Skin Bathing:
A twice-daily ritual to deeply hydrate and revitalise your skin.
This simple practice transforms dull, dehydrated skin, restoring glow, softening lines, and preparing your skin to receive the full benefits of your skincare products.
Skin Bathing:
Why it Works:
- Rehydrates the outer layer of your skin, boosting vitality
- Enhances enzyme activity for healthier function and glow
- Refines texture and reduces the appearance of pores
- Softens wrinkles by plumping up dehydrated skin cells by 25%
- Calms skin, reducing flushing and sensitivity to temperature
- Helps serums and moisturisers absorb more effectively
- You’ll begin to notice a luminous, dewy glow within one week
How to Bathe Your Skin:
- Partially fill your basin with warm water.
- Immerse your Bestow Soaking Cloth in the water, wring it out, and press the cloth gently against your face.
- Take three slow, deep breaths as you press the warmth into your skin.
- Repeat this process to ensure your skin is fully hydrated.
- While your skin is still damp, apply your mist or serum.
- Immediately follow with your moisturiser or facial oil to seal in hydration.
This calming ritual also activates the parasympathetic nervous system—your body’s natural rest and repair mode—making it a soothing way to reduce stress and support overall wellbeing.
Why is Skin Bathing Essential?
Topical hydration is vital for skin health and glow. While drinking water hydrates the body, your skin needs moisture applied directly to its surface to function at its best.
Bathing your skin twice daily—morning and evening—ensures it absorbs the water it craves. Moisturising immediately afterward seals in this hydration, keeping the skin plump, radiant, and resilient for up to 12 hours.
Don’t skip this step. Bathing the skin brings out the best in both your skincare products and your skin.
The Science Behind Skin Bathing:
For years, the outermost layer of skin—the Stratum Corneum—was thought to be made up of dead cells. We now know it’s teeming with biological activity, but only if it’s properly hydrated.
Dehydrated skin compromises this layer’s function, leading to:
- Dullness and rough texture
- Visible fine lines and wrinkles
- Increased sensitivity and redness
- A feeling of tightness or congestion
- Weakened skin barrier and reduced resilience
Environmental factors like cold weather, indoor heating, and low humidity all contribute to dehydration—often without us realising it. Many people assume their dull skin is just “normal,” when in fact, it’s thirsty.
By simply reintroducing moisture with this twice-daily ritual, you can radically improve your skin’s health and glow.
Bestow Rituals:
Bestow rituals are beautiful daily habits that support your skin, health and wellbeing.
It’s not the grand gestures or occasional spurts of self-care that count. It’s the wellbeing practices you do every day that really make the difference to your skin and health over your lifetime.
Bestow Rituals:
Bestow Rise & Shine Ritual:
Begin each day with intention, energy and light.
Step One: Greet the Morning
As you rise, open your curtains and welcome the natural light. If you can, step outside and lift your face to the sun—or the soft light of dawn. Breathe deeply. Slowly. Let the moment expand.
This simple ritual halts melatonin (the sleep hormone) and activates your production of serotonin and cortisol—helping your body shift naturally into a state of alertness. It also offers a pause to acknowledge the quiet gift of a new day.
Need help waking more easily? Scroll down to discover how tuning into your circadian rhythms can transform your sleep.
Step Two: Warm Lemon Water
Next, nourish your body from within by sipping the juice of half a lemon in a cup of warm water. This gentle practice rehydrates, supports your digestion, and prepares your system for breakfast.
Lemon is rich in vitamin C—an essential antioxidant for collagen production and healthy, radiant skin. It also helps the liver clear away toxins, making this ritual a small but powerful act of daily renewal.
Make it a habit, and each morning becomes a fresh, beautiful beginning.
Supporting Ritual: Embrace Your Natural Sleep-Wake Cycle
Living in sync with your body’s circadian rhythm—rising with the light and sleeping with the dark—has profound effects on your health and skin.
This internal clock regulates everything from hormone release and digestion to body temperature and cell repair. When you wake at a similar time each day, your body learns to prepare for it naturally, releasing the right chemicals ahead of time. That’s why you may find yourself waking moments before your alarm.
Tip: Resist the urge to sleep in on weekends. A consistent wake time—even on your days off—makes mornings feel smoother, and helps you feel energised rather than groggy.
If you feel sleep-deprived, head to bed earlier instead of sleeping late. Your body (and skin) will thank you.
Investing in a beautiful sleep routine is one of the most nourishing gifts you can give yourself—and its rewards ripple out into every part of your life.
Bestow Time for Tea Ritual:
A beautiful, daily time-out ritual for skincare and self-care.
Bestow Organic Herbal Teas provide hydrating nutrition for beautiful skin.
Our beautiful organic, loose-leaf herbal teas are the therapeutic alternative to coffee and black tea. While caffeine stresses and depletes your body, Bestow Organic Herbal Teas provide hydrating nutrition to support healthy, luminous, youthful skin. During your cleanse week we invite you to embrace the skincare benefits of these nutrient-rich teas, and the wellness benefit of turning a simple tea-break into a self-care ritual.
What makes a tea-break more than a tea-break?
Intention! A tea on the run only offers you one-half of the benefits. We invite you to embrace the Bestow ‘Time for Me’ Tea Ritual as a way of building a mini-retreat into your busy day. This relaxing ritual helps you to introduce a healthy self-care rhythm which is so important in pursuing a life of wellbeing and wholeness.
The Ritual
Put the kettle on. Select a beautiful tea-cup to enjoy your tea in. Steep your chosen Bestow Organic Herbal Tea in boiling water. While you wait for your tea to steep, take 5-10 slow, deep breaths. Put your hands on your belly and feel it rise and fall as you breathe all the way down. Sit quietly and sip your tea slowly, savouring this moment of blissful pause.
Bestow Smoothie Ritual:
A daily moment to nourish your skin from within.
This is more than just a mid-afternoon snack—it’s a skin-loving ritual that helps stabilise energy levels, support your body’s natural rhythms, and feed your skin from the inside out.
As blood sugar dips in the afternoon, this nutrient-rich smoothie provides a gentle, sustaining lift. It’s an opportunity to pause, replenish, and honour your body’s need for nourishment.
The Ritual
• Set a daily reminder—mid-afternoon is ideal.
• Make your Bestow Smoothie using the recipe below.
• Pour it into a beautiful glass and sprinkle with your favourite toppings.
• Take a five-minute break. Sit down. Sip slowly. Savour each mouthful.
• As you drink, visualise each nutrient supporting your skin’s health and radiance.
• Rinse your blender, and return to your day feeling refreshed and energised.
Let this ritual become a simple act of self-care—a way to pause, reset, and glow from within.
Bestow Skin-Loving Smoothie
Ingredients
• 1 banana
• 150 ml coconut water
• 100 ml organic coconut milk (or other plant-based milk)
• 1 cup mango (fresh or frozen)
• Half a ring of fresh pineapple, chopped (plus extra to serve)
• 1 medjool date
• Juice of half a lemon
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp cardamom
• ½ tsp ground ginger (or 1 cm fresh ginger, peeled)
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp turmeric
• 1 tbsp Bestow Beauty Plus Oil
Method
Blend all ingredients until smooth. Pour, top, sip, and enjoy.
Optional Toppings
• Cacao nibs
• Coconut thread
• Fresh pineapple chunks
• A sprinkle of turmeric or cinnamon
Bestow Dry Brushing & Bath:
A grounding ritual for radiant skin and deep relaxation.
This two-part ritual is designed to support your body’s natural detox pathways, soften and smooth the skin, and create space for rest and renewal.
Part One: Dry Brushing
Your skin is one of your body’s largest elimination organs. Dry brushing helps stimulate this natural detoxification process, encouraging lymphatic drainage, boosting circulation, and gently exfoliating dead skin cells.
Done regularly, it promotes clearer, softer, more radiant skin—and supports your immune and lymphatic systems from the surface, inward.
The Ritual
• Undress and take a moment to be still.
• Using your Bestow Body Brush, begin brushing at your feet and move upwards.
• Always brush towards your heart, using gentle, sweeping strokes.
• Continue for 5–10 minutes, until your skin has a light, healthy glow.
• Follow with a warm bath or shower.
Make this a mindful practice. Each brushstroke a signal of care.
Part Two: A Restorative Bath
For a deeper reset, follow dry brushing with a warm bath infused with lavender and Epsom salts. Lavender essential oil calms the mind and soothes the nervous system, while Epsom salts support detoxification, ease muscle tension, and promote restful sleep.
The Ritual
• Run a warm bath.
• Add a handful of Epsom salts and a few drops of lavender essential oil.*
• Light a candle. Dim the lights.
• Sink into the water and let your body soften.
• Inhale deeply. Let go of the day.
• Allow your mind to settle and your body to rest.
*If you have sensitive skin, start with just one drop of essential oil.
Your Bestow Body Brush
Crafted with a natural bamboo handle and firm, plant-based bristles, your Bestow Body Brush is designed to invigorate the skin without irritation. Use it daily before your shower to make this rejuvenating practice part of your everyday rhythm.
How Often Should I Dry Brush?
You can dry brush daily—ideally before your morning shower. Over time, your skin will feel smoother, look more even, and become more receptive to moisture. It's also a gentle way to support your body’s natural detox systems and can help reduce the appearance of cellulite and water retention.
When you need extra care, return to the full ritual: Dry Brushing + Bath Time—a simple, powerful way to reconnect with yourself.
Bestow Blessings Ritual:
A gentle practice to awaken your heart to the beauty woven through your everyday life.
As you move into the second half of your cleanse, we invite you to explore rituals that nourish not just your body—but your soul.
Gratitude is one of the simplest and most profound tools for wellbeing. When we pause to notice the quiet blessings in our day, we shift our entire being toward healing, rest, and renewal.
Gratitude strengthens emotional resilience, calms the nervous system, and invites us to live with open eyes and an open heart. It’s not about ignoring life’s challenges, but learning to see clearly—even in the hard moments—the steady thread of grace that runs through it all.
The Ritual
Create a sacred space.
Choose a quiet corner of your home where you can spend ten peaceful minutes with your Bestow Blessings Journal.
Light a candle. Pour a cup of tea. Let this be your time.
Perhaps you sit at the table after the house has quieted. Or curl into your favourite chair. Or keep your journal by your bed and write before sleep.
Reflect on your day.
Look gently over the day that has passed. Ask yourself:
- When did I feel nourished?
- When did I offer nourishment to someone else?
- What moment brought me joy?
- What beauty did I notice?
- When did I feel supported?
Record three blessings.
Write down three moments of gratitude. Take your time. Let each memory soften your thoughts and settle in your body.
This simple daily ritual helps you return to what matters most—connection, presence, love.
Beautifully designed with gentle prompts and thoughtful quotes, the Bestow Blessings Journal is your companion for cultivating gratitude. A space to honour the small sacred moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
The Invitation
We invite you to begin a daily gratitude practice.
To open your awareness.
To receive the quiet gifts that surround you.
To return, each evening, to the deep and steady joy of noticing.
Bestow Beautiful Breathing Ritual:
A daily wellbeing practice to guide your body into ‘Rest and Repair’ mode.
Stress may be a part of life, but how we respond to it can transform our experience. This simple breathing ritual offers a gentle, powerful way to restore calm, build emotional resilience, and support your overall wellbeing.
By consciously slowing and deepening your breath, you send a clear signal to your body: you are safe, you can rest now.
Why Breath Matters
Your breath is the bridge between body and mind, conscious and unconscious. Most of the time, it flows automatically. But when we choose to breathe with awareness, we tap into one of the only systems in the body we can consciously control—and in doing so, we influence everything from our heart rate to our mood.
Fast, shallow breathing sends a message of stress: fight or flee.
Slow, deep breathing sends a message of safety: rest and repair.
By shifting your breath, you shift your state.
The Ritual – Part One: Conscious Breathing
Just a few mindful minutes each day can recalibrate your entire nervous system.
• Find a quiet moment. Even the bathroom will do.
• Gently bring your attention to your breath—just notice it, without changing anything.
• Now begin to deepen and slow your breath. Inhale deeply through your nose until your chest and belly expand. Exhale slowly through your mouth until all the air is released.
• Place a hand on your chest or belly and feel the rise and fall.
• If it feels good, pause gently between breaths. No forcing—just ease.
• Take 10–20 of these nourishing breaths.
• Then pause. Feel the stillness. Let your body soften. Re-enter your day with presence and peace.
The Ritual – Part Two: Pairing With Daily Moments
To make this ritual a natural part of your day, pair it with another wellbeing moment.
• Breathe deeply while your tea is brewing in your Time for Me ritual.
• Centre yourself with breath before journaling in your Bestow Blessings Journal.
• Use daily cues—like red traffic lights or the sound of the kettle—as reminders to pause and take three slow breaths.
You can also use this breathwork any time you feel overwhelmed. Let it be a tool to return to yourself.
The Invitation
Build stress resilience breath by breath.
Take this time, every day, to rest, soften, and come home to your body.
Whatever is happening in your life today—just breathe.
Bestow Meditation Ritual:
A soul-care practice for inner stillness, stress resilience, and wholehearted wellbeing.
In a world that moves fast and demands much, meditation offers a quiet refuge—a space to pause, breathe, and return to yourself.
This ancient practice has experienced a modern renaissance, as more and more people seek meaning, calm, and connection in their daily lives. Meditation gently strengthens your ability to navigate stress, regulate emotions, and rest in a place of deep awareness and peace.
With regular practice, you begin to notice subtle shifts:
More space in your mind.
More grace in your reactions.
More presence in your day.
The Ritual: Anapana Meditation
This simple breath-focused form of Vipassana meditation is a beautiful place to begin.
Prepare your space
Choose a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted.
Sit comfortably—on a cushion or chair—with your spine tall and relaxed.
Set your timer
Start with 5 minutes a day. Over time, aim for 15 to 20. Let the timer hold the time so you can let go of it.
Begin to notice
Close your eyes. Notice the weight of your body, the temperature of the air, the steadiness of your seat. Let your breath come naturally, in and out through your nose.
Focus on the breath
Gently guide your attention to the rise and fall of your breath.
You may wish to silently say the word “in” as you inhale, and “out” as you exhale—drawing the word out to match the length of your breath.
Or simply allow your awareness to rest lightly on the breath itself.
If your thoughts wander
That’s perfectly natural. When you notice it happening, gently return your attention to the breath. Each return is part of the practice. Over time, your awareness will grow steadier and more at ease.
When your timer ends
Sit quietly for a minute. Reconnect to your surroundings.
Carry the stillness with you as you return to your day.
Make it a ritual
Choose a consistent place and time each day—this cues your mind and body to settle into the practice more easily.
Additional Resources for Support
🎧 Guided Meditation – Vipassanā for Beginners
A gentle 15-minute YouTube session with guidance and long moments of silence. Ideal for establishing your breath-based practice.
Watch on YouTube →
📱 Headspace App
A beautifully designed app offering daily guided meditations and mindfulness tools. Ideal for beginners and beyond. Free 10-day trial available.
headspace.com
📖 Why Mindfulness is Better Than Chocolate by David Michie
A relatable and insightful book that blends Eastern wisdom with modern science. Perfect for those exploring the deeper benefits of meditation and mindfulness.
