20 Products That Bring the Outdoors Inside

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With all the time we’re spending at home these days, it’s not uncommon for many of us to feel like we’re going a little stir-crazy at times while missing the great outdoors. Spending time outside offers numerous mental and physical health benefits, including boosting our immune systems, increasing energy, helping improve quality of sleep, and more.

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If you don’t have the luxury of being near a nice outdoor space like the beach or have your own backyard, we suggest incorporating products into your at-home routine that bring elements of the outdoors inside through aromatherapy and other relaxing sensorial experiences. Whenever you start to feel the effects of cabin fever creeping up on you, check out these 20 products that bring the outdoors inside.

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From floral shower mists to destination-inspired candles and more, these products will instantly transport you on a blissful escape. Not only will they help relax you from head-to-toe, but you’ll also feel more connected to nature and the earth. Read on to discover and shop, and let us know if you have any favorites in the comments below!

1. Aromatherapy Associates Forest Therapy Bath & Shower Oil ($73)

This effective and emotionally healing oil blend is inspired by the Japanese art of forest bathing. It includes evergreen pink pepper fruit, juniper berry, Mediterranean cypress, and Sicilian lemon. To use, massage a capful onto your torso, then cup hands and bring them to your face, inhaling deeply three times. Step into a warm bath or shower to cleanse.

2. Bath & Body Works Aromatherapy Hot Springs Body Cream ($15.50)

This rich and luxurious body cream includes vitamin E and shea butter to provide deep conditioning and moisture for up to 24 hours. It inspires a calm and clear mind with eucalyptus oil, lemon oil, and cedarwood oil.

3. Bobbi Brown Beach Fragrance ($79)

This light, happy, and nostalgic scent captures summer and evokes warm sunshine and the sea breeze in a bottle. It’s designed with an intoxicating blend of jasmine, sea spray, and mandarin so you can take a little bit of the beach with you—wherever you go.

4. Brooklyn Candle Studio Fern + Moss Room Mist ($30)

Inspired by the dewy and beautiful Fern Canyon in Northern California, this spray is infused with essential oils and notes of sage, lavender, spruce, and pine. Body-safe, paraben-free, sulfate-free, and 100% vegan, spritz this in any room to enhance your space, or to freshen clothing and linens. The aroma will last several hours and lasts longest when sprayed onto fabrics.

5. Coqui Coqui Coco Coco Eau De Parfum ($72)

Escape to a simpler, more relaxed way of life with this tantalizingly tropical fragrance. Evocative of lush palms and white sand coasts, this soft and sensual scent combines fresh, verdant notes of Yucatan green coconut with milky-sweet and velvety vanilla—finished with a whisper of salty sea air. Ideal to spray on hair and skin alike.

6. Demeter Fragrance Library in Sunshine ($18.90)

Think of your favorite, most comfortable cotton t-shirt left outside and warmed by the sun. This fragrance took several years to create and perfect, and will instantly lift your spirits when you spray it on. It’ll take you back to your childhood days spent outdoors in the sun, basking in its rays and friendly warmth.

7. ESYM Curacao Breeze Room Spray ($38)

Awaken the senses with this handcrafted aroma that features notes of black currant buds, neroli, and verbena to uplift and invigorate. Their botanical ingredients are carefully chose to create a beautiful fragrance while experiencing the essential benefits. Spray as needed throughout home.

8. European Spa Source Calming Lavender and Eucalyptus ShowerSpa Mist ($29.50 -$39.50)

Using the finest French Lavender, this shower mist offers a soft, soothing aroma profile. As the eucalyptus evaporates, the lavender intensifies, leaving your shower and bathroom smelling like a fresh lavender field. It’s the perfect start—or end—to your day!

9. Free + True Bright Side Vitamin C Serum ($72)

Get your daily dose of vitamin C with this innovative serum that features two clinically-proven, powerhouse forms of stable, non-irritating vitamin C, niacinamide, and robust botanical ingredient synergies. It effectively targets uneven skin tone, sunspots, acne scars, and discoloration. Tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate and magnesium ascorbyl phosphate ensure that even the most sensitive of types can bask in their glow.

10. Fresh Rose & Hyaluronic Acid Deep Toner ($45)

This daily, non-stripping toner includes real rose petals and hyaluronic acid to minimize the look of pores while increasing skin hydration. The alcohol-free formula also has toning rose fruit extract, soothing rosewater, and nourishing rose oils. It hydrates and clears skin of leftover impurities, leaving it silky, soft, and prepped for products you apply after.

11. Homesick Beach Cottage Candle ($34)

This non-toxic candle is made from a natural soy wax blend and custom fragrance oils, and captures those beach time memories of salty ocean air with hot sand, driftwood, seaweed, and conch shells scattered along the shore. Features top notes of bergamot and sandalwood; mid notes of marine, plumeria, and musk; and base notes of sea air, tonka bean, and amber. Typical burn time is between 60 and 80 hours.

12. I’m Outside Forest Bathing in a Bottle ($28)

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The closest thing to nature in a bottle you’ll find, this aromatic essence has managed to capture forest air (phytoncides), sunshine (vitamin D), and the microbiome boost from the outdoors (fulvic acid and micro-algae). This natural self-care mist features an aromatic blend of cypress, hinoki, spruce, Japanese mint, and pine—instantly helping you feel more balanced, refreshed, and recharged.

13. Kayo Body Beautiful Fragrance ($18)

A fragrance and skin care product combined into one, this signature fragrance includes hydrating hyaluronic acid for weightless moisturizing, along with nourishing vitamins B3 and B5. The beach-inspired scent also contains fresh notes of green tea, vanilla, and coconut which will instantly make you feel like you’re on the beach in Malibu.

14. LALICIOUS Endless Summer Influencer Box ($79)

Available in a limited quantity, this super cute banana leaf box includes the Endless Summer Sugar Scrub, Endless Summer Body Butter, and an Endless Summer Mini Set that contains travel-size Endless Summer products. All of the products feature the luscious scent of exotic fruits, white jasmine, and vanilla musks.

15. May Lindstrom The Jasmine Garden Botanical Facial Mist ($70)

Romance your spirit with the gentle sensory experience of a lush botanical garden in the tropics, somewhere near a field of cocoa beans bathed in warm rain. This refreshing mist is infused with antioxidant protection and includes witch hazel, jasmine, rose, and ylang ylang. Perfect for refreshing skin throughout the day and before applying skin care products for deeper absorption.

16. Philosophy Nature in a Jar Nourishing In-Shower Oil with Hemp-Derived Cannabis Sativa Seed Oil ($32)

This luxurious body oil seals in moisture to leave skin feeling deeply replenished and rejuvenated, and can be applied in the shower with no rinsing required. Ingredients include hemp-derived cannabis sativa seed oil, soybean oil, and olive fruit oil. Can also be added to a warm bath as a nourishing bath treatment.

17. Rahua Enchanted Island Salt Spray ($32)

Inspired by the Galapagos Islands, this salt spray is the key to creating effortlessly wavy, natural beach waves. Crafted with natural pink sea salt for texture and volume, the spray offers light, brushable hold and the lush, tropical fragrance is a pleasant combination of guayaba, hibiscus, and passion fruit..

18. Replica Beach Walk by Maison Margiela ($130)

The scent of salt air, the perfume of sunscreen, the glow of sun-kissed skin…this fragrance evokes the memory of endless summer days with the radiant perfumes of bergamot, lemon, heliotrope, coconut milk, and musk.

19. Stevie Fox Sugar Beach Shimmer Body Scrub ($19.95)

This gold shimmer, coconut sugar body scrub gives skin a velvet texture while adding a tough of sparkle to skin afterwards. It also helps smooth stretch marks, heal scars, and eliminate ingrown hairs. Ingredients include virgin coconut oil, vitamin E, sugar, rosemary leaf extract, sunflower seed and neem seed oil, and eco-shimmer. Features the brand’s signature Beach House fragrance.

20. Tocca Bora Bora Diffuser ($35)

Conjure memories of the sun setting on white sand beaches fringed and swaying palms with the sweet, velvety scent of vanilla and jasmine. Also available in a candle and hand cream.

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Kamala Kirk is a University of Southern California graduate and has been an editor/writer for more than a decade. She has written for E! Online, Total Beauty, TravelAge West, Malibu Times Magazine, and many more. She resides in Los Angeles and is a proud pug mom. Follow her on Instagram: @kamalakirk