Seasonal Herbal Offerings 2024
Introducing a Quarterly Herbal Offering: one seasonally appropriate herbal product to ingest, one to use topically, and one wild card. You can subscribe for a year, adding “All Seasons 2024” to your cart with a 10% discount when you apply the code SEASONS, or purchase individually. Summer, autumn, and winter collections will be available at the summer solstice, fall equinox, and toward the end of November.
This spring I’ll be sharing:
2024 Whiskey Bitters: This blend features chai spices to aid digestion and dandelion root to support the liver, while artichoke leaf from a friend’s garden and grapefruit peel bring in the bitters. Bitters are a delicious way to support digestion by taking 2-3 dropperfuls neat or in a small glass of water while preparing your meals. Or enjoy as a digestif after your meal, in cocktails, or with sparkly water for a botanical boost. 2 fl oz/ 60 ml
Sunny Butter Magic: Support your skin before the summertime sunny days are here. Calendula infused sunflower and sea buckthorn oils are whipped with shea butter to the consistency of buttercream. Divine! The essential oil blend of carrot seed, frankincense, lavender, and palmarosa completes this skin-nourishing delight. With only oils and shea butter, Sunny Butter Magic absorbs easily, conditioning and protecting the skin. 4 oz jar
Wild Card: This season’s wild card is literal— four botanical greeting cards drawn by Zuzu Morgan, my lovely daughter. I’m encouraging snail mail and handwritten communications with these artful expressions of persimmons, dandelion, pomegranates, and an unfurling, springtime fern.
USAGE:
Whiskey Bitters: Take 2-3 dropperfuls neat before dinner to stimulate appetite and digestion. Add to sparkling water or cocktails, enjoying as an aperitif or digestif.
Sunny Butter: Nourish and protect your skin by massaging daily into hands, body, and face. The buttercream fluff prefers to be kept in a cool spot, out of the sun. But if your Sunny Butter gets warm and melts or separates, that’s okay! Simply stir it up and continue to treat your skin with its healing properties. Shea butter is non-comedogenic (won’t clog pores), so is a nice treatment for the face, especially after spritzing with a hydrosol.
Ingredients:
Whiskey Bitters: whiskey, grapefruit peel* (Citrus paradisi), honey (Apis mellifera), ginger root* (Zingiber officinale), hawthorn berry* (Crataegus monogyna), fennel seed* (Foeniculum vulgare), dandelion root* (Taraxacum officinale), hibiscus calyx* (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis), cinnamon bark* (Cinnamomum verum), artichoke leaf* (Cynara scolymus), coriander seed* (Coriandrum sativum), star anise* (Illicium verum), black pepper* (Piper nigrum)
Sunny Butter: shea butter** (Butyrospermum parkii), sunflower oil* (Helianthus annuus), sea buckthorn CO2* (Hippophae rhamnoides), calendula flower* (Calendula officinalis), arrowroot powder (Maranta arundicacea), essential oils of carrot seed* (Daucus carota), frankincense* (Boswellia carteri), lavender* (Lavandula angustifolia), palmarosa* (Cymbopogon martinii)