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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Skunk Spray? Here You Go.

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It's hard to believe, but when I started thinking about telling this story, it suddenly hit me that it's almost 20 years old.  It...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Handcrafted Recipe #6 - Whipped Body Frosting

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This is the final recipe to be shared from the purloined batch :-)  It's been a lot of fun to post them, so we'll continue to come u...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Handcrafted Recipe #5 - Shower Scrubby Bag

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The Bathing Pool by Hubert Robert - Metropolitan Museum of Art Next in the line-up of recipes we're sharing: Shower Scrubb...
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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Handcrafted Recipe #4 - Melt & Pour Remedy Soap

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 I'm pretty happy to be sharing this recipe because even though we make a stupendous cold-processed soap that includes these botanicals,...
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Friday, March 15, 2013

Handcrafted Recipe - Incense Cones

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 The following recipe appears (unauthorized) in an e-book.  The recipe is at least 8 years old, and needs some polishing.  We'll do th...

Gnomes? Oh Yeah, I've Got 'Em

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Each year when the butter-yellow crocuses bloom out front, the vision sets into motion a chain of thoughts.  It takes place in about 3 secon...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

handcrafted recipes - #2 Whipped Body Butter

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 Years ago when this recipe was created, shea butter was pretty new on the market and there weren't a lot of options.  It was that or co...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

handcrafted recipes - first in a series

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If you're looking for a lot of great handcrafted spa, bath, body, and medicinal recipes and instructions, I can g uar antee you that our...
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Sunday, March 03, 2013

TEH Wants to Travel this Year!

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We would love to get around to all the herb conferences, soap gatherings, herb study groups and wherever herbies and soapers get together to...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Reader's Choice Award Finalist - About.com

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As most of you know, The Essential Herbal Magazine is a print magazine (one of the few remaining on the subject of herbs) that is mailed ou...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Groundhogs Lie

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Strangely enough, right around when the groundhog predicted the end of winter, along came winter.  As is seeming to be becoming the norm, No...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

March/April '13 issue, The Essential Herbal Magazine

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It's always exciting to announce a new issue and share the table of contents, but especially as we pass the darkest days of winter and s...
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Monday, January 28, 2013

Spring in a Cup

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I've talked about how in my very early days of learning to work with herbs, I started a gallon jar containing pinches and handfuls of al...
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Friday, January 25, 2013

Loose Incense

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It has been a while since I've played around with the resins, woods, and herbs to come up with new blends to burn.  The weather has b...
Monday, January 07, 2013

why I like resolutions

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Lots of people don't like making resolutions.  To them, it seems silly to choose one day to make changes.  I feel differently about it. ...
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Friday, January 04, 2013

Such Sweet Notes (feedback)

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This was the week that we sent renewal notices for The Essential Herbal .  It's not a particularly pleasant job for me... "hey, um....
Thursday, January 03, 2013

Sample Issue - FREE - Jan/Feb '12

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As our gift for the new year, we've put up last year's Jan/Feb issue as a pdf that you may download to read.  You are also welcome t...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Choose your crayon

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I'm sitting here fairly tingling.  It will sound strange to some, but with the advent of the new year, I also got the huge gift of clear...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

losing our words

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In the last year or so, there have been essays written mourning the loss of penmanship due to everything being typed into computers.  We...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

The beginning and the end...

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Sometimes, much to the chagrin of the next generation here on the hill, I'm unable to restrain myself from getting mushy.  We had a grad...
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