A Little More Joy: Meet Embodyme‘s New Body Care Duos
With a thoughtful approach to fragrance, nourishing botanical ingredients and a philosophy centred on everyday wellbeing, New Zealand beauty brand Embodyme is making body care feel a little more special. Its new Body Care Duos arrive just in time for the gifting season, and we’ve already found our favourite.
The lead-up to summer is always a good excuse to rethink our beauty rituals. Warmer days, more skin on show, celebrations filling the calendar and, of course, the annual search for gifts that feel genuinely thoughtful. This season, we’re turning our attention to body care, particularly the kind that smells wonderful, looks lovely on the bathroom shelf and encourages us to take a few extra minutes for ourselves.
New Zealand brand Embodyme has caught our attention with its new Body Care Duos, bringing together two of its signature products, Hand & Body Wash and Body Oil, in beautifully considered gift sets.
The idea is simple: turn something we already do every day into a small moment of pleasure.
Founded by Sarah Reid, who has a background in luxury beauty and wellness, Embodyme grew from a very personal experience. After navigating periods of burnout and significant life changes, Sarah began exploring how small, consistent rituals could support her sense of wellbeing.
That thinking became the foundation of a body care collection that considers how we want to feel as much as how we want our skin to look.
Rather than organising its products around traditional fragrance families, Embodyme has developed four distinct scent personalities: Courage, Joy, Peace and Kindness. Each is created around a particular emotional quality, using the brand’s ScentState™ approach to fragrance.
We particularly like this idea of choosing a scent according to your mood, or perhaps the mood you’d like to encourage. It’s a lovely way to make fragrance feel more personal.
Our Pick: Joy
Of the new pairings, the Joy Body Care Duo is our favourite, particularly heading into summer.
Fresh, uplifting and softly sensual, Joy combines sweet orange, neroli and sandalwood. The citrus brings a lovely brightness, while neroli adds a delicate floral quality and sandalwood gives the fragrance warmth and depth.
It’s a combination that feels perfectly suited to long summer days, warm evenings, and skin kissed by the sun.
The duo includes a generous 400ml Hand & Body Wash and a 100ml Body Oil. Used together, they create a simple two-step ritual: cleanse first, then massage the oil into slightly damp skin to help retain moisture.
The formulations feature nourishing botanical ingredients, including golden hemp seed oil, kiwi seed oil, mānuka honey and native New Zealand extracts such as kawakawa and kūmarahou. The Body Oil also includes avocado, grapeseed and flaxseed oils, selected for their skin-conditioning properties.
We especially love using the oil after an evening shower, letting the fragrance linger softly on the skin. It’s also a lovely addition to a pre-event beauty routine, particularly when you’re wearing something that reveals your shoulders, arms or décolletage.
And for anyone planning a wedding, honeymoon or summer celebration, beautifully cared-for skin is always a good place to start.
A Little Something for Everyone
Beyond Joy, Embodyme‘s wider collection lets you explore different fragrance personalities through its individual Body Oils, Hand & Body Washes, and Discovery Set.
Peace is another of the brand’s featured scents, and one that lends itself naturally to slower evenings and moments of quiet. Courage and Kindness complete the collection, offering different ways to approach fragrance and everyday self-care.
The brand’s considered approach extends to its packaging, with Body Oils presented in amber glass bottles and Hand & Body Washes in recycled PET. The new Duo packaging brings the products together in a format that feels particularly suited to gifting.
We can imagine these making lovely presents for bridesmaids, thoughtful gifts for friends, or something to pack for a honeymoon. Equally, there’s absolutely no reason not to keep one for yourself.
What appeals to us most about Embodyme is its uncomplicated approach to self-care. You don’t need an elaborate routine or an entire afternoon to make a little space for yourself. Sometimes a beautiful fragrance, a nourishing body oil and five uninterrupted minutes are quite enough.
And if those five minutes happen to smell of sweet orange, neroli and sandalwood, even better.
For more information, visit embodymedaily.com and @embodyme_daily
