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...

Signs of a Compromised Skin Barrier and How to Restore It Holistically

For a year or so, I've been offering our FREE Skin Ritual Consultations. It's been such a pleasure getting to know some of our community in this wa...

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 ...

Reishi | Skin and Soul Magic

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...

Healthy Winter Skin: Stop Over-Exfoliating

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...

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...

Evergreen Tree Magic + Medicine

Evergreen Tree Magic + Medicine

Dear Wild and wise ones, High in Vitamin C, Evergreen trees are chock full of antioxidants and medicinal benefits. But just as important is the ene...

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...