Infused with plant medicine and scents from the mountains and the lowlands, captured in nourishing salves to soothe your skin and spirit. High Country Salve is heady with the scent of piñon resin and needles and great basin sagebrush. Low Country Salve is imbued with mugwort, black and purple sage, and yerba santa.
Harvested by hand and with great care, these plants were immersed in soothing avocado oil for one month (from new moon to new moon), capturing their generous scent and potent medicine to share with you in hand-poured 1 oz. tins.
Both salves contain just three ingredients: plant-infused avocado oil, local Ojai beeswax, and organic shea butter.
Ingredient Notes
Piñon resin has been used for millennia to heal wounds, cuts, and burns. It has potent anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties, and acts as a protective barrier, sealing moisture into parched skin.
Sagebrush has antiseptic properties and has been used historically to cleanse and soothe rashes, wounds, and insect bites.
Mugwort is noted for reducing inflammation—in addition to its antimicrobial and antioxidant properties—and has been used to treat poison oak rash and other skin irritations. Its anti-inflammatory action may also soothe pain from bruising or sore muscles.
Black Sage contains monoterpenoids and diterpenoids which penetrate skin to treat inflammation and pain. Purple Sage has analgesic, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial properties known to alleviate pain and skin irritation.
Yerba Santa has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antimicrobial properties which soothe inflamed skin and support skin regeneration.
…And all lend their delicious, potent scents to these naturally healing salves.
Thank you for reading Tinctoria, the newsletter from me, Erin of Berbo Studio.
I’m happy to announce my next workshop, on Saturday, May 23rd at California Botanic Garden: Natural Dyes of the San Gabriel Foothills.
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