Our 10 best gifts for women in 2020

 

If anyone needs some love, pampering, and peace this year, it’s women. Who, by all accounts, have had it with 2020. Enjoy our picks for top holiday gifts for women, all from small businesses, most of them women-owned. 

Our 10 Best Gifts for Women in 2020 | Small Business Holiday Gift Guide 2020

 

 

 

All gifts have been editorially determined by our staff. There has been no compensation for inclusion. (We know that's rare.)

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All prices accurate at time of publication but subject to change.

Be sure to visit our 2020 Holiday Gift Guide posts and our 2021 Holiday Gift Guide posts for even more fabulous gift ideas
including 50+ cool gifts for kids and teens, all under $15

 

 

 

Our top 10 holiday gifts for women in 2020: CBD Oil from Brown Girl Jane | Small Business Holiday Gift Guide

Balance CBD Oil Tincture

This eco-friendly, high-quality CBD oil is formulated to restore balance, and we love that it’s from a small, woman-run company that was started to support the wellness needs of women of color. Check out the Rest Wellness Drops as well, for a bigger splurge, with bigger impact.

Our top 10 holiday gifts for women in 2020: "I'm Speaking" shirt from Phenomenal, and the Kamala Harris memoir | Small Business Holiday Gift Guide

I’m Speaking Shirt

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The gift every woman we know wants. But get this one, which supports the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign…which happens to have been started by her niece, children’s author, and mom of two, Meena Harris.

Pair with the Kamala Harris memoir, The Truths We Hold.

Our top 10 holiday gifts for women in 2020: Raw stone earrings from Dani Barbe | Small Business Holiday Gift Guide

Handmade raw stone earrings

Let her sparkle from the neck up on those Zoom calls.
We fell so in love with these Etsy Design Award winners…we may have ordered them for ourselves too. 
Shown here: Herikimer diamond cuffs, emerald hoops, sapphire cuffs, tiny raw studs. 

$24+ for studs, $74+ for cuffs, Dani Barbe

 

Our top 10 holiday gifts for women in 2020: Cocktail Courier Delivery to Her Front Door | Small Business Holiday Gift Guide

Holiday Cocktail Kit Delivery

 Helps make Friday night feel…well, more like Friday night. 
Shown here: The Chalet Shake-up, but lots to choose from.

Our top 10 holiday gifts for women in 2020: Dolly Parton ornament from Sophie and Lily | Small Business Holiday Gift Guide

Hand-Illustrated Dolly Parton Ornament

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And we chose this before we knew she donated a million dollars that partially funded a Covid vaccine.
Maybe add a tribute donation to the Dollywood Foundation to go with this.

$20, Jennifer Valdez of Sophie + Lily

Our top 10 gifts for women in 2020: Vosges chocolate alchemy truffles gift box | Small Business Holiday Gift Guide 2020

Healer Collection Chocolate Alchemy Truffles

From chocolatier Katrina Marloff, these 17 truffles are “magically inspired.” Each one is crafted with rare healing ingredients, and infused with a specific celestial frequency for all kinds of inner good. But honestly… they had us at truffles.

$80, Vosges Haut Chocolate

Our top 10 holiday gifts for women in 2020: The beloved Coyuchi Cloud Loom Robes | Small Business Holiday Gift Guide

Coyuchi Cloud Organic Cotton Robe

The beloved, soft-as-a-cloud robe that gives her one more reason to stay in her robe all day. Maybe the best one of all. 

$148, Huckberry

Our top 10 holiday gifts for women in 2020: Mudlove's inspiring one-word mugs | Small Business Holiday Gift Guide
Our top 10 holiday gifts for women in 2020: Discourse and Dissent Coffee Gift Box from woman-run Little Waves Coffee | Small Business Holiday Gift Guide

Inspiring one-word mug and Discourse and Dissent coffee box

Choose from phrases like hope, loved, strength, and be the change on these handmade mugs, that do good in the world. 
Goes nicely with the the coffee gift box from this co-Latina run, woman-forward, highly lauded small coffee roaster

Mug $28+ (with discounts for quantity purchases), Mudlove

Coffee box $30, Little Wave Coffee

Our top 10 holiday gifts for women in 2020: Custom, made to order leather jackets from By The Namesake | Small Business Holiday Gift Guide

Totally custom, made-to-order leather jacket

Entirely made by hand to your specs by designer Rosa Halpern, she writes, “as your jacket is worn in, broken down, stretched to fit, and scarred from adventure, it will carry your story forward, as we have carried the stories of our namesakes.” How could we not want one of those?