Barbara Brock

BARBARA BROCK

23 Dorm Products That Will Make Freshman Year A Blast

Beauty & The Box

Beauty & The Box features a unique, innovative design including 3 POP-UP cosmetic boxes that travel flat for convenience and pop-up intuitively in the dorm room or student housing. And the Beauty & The Box comes with a mirror they can get ready anywhere!

With Beauty & The Box, your routine goes with you. Each box is cleverly stair-stepped to hold mascaras, pencils, brushes, lipsticks. The boxes fit securely into a sturdy go-anywhere tray, so items won’t wobble around or fall over. OR the boxes can stand alone outside the tray. There’s additional room on the tray for lotions, foundations, eye palettes and more.

hen you’re first starting college, it can be a tough transition. It’s a completely new environment and you aren’t exactly sure what to bring. Rest assured, we’ve got you covered! After a ton of research and thought, we’ve created a list of THE best products for a freshman to bring to their new dorm or apartment! If you’ve been stressing out, stress no longer. Read below for the ultimate freshman year shopping list.

These Products Make Freshman Year a Breeze!

HEXlights

HEXlights is an interactive LED module that provides modern, completely customizable ambient lighting perfect for any room. These versatile LED lights are remote, touch-activated and have a unique modular design. You can place them on a desk or stick them to the wall with the included double-side stickers.

Apollo & Artemis

  • Alpha Vitamin C Facial Essence: awakens and nourishes your skin, making it appear brighter and youthful.
  • Oracle Eye Cream: helps decrease dark circles & puffiness, erasing crow lines and raising the eyelid.
  • Omega Face Serum: helps to soften skin and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles without leaving an oily feel.
  • Visage Facial Mist: boosts radiance and visibly helps ease the signs of aging, creating a youthful glow true to healthy skin.

CardioCast App

CardioCast is a fitness app that offers a variety of guided indoor and outdoor runs from world-class running coaches and a variety of class types for all fitness levels, including Bodyweight Boot Camp, Elliptical, Walk & Jog, Indoor and Outdoor Interval Runs, Yoga, and Indoor Cycling. Our main goal and mission: help people get fit and stay fit by making studio-quality fitness classes more accessible and affordable than ever — delivering the best music and coaching possible, anytime, anywhere.

MedAid Caddy

MedAid Caddy is a uniquely designed bag that lets people organize medications by the symptoms of illness thus making it readily available and easy to reach for fast relief.

SUNlights

SUNlights is a LED light projector with included remote control to select from 16 different color lights, as well as flash, strobe and fade effects. Offering the latest 2021 design, this energy efficient light is perfect for shooting photos, videos or as a selfie light. You can use it as a sun light projector on the wall, ceiling and anything in between; as lighting for your bedroom or as a lamp in your living room. Possibilities are endless!

Inno Art Prints

Art pulls a room together, especially a tiny dorm room, and it doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Depending on the size of the space, there are many sizes to choose from.

  • Blue Door — 11″x14″ framed and mounted is $126. Without frame starts at $24.50.
  • Chasing Moon Beams — Distressed-like art print. Framed starts at $70. Unframed starts at $24.50.
  • Fly to the Moon — Frame starts at $70. Unframed starts at $24.50.
  • USA Map for the patriotic student. Framed starts at $70. Unframed starts at $24.50.

Huggaroo´s Original Neck Wrap

Late night study sessions and looking down at books or a computer can cause a tense neck and shoulders. Huggaroo’s Original Neck Wrap will provide much-needed relief to students living in a dorm. It delivers deep, moist heat to soothe headaches, alleviate back pain.

Livetrends Design

LiveTrends creates living art to enhance your life. Imagination and curiosity ignite the passion to create. It delivers joy by fusing nature, fashion and art through each piece of living design.

Orchyd

College students are always hiding their period products on the way to the bathroom, Orchyd, a fashionable period smart case, makes period products discrete when in the dorm or going to the bathroom during class.

We want women in college to feel empowered that we have their period covered, so they can focus on more important things! Walk into class with a fashionable smart case that can hold credit cards, keys, a phone, and a day’s worth of period products, and no one would ever know!

Go Getter Girl Planners

Enjoy daily, weekly and monthly pages, along with vision boards and areas for personal development! Unique to the planner market, Go Getter Girl signature planners actually are not yearly planners but instead built for 6 months of amazing and fulfilling planning.

Sleepenvie Noa Topper

Noa will bring that fresh scent to your bed helping you to relax, with its green tea-infused memory foam. Noa is 3 inches of softness, comfort, and cleaner sleep, as it can neutralize odors (aka great for stinky dorms).

Aquasonic Vibe Toothbrush

The Vibe Series is a world class modern electric toothbrush packed with the most up to date technology. It features an ultra-powerful and industry leading motor producing 40,000 vibrations per minute, lithium-ion battery, ultra-fast wireless charging, 4 mode operation, smart vibration timers, 8 DuPont engineered brush heads and bristles, and a custom travel case; all with a sleek ultra-slim, lightweight and IPX7 rated waterproof design.

The Everything Bundle

The Shedavi Healthiest Hair System is a vegan hair care, maintenance and health solution for consumers passionate about clean beauty, botanical-rich formulas and products that actually work!You can cleanse, condition, treat, nourish and style with this system effortlessly!

This everything bundle includes our award-winning Hair & Scalp Growth Elixir and our Hair Growth Vitamins.

Cooper H20

Keep fashionably hydrated with this hand-crafted copper water bottle. In addition to the environmental benefits of a reusable water bottle and the aesthetic qualities of this bottle, recent studies have shown that copper is naturally anti-bacterial, which makes copper water bottles ideal for an active lifestyle.

Filtrete Smart Air Purifier

Emotions are always running high during back-to-school season as parents’ prep for their kids to head off to college. This year will be no exception, especially as many states return to normalcy for the first time.

This latest device brings a users’ smart home ecosystem together by providing individualized readings straight to their smart phone. The Filtrete Smart Air Purifier detects, records and alerts users to spikes in poor indoor air quality, and allows them to track this data through the Filtrete Smart App.

Brita Water Filter Pitcher

Good for the planet because it cuts down on single use plastic, plus takes up far less space than having to store water bottles in a cramped dorm.

Reusable Party Cup

For the sustainable activist, products from the ZeroWasteStore. Beer pong, but reusable? Who says you can’t live sustainably and have fun doing it. Buy your college student these reusable red solo cups.

Beauty & The Box

Beauty & The Box features a unique, innovative design including 3 POP-UP cosmetic boxes that travel flat for convenience and pop-up intuitively in the dorm room or student housing. And the Beauty & The Box comes with a mirror they can get ready anywhere!

With Beauty & The Box, your routine goes with you. Each box is cleverly stair-stepped to hold mascaras, pencils, brushes, lipsticks. The boxes fit securely into a sturdy go-anywhere tray, so items won’t wobble around or fall over. OR the boxes can stand alone outside the tray. There’s additional room on the tray for lotions, foundations, eye palettes and more.

Fjällräven Kånken Art

Kånken Art is what you get when you invite artists to express their relationship with nature using the classic backpack as their canvas. This special edition is made from G-1000 HeavyDuty Eco S with a unique graphic print. It has a removable seat pad, front pocket, pliant shoulder straps and handles at the top. Part of Fjällräven’s Arctic Fox initiative, where part of sales go to environment and climate projects.

Custom Neon Sign

Nothing will make a student feel more special than a show-stopping neon sign to hang in their dorm room! Our ‘Be the Change’ neon sign is the perfect addition to any college student’s dorm room. It features a sweet sentimental quote placed on a silver mirror backing to inspire students to create change! TheLED light is the perfect lighting feature to help you study and create a warm glow ideal for those late nights spent watching movies.

Lounge Around Romper

This is a romper you can trust no matter what. Heading out to the store? Pull on this romper. Planning to spend hours on the couch? Wear this romper. This romper is super comfy yet will make you feel super cute. What a win!

Walton Wood Farm Dorm Defunker

Dorms have never smelled better! With this Dorm Defunker, you can tame & prevent the most ferocious of room scents. Great for sports gear, laundry, mattresses, cars, carpets. and anywhere stink hides! It is vegetarian, dye-free, and cruelty-free.

Cloud Stinger Pink Headset

With a new pink colorway, this stylish and affordable headset is the perfect versatile accessory for hybrid classes, studying, music listening, and gaming. Cloud Stinger features optimal audio performance, gaming-grade sound quality and signature HyperX comfort for extensive entertainment and studying sessions. Say goodbye to noise disruption with the built-in passive noise cancellation mic.