Herbal Hunters

🌸A new and exciting season has arrived🌸 It's a great moment to give your body and mind a reset, a cleansing detox.

We do facial steams as part of our spring self-care routine. They give such a natural glowing to your skin, softening it and clearing out your pores for a deep and nourishing clean.

We are in love with this delicate flower facial steam recipe for sensitive skin from 's Botanical Skin Care Recipe Book, which is an absolutely amazing illustrated book with more than 100 herbal recipes to nurse and soothe your skin.

To make the floral steam, you need to combine 1 tbsp of dried lavender flowers with 1 tbsp of dried chamomile flowers and a handful of fresh rose petals. In a wide bowl, mix the herbs and cover them with 4 to 6 cups of boiled water. Find a comfortable place to sit, drape a towel over your head and the bowl, and lean your face 6 inches above the water.
Unplug yourself, be present in the moment and enjoy the steam for 5 to 15 minutes🌿💗

Flower baths also known as 'Baños Florales' by Indigenous cultures of South and Central America, are a lovely way to helps us restore balance: physically, mentally, and spiritually.

This recipe is truly a delight and can help you connect with your inner beauty. 🌹Come out smelling like a rose!

Ingredients
4 cups fresh rose petal
1-quart apple cider vinegar

Directions
● Pour vinegar into a saucepan and bring to a simmer, then turn off the heat.
● Place the rose petals in a sterilized, wide-mouthed jar and pour the vinegar over the rose petals.
● Place a natural waxed paper linen on top of the jar before covering and tightening it with the lid.
● Leave this mixture in a dark, cool place for 10 days, then strain the liquid into a clean, glass jar.
● Fill a tub of warm water and add 2 cups of rose vinegar.
● Relax in the bath for at least 20 minutes.

Have you tried out Baños Florales of your own? What did you think of the experience? Share with us!

Today we strained and bottled up the last Echinacea Tincture of the season! There is always a powerful feeling behind the whole making process of a tincture. It's almost like practicing a ritual of gratitude and patience while you're waiting for this amazing plant to release all its magic.

The power of echinacea is incredible. When taken internally, it increases the number and activity of white blood cells, helping stimulate and support the immune system. It is the warrior plant to fight against infections, colds, and flu.

This ancient herb also carries a long history of medicinal use. Thanks to its anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties, Native Americans used echinacea to treat insect bites, heal burns and wounds.

Herbal Categories for beauty

💆Skin: Nutritives, antioxidants, astringents, antimicrobials, hepatics

💇‍♂Hair, Bones and Joints: antioxidants, demulcents and mineralizers

✨Rejuvenatives: vitality tonics, aphrodisiacs and adaptogens

Next time you see any of these words on the packages or in our recipes, you will know in which way it can help you with beauty, rejuvenation, and longevity

Rosemary is well known as a culinary herb. However, there is a lot of magic hidden behind in its scents. One effective application suggested by Tina Sams in her book Herbal Medicinal for Emotional Healing is to use rosemary as a scalp treatment.

Rosemary has anti-inflammatory properities and can improve nerve growth and circulation. Tina reccommends infusing rosemary in vinegar for a couple of weeks; then strain; and add twice as much water as vinegar into the mixture. Apply to scalp after shampooing, masssage it into the scalp and leave in for as long as desired. Your scalp will thank you for this!

You may be living in the city, but that doesn't mean there are not ways to live actively connected with nature. Try plants' power, you might be surprised with the benefits!

P u r i f y

The ancients believed smudging released the plant's spirit so it could assist us in keeping the air clear of emotions and emanations of illness. Modern science supports this theory by showing that Sage, for example, contains compounds that kill airborne bacteria

How to do it? Take either a bundle, light it, and then tamp out the actual flame so the leaves are smoldering and smoking. Move it around your body or home, letting the smoke touches everything. Allows your mind have an energy cleansing during the ritual.

When you smudge you're letting the smoke lift away whatever isn't serving your path in life. Ready to let it go and call the good health and energy?

In the mood for a comforting stew? With the cold and dry weather outside, nothing better than a bowl of stew to warm up the soul!
The beautiful combination of herbs, mushrooms, and vegetables in this recipe not only provides wonderful support for the immune system but reminds the taste of grandma's meal ♡

Immunity Stew
- 1 yellow onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp fresh ginger
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 200 g mushrooms
- 1 liter veggie broth
- 1/2 cup carrot slices
- 1/2 cup celery slices
- 5-6 astragalus slices
- 1 tbsp thyme
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup dried nettle > Did you know that nettle nourishes and supports the whole body, helps to purify the blood, and it's packed with vitamins, minerals, chlorophyll, calcium, magnesium, and iron? So much goodness!

Directions:

Heat the coconut oil in a pan and add all the veggies, garlic, and mushrooms, saute for about 5 minutes. Add the veggie broth, fresh ginger, herbs, salt, and pepper. Stir to combine and cook for a few more minutes on medium heat. Cover to simmer until everything is tender. Serve with rice.

Feel free to play around adding more ingredients, use whatever is in your kitchen and enjoy the herbal power! ⚡️🌿

🪵 A lot of information on how to strengthen the immune system that you don't know where to start? It doesn't have to be complicated. An ingredient easy to find at the grocery store that can become your best ally is ginger.

Pungent and aromatically delicious, ginger can be added to almost any herbal tea. Taken since ancient ages by indigenous cultures, this powerful root holds so much protection & support to our lives.

It's ideal to address colds, flu, gas, indigestion, inflammation, morning sickness, externally and internally for joint pain, migraines.

In a pot, bring water and ginger to a boil. Simmer for at least 10 minutes. Add lemon and honey to taste and enjoy!