Jackalope Botanicals
Simple and straight to the point
Infused oils, salves, burning bundles, and flower essences
Soothing Hand Balm
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Olive oil is an incredible moisturizer all on its own. It is extremely easy for our skin to absorb and very versatile.
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Lavender, you may know, is an incredible friend to our nervous system and soother of skin. It is also highly anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-septic, so it is safe and helpful to use this balm on distressed red cracking skin.
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Rose petals have been known to help our body heal after an injury, tightening the skin while providing extra moisture.
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Smell of sunshine, honey, and the energy of warm summer days. Dandelion flower infused oil I use to relax my muscles after a hard day on the farm or burning in the sun. So they found their way into this chapped-skin winter-healer! Lightening our moods and soothing dry skin is exactly what’s called for on these days.
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Another boost of skin healing, vitamin e works with rose petals to reduce scarring and speed our skin’s healing.
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Beeswax is forever underrated. Not only does it lend the leading scent of our soothing hand balm, but it will assist your skin in healing process as an anti-inflammatory as well as providing and extra layer of protection.
A little about me
I came to herbalism through my mother, as most of us do. My mother, a French Canadian Catholic, was raised with simple unseasoned foods from her family. She caught the foodie-bug young and turned to Gourmet magazine as her guide. The spices flooded in. I grew up on food inspired from the Middle East and Mexico and, my childhood favorite, Japan. Whenever we fell sick, homemade chicken soup loaded with herbs was the response, chicken soup and ginger ale.
Left: Wild grape & feral apple pie in the making
As I entered high school, my mother got a book on identifying and eating wild plants. We discovered our favorite hiking spot was covered in fireweed and chewed away. Walks around the field filled our baskets with milkweed and plantain. We started eating dandelion leaves again and digging for roots, eating every weed we could from the garden. All of a sudden we had twice as much possible food.
I loved learning the other ways of interacting with plants, touching lightly on plant-based dying but firmly falling in love with thickened coconut oil infusions for dry skin, bug bites, burns, and sore muscles and drying herbs for drinking tea.
Garlic Mustard, one of my early favorites, is an invasive plant in the United States from the British Isles. Repeatedly introduced during the 1800s by english immigrants, it has spread into our forests where it outcompetes the native flora most likely because deer don’t eat it. It does alter soil chemistry to make it more difficult for natives to thrive, but in places where deer populations are in check, garlic mustard does not overcrowd.
A bitter spring green that tastes as it sounds: garlic and mustard. Aids in digestion, helps your body adjust to eating fresh vegetables after winter.
My favorite recipe (sub 1 cup garlic mustard for another green if if your greens are extra bitter.)
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Now, I’m following the path. Datura gave me the push, convincing me that plants have deep capabilities to heal our bodies, and lemon balm is tugging at my hand.
Studying at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism after a year at the Gaia School of Healing, my growing interests lie in fermentation, GI tract healing, and supporting spiritual well being as I hammer down the basics. I’m continuing to refine my tea blends, oils, and tinctures while tending the garden and co-creating art.
