10 Ways to Repurpose Your Facial Trivium Box
When I designed the Facial Trivium box, I wanted it to feel like something worth keeping. Botanical lining inside the lid. A solid, weighted build. Enough interior space to hold the three products you'd reach for every single day.
What I didn't fully anticipate was how many of you would refuse to throw it away.
Honestly? Good.
Because we're retiring this size- we're redesigning the Facial Trivium kit to be smaller, sleeker, and better suited for retail shelves and bathroom cabinets. That means the original box, this generous, beautiful version, won't be made again.
Before it goes, I want to make sure yours has a second life. Here are ten of my favorite ideas.
1. A Vanity Tray for Your Morning Ritual
The box lid opens flat and wide, making it a natural home for the small beautiful things you reach for every morning: rings you set aside before washing your face, a favorite hair pin, a perfume you wear daily. Keep the lid open on your vanity. Let it hold what matters.
2. A Jewelry Box
The interior is lined and divided in a way that happens to be perfect for jewelry. Rings in one corner, earrings in another, a bracelet laid across the front. You don't need to modify anything. It's already there.
3. A Keepsake Box
Letters. A dried flower from something that mattered. A photograph you haven't framed yet. Small things with big weight. The Facial Trivium box is sturdy enough to protect them and beautiful enough to deserve them.
4. A Recipe Box
Remove the inner mold & line the interior with a few folded index cards, and you have a recipe box that looks like an heirloom. Write your favorites by hand. Pass it down. The botanical lid makes it feel like it was always meant for a kitchen shelf.
5. A Desk Organizer
Stamps, washi tape, a good pen, a few paper clips, some stationery. The box is the right size for the beautiful clutter that collects on a desk when you're someone who still writes things by hand. It brings order without making order feel clinical.
6. A Gift Box for Someone You Love
This is our favorite one.
Decoupage the outside to match the occasion, and suddenly the box is the gift.
For Christmas: layer the exterior with vintage holiday botanicals, a Dickens-era illustration, a sprig of cedar printed on tissue paper. Fill the inside with small meaningful things. Wrap it with a velvet ribbon instead of paper.
For a graduation: decoupage with gold leaf accents, a map of the city she's moving to, a piece of handwritten advice tucked under the lid. Something she'll keep for decades.
For a birthday: her favorite colors, a pressed flower, something torn from a magazine she'd love. You're not wrapping a gift. You're making one.
For Mother's Day or a holiday: layer the outside with family photos printed small, botanical prints, a piece of her grandmother's handwriting if you have it. The box becomes the memory.
The Facial Trivium box is the right size for a candle and a journal, a silk sleep mask and a card, three handpicked things that mean something. And because the build quality is what it is, it won't look DIY. It will look intentional... because it is.
7. A Seed and Garden Packet Organizer
If you grow things, you know the chaos of seed packets. The Facial Trivium box holds them neatly, keeps them dry, and looks beautiful on a potting bench or windowsill. Label the inside edge by season or plant type. It's a small thing that makes the whole ritual more enjoyable.
8. A Tea and Ritual Box
A few tea bags, a small tin of honey, a piece of dark chocolate, a matchbook for the candle you light when you make it. The box becomes a little altar for the quiet part of the day. Keep it on your table or beside the kettle.
9. A Child's Treasure Box
Children understand instinctively that beautiful containers are for important things. A small collection of rocks. A drawing they're proud of. A birthday card. Give them the box and let them decide what deserves to live inside it. The botanical lid will mean something different to every child who opens it.
10. A Meditation or Intention Box
A folded intention you've written down. A stone that grounds you. A small photograph of someone you're praying for. Some people keep a gratitude list inside. Some keep a single word that's guiding them through the season. The box is quiet and holds what you put into it. That's the point.
(I used a piece of artwork by my favorite artist, Didier Lourenco to create this AI image. His work inspires me.)
One Last Thing
The Facial Trivium Kit is on its final run at $75 with free shipping - almost 50% off the regular $143 price. Same three products. Same ritual. Same results.
When the products are finished, the box stays.
And then, it becomes part of Savvy Boheme's almost 2-decade nostalgia!
Love and LIFE to you,
Keri