If You Do One Thing This Season, Make It This Well+Good X Red Flower Beauty Ritual

To answer that question, Well+Good teamed up with Red Flower—the visionaries behind crazy-gorgeous skin-care essentials and aromatherapy candles—to create The Rose Renewal, a limited-edition beauty trio for both lit-from-within skin and de-stressing magic.

With an Illuminating Rose Collagen Renewal Face Serum, Moroccan Rose Petal Topped Candle, and a rose quartz crystal for healing vibes, it’s an all-inclusive beauty ritual you’ll want to give (and receive!) this holiday season.

“Decompressing and de-stressing is the first way to achieve great skin and a more radiant complexion.”

“As you live through this very harried world, there’s a lot of tension that’s reflected in the face,” says Red Flower founder Yael Alkalay, a longtime friend of Gelula and Brue, and an expert on global beauty practices. “Decompressing and de-stressing is the first way to achieve great skin and a more radiant complexion.”

So how do you do that? Below, we walk you through each simple step (in GIFs, of course). Just remember: It’s all about creating an achievable moment to reconnect that doesn’t require an hour-long time commitment. Welcome to the new favorite part of your day.

Scroll down for the step-by-step GIF guide to the Well+Good x Red Flower beauty ritual, modeled by associate beauty editor Rachel Lapidos.

Set your intention with scent

Consider the strike of a match the symbolic start of your ritual, and breathe deeply while the room fills with the scent of rose. With the Moroccan Rose Petal Topped Candle, you get 50 hours of burn life (with a natural vegetable-wax blend for a super clean burn) to last you throughout the season and beyond.

Pour the rose petals into your bath

Hey, we said this was relaxing. And while this part’s objectively lovely, the scent of rose actually has benefits beyond just being a pleasing upgrade to your bathroom, says Alkalay.

“There are 130 different molecules that actually make up the scent of rose. It’s a vibrational pattern, a frequency, and an electrical charge that’s just uplifting when you inhale the scent,” Alkalay explains, like only a scent-loving expert can. “It may help balance cortisol levels, your mood, and your overall emotional balance.”