Learn how to make and use calendula oil for skin soothing, healing, and brightening. Calendula is a powerful herb with amazing benefits, particularly when it comes to calming skin ailments and rashes. This calendula oil recipe is a simple infusion that can be used on its own or as the first step in a variety…
Herbalism
Using herbs, flowers, and plants for medicine is something I feel very strongly about, as I believe that the plant world has given us almost everything we need to stay healthy! I’m passionate about teaching others how to make their own herbal remedies and skin care products with homegrown and foraged herbs and flowers.
Learn how to make herbal salves, creams, lotion bars, soap, tinctures, and teas.
Whipped Body Butter with Calendula
This whipped body butter recipe with calendula is thick, creamy, and loaded with powerful moisturizers. Calendula-infused oil makes a super soothing and healing base for this body butter and is a non-greasy addition to your natural skincare apothecary. Use this homemade body butter for a wide array of skin ailments including dry, itchy, or rashy…
Dandelion Lotion Bars: Homemade Skin Soothing Recipe
These dandelion lotion bars are a wonderful and compact way to moisturize and heal your skin naturally. Dandelions are an easy to forage wild-growing perennial herb, that works wonderfully as a beneficial remedy for the skin. Moisturize and soothe a wide variety of dry skin issues with these non-greasy DIY dandelion lotion bars! Wildcrafting Weeds…
12 Edible and Medicinal Weeds to Forage in Your Backyard
Edible weeds are all around us, often unassuming, always resilient, humble, and beneficial. These 12 edible and medicinal backyard weeds are easy to forage for, as most are wild plants you have likely seen your whole life without realizing how amazing they are. Learn and benefit from these wild-growing, strong, nutritious, edible, and medicinal weeds!…
Chickweed Salve: Homemade Recipe for Dry Skin and Rashes
This chickweed salve made with infused oil is an easy recipe using the common chickweed plant. Chickweed is a skin-beneficial and healing weed that can be found growing wildly in most regions. Learn how to make infused chickweed oil, and use it to make a healing and soothing salve! Wildcrafting Weeds If you want to…
Mushroom Hot Chocolate with Reishi and Lion’s Mane
Mushroom hot chocolate is a delicious treat that is perfect for a chilly fall or winter day. Made with cacao, honey, cinnamon, and mushroom powder, this hot cocoa is quick and easy to put together. Enjoy the benefits of healthy and medicinal mushrooms in this creamy hot chocolate recipe! Mushrooms in Hot Chocolate You may…
Immune Boosting Herbal Tea Blend
This immune-boosting herbal tea blend is the perfect natural remedy to have on hand for cold and flu season. It’s a simple herbal tea blend with immune boosting herbs like elderberry and rose hips. This recipe is so easy to make, not to mention delicious, and perfect for soothing a sore throat, easing cold and…
Conifer Needle Tea with Pine, Fir or Spruce
Making conifer needle tea is one of the best – and easiest – ways to use foraged conifer needles. Often called pine needle tea, this is a wonderful and simple way to use pine or other conifer needles medicinally. Ease your mind and heal your body with this delicious conifer tea! What is Conifer Needle…
Gift Guide for Herbalists: Herbs, Teas, Supplies, Books & More!
This gift guide for herbalists will give you all kinds of ideas for the holiday and Christmas season. Find ideas for apothecary herbs, teas, herbal supplies, books and more. You’ll find the perfect holiday gift for the aspiring herbalist in your life! Gift Guide for Herbalists: Beginners and Beyond If you have a friend or…
Arnica and Yarrow Skin Cream
Arnica and yarrow skin cream is a super soothing, thick and moisturizing cream that boasts amazing benefits for the skin. This is a wonderful homemade skin cream recipe that is easy enough for anyone to make, from beginners to seasoned herbalists! Botanical Skin Care Recipe Book by Herbal Academy I made this lovely and moisturizing…
