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🌿Helping you to create premium healing herbal oils
🌸Teaching herbal medicine since 1988
🌿Author: The Herbal Kitchen
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Your rose bush has been trying to tell you somethi Your rose bush has been trying to tell you something all season.
I’ve worked with rose as medicine for decades, and it’s one of those plants I never tire of finding new ways to use. I harvest the petals from my own garden knowing exactly how much medicine is there.
Rose can be infused into oil, made into tea, added to food, or distilled into a hydrosol, and each preparation gives me a different way to work with the plant. When I want something cooling, gently astringent, and soothing that I can mist directly onto the skin, I make rose hydrosol.
I make enough during rose season to keep it in my home apothecary year-round. Over the years, I’ve come to appreciate how much the preparation matters, and how choosing the right one can bring forward different qualities of the same plant.
Here is but another way to enjoy the power of Rose!
🌹 Comment HYDRO26 and I will send you the full rose hydrosol recipe.
✅ Save this for your next rose harvest.
❤️ Share it with someone who grows roses and has no idea what they could be making with them.
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When making herbal oils, does it matter if your he When making herbal oils, does it matter if your herbs are fresh or dried?
It matters more than most people realize and it is one of the decisions most oil makers make out of habit rather than intention. Fresh herbs bring more of certain compounds into the oil, but they also bring moisture and moisture is what leads to mold. Dried herbs remove that risk, but for some plants, the drying process makes it harder to access the very compounds you are trying to get into the oil.
The answer is not the same for every herb, and I will tell you the whys behind every step and help you to make the most potent, shelf-stable oils for your home apothecary or for use in your herbal oil products to take to market.
Today is the last day to join the Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils course and this is one of the first decisions I walk you through for every herb you want to work with.
🌿 Comment HHHO26 to join the course before enrollment closes today.
💚 Share it with someone who makes herbal oils and has never stopped to ask this question.
#herbalinfusedoils #handcraftedherbaloils #herbalkitchen #homeremedies #herbaloils
Which oil do you reach for when the season changes Which oil do you reach for when the season changes?
Every fall, the body asks for something different and after more than 35 years of working with herbal oils, I know exactly which ones to have ready before the season shifts.
Each of these oils supports the body through the transition. Orange peel for lymphatic support and mood. Rose jojoba for deep skin nourishment and calm. St. John's wort for nerve support and muscle tension. Tulsi for stress and mental clarity. Sunflower as a nourishing base that the skin absorbs without heaviness. Lavender for the nervous system and sleep. Calendula for skin repair and inflammation. Lemon balm for anxiety and antiviral support.
The version you make at home is so much better than what you find in a store and once you learn how to make them, you will always have what your body needs no matter what the season brings.
🌿 Comment HHHO26 and I will send you all the details on my oils class.
✅ Save this for your fall apothecary and share it with someone who wants to start making their own herbal oils this season.
#herbalinfusedoils #fallselfcare #herbalkitchen #herbaloils #homeremedies
Is your skincare doing more harm than good? I was Is your skincare doing more harm than good?
I was troubled when I first began massage school by the products we were asked to rub all over people’s bodies.  I couldn’t recognize half of what was in them. But what bothered me even more was that I couldn’t tell why those ingredients had been chosen or whether they actually matched what skin needed- was I doing more harm than good?
Learning to make herbal oils changed the way I thought about body care. Over decades of studying herbal medicine, making remedies, and teaching thousands of students, I learned that a good herbal oil is something you formulate with intention. You choose the herb for its actions, the carrier oil for the skin and tissue you’re working with, and the preparation method for the constituents you want to extract.
That’s the confidence I want my students to have. Not a cabinet full of products with mysterious ingredients that they hope will work, but the knowledge to look at what their skin needs and know how to make something for it.
🌿 Comment HHHO26 to join me in the class.
💚 Share and repost this for your massage therapist and home healthcare-conscious friends.
#handcraftedherbaloils #naturalskincare #herbalinfusedoils #stressskincare #herbaloils
The season shifts and so does what your body needs The season shifts and so does what your body needs.
I notice it every fall. A different kind of tiredness, skin that needs more than my usual routine, and a nervous system that was still running on summer timing but now must shift into full gear.  I learned years ago that building herbal oil rituals into my fall routine really helps things to settle.
Body oiling after a shower, a little herbal oil on the feet before bed, and a slow facial massage with something nourishing and calming are not complicated practices and as we turn the calendar pages to fall, it's a great time to start them.
Imagine having an apothecary of potent, high-quality oils you made yourself and knowing how to use them to support your skin, nervous system and general wellness. That is what the Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils course is built around.
🌿 Comment HHHO26 to get all the details.
✅ Save this for your fall self-care routine.
💚 Share it with someone who needs a slower and more nourishing season.
#fallselfcare #herbalinfusedoils #bodyoiling #herbaloils #homeremedies
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