From locally made perfumes to locally made beer, discover and explore these 10 brands as you shop for gifts this Christmas Season.
Make your holidays more special as you give your loved one a product from home. Gifting locally made products not only uplifts the receiver’s mood but also allows a homegrown brand to flourish. Sometimes, it only takes one purchase to help a brand be known—all it takes is a person who believes in them to rally a crowd of customers.
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The holidays are the perfect time to support a local business. To help you look for local gifts this holiday season, Lifestyle Asia editor-in-chief Candy Dizon has curated 10 Filipino brands perfect for gifting.
Wanderskye
The sky is the limit as you gift your wanderlust friend locally made luggage. Wanderskye is a Filipino bag and luggage brand founded for the modern traveler. Their luggage combines style, durability, and functionality—ensuring that you look your best while ensuring your packed items are safe and untouched.
Luggage from Wanderskye / Photos via Instagram @wanderskye
Tadhana
Leave a smile on your loved one’s lips as you give them perfume from Tadhana. Tadhana is a local perfumery that makes its customers embark on a journey of self-discovery through scents. Led by Shale, the brand’s Perfumer-in-Chief, who honed her craft in French Perfumery at ISIPCA, France-together with Evgeny, the brand’s designer, the duo is determined to tell stories through scents.
Scents from Tadhana / Photos via Instagram @tadhana.fragrance
Pure Culture
A pioneer in Filipino clean beauty, Pure Culture is a skincare brand made by Filipinos, for Filipinos. Moreover, Pure Culture takes pride in how and where it sources its ingredients. They go to lengths to ensure that the ingredients they use for their products are clean and ethically sourced. Furthermore, the brand is proven to be very hypoallergenic, even patients undergoing chemotherapy can use their products.
Facial oils from Pure Culture / Photos via Instagram @purecultureph
Pili Ani
In search of locally made lip butter? Pili Ani has got you covered. A brand led by a mother-daughter duo to uplift a community of farmers and helped them create a stable livelihood for themselves. Pili Ani’s Lip Butter is infused with Pili Oil—a powerful ingredient considered an anti-aging elixir.
Lip Butter in different shades / Photos via Instagram @pilianiph
1834 Premium Distilled Gin
A blend of nine real botanicals, including juniper berries, are used to create 1834 Premium Distilled Gin. It is a product that is genuinely Filipino, as it is finished with uniquely Philippine botanicals of Sampaguita and calamansi. It is the country’s contribution to the international gin scene, having a distinct and unique taste that both Filipinos and the world will love.
1834 Gin / Photos via Instagram @1834gin
Engkanto
The holidays will never be complete without a bottle of beer. To further bring out the holiday spirit, you and your loved ones should drink the Encanto Brewery’s Mango Nation Hazy IPA (India Pale Ale). The locally handcrafted beer is brewed with prized mangoes from the Philippines—creating an interesting fruity flavor. Moreover, aside from the balanced sweetness and bitterness, this beer also has a unique creamy texture. This texture is achieved by using oats in the brewing process.
Mango Nation beer / Photos via Engkanto website
Cornerstone Pottery Farm
Broaden your loved one’s kitchenware as you give them pieces from the Cornerstone Pottery Farm. A proudly Filipino ware brand, it makes handmade fusion pieces made of organic materials. Moreover, a special characteristic of their wares is that they are unique—each piece is a one-of-one.
Fusion ware by Cornerstone Pottery Farm / Photos via Instagram @cornerstonepotteryfarm
Kawpeng Designs
If you have a loved one who has pets, especially cats or birds, Trademark Kawpeng Designs is the perfect custom gift for them. The brand creates custom luxury cat scratcher towers and bird perches. Aside from the functionality these towers bring to your pets, they are also aesthetic additions to your room.
Creative luxury pet towers / Photo via Instagram @tmkawpeng.designs
Weave Manila
Weave Manila is a proud local rug and carpet company. They are known for their weaved circular Abaca rugs. Moreover, each rug is handmade off-loom—it is woven while sitting on the floor or on a huge table, or whatever the weave prefers. A woven rug from weave manila is a unique and classic piece that will brighten any room.
Circular Abaca rugs / Photos via Weave Manila website and Instagram
Tsaa Laya
Discover the flavors of Filipino tea as you give your loved ones tea from Tsaa Laya. The local tea brand explores different flavors that are uniquely from the Philippines, they also offer classic tea flavors that everybody knows and loves. Moreover, Tsaa Laya diversifies your tea flavor profile as they come out with innovative and unique flavors.
Tea from Tsaa Laya / Photos via Instagram @tsaalaya
