RECIPE: Crème de la Crème Soothing Flower ‘Milk’ Bath

This Soothing Flower ‘Milk’ Bath recipe is both softening and nourishing. It’s lovely for all, but is especially helpful for dry, itchy, reddened skin.

INGREDIENTS:

Oat powder (organic)
Raw honey
Flowers (crushed, dried, organic)
Essential oils (we love Rose Otto, Chamomile, and Geranium Sur Fleur Rose)
Liberation flower essence (or flower essence of your choice)

RECIPE:

First, blend organic oats into a powder
Add 2 drops of each essential oil into raw honey and mix together
Add both the organic oat powder and raw honey essential oil mix to a bath
Add 1 dropper of a flower essence of your choice
Sprinkle in finely ground flowers if desired

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Remedies for Restful Sleep

PASSIONFLOWER FLOWER ESSENCE TINCTURE

Fall into a peaceful sleep, and illuminating dreams, with the help of these otherworldly blossoms. Passionflower Flower Essence Tincture relaxes your nervous system, dissolving tension and calming a busy mind. It opens you to spiritual insight, and is great for meditation as well.… Read more

Recipes: How to Use Lavender Oil at Home

Lavender oil is universally beloved for its versatility and beautiful fragrance. Here are 5 ways to try at home:

A Relaxing and Harmonizing Bath

Mix 1 drop palmarosa, 1 drop lavender, and 1 drop chamomile into 2 TBSP honey. Add to warm bathwater and feel your stresses melt away.… Read more

May 17-18: Ojai Raptor Center Donation Days

Donation Days: May 17-18, 2017

Every year, the Ojai Raptor Center takes in 500-1000 sick, injured, or orphaned birds of prey.

Injured birds recuperate and receive medical care. Babies learn to fly and feed themselves. Whenever possible, the birds are then released back into the wild.… Read more

Meet our Peruvian Eco-Project

Moena Oil

Cooling, purifying Moena oil comes from a medicinal tree native to the Peruvian Amazon, a relative of the Brazilian Rosewood. It is used to reduce excess heat–inflamed muscles and joints, and hot emotions like anger and irritability. With a grassy, green scent, it focuses and comforts the body and mind.… Read more

Sara Crow’s Nightly Beauty Routine

Every evening I look forward to slowing down, unwinding, and nourishing myself with healing plants. With a strong cup of hot lemon balm and tulsi tea fortified with Lavender Flower Essence Tincture, I head upstairs for ‘me’ time.

I start to run the bath…I don’t know where I’d be without bath time!… Read more

Balance Your Chakras with Botanicals

Chakras are spiritual energy centers in our bodies, and each of the seven chakras is associated with a specific energy and healing theme. Essential oils, flower essences, and other botanicals can work with these healing themes to bring us into balance and flow.

Stability. Rootedness. Security.… Read more

5 gorgeous massage oil recipes

Don’t you just love simple recipes with luscious results? Homemade aromatherapy massage oils delight your senses, quench your skin, and make special gifts.

Start with a neutral, shelf-stable carrier oil such as jojoba or marula. Add 10-15 drops of essential oil per ounce of carrier oil.… Read more

Why perfumers say “no jasmine, no perfume.”

Watch this short video to learn the difference between exotic and medicinal flowers, and why perfumers say “no jasmine, no perfume.”

An Excerpt From Pharmacy Of Flowers With Floracopeia’s David Crow, L.Ac.

Meet Immortelle: The Golden Flower of Healing

Follow the journey of Floracopeia Essential Oils founder David Crow & Sara Crow as they travel to Corsica to learn about the harvesting and distillation of immortelle essential oil, also known as helichrysum.

Learn about the rare and precious essential oil that is world-renowned for natural skin care, anti-aging, and wound healing.… Read more

GOOP Interviews Floracopeia’s Sara Crow L.Ac.

GOOP, a health-centric lifestyle and beauty website curated by Gwyneth Paltrow, has published a new interview with Sara Crow L.Ac.

Sara shares the inside scoop on how flower essences work to heal your mind, body, and emotions. Check out the article to learn how to select the best flower essences for your unique needs, and special recommendations and recipes for:

Healing a broken heart
Releasing perfectionism and self-judgment
Opening the channels to creativity and fulfilment
Dissolving anxiety and fear
Creating a deeply relaxing afternoon ritual

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Manifestation Using Power Plants

Certain plants are perfect for boosting our creative capacity to manifest blessings in our life. I think of manifestation as the utilization of our creative will—an innate function of our foundational Jing energy—and the co-creative partnership we make with these potent plant allies. In celebration of the New Year, I’m going to share my personal simple manifestation tips utilizing ‘power plants.’

First, I get in touch with a deep part myself by focusing on my heart and determine what I truly would like to see happen.… Read more

If You Were A Plant, What Would You Be and Why? with David Crow, L.Ac.

“I have so much respect for those trees…such intense life force.” In this short video, David Crow gives a thoughtful answer to the question, If you were a plant, which would you be?

The Ultimate Health & Beauty Elixir

There is a flower that surpasses all others in terms of its enduring usage and reputation to significantly impact beauty. A time-honored treasure that cannot be matched in terms of its ability to impact whole body health with its exceptional emphasis on skin appearance, health and radiance.

Improving Your Clinical Skills with Flower Essences

Flowers hold a type of sustenance for the human psyche and are a primary treatment for Shen.

Flower essences are the Qi or the Life force of a flower that has been captured by water that offers significant therapeutic benefits for the body-mind complex.

Each flower essence works with a different psychological issue or theme.

RECIPE: Raw honey + Radiance Skin Clay = a recipe for gorgeous skin

What You'll Need:

• Raw honey - 1 TBSP

• Radiance Skin Clay - 1 TBSP

• Rose Hydrosol - 1/2 TSP

• Cistus essential oil - 1 drop

• Myrtle essential oil - 1 drop

Dental Health Affects More Than Just Your Mouth

The Mouth is a Gateway

The mouth is the gateway to the digestive tract and its health is paramount for the total well-being of your body. Moreover, oral health is intimately tied to whole body health and has been linked to heart disease and other more serious systemic problems.… Read more