilla, and vetiver to quiet the mind and body. Diffuse in bedrooms or add to Epsom salts for a luxurious bedtime soak. Its gentle aroma helps reduce nervous tension, calms racing thoughts, and promotes sustained, rejuvenating sleep — the perfect gift for weary holiday hearts.
Shop Serenity🎶 On the Eleventh Day of Christmas: Deep Blue for Relief!
Deep Blue offers comforting support for tired muscles and joints. A blend of wintergreen, camphor, peppermint, blue tansy, and helichrysum, it provides a cooling-warming sensation that relaxes after long days of wrapping gifts or shoveling snow. Apply topically before or after exercise, or massage into the neck and shoulders for tension relief. Deep Blue soothes away the holiday bustle, restoring comfort to body and spirit.
Shop Deep Blue🎶 On the Twelfth Day of Christmas: Peace for the Soul!
Peace, the reassuring blend, marries vetiver, ylang ylang, frankincense, patchouli, and clary sage for grounding emotional calm. Diffuse during meditation or apply to the heart and wrists to release anxious feelings. Peace reminds us that contentment is found in stillness — a gentle close to the holiday season that invites gratitude, reflection, and inner quiet.
Shop Peace✨ A Season of Wellness and Joy
Whether tucked into stockings, arranged in a gift basket, or paired with DIY creations, doTERRA essential oils make the “12 Days of Christmas” come alive in beautifully aromatic ways. Each bottle carries intention — to uplift, to restore, and to nurture body and soul through the most wonderful time of the year. Give the gift of pure wellness this Christmas, and share the joy of natural living with those you love.
There’s a special kind of joy that comes from giving — the kind that warms the heart long after the wrapping paper is gone. Gifting essential oils is more than a seasonal gesture; it’s a way to share calm, comfort, and connection with those you care about most. Each bottle becomes a reminder of love, thoughtfulness, and the beauty of simple wellness. Whether tucked into a stocking or nestled in a festive basket, these gifts speak the universal language of kindness — a fragrant expression of hope, peace, and joy that lingers well beyond Christmas morning.