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RECIPE: Liquid Sunshine Diffuser Blend
What You'll Need:
• Orange essential oil - 3 drops
• Grapefruit essential oil - 3 drops
• Lemon essential oil - 2 drops
• Bergamot essential oil - 2 drops… Read more
Why Do Aromatherapists Love Bergamot Oil?
How to Use Diffusers & Essential Oils to Stay Cool!
Why We Love Diffusers & Essential Oils During the Summer…
• Cooling Mist: All of our diffusers produce an aromatherapy infused mist that is both therapeutic and cooling.
• Essential Oil Benefits: Depending on the oil that is being diffused, you can create an environment that is relaxing, uplifting and cooling to either the body or mind.… Read more
Transform Your Inner & Outer Space with FlorAlchemy Botanical Mists!
Using the transformative powers of flower essences, essential oils, and aromatic waters, FlorAlchemy Botanical Mists clear the energetic and emotional clutter in your aura and environment.
Meet Meadow Mind Mist
Meadow Mind Mist is a potion of lavender and spice kissed by warm Mediterranean soils.… Read more
Self Medication, Wildlife Style
How Birds and Other Creatures Use Medicinal Plants
Credit: Article written by Joe Smith of Nature.org
“‘Not all pharmacists are human.’ So begins a 1993 review article on the use of medicinal plants by animals. Reading on, we learn that pharmacists can be chimpanzees, Kodiak bears, starlings and grackles.… Read more
RECIPE: Massage & Body Oil for an Active Body
What You'll Need:
• Rosemary essential oil - 4 drops
• Helichrysum essential oil - 7 drops
• Frankincense essential oil - 6 drops
• Carrier oil of your choice - 30mL… Read more
RECIPE: Whole Body Elixir
Daily Health Elixir
A great addition to your daily routine for supporting good health and rejuvenation.
This recipe provides antioxidant protection, supports a healthy inflammatory response, rejuvenates the whole body, balances the digestive tract, enhances feelings of harmony, and releases daily stress.… Read more
Relax & Balance Bath Soak Recipe
Therapeutic Qualities
- Releases stress and tension
- Soothes sore muscles
- Balances hormonal system (monthly or menopausal woes)
- Nervous system rejuvenation
- Detoxifies
- Calms the mind
Recipe
- In a bowl, place 1-2 cups of Dead Sea Mineral Bath Salts
- Add 4 drops of Female Balance Essential Oils Blend to bowl
- Add 4 drops of Rhododendron Essential Oil to bowl
- Stir!
Sensual Ylang Salt Glow Recipe
This easy-to-make Sensual Ylang Salt Glow restores smooth, glowing skin while nourishing the heart and mind. The mood enhancing plant aromas envelop your senses as you effectively stimulate circulation and detoxification with the purifying power of sea salt and herbs.
Combine 1 cup Sea Salt, 1/2 cup Jojoba oil, 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon powder, a dash of finely ground Rose Petals, (or dried flowers), and 4 drops of Ylang-ylang essential oil.
… Read moreTime-tested Rosemary
By Stephanie McCann
Many of the herbs we use as medicine today have long traditions spanning back thousands of years, but sometimes their uses seem a bit superstitious and outdated. Although folklore has provided us with great direction in understanding the benefits of various plants, modern science is beginning to confirm the merits of these historical uses.… Read more
Video: Time-lapse of Iceland
Are you curious why we have an Icelandic Flower Essence line?
Then watch the below video!
Flower essences coming from extraordinary environments will naturally embody the qualities of that ecosystem. Iceland, the land of fire and ice, is very dynamic boasting dramatic waterfalls and geothermal activity.… Read more
Balancing Kapha with Essential Oils
Ayurvedic Doshas
Ayurveda, the traditional medicine of India, translates best as “the science of life”. Ayurveda, using the five sense therapies, seeks to restore the true inherent nature in ourselves that was present at our birth. This true nature is called “prakruti” and we all have a unique thumbprint of a combination of the three doshas.… Read more
Invoking our Plant Allies by Rowen White
The nectarine and plum trees outside my kitchen window are just starting to show the brilliant white and fuchsia blooms, harbingers of spring here in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. We have lived here on this homestead for over 10 years now, and I still find myself anxiously awaiting the flowers of spring, which signal the beginning of days of tending the plants in the greenhouse, tilling fertile garden beds and singing awake the soil for the season of planting ahead. … Read more
Spring Cleaning Blend Recipe
Spring Cleaning Blend
by Stephanie McCann
As winter begins shifting towards spring and the days grow longer, the natural world slowly awakens to a lively buzz of excitement. Similarly, we find ourselves emerging from the quietude and slumber of wintertime to greet the invigorating spirit of spring.… Read more
David Winston on Herbal Medicine for Depression
We caught up with one of our favorite herbalists, David Winston, to ask him a few questions about treating depression with herbal medicine. David is is an Herbalist and Ethnobotanist with 46 years of training in Cherokee, Chinese, and Western herbal traditions. He has been in clinical practice for 39 years and is an herbal consultant to physicians, herbalists and researchers throughout the USA and Canada.… Read more
Improve Sleep, Relationship Dynamics, Spiritual Connection & more with Flower Essence Tinctures
In this informative video, Sara Crow L.Ac. dives into the uplifting and grounding qualities of our Flower Essence Tinctures, the healing qualities of Rose and the soothing effects of Lavender to the empowerment of Calendula.
Top 7 Uses of the Surprisingly Talented Coconut Oil
By: Sara Crow L.Ac
Coconut is a surprisingly talented traditional oil that has been used as both food and medicine for thousands of years in tropical cultures. Coconut oil is derived from what is commonly called the ‘Tree of Life’, the coconut palm, known for its ability to meet a great number of basic human needs: food, fuel and shelter.… Read more
Plant Medicine Telesummit Hosted by David Crow on the Shift Network: March 15 – 18, 2016
Join David Crow for the Shift Network’s online Plant Medicine Telesummit, featuring interviews with 18 leaders in the field of botanical medicine, including Dr. Vasant Lad, David Frawley, Jill Stansbury, Rosita Arvigo and others.
Discover new practices and insights for making medicinal herbs, flowers, mushrooms, aromatic ceremonial plants, and essential oils your allies in healing and transformation.… Read more
Southwest Conference on Botanical Medicine: April 8 – 10, 2016
Join us for a weekend of botanical education and inspiration in the blooming desert! Registration includes all lectures.
Southwest Conference on Botanical Medicine, April 8 – 10 2016, Tempe, AZ… Read more