Foot Care

Looking after your tootsies is not only a healthy habit, but can also be a very relaxing one.  Spend an hour soaking your feet in a warm foot bath with special salts to soften dead skin and essential oils to ease soreness. Next scrub them with my seahorse ribbed soap with pommace or loofa exfoliant or, give them a refreshing sea salt scrub (not shown), that also contains moisturizing oils and Shea butter.  Finally, massage some rich lavender and mint foot cream into them.  Your feet will feel tingly and very soft, making the rest of you feel sort of tingly and very soft.  All products contain Ess. Oils Lavender, Peppermint, Camphor, Wintergreen and Black Pepper

Sea Horse Soap with Exfoliant:  $ 5.00

Sore Foot Soak:  $ 15.00  500 ml bag  (approx 8 baths)

Rich Foot Cream:  $ 12.00 4 oz bottle

Sea Salt Scrub:  $ 10.00 250 ml  Jar

Strain & Sprain Oil

This combination of herbs infused in Arnica and St. John's Wort oils plus essential oils for pain and inflammation really help with aches, pains, inflammations and arthritis.  Its beautiful red colour comes from St. John's Wort flower buds and cayenne pepper.  A little goes a long way and brings quick relief.

Ingredients:  St. John's Wort and Arnica Flowers infused in Olive Oil, Mustart, Yarrow, Black Pepper, Ginger, Cayenne Pepper, Ess. Oils Cedar Wood, Lavender, Juniper, Rosemary, Eucalyptus, Wintergreen, Black Pepper, Ginger and Camphor.






$ 10.00  4 oz. bottle

Extreme Cream

This is not a cream for the faint of heart!  It is a highly fatted cream designed especially for dry, cracked skin that won't heal.  It has a 4% dilution of essential oils specifically chosen for their ability to heal, promote cell reproduction, prevent infection and reduce inflammation.

Ingredients: Sweet Almond, Grape seed, Comfrey, Jojoba, Shea  Butter, Coco Butter and Coconut Oils, Distilled water, Bees wax, Vit. E, Borax, Tinc Calendula  Essential Oils Sandalwood, Frankincense, Patchouli, Carrot Seed, Rosewood, Lavender and Clary Sage

$ 4.00  1 oz.                    8.00  2 oz.                              16.00  4 oz.

Healing Ointment

This is Comfrey and Calendula based ointment  This cream is a super healer, and is especially effective on stings, cuts, bruising and baby bum.  An excellent anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and antibacterial ointment.
Ingredients:  Comfrey Infused Oil (Olive Oil), Calendula Infused Oil (Olive Oil), Beeswax, Ess. Oils Lavender, Tea Tree and Geranium, Vit. E.

$  3.75  1 oz.
$  7.50  2 oz.
$ 15.00 4 oz 

St. John's Wort

Hypericum perforatum - This lovely yellow star shaped flower is a European native that has been naturalized almost every where. You see it in fields and meadows, road sides, pretty much any untended place. It doesn't really grow well in cultivation; unless it decides to grow in your garden itself, compliments of birdie poo or the wind, it doesn't seem to thrive. At least not for me.

The common name is for St John the Baptist, it is said that it begins blooming on his birthday, June 24th and continues until that day in August when he was beheaded. Its latin name comes from the Greek, meaning, 'above an ikon'. Sprigs of St. John's Wort were hung over religious images to drive off nasty minded spirits. Perforatum is for the tiny holes you will see in the leaves if you hold them up to the light. The, 'holes', are actually glands that contain its volatile oil.

Squeeze the flower buds and your fingers will turn red. This beautiful essential oil is found in the flowering tops of the plants. Its history as a medicinal herb goes way back to medieval times and probably earlier. 

How do you use St. Johns Wort? 
I soak the buds in oil, heating them very slowly, until the oil turns a deep crimson, and then I combine this oil with arnica and various essential oils. This makes a very effective topical pain reliever and anti-inflammatory. I also tincture it in alcohol. This tincture is a mood enhancer and studies have proven that it is as effective as Zoloft and Prozac* in treating depression and anxiety. It is also said to strengthen and heal myelin sheaths, which cover nerves, which why St. John's Wort is always the "go to" herb for nerve damage.

The blossoms can be dried (very quickly) and used as tea and combined with other herbs, depending on the use. St. John's Wort will also produce a gorgeous orange to red dye.

Who should not Use St. John's Wort?

Any bad things about this fantastic herb? Well, in Australia where it is a wide spread weed, it has caused light skinned grazing animals a severe sensitivity to sun. It doesn't seem to do much damage to humans in the small doses in which it is taken. Also, it will interfere with birth control medication, and you should also not take it if you are taking medication for an organ transplant.

* these studies are quoted in the June 2011 issue of Nutrition Science News, 'St. John's Wort VS Drugs' by Jack Callem.