Mom has always been there for you, and while you may not have appreciated her attention when she loudly cheered from the sidelines of your game—airhorn included—or took hundreds of pictures before prom, you don’t know what you’d do without her. Maybe the mom in your life was a cool aunt, a grandma who was always there for you, your best friend’s mom who took you under her wing, or a coworker who showed you the ropes at your first job. Whoever your mom is, she deserves to be celebrated at least once a year.
Moms give every day to their families, so give the mothers and mother figures in your life a day that’s just their own with these seven gift ideas! From the simple to the indulgent, there’s something for any situation and any mom. These gifts don’t just offer something for your mom; they give you the opportunity to bond by showing her how much you appreciate her after all this time.
1. Bath and shower gels
Any mom welcomes a quiet moment to hit the reset button and refresh—even if her only chance to get away is in the shower. Our bath and shower gels make showers extra special with refreshing aromas such as Lavender and Morning Start™. You can also create a custom scent with our Bath and Shower Gel Base. For extra silky skin, use a gentle exfoliating glove. You can also create an extra luxurious bundle that includes bathtime spa items like an exfoliating glove, pumice stones, or bath bombs or bubble baths like the ones found in these fun DIYs.
2. DIY pampering kit
Have a mom who rarely breaks away for some much-needed time to herself? Bring the self-care night to her! A DIY spa kit is a creative way to treat Mom to the pampering she deserves.
Fill a basket, big or small, with the special spa items you know your mom would love. Our Coconut Lime Replenishing Body Butter and Lavender Calming Bath Bombs make great additions to a beauty basket. You can also add something more personal and customized to your mom’s specific needs with a DIY gift like one of these!
Children keep you on your toes, so it makes sense that motherhood comes with tired feet. A simple silky foot soak gives achy feet the attention and care they’ve been asking for. With Epsom salt and a dash of AlkaLime™, this mixture combines with warm water to create a velvety soak that softens and pampers skin. Choose from our staycation Beach Vibes, springtime Fresh Floral, and high-energy Sweet Summer scent blends or create your own that you know Mom will love.
Check out our self-care posts, including DIY CBD-infused lotion bars and CBD Oil Base: 5 DIY blends you need right now, for more ideas! And remember to personalize your kit with a favorite treat, magazine, or beauty tool to make it the perfect gift for Mom.
3. Breakfast in bed
Remember all the times Mom prepped breakfast before your early morning game or whipped up a brunch buffet for your birthday sleepover? There’s no way to repay her for years of tasty meals made with love, but a surprise breakfast in bed can’t hurt.
Plan a meal that includes goodies Mom would want on her special day, whether it’s light and healthy or rich and indulgent. Try not to burn anything—though you know she’ll forgive you if you do—and don’t forget a few fresh flowers on the tray!
Need a little inspiration? Check out our healthy breakfast recipes that include wolfberry energy bars, sweet potato “toast,” chocolate chia pudding, or raspberry-lime yogurt to start planning your Mom’s Day menu.
4. Lip balm and Poppyseed Lip Scrub care kit
For lips that kiss scrapes and kiss goodnight, Mom needs a balm that keeps her lips soft. Give her a petroleum-free lip balm in one of our three popular fresh flavors—Grapefruit, Lavender, and Cinnamint™—or treat her to all three! Our Savvy Minerals® Poppyseed Lip Scrub offers extra pampering when lips have already faced some weathering. Made with premium essential oils and rich butters, it leave lips conditioned, soft, and moisturized with every use.
5. DIY bath salts
The easiest way to create an at-home spa experience? Bath salts! Use our simple bath salts recipe to make her feel like a queen. Follow our blend with Citrus CBD Oil for a splash of peppy, pick-you-up scent or Lavender for dreamy, restful vibes, so you can help Mom lie back, breathe deep, and soak in the moment.
6. Home diffuser with essential oils
A new diffuser is always a treat, even if you already have one! The an easy, luxe way to bring the power of essential oils into Mom’s space. We love using it in living rooms and bedrooms, but she can also enjoy it at work, in a home office, or in her craft room. Make the gift extra special with homemade blends personalized to include her favorite scents or gift her some of our Young Living signature blends.
No matter what your mom figure has going on, there’s an essential oil for that. Know a stressed-out soccer mom running to practice, games, and the sporting goods store? Share Stress Away™! Have a business mogul mom putting in long hours at the office? Gift her AromaEase™ to create a calming and soothing environment. Need a gift for the social butterfly who goes out more often than you ever could? Give Joy™ to create the positive and energetic scent of joy! Is your home’s energy influenced by a yogini who’s willing to bend over backward for your family? The aroma of Harmony™ can help her maintain her Zen—and her lotus position.
7. DIY personalized perfume
Give the gift of a custom signature scent that will have Mom feeling luxurious and smelling amazing. Try out one, or more, of our Patchouli essential oil perfume recipes to give Mom a signature scent that channels vibes that are cool and collected, radiant and beautiful.
Whatever you decide to do to celebrate the mom in your life, the most important thing is that she knows how much you love her and that you recognize everything she’s done for you. Whether it’s a grand gesture or a handcrafted DIY gift, when it comes to moms, it’s all about the love.
Want more ideas? Check out our 5 DIY skin care recipes for your skin type and 6 tips to take your meditation to the next level blog posts. They’re both full of DIYs and oils that will upgrade Mom’s daily routine from start to finish.
How will you celebrate mothers this year? Share your ideas in the comments!
This my first time ordering a kit and thank goodness for organic essential oils , I use this for relaxing after work, but I can not believe there are so much more uses of theses fantastic oils, love young living , I have been missing out all these years! Just ordered a diffuser for my daughter who is a single mom!
I love the ideas!!! Keep them coming!
Such a nice giveaway!
the mommy who I know could certainly use a diffuser is …my daughter! She is being challenged with her daughter and the end-of-year blahs that come to a 2nd grader! She is trying a DIY blend for support and motivation.
love the ideas!
I LOVE Young Living!! thank you for the exceptional quality of products that you offer!! This would be an amazing gift to my mother. I know she would love it!!
I love mostly any oil especially peppermint and spearmint so this i could use with it and it would be nice to win !
New to the oily living, but would love to win !
One can never have enough diffusers – and the variety of scents is endless, so, of course I would love to win! I especially enjoy having an extra diffuser to put out for loan – a surefire way to show others the power of our essential oils!
I love these gift ideas! I just purchased Abundance for my mom for a Mother’s Day gift. She tried it on at a friend’s house and loved how the scent stayed on her for so long. I’m sure she will be excited to have her own bottle! Thanks again for these great ideas, I’ll definitely use them for my friends birthdays!
Since I work multiple jobs – oils give me a lift. I am always thankful when I diffuse at night when I get a few minutes of quiet time before my next shift starts!
So blessed to be part of Young Living!
I’ve been wanting to send my mom a diffuser. She loves the oils but has never gotten a diffuser.
I’m learning everyday how essential – essential oils are to our lives. A few of my co-workers use them in their lives everyday too. We share our love for essential oils with our co-workers, friends and family. I brought in a diffuser to work today and it was well received. “What smells so good in here?” Thieves was the choice today. I’m eager to share with my mom. I would love to win a diffuser for her. Thank you for sharing your ideas. Love them all.
Great ideas for Mother’s Day and every day in between 💜🌱☮
Thanks for the wonderful foot soak idea! I plan on making this for myself since my little one’s are too small to do it now. I am pampering my own Mother this year w/YL gear. I know she will love it! Happy Mother’s Day!
Awesome gift!
I would love to win!
Oh how I would love to win this and help spoil my mama! :) What wonderful gift ideas you have posted as well!
Wow.. not a bad offer. Would love to win.
Love this…what a neat idea!!
I would love to win a diffuser! It would definitely by my personal diffuser to keep in the bedroom!! Love YL
This would be such an awesome gift to give to my mom for Mother’s Day! Those 3 oils sound amazing!
Absolutely Love Young Living! The water bottle is for sure on my list! What a great treat this would be for Mom…and me!! 😊
Great ideas! I may have to try some for myself!
My mom is no longer with me but my mother-in-law has been asking about the oils so I’ve been introducing them to her. This would be a great Mother’s Day gift and a great introduction to these fabulous oils and the many ways to use and enjoy them.
This is a great giveaway that I would in turn give to my mom!! Well, we might have to share it! LOL Love these oils!!
Our family loves YL and all the wonderful benefits!
Would love to win! I 💜 YL!!
Thanks for the tips!
With me being new to oils and try to introduce my mom and mil to oils these r all great ideas to treat them to some wonderful products on a very important day! Thank you so much for all of your suggestion!
I would love to have another diffuser at our house!
Yes, thank you!
All really great ideas! I’m a mom would would love to receive one.
This would be awesome! What a great gift!
I just have to get my mom to try oils! She refuses. Haha, I think that the Hawaiian Sunrise blend she might like so I will have to try!!! I would totally gift her the home diffuser if I won it!
This would definitely make for a relaxing Mother’s Day! Thank you for the chance to win!
Would love to have this diffuser and those wonderful oils! That would be a nice treat for Mother’s Day!
I <3 these mother's day ideas! Homemade gifts are the best!
Great ideas!
My starter kit came with the bamboo diffuser which I love, but I’ve heard great things about the rose diffuser. Would love to try it out!
These are awesome ideas! Just in the nick of time for mother’s day and a way to share the blessing of essential oil with others that we may know. Good stuff!
New to Young Living Essential Oils and so excited. Would love to give this to my daughter for Mother Day.
Just ordered my mother a premium starter kit with diffuser! I can’t wait to see her reaction.
My mother and I love essential oils. We only use young living based on its standards. These are all great ideas. Might be making some foot scrub for her!!! Thanks! Great idea!!!!
I would love to surprise my mother with a special young living mother’s day gift!!
I love the Thieves cleaning kit. It cleans so good and smells amazing!
Would love to win
I love all of these ideas – I would also love to win the diffuser!
This is a fabulous gift. Young Living makes us feel so special. I would love to win a Home Diffuser, along with 15-ml bottles of (1) Grapefruit, (1) Lavender, and (1) Ylang Ylang essential oils. What a gift!
YL you’re amazing! Anyone could be so lucky ❤️
These oils together are delicious! And The Home diffuser is my favorite thing at home! If my house was on fire, I might be silly enough to rescue my diffuser after all the family members were out safely! Im kidding, but I would be lost without my diffuser!