1. Relax on a Hot Summer Day
A Blueberry Bourbon Vanilla Lemonade mocktail adapted from Oleander + Palm blends skin-saving blueberries and astringent fresh lemon juice. A few drops of bourbon vanilla add a smooth sweetness to this lazy-chic recipe you’ll come to crave on hot summer days. It’ll perk up your mood, energy levels, and complexion.
Apply a few drops of blueberry-rich Bakuchiol Smoothing Serum blended with a few drops of Orchid Facial Oil before indulging in this beautifying treat.
Serves one/ 5 minutes to prepare
- 2 tbsp. fresh-squeezed lemon juice
- A few drops of bourbon vanilla
- 1/2 bottle seltzer
- Cubed ice
- Blueberries
- 1 tsp. agave syrup
Directions: Squeeze the lemon juice into the bottom of your cocktail glass, then add the agave, vanilla, and blueberries. Stir for a few moments, working to muddle the blueberries into the mixture slightly with light agitation. Add the ice and seltzer. Garnish with more blueberries and a fresh lemon wedge.
2. Throw A Self-Love Party
Clink glasses to your health with Rainbow Coconut Water Mocktail Spritzers adapted from this recipe from How Sweet Eats. This dazzling beverage would pair beautifully with an indulgent beauty ritual session featuring our PRISM Exfoliating Glow Potion due to its rainbow of fruits that provide a plethora of nourishing benefits including beautifying and tonifying the skin.
Feel free to add to, or subtract from, this rainbow collection of fruits to suit your fancy and local availability. Bubble water adds nose-tickling fun to this picturesque cocktail that’s just a touch over-the-top for extra fun. With hydrating coconut water, healthy vitamins, and digestive enzymes, this mocktail is sure to be the literal highlights for everyone at the primping party.
Serves four/ 15 minutes to prepare
- Raspberries
- Strawberries — sliced
- Nectarine slices
- Mango slices
- Pineapple — 1’’ sliced
- Lime slices
- Fresh mint
- Blueberries
- Blackberries
- Crushed ice
- 16 ounces coconut water
- 8 ounces lime seltzer
Directions: Fill four tall glasses halfway full with crushed ice. Then, distribute the rainbow of fruits in layers on top of the ice. Add the coconut water (and the optional shots of vodka) until the glasses are three-quarters full, topping with lime seltzer, and garnish with fresh mint leaves.
3. Deep Clean, Tone, and Calm
A Blackberry Basil Mule adapted from this recipe from Well and Good is an amazing skin tonic that tastes wonderful over a glass of ice. A touch of ginger brings gut-toning heat as blackberries detoxify and basil reduces inflammation. Chilled bubbles lend an uplifting hand as the sun swelters.
Bring along this tinkling drink as you bathe with CALM Soaking Salts and a Bamboo Charcoal Cleansing Bar. The blend of Himalayan salt, ylang ylang essential oil, and vanilla helps to cleanse and relax the body, mind, and soul. The soap’s charcoal and bamboo ingredients provide deep cleansing power.
Follow your bath with a few pumps of Citrine Body Oil applied to the body to recharge and stabilize the mood after such a deep cleansing from the inside out.
Serves two/ 1 hour and 15 minutes to prepare
- 1 cup chopped ginger
- ½ cup coconut sugar
- ¾ cup filtered water
- 1 cup blackberries
- 3 fresh basil leaves, chopped
- 1 lime
- 1 cup sparkling water
- Crushed ice
Directions:
- Bring the grated ginger, water, and coconut sugar to a boil. Turn down the heat and simmer the mixture until the sugar has dissolved (about ten minutes). Remove the syrup from the heat and allow the pan to cool for about an hour. Strain out the ginger from the ginger syrup.
- Distribute ice, blackberries, and basil leaves into two glasses and muddle. Squeeze fresh lime juice and a few teaspoons of the ginger syrup into the muddled mixtures. Top the beverages with sparkling water, adding a fresh sprig of basil to garnish, and watch your skin glow!
Illustrations by Wren McMurdo