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Keep Your Cool: Peri & Menopause Must-Haves 🧊
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items Navigating perimenopause and menopause can be a wild mix of change, discovery, and self-care. This list brings together my favorite products, resources, and comfort finds that help ease symptoms, boost mood, and support overall well-being during this...
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💆♀️ Skin & Hair: Still Got the Glow
🥑 Nutrition: Fuel for the Fluctuations
😴 Sleep, Comfort & Self-Care: Little Luxuries That Help
💕 Mood & Mindset: The Emotional Rollercoaster
🧘♀️ Movement & Balance: Finding Your Flow
📚 Resources: Learn, Laugh, and Feel Seen
💆♀️ Skin & Hair: Still Got the Glow
Because midlife skin and hair have their own moods! These are my go-to products to keep things hydrated, shiny, and feeling fresh—even when hormones have other plans.
Improve hair growth and thickness.
Liquid Morning Multivitamin + Hair Growth, Peach Mango
A botanical-based regimen that fuels fatigued follicles, nourishes the scalp, and thickens each hair.
Drug-Free Hair Rejuvenation Treatment
A serum specifically aimed at “meno” skin changes — good for boosting hydration + firming when you’re noticing loss of plumpness.
Neovadiol Serum for Peri and Post Menopause
Plumping Peri-Menopause Day Cream is formulated to help skin feel firmer, plumper and smoother.
Neovadiol Peri-Menopause Day Cream
Night cream for that transitional stage: uptime for collagen/firming overnight.
Vichy Neovadiol Peri menopause night cream
Illume is a clear tanning water formulated to hydrate and bronze your skin in one easy to use product, so spritz it on before your serum or moisturiser in the morning for the ultimate natural glow!
Illume Tanning Water
Leaves skin soft with no greasy feeling, and has helped with my hot flashes.
Estrogen Cream for Women: Body & Face Moisturizer
I love this product because it really does slow down the aging process while promoting hair and nail growth. It helps fight fine lines and promotes skin elasticity and firmness. It has also helped my joint function and strength.
Collagen Peptides
🥑 Nutrition: Fuel for the Fluctuations
What we eat matters more than ever. These picks help balance hormones, support energy, and keep mood (and metabolism) steady through all the ups and downs.
Building good bone health early in life and calcium is one of the most essential minerals in the human body.
Webber Naturals Calcium Ultra with Vitamin D3
Supports skin, hair, nails, energy, digestion, and longevity with 30 g of protein.
MOMENTUM Longevity Shakes
Helps reduce many menopausal symptoms.
Womensense Menosense, Menopause Formula
Decadent, dessert-inspired (and all-natural!) flavours, plus a smooth and creamy texture with zero bitter aftertaste.
Good Protein Vegan Plant-based Protein Powder
Supports gut and feminine health.
Align Probiotic Women's Dual Action Multi-Strain
A vitamin that helps support a healthy balance of Candida yeast in the vagina.
Healthy V Vitamin: Vaginal Health Vitamin - Love Wellness
Take control of your menopause journey with food that heals, fuels, and empowers!
Menopause Manifesto Cookbook: 250 Recipes
😴 Sleep, Comfort & Self-Care: Little Luxuries That Help
Night sweats, busy brains, and 3 a.m. wake-ups? Same. Here are the tools, teas, and tricks that actually help me rest easier and wake up feeling human again.
The ultimate cooling sheets for hot sleepers.
Cooling Sheets Temperature Regulating Bedding
A foldable cooling gel pad you place under your pillow or sheet — great for those awake-cold/hot swings or frequent night sweats.
Sealy Cooling Extra Firm Support Cool Touch pillow
A higher-end weighted blanket with cooling fabric; great for calming the nervous system and improving sleep when night sweats or restlessness show.
Weighted Blanket, Breathable Microfiber
A tea with a light and sweet floral taste to induce relaxation.
Sleep Tea - Calming Herbal w/Valerian & Chamomile
This excellent moisture-wicking properties of silk blindfold quickly absorb sweat from your skin, helping regulate body temperature, keeping you cool and comfortable all night.
100% Pure Mulberry Silk Sleep Mask
A night-specific multivitamin/mineral tailored for the menopause transition — supports night sweats, mood and sleep in one.
Menopace Night
Gummies designed to help you drift off faster — good for those nights when your brain won’t quit or you’re anxious about waking.
Dream Water Sleep Gummies - Snoozeberry
A sleek, premium diffuser – perfect for winding down in your bedroom with a blend of calming essential oils after a long day.
Aroma Light
A bath soak with eucalyptus—great for cooling off and relaxing muscles; ties into the relief from heat fluctuations and night sweats.
Soothing Eucalyptus Bath Soak
Premium scented candle crafted for sleep atmospheres. Lighting this candle is my evening signal: bodies are winding down, brain is ready, the day is done – let’s rest well.
NEOM Perfect Night's Sleep 1 Wick Scented Candle
💕 Mood & Mindset: The Emotional Rollercoaster
Because hormones don’t just mess with our bodies—they mess with our moods too. These are my favorite ways to stay grounded, positive, and kind to myself through the ride.
Take care of the unwelcome heat and perspiration associated with hot flashes during menopause with this this cooling, balancing and uplifting blend.
Solace, Hot Flash rescue remedy roll 0n
Get to know yourself again and embrace change and personal growth using The Midlife Self-Discovery Workbook.
Midlife Self-Discovery Workbook: Reconnect Purpose
A simple 30-day detox plan to reset and thrive.
Emotional Detox for Women 40+: Heal & Joy
A visually relaxing, thoughtful gift for yourself or a friend, reach for these cards to quickly wind down in moments of overwhelm or stress. This soothing set is enlightening as well as uplifting.
Mindful Escapes Meditation Cards - 55 pcs
A friendly, everyday affirmation deck you can tuck in your purse or desk. “My go-to when I need a quick confidence pick-me-up between hot flashes.”
Daily Light Affirmation Deck: Quotes to Shift Your Consciousness
Wearable aromatherapy — a bracelet or necklace you can add essential oil drops to, and carry scent-support through the day. Mid-day brain fog? A quick dab of my favourite oil on this bracelet resets my calm and focus until evening.
Relaxus Aroma Lava Diffuser Bracelet/Necklace Kit
Discover the Routine Sexy Sadie Deodorant Stick, your new go-to for fresh confidence everywhere. Designed for underarms but gentle enough for feet, thighs, neck, and underboobs, it naturally combats odors while enhancing your unique scent.
Routine Sexy Sadie Deodorant Stick
A multivitamin/mineral designed for menopause support including mood, memory and brain-health—ties directly into your overarching theme. Remember talk with your healthcare provider, this pick is for “supporting mood & mindset,” not curing anythin...
Centrum, Menopause Support, Clear Mind & Calm Mood
🧘♀️ Movement & Balance: Finding Your Flow
Gentle workouts, stretching tools, or routines that help me feel strong, calm, and connected to my body again. It’s all about moving in ways that feel good.
Stylish, wearable weights that add a gentle boost to walking, yoga, or Pilates sessions. I slip these on for my morning walk or yoga—just enough resistance to feel stronger without the bulk.
Sportneer Adjustable Wrist & Ankle Weights - 1 Pair
Grippy, alignment-marked, and cushioned—ideal for yoga or stretching when joints need a little extra love.
Retrospec Solana Non Slip Excercise Mat 1/2” thick
Encourages core strength, posture, and movement even while sitting. Also a fun way to sneak in movement while working or reading—my back thanks me daily.
Gaiam Balance Ball Chairs
Compact muscle recovery tool to ease soreness after exercise or tension from poor sleep.
Theragun Mini Handheld Deep Tissue Massager
Tracks movement, sleep, and recovery—helpful for noticing patterns around hormones, energy, and rest. I love seeing how my sleep, stress, and activity connect—it keeps me accountable and kind to my body.
RingConn Gen 2 Air Ultra-Thin AI Smart Ring
📚 Resources: Learn, Laugh, and Feel Seen
From podcasts to books to online communities, these are the resources that help me understand what’s going on—and remind me I’m definitely not alone in this.
Take charge of your health with this invaluable guide to everything a woman needs to know about menopause during her hormonal transition.
The New Menopause: Navigating Hormonal Change
Straight talk, smart science, and a dose of sass—Dr. Jen Gunter makes you feel both informed and powerful.
The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health
Not specifically aimed at menopause but some great strategies for maintaining brain health and memory.
Remember Well: Guide to Memory & Brain Health