Massage is the sneakiest foreplay ever invented: you start on someone's shoulders swearing it's just a rubdown, and half an hour later your oily hands are on their arse. Earthly Body's Hemp Seed Tranquility Trio gives you three routes to that moment: a velvety lotion, a silky oil and a 3-in-1 candle that melts down into something you can pour, all in a gift-ready box scented with Kashmir Musk.
The candle that becomes the rubdown
The candle is the headliner. Light the wick and the wax pools into warm, skin-conditioning massage oil, melting like butter left on the bench in January. Once there's a decent pool, snuff the wick and test the warmth on your own skin before it goes anywhere near theirs. Then dribble a slow line along someone's lower back and chase it with both palms. Earthly Body says the candle burns for up to 60 hours, which sounds like heaps until you're lighting the bloody thing every second night.
Two more ways to get your hands dirty
The lotion is velvety and lightweight with no sticky residue, so it suits a quick, cheeky rub before you've even made it to the bedroom. The oil gives a silky, never-greasy glide for long, slow strokes down the backs of thighs. Hemp seed oil is the backbone of all three, joined by jojoba, sweet almond, apricot and vitamin E, and the maker says the mix hydrates and leaves skin satin-soft. Got a nut allergy in the bed? The sweet almond oil means you should skip this one.
Lavender and Skinny Dip get their own kits, but Kashmir Musk is the one to light when the night's meant to end in slick skin, tangled limbs and not one bloody regret.