Ingredient Spotlight: Lavender

Beloved for its vast healing properties, Lavender a wonderful plant ally.  It's antiseptic and anti-inflammatory - perfect for burns, rashes, and irritated and damaged skin. Lavender is used as a healing agent in creams, lotions, and salves. It has cell-regenerating properties and is used for reducing wrinkles, scarring, and stretch marks.

This universe is not outside of you

Look inside yourself. There is beauty there.

Plant dreams

The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgment. 
-Unknown
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#plantdreams #pullweeds #growahappylife #growlove #rootdownriseupgrowlove #grow #love #community

Full Moon - July 27th

FULL MOON JULY 27th

As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin. 
-Pablo Neruda

I am joy. I am peace. I am love.

I am joy
I am peace
I am love

Root down. Rise up. Grow love. everyday
#joy #peace #love #rootdownriseupgrowlove #growlove #rootdown #grounded

Spotlight On: Awake Organic Body Scrub

Invigorate your morning shower routine with our Awake Organic Body Scrub. Organic fair trade coffee firms and improves skin's appearance. Brown sugar exfoliates to reveal your true radiance and coconut oil leaves just the right amount of moisture so you can skip the lotion!

When I am Among the Trees

When I don't know what to do with myself, especially if I've been spending a lot of time on all.....

When I am Among the Trees

When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
- Mary Oliver -

#maryoliver #poetrysaveslives #rootdownriseupgrowlove  #introvert #empath #earthing #forestbathing

Spotlight On: Beeswax

Spotlight On: Beeswax

Rich honey-scented wax is made by bees to build their honeycombs. It is one of the most popular and widely used thickeners in skin care products. It has soothing, healing, and antibiotic properties.

We love to use it in our organic Peppermint Cocoa Lip Balm. #ingredientsmatter #beeswax #lipbalm #organiclipbalm #peppermintcocoalipbalm #lipcare #loveyourlips #organicskincare #organicbeauty #organic #organicingredients #naturally #naturalskincare #greenbeauty #naturalskincare #greenliving #natural  #rootdownriseupgrowlove #loveyourskin #nocreepystuff #becauseweloveyou

Carl Sagan

I absolutely love this quote from Carl Sagan. In dark times, I can turn to love - especially when I feel very small. Remember, you are someone’s world, you are important, you are loved. Always. #CarlSagan #love #rootdownriseupgrowlove #love #lovemakesusbetter #wearemadeofstardust

Product Highlight: Goddess Facial Toner and Refresher

A customer favorite! Refresh your face and body or spritz in the air for a divine pick me up!  Goddess features a calming and uplifting essential oil blend and our very own small-batch organic witch hazel to balance emotions and cool the skin. 

Clary sage, lavender and cedarwood join forces with blue chamomile and a few other specially selected essential oils in this blend. Clary sage is used in aromatherapy for a variety of women's issues. Lavender is antiseptic and anti-inflammatory and is used as a healing agent in creams, lotions, and salves and to reduce wrinkles, scarring, and stretch marks. Cedarwood offers anti-inflammatory properties and a hint of the forest.

Spotlight On: Lavender

Lavender is beloved for its soothing and healing properties. The aroma has both relaxing and stimulating properties. It is also antiseptic and anti-inflammatory which makes it perfect for irritated and damaged skin. Lavender has a long history of use as a healing agent in creams, lotions, and salves and is valued for its aromatic and cell-regenerating properties It is commonly chosen to reduce the appearance of wrinkles, scarring, and stretch marks.

Antiseptic and anti-inflammatory- perfect for burns, rashes, and irritated and damaged skin, and it is commonly used as a healing agent in creams, lotions, and salves. It has cell-regenerating properties and is used for reducing wrinkles, scarring, and stretch marks.

DIY Gardener's Salve

This time of year is great for getting out in the garden! But it can be rough on our hands. Care for your hands by making your own Gardener's Salve from the Mountain Rose Herbs blog - click here.

Take a Walk Today

Take a walk today and be with nature. 

Product Highlight: Citrus Bergamot Sugar Scrub

Our Citrus Bergamot Sugar Scrub is a customer favorite because it’s jam packed full of moisture. Our most popular scrub leaves skin glowing, smooth, and hydrated. Sugar scrubs are gentler on the skin than salt scrubs and, sugar's alphahydroxy acid helps loosen dirt and slough off dead skin cells. Did we mention this scrub moisturizes, too?

Spotlight On: Bergamot Essential Oil

It may look like a weird lumpy lime, but this is a gorgeous essential oil. If you've ever had Earl Grey tea, you've experienced Bergamot. It provides the distinctive herby, citrusy component to this iconic tea.  

 It’s also used in perfuming because it blends beautifully with many fragrance notes including those of Lavender, Cedarwood, Neroli, Rose, Clary Sage and Black Pepper (Rhind 2014). 

In aromatherapy, bergamot is valued for its anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antifungal properties. It works in massage oils to reduce tension and soothe tight muscles. On an emotional front, it is used for soothing depression and anxiety in a diffuser or in massage blends. 

Important to know: It is phototoxic, meaning that it may cause a burning reaction on skin exposed to direct sunlight.  How to stay safe? Avoid direct sunlight or tanning beds for up to 18 hours after applying Bergamot to the skin. Always dilute Bergamot before using. It may be used safely (no phototoxic response) on the skin in a blend at no more than 0.4% (approx. 1-2 drops per 1 oz/30 ml of carrier). Or, choose an FCF-free Bergamot oil which has had the phototoxic components removed.  For more info on essential oil safety, see Robert Tisserand's encyclopedic text, Essential Oil Safety.