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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...

Posted in acne, calendula, chamomile, Combination Skin, Dry Skin, Herbal Energetics, Oily Skin, seasonal skincare, spring self-care, spring skincare

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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...

Posted in acne, Combination Skin, Dry Skin, Exfoliate, Oily Skin, over-exfoliation, seasonal skincare, spring self-care, spring skincare

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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...

Posted in acne, calendula, Face Serum, hydrosol, Luna Face Serum, Oily Skin, seasonal skincare, spring skincare

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Wild Grace Seasonal Energetics & Skincare: Autumn Edition

I’ve been thinking a lot about the lungs now that the heater has kicked on, and I wake up many mornings with my throat and lungs feeling a little d...

Posted in Autumn, Ayurveda, Herbal Energetics, seasonal skincare

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TCM: The Wood Element & Spring

Trees teach us to stay adaptable, open to change, flexible while also being rooted, resilient, and sure of who we are.

Posted in seasonal skincare, spring skincare

Wild Grace Seasonal Energetics & Skincare: Spring Edition

Learn how to support your skin during the Spring months, discover Spring energetics, and explore the Wild Grace Spring Collection.

Posted in seasonal skincare, spring skincare

Chamomile: A Formula Unto Itself

I’ve been spending a lot of time with Chamomile lately. This year I decided to seed our front bed with Chamomile and more Calendula to fill in the ...

Posted in acne, Aromatherapy, Ayurveda, chamomile, Combination Skin, Herbal Energetics, hydrosol, Luna Face Serum, Plant Medicine, seasonal skincare, sun damage

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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 ...

Posted in acne, Combination Skin, Dry Skin, Face Serum, Infused Oil, Moisturizer, Oily Skin, seasonal skincare, skin damage, sun damage

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Lavender | The Plant of Paradox and Renewal

Lavender is a plant that seems to be both overlooked in favor of "sexier" herbs and simultaneously still serves as a go-to for so many issues from ...

Posted in Aroma Acupoint Therapy, Aromatherapy, Herbal Energetics, Infused Oil, Lavender, Moisturizer, Plant Medicine, seasonal skincare, spring skincare, Summer, Winter

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Reishi | Skin and Soul Magic

Today let's explore the profound medicine of a long-time plant ally of mine. My first experience with Reishi on its own was doing a plant meditatio...

Posted in Dry Skin, Moisturizer, Plant Medicine, Reishi, seasonal skincare, skin damage, Winter

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Healthy Winter Skin: Stop Over-Exfoliating

I'm in our lab today working on some big projects we've got goin' on, sipping a cup of spicy and nourishing Edesia Tulsi chai with a bit of ghee an...

Posted in Dry Skin, Exfoliate, Fir, Moisturizer, over-exfoliation, seasonal skincare, skin damage, Winter

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Beneath the Hawthorn Tree: Magic & Medicine

FIRST, A STORY... Five years ago on the Autumn Equinox, I had just met my now-husband a few weeks before. Of course everything felt new and excitin...

Posted in Autumn, Plant Medicine, Rose, seasonal skincare

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