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Blueberry Shea Whipped Body Butter
Blueberry + Raspberry + Shea Learn how to make your own Whipped Body Butter Your family and friends will love you for this beautiful nourishing whipped body butter! Ingredients: 8 ounces Shea Butter 1 tsp Dried Blueberry Powder 1 Tbsp Raspberry Seed Oil 12 drops...
Butters, Balms, and Salves – What’s the difference?
Butters, Balms, and Salves - What's the difference? Both body butters and balms are made utilizing the base ingredients of natural butter/s and herbal and/or vegetable/nut/seed oils. Balms contain beeswax. Salves use herbal oils and beeswax.Β Since body balms,...
Vegan Lip Balm: Coconut Lime
'Tis the season for lip balms! Here is our recipe for Vegan Coconut Lime Lip Balm: 29.07g Coconut oilΒ (51%) 14.25g Calendula herbal oil (25%) 13.11g Candelilla wax (23%) **You could go down to about 20%. At 23%, this formulation works best in tins. 18-20% would be...
Cold Sore Lip Balm
Recipe for Cold Sore Lip Balm Makes: Approx. 7-8 0.15 lip balm tubes 8.55 g / 0.30 ozΒ Shea butter 5.70 g / 0.20 ozΒ Mango butter 7.98 g / 0.28 oz Cocoa butter 22.77 g / 0.80 oz Tamanu oil 11.40 g / 0.40 oz Beeswax 25 drops Melissa syn. Lemon balm (Melissa...
Eucalyptus + Laurel Body Scrub Recipe
To Make: 16 ounce jar Ingredients: 1 cup + 2 tbsp of Fine Sea Salt 1 tbsp. Ground Dried Eucalyptus leaves 3/4 cup Sesame Oil or Jojoba Oil 10 drops Eucalyptus radiata e/o 18 drops Laurel e/o Tools: Glass bowl Stainless steel spoon Measuring spoon Measuring cup General...
Aromatherapy & Pregnancy
Aromatherapy & Pregnancy: Exploring the controversy to uncover the healing potential of essential oils. Written by: Jolene Meum, MBA Research paper for The School for Aromatic Studies Abstract Pregnancy is a pivotal point in a womanβs life. One will seek out...
Bee Balm Pesto
My son, Soren, and I have a great love of pesto and we love exploring different plants to use in our pesto making. From Bee Balm to Lady's Thumb and Basil to Nettles, you can use just about any edible leaf to make it! Bee Balm Pesto 3 cups Bee balm leaves (Monarda...
Distilling Aromatic Plants
First Plant Distillation This is Part Three of blog series on Distillation. See Part One: About Distillation and Part Two: How to Prepare Your Still. Preparing for your first plant distillation is a journey to embrace.... For your first distillation, I recommend...
First Distillation: How to Prepare Your Still
(Part II of Distillation Series) Have you received your copper alembic still? Here is information on how to prepare the still for the first plant distillation. This is an important step, so be sure to follow and you are sure to have days and years of beautiful...
About Distillation
About Distillation Where to begin......Are you interested in exploring Distillation for hydrosols and maybe even essential oils? Do you have a still or are you thinking about getting one? Learn the basics of distilling in this 4 part blog series. What is Distillation?...
Prickly Pear Seed Oil and the Skin
Written by: Billie A. Leyendecker:Aromatic Scholars Program Graduate with The School for Aromatic Studies Introduction Prickly pear seed oil interests me a great deal. I recently became aware of the health benefits it has for skin, and so I decided to research this...
Aromatic Inspiration for the New Year
"Plants mean nothing in isolation; they are a life-form rooted in and identified by their community, by their relationships to and interactions with all other life on Earth." (Buhner) Like plants, humans also mean nothing in isolation. We are a life-form rooted in and...
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