Journal

Spring Skincare Essentials: The Top 5 Plants Your Skin Needs This Season

Plants are one of my favorite ways to connect with the season, to touch in with the energetics of the Earth in a palpable, observable, concrete, an...

Gentle Exfoliation: How To Renew Your Skin This Spring

Gentle Exfoliation: How To Renew Your Skin This Spring

We made it! Spring has officially sprung and while we're still layering up here in the Pacific Northwest, we're doing so to head out into the garde...

3 Ways to Modify Your Skincare for Spring

While we're not quite there yet, spring's arrival is imminent. We're so close! Can you feel it? It's still cold and damp here in the Pacific Northw...

Black Cumin Seed: An Oil with Ancient Roots

Black Cumin Seed: An Oil with Ancient Roots

We talk a lot about plants over here, but we don't often focus on our carrier (or lipid) oils. These precious oils make up so much of the magic we ...

Nourishing Tulsi: Beauty Medicine Inside and Out

Nourishing Tulsi: Beauty Medicine Inside and Out

Tulsi offers incredible benefits, not least of which are the aromatic scent and warm spicy flavor that alone work their own magic.For me though, Tu...

Calendula | Lymphatic + Skin Support

Calendula | Lymphatic + Skin Support

In the last post we talked about Chamomile and its nurturing, sweet, slightly bitter and warming energetics along with the healing properties it pr...

Toners: Hydrate + Calm

Toners: Hydrate + Calm

"Why do I need to use a toner?" I hear this question all the time from clients and customers.  To be perfectly honest, I never used to use toners. ...

Moon magic for your skin

Moon magic for your skin

When I first started learning about herbal medicine, my favorite things to make were solar-infused oils. There's something alchemical about how the...