Best Vegan Gifts

Getting the best gifts for a vegan is never easy, since you don’t realise how many products go against the vegan lifestyle and philosophy until you actually start looking for presents. Whether it’s a birthday, especial occasion or just a random act of kindness, trying to find the perfect vegan gift can be incredibly difficult and might force you to start looking in entirely new places. However, there’s quite a few vegan-specific gift ideas you could use, and some have already built up a great reputation for being high-quality, useful, fun or just generally a nice gift to receive.

Here are eleven different gift ideas that might be perfect for a vegan friend, family member or partner if you’re struggling to find anything for them.

1. Veestro

Veestro is a vegan meal delivery service that can be a great gift for people who are still looking for their favourite meal, shipping a range of different dishes directly to the front door of their home. All of their meal items can be cooked in around five minutes at most, it’s not one of those gifts that forces the recipient to do all of the work. Alongside meals like Soba Noodles or Red Curry with Tofu, you’ll also have the option of getting a bag or box of food specifically for weight loss, which is perfect for any vegan that’s trying to burn off calories from Christmas.

Why we liked it:

Veestro meals make great gifts for vegans who might struggle with the diet, or people who just want to try something new!

2. Green Chef

Green Chef try to give vegan cooks everything they need to make high quality vegan meals without having to shop for hours. All of their ingredients are organic and high in natural nutrition, and they try to make sure that they’re as fresh as possible by the time you get them. Even better, all of the packaging is made using recyclable materials, and they deliver using as little carbon as possible: if you care about the planet, this can be a great gift that doesn’t weigh on your conscience. Finally, you get the recipes for the items you can cook, but they also encourage you to experiment and make whatever takes your fancy!

Why we liked it:

New vegans can sometimes struggle to adapt their diets, but Green Chef can help you get your favourite foods while also teaching you how to make the recipes yourself.

3. Bulldog Beard Care Essentials Kit

Finding gifts for the vegan men in your family or friend group can be tough, but beard care products are often overlooked. Bulldog’s Essentials Kit includes vegan balm, conditioner and shampoo as well as a simple comb, using absolutely no animal-based ingredients and avoiding any artificial additives. Other than that, it’s exactly what you’d expect: a vegan friendly set of beard beauty items that are free from harmful or non-vegan items, making it a very practical choice of gift while still being something that a newer vegan might have forgotten to buy for themselves.

Why we liked it:

Beard care is an important part of male beauty, and a vegan friend or family member will appreciate having products that they can use without going against their own lifestyle.

4. Ella and Mila Nail Polish

Another beauty gift, this nail polish was ultimately designed as a kind of combined gift: one large bottle for a mother and one smaller bottle for a daughter. Even if it’s not used like that, both bottles of polish are completely vegan and free from products made through animal exploitation, as well as being fully certified by PETA. As you’d expect, there’s a range of colours to choose from, so you aren’t limited to only one or two. If you need something a little extra, Ella and Mila also offer other beauty products to complement them, like nail polish removers.

Why we liked it:

Nail polish might not be the most dramatic gift, but this vegan set is practical, has a nice sentiment behind it and works well for polishing your nails properly.

5. EcoTools Brush Set

Very few brushes are made in the vegan way, and this set give you multiple to work with at once, making it much easier to perform a range of makeup techniques without having to buy all the brushes separately. The handles are made using a mixture of recycled plastics and aluminium, while the brush bristles themselves combine natural bamboo fibres and cotton to ensure that they’re as vegan friendly as possible. The set has blush, eyeshadow, angled liner, concealer and foundation brushes to cover most normal types of makeup, making them great vegan gifts for anybody who tries to look their best as often as possible.

Why we liked it:

These brushes make for a simple but useful vegan gift, and they’re practical enough to work well without needing to be replaced soon after they’re used.

6. Matt and Nat Backpack

Matt and Nat are known for all kinds of vegan leather bags, but this backpack stands out for being the perfect vegan gift when it comes to travel, holidays or school life. Made entirely with eco-friendly materials (such as recycled tired from bicycles, rubber, cork, recycled plastic from bottles, cardboard and re-used nylon), it’s designed to be as sustainable as possible, earning a PETA certification for their efforts. Still, it’s also a very durable bag that doesn’t fall apart quickly, and it’s made well to ensure that it can handle everything a regular artificially-made bag would be able to handle.

Why we liked it:

This bag can quickly become a favourite for any vegan that needs to carry objects on the way to work, school or home, and is perfect for almost any location or situation.

7. Hyggelight The Growing Candle

This candle is an interesting concept: rather than buying a new one from a shop and throwing it away once it’s done, it’s designed to turn into a growing container, for plants, making it an instant favourite for any indoor gardeners. You’ll also get a seed label that you can place into the candle and start growing your own plants, mostly wildflowers: this can include lemon mint, snapdragon and so on. Each one is vegan friendly due to the use of soy wax instead of beeswax, and the smell itself is just as inviting as any other candle would be!

Why we liked it:

Candles are great gifts to begin with, and this vegan candle is perfect for any home that’s always full of nice smells and carefully-grown plants!

8. Merrell Hiking Shoes

Vegan shoes might not be the most obvious gift set, but they can be difficult to find in a regular shop, and most vegan people you know will appreciate them a lot! These shoes are made to a high standard of quality using only the most reliable vegan leather products, as well as glue that doesn’t come from animals or harm them in any way. Despite this, they’re still made for hiking, and can hold up really well almost anywhere: in the burning sun, in Christmas snow or even just your daily walk to a local shop. The air cushioning also means that they’re made with comfort in mind.

Why we liked it:

These shoes make great vegan gifts, especially since many people might assume that vegan shoes would be weak and barely suited for hiking at all.

10. EcoLips Vegan Lip Balm

Lip balm is a favourite of nearly anybody who gets dry lips, and it’s such a common sight that we often forget about it. Not only do these vegan balms work well as a beauty product, but they’re also great for general lip health, using only the best vegan ingredients to help you care for that area really well. This includes ingredients like completely organic coconut oil, Fair-Trade cocoa butter and candelilla wax, all of which help produce excellent results on dry lips. Not only that, but there’s multiple scents to choose from such as Sweet Mint or Lemon-Lime, so it’s easy for any vegan to eventually choose a favourite!

Why we liked it:

Lip balm is one of the most overlooked vegan gifts you could try, and these ones by EcoLips are likely to become a favourite among anybody you gift them to!

11. Vegancuts Gift Box

This subscription-based vegan gifts box offers a great range of vegan products directly to the recipient’s door. This can be anything from snacks (like vegan-friendly cookies) to beauty products, makeup and other items that you can’t often find in a regular shop. Some might even be completely new items that you can’t find elsewhere yet. Either way, each box contains over ten vegan gifts each, and you might even end up with free extras during Christmas or other holiday events! Whether it contains cookies or face moisturisers, this box of vegan gifts is perfect for people who are already looking for a new favourite product to try.

Why we liked it:

The Vegancuts box is perfect for getting vegan gifts that you can’t find in a local shop, and can contain new products that you might never have even heard of before!

Buyers Guide

Buying the best possible gifts for a vegan isn’t always easy, especially if you don’t have any ideas on what they actually want. However, with a little bit of planning and careful searching, you might be able to find some products that can become a new favourite for your vegan family member, friend or partner. Ask yourself a few questions to figure out what might be a good alternative to the generic options you’re tempted to fall back on.

What’s a good gift for a vegan?

Vegans are still regular people, and being vegan won’t change their attitude to a lot of things. This means that you can still look into almost any category of ‘regular gift items’ for ideas: jewellery and accessories, chocolate, a food hamper, fashion, and so on. You just need to look for ones that actually fit in with their lifestyle and/or moral stance. For example, you might end up having to look for handmade jewellery or clothing made from an artificial skin rather than regular leather. Vegans generally want the same gifts, so vegan alternatives to the usual choices can still end up being an amazing option for them.

What do vegans want for Christmas?

Christmas can be a tricky time for gifts, since a lot of new opportunities might open up. For example, your favourite site might offer a free product with certain purchases, or you might get an email offering you seasonal discounts on your favourite product or favourite brand. If your vegan friend or family member hasn’t told you what they’re hoping for, then just look towards their favourite things: vegans are just as varied as non-vegans, with their own hobbies, quirks and loved pastimes that can make your search easier.

What is a good gift for a vegetarian?

Vegans and vegetarians get linked often, but they’re not actually the same thing. Some vegetarians will still use animal products, and won’t always have the same kind of moral interest in their diet as vegans. All vegan products can be used by a vegetarian, but not all vegetarian products can be used by a vegan, so make sure you know the difference. Not every vegan or vegetarian falls neatly into one category, and they might have a favourite food, brand or hobby that just barely skims the edge of what’s meant to be acceptable in their diet and lifestyle, so it varies from person to person.

What do vegans do for fun?

Vegans aren’t some kind of secret society: each vegan will have their own favourite hobbies to do or favourite ways to spend their free time, with the common difference being that they’ll avoid harming animals. A vegan is just as likely to obsess over growing lovely flowers as they are to build a website or sign up for a weekend job in an industrial field: they’re all unique people, and figuring out their favourite uses of their free time shouldn’t be handled any differently to a non-vegan.

Conclusion

Vegan gifts might be slightly higher in price or require some extra time to search for them, but the recipient will appreciate the effort, especially if they often struggle to find items they can enjoy without breaking their diet and/or lifestyle. Shopping for a vegan could be a slightly more frustrating experience, but it depends on how much information you have about their likes and hobbies: if you’re really stuck, you could always just go and ask them directly. Hopefully this list has given you some ideas on vegan gifts that you could give in the future, or at least shortened your search a little bit!

Did You Know?

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