12 Subscription Boxes for Women That Will Pamper and Delight

Originally published at realsimple.com

Whether you're looking to treat yourself or the gals in your life, monthly subscription boxes are gifts that will evoke smiles all year long. Companies like BirchBox, Ipsy, and BeautyFix all supply subscription boxes for women filled with the hottest beauty and skincare products on the market. Recipients of these luxury shipments will be treated to relaxing face masks, soaps, lotions, makeup, fragrances, and so much more.

For the new mom, there's a subscription box dedicated to motherhood, and for the organizer of the group, a stationery subscription to write down all the lists that live in your head. Almost anything can be delivered on demand these days, so whether your pleasure is reading, coffee, or fashion, there's a subscription out there for you.

The Best 12 Subscription Boxes for Women:

Best Clothing Subscription Box: Stitch Fix

Best Makeup Subscription Box: Ipsy
Best Lingerie Box: Layered With Lace
Best Coffee Subscription: Trade Coffee
Best Perfume Box: LUXSB
Best Self-Care Subscription Box: TheraBox
Best Beauty Box: BirchBox
Best Stationery Subscription Box: Cloth & Paper
Best Subscription Box for Single Ladies: SinglesSwag
Best Skincare Subscription Box: BeautyFIX
Best Subscription Box for Moms: Mega Mom Box
Best Book Subscription Box: Book of the Month

Best Clothing Subscription Box: Stitch Fix

Stitch Fix is a perfect gift for a fashionista because it's the closet that never ends. This personal style service sends clothing and accessories from more than 1,000 brands (in sizes 0–24W, including plus, petite, and maternity) for you to try on and purchase. Apart from a $20 styling fee (which is applied toward the items you buy), you only pay for what you decide to purchase.

To sign up, fill out an in-depth personal style assessment by answering questions about your shopping style, sizing, preferred brands, budget, and why you want to try Stitch Fix. Then you schedule your first delivery and choose your shipment frequency (which can be changed at any point): every two to three weeks, monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly. You can preview the items before they ship, try them on at home, and only buy what you like. Given the nature of this service, Stitch Fix offers free returns and exchanges (packages arrive with a prepaid return envelope). Once you've finished the online questionnaire, your profile is considered complete, and the next time you go back to the home page, you'll also find "trends for you" (in the freestyle section of the website) curated for your style interests from the latest fashions. Stitch Fix also offers personal styling services for men and children.

Best Makeup Subscription Box: Ipsy

For those with a penchant for makeup, Ipsy offers a beauty and makeup subscription that will surprise you with an assortment of premium products every month. Like many personal care services, Ipsy offers a questionnaire to get a feel for your needs. After gaining insights into your skin tone, eye color, hair color, and what makeup (if any) that you use, Ipsy will curate a monthly shipment with all the necessities. There are four plans available—the Glam Bag with five sample-size beauty products (worth $50) for $13 per month, the Glam Bag Plus with five full-size beauty products (worth $120) for $28 per month, the Combined plan with both bags for $41 per month, and the Glam Bag X with seven to eight products (worth $350) for $55 per quarter. Ipsy offers flexible memberships, so you can cancel at any time. Plus, all packages come with free U.S. shipping. For a limited time, all orders come with a free gift of personal care products, up to $18 in value.

Best Lingerie Box: Layered With Lace

Sometimes what you wear under your clothes can make you feel just as empowered as what's on the outside. Layered With Lace is a subscription that delivers beautiful bralettes in all shapes and styles right to your home. Each month features a specific bralette design, which you can find online or on Instagram. However, subscriptions begin on the 15 of each month, so if you sign up after January 15, you'll actually receive February's featured bralette. To sign up, choose a size (currently ranging from small to extra-large), and add the bralette to your cart—it's that simple. Delivery frequency is up to you, with options for monthly and bi-monthly plans, but each offer the flexibility to skip when you want to. The Layered With Lace subscription costs a flat fee of $18 per month, with free shipping in the U.S. ($10 shipping for Canada and $14 for all other international locations). Send a Layered With Lace subscription as a gift—choose from a three-month, six-month, or a year subscription—or shop past bralette styles from the online inventory.

Best Coffee Subscription: Trade Coffee

Trade Coffee is a perfect subscription for a coffee lover who wants to try it all. This coffee company brings fresh brews from 60 roasters across the country straight to your kitchen. It's basically a coffee road trip across America without ever having to leave home. To sign up, you'll first note your coffee preferences, including roast, grind, and flavor. You may also indicate what price range you're comfortable with. Prices range from $13 to $15 for standard craft brews and single-origin coffees, and from $15 to $22 for premium coffees. When you subscribe, you get 15 percent off every order as well as free shipping. If you join today, you'll also get $15 off your first order, meaning if you choose a standard subscription, it will be free.

Trade provides a preview of your first coffee with information about origin, tasting notes, and flavor profiles. There's also a satisfaction guarantee, so if you don't love the coffee, Trade will replace it at no additional cost. If you'd prefer to send this subscription as a gift to someone else, you can choose to send two, three, six, nine, 12, or 24 bags. For the month of December, many gift options are discounted, saving you up to $48 on various selections. You can skip, pause, or cancel your membership at any time.

Best Perfume Box: LUXSB

For women with a penchant for fragrance, LUXSB (also known as Luxury Scent Box) offers a perfume subscription so you can smell divine every day of the week. When signing up, you'll create an account and take a fragrance survey to determine your scent preferences. This will allow you to flag aromas you enjoy and nix the ones you don't. Each month, you'll receive one fragrance of your choosing in a .30-ounce container (approximately 150 sprays) meant to last the whole month. Premium fragrances from certain designers are an additional $5 per shipment. This subscription is month to month with options to prepay for additional credit, and all orders come with free shipping. Members can pause or cancel their account at any time. Bathe yourself in rich fragrance with a perfume subscription from LUXSB.

Best Self-Care Subscription Box: TheraBox

While "self-care" is a general term that means something different to everyone, TheraBox contains many products that just make us feel good. Every box includes a therapeutic activity to stimulate your mind, and six to eight wellness products to support relaxation and self-care (such as body care, skin care, aromatherapy, etc.). This subscription box was created by therapists to help people feel good. So, whether you choose a one-month, three-month, six-month, or annual subscription, you're in for some good ol' pampering. Signing up for a one-month subscription costs $35, but the price drops for longer subscriptions. Real Simple readers can get 20 percent off your first shipment when you use the code RSWOMEN20, until February 28.

Best Beauty Box: BirchBox

A customer favorite in the beauty industry, BirchBox is a monthly beauty subscription box that includes five samples of different beauty products. One customer wrote on Trustpilot that BirchBox "has introduced me to many, many brands and products I would never purchase full size without having tried first. I've been turned on to brands with products that are now my favourite, which I have purchased full size." Each box includes premium beauty items for your hair, skin, and face, from brands like Lancôme, Chi, and Philosophy, to name a few. There are four plan options: monthly ($15/box), three-month ($15/box), six-month ($14/box), and annual ($13/box). If you sign up for any of the extended plan options, you'll get 50 percent off your first box with the code FUN2021. Gifting options are available, too, with gift cards for a three-month, six-month or annual subscription, ranging from $45 to $156. You can also buy individual products from the online store.

Best Stationery Subscription Box: Cloth & Paper

For the lady who loves to be organized *raises hand,* Cloth & Paper offers a Penspiration and Planning + Stationery Box subscription, which features an assortment of eight to 12 planning items and five to seven writing instruments (like pens and pencils). Items you may find in your box include inserts for planners, sticky notes, notebooks and journals, page flags, and so much more. Simply select your planner size for various inserts, and then choose your plan length (one month, three months, or six months). Prices range from $50 to $55 per month, depending on the length of your plan. "I discovered Cloth & Paper in January of this year, and weekly purchases immediately became the norm for me because their products are that gorgeous!" one happy customer wrote. "Cloth & Paper has reintroduced me to planning and how much I love it." You can pause or cancel this membership at any time.

Real Simple readers can get 20 percent off your first shipment when you use the code RSWOMEN20, until February 28.

Best Subscription Box for Single Ladies: SinglesSwag

As a best-selling box on Cratejoy, the SinglesSwag subscription is here to empower and support all of us single gals. This monthly subscription box includes beauty products, fashion accessories, best-selling books, and other goodies designed to make you feel beautiful inside and out. The standard SinglesSwag box ($40 per month) comes with seven to eight full-size products in each shipment, but there's also a SinglesSwag Petite box with four to five products ($23 per month). Monthly prices drop when you choose a prepaid plan for three or more months (during the checkout process). Both subscriptions automatically renew but can be easily canceled at any time.

Real Simple readers can get 20 percent off your first shipment when you use the code RSWOMEN20, until February 28.

Best Skincare Subscription Box: BeautyFix

If your skin is in need of some major TLC, then BeautyFix is here to, well, fix your beauty regime. Treat yourself to beauty expert-selected skincare products, like GLO skin beauty's beta-clarity BHA drops or TULA skincare's instant de-puff eye renewal serum. Each BeautyFix box features full-size and travel-size products in categories like skin care, makeup, and even hair care, together valued at $100 or more. Sign up for a one-month, three-month, six-month, or annual subscription, with prices ranging from $22 to $25 per month. Prepaid subscriptions are also available for the same durations. These subscriptions automatically renew, but you can cancel at any point. All orders over $50 come with free shipping.

Best Subscription Box for Moms: Mega Mom Box

If you want to rock some "mom" swag, the Mega Mom Box features a monthly box of five to seven goodies, like witty T-shirts, products for self-pampering, fun tumblers, and more. This subscription box celebrates motherhood with sassy and whimsical merchandise that will put a smile on your face. The themes are always humorous with a tie to the time of year, such as "dead tired" in October, "grateful but grouchy" in November, and "cookies, carols, and chaos" in December. The January box theme will be "new year, same circus." One happy mama wrote, "Loved everything about my box. The packing was beautifully perfect! So glad that I have something to keep looking forward to!" There are four different subscription plans to choose from, ranging from one month to 12 months.

Real Simple readers can get 20 percent off your first shipment when you use the code RSWOMEN20, until February 28.

Best Book Subscription Box: Book of the Month

For readers, every day is a holiday when books come in the mail, and with Book of the Month (BOTM), that dream can be a reality. This monthly book subscription is perfect for your resident bookwork because it provides new and exciting reads delivered right to your door. To sign up, simply choose the book you want to read out of the five selections featured each month. You can also browse books from past months and add up to two to your order for added reading enjoyment. If you don't have time to read a book during any given month, you can always skip a month and re-up your subscription when life settles down again. It's also easy to cancel without any fuss. After you've read each book, you can review them and choose books for the next month!

With the monthly membership, you get one book credit each month. Your first book will cost only $10, and the remaining orders will be $16 per month. However, for a limited time, you can join BOTM for just $5 with the code JOLLY. For the annual membership, you pay $150 for 12 credits upfront, dropping the book credit price from $16 to $13 each. Each add-on book to your order will be an additional $10. Want to make your book-loving bestie the happiest girl in the world? Gift a BOTM membership, with plans for three, six, or 12 months. And because reading is always better when you can share the story with someone else, BOTM has launched virtual book clubs to send you and your friends the same book to discuss. These clubs are totally separate from the membership, so you don't have to subscribe to join. Each book costs $15 and individuals can pay through clubs.bookofthemonth.com so the party host doesn't get stuck with the tab. Start your next favorite story today with Book of the Month.