For this herbal education series, I’m choosing to start with Kami McBride because enrolling in her Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils course in 2020 was one of the most pivotal decisions of my career as an herbalist. As for most of us, looking back on that year is a blur that was unlike any other in …
Meet a Teacher – Kami McBride Read More »
I have found the topical uses for most plants are quite fragmented and, frankly, lacking a lot of the time. Even the most robust Materia Medica often has a maximum of about three sentences on the topical uses and preparations for a given plant, and the information is so baked into the content it can …
I’ve been thinking a lot about “my story,” recently. Okay, as a small business owner, I’m thinking about it all the time. How do I tell it? What does anyone want to know, anyway? How can I distill it into digestible pieces that create a cohesive understanding of how I came to be persuading you …
The nagging voice that follows me to bed, and fills my head with… Read More »
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Basics of Herbal Body Oiling Read More »
Herbal body oils are not essential oils. They are made through a simple extraction process of infusing the whole herb directly into a carrier oil such as olive oil, whereas essential oils are the extraction of only the volatile oils of a plant through the process of distillation.
