Lotions – Roots of Alchemy

Have you always wanted to try my Pain Cream? Would you want to be part of my product testing?

I am putting together a package of small bottles of my three varieties of Pain Be Gone Cream and would love your feedback. 💜

My Pain Be Gone Cream is one of my most popular and longest standing products that I’ve made for more than 10 years now. I originally created it for my grandmother’s sciatica pain, as she said the codeine that she was prescribed made her feel “loopy.” She was so surprised by the relief that she got while using the pain relieving cream, she called me a miracle worker. She hasn’t been the only one who has said this after using the cream. (I’ve even said it out loud, to myself, after standing on my feet all day in heels at conventions.)

Through the years hemp extract has been of interest to my customers, so I added it to a few of my products after I secured a local provider of organic full spectrum CO2 extract. I decided to create two different strengths to fit people’s budgets. People continue to comment how effective the cream is. 💖

So now I want to know… does adding hemp extract make my product more effective, or is it just an expensive ingredient? Do I just need a little of it in my products, or a lot?!

As an aromatherapist, I understand that there is a safety load to essential oils due to their concentrated nature, and that a higher percentage of essential oils in a product doesn’t necessarily make it more effective… as there is a threshold.

However in the case of hemp extracts, there is a range of products on the market with different strengths. Many of them don’t even detail the amount of CBD or hemp extract that is in their products. 🤷‍♀️

Along side being a product developer for my own product line for more than 12 years, I was a product developer for a CBD company for a couple of years as well, so creating quality products that are crafted precisely, is my jam. I also teach medicine making at a local herb school, and still my brain wants to know more!

My Pain Be Gone Cream is truly artisan crafted in small batches. It is made with natural organic ingredients, including: Distilled Water, Organic Lavender Hydrosol, Organic Aloe Vera, Organic Olive Oil, Organic Castor Oil, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Refined Shea Butter, Org. Calendula and Lavender Blossoms, Organic Comfrey Root, Emulsifying Wax, and the essential oils of organic Eucalyptus, organic Lavender, organic Clove, organic Peppermint, and Wildcrafted Frankincense, rosemary antioxidant, and loads of love.

I’m putting together a little package of samples at a wholesale price for testing, and would like to know if you would be willing to test my products and give me feedback?

Yes? Awesome!! In exchange for the cost of making the product I will be shipping you three mysteriously labeled 2 oz bottles of various strengths of my Pain Be Gone Cream. One made with just essential oils; one made with 50 mg of CBD, and the third made with 100mg of CBD, in exchange for $40, which includes shipping.

Along with the products, I will be sending you a small little questionnaire that I would like emailed back to me. In exchange for helping me out, I will award you a lifetime discount of 30 % off all of my Pain Relieving Products. 💜

To maximize efficiency and timing for shipping them all out, this offer is only available through October 2020. Packages will be shipped out the first week of November. 💜 You can order your sample set now by following this link. Please make sure to include your shipping address.

https://checkout.square.site/buy/QOD4XUJUYUMZGH33MYH7HLNT

Thank you for supporting my small business and for your participation in my product testing study. I look forward to getting your feedback!

Historically called Flower water, Hydrosols are a “water solution” that is traditionally extracted through the steam distillation process of botanicals that is used to create essential oils. In the realm of aromatherapy, hydrosols are also known as hydrolates, hydrolats, floral waters and plant waters. In French, the term hydro, means “water” and late, is from the French lait, or “milk.” When hydrolates first come out of the still it often has a slightly milky appearance.

In the process of steam-distillation, water is boiled which creates steam that rises through a large amount of fresh botanical biomass. This steam is recondensed back into liquid with a cold-water coil, as this liquid gathers in what is called a Florentine flask, the essential oil, and recondensed water vapor separate, which results in two different substances. Just as in the case of essential oil production, differing methods and time of botanical harvest, produce varied amounts of hydrosol.

Unlike essential oils, hydrosols are not concentrated in volatile terpenes, and are therefore not flammable. The resulting fluid ranges in pH depending on the botanical being extracted, and carries more of an aromatic “imprint” of the original plant, than concentrated constituents. However, this does not remove them from therapeutic consideration.

The term “flower water” appears in U.S. Pharmacopeia of 1926, referencing Orange Flower Water as “Aqua Aurantum Fleur,” other botanical waters were simply referred to as: Rose Water, Fennel Water, etc., as well as “Aromatic Waters,” which were presented as distillates with an added small volume of the original volatile oil. One might ask, “what are flower waters doing in the USP of the past?” Flower waters were used in formulations of various remedies. While these substances have all but been removed from modern western medicine, their therapeutic value is beginning to be revived.

Most often seen in skin care ingredients, hydrosols offer a tonifying benefit for the skin. Many companies pair floral hydrosols such as rose and lavender, with other tonifying astringents and soothing ingredients, such as witch hazel extract and aloe vera juice to create skin toners. I myself, use them as a water portion when I make my small batch creams, which can be found here: Pain Be Gone; Lavender; Calendula; custom scents are available.

I find that when I use hydrosols in my body care products I don’t need to use as much essential oil to scent them, which allows for a more affordable product for my customer, that also smells “more-true” to the plant. For instance, in my Lavender Lotion, which is made with organic infused lavender oil, organic lavender hydrosol, distilled water, emulsifying wax, and organic lavender essential oil, and a small bit of rosemary antioxidant as a preservative, I use a quarter less of essential oil than what is called for in a traditional batch, without losing any body of the scent.

Hydrosols have also been historically used to flavor pastries, to wash oneself, and the home with, bathed in, used on pets, poured into champagne, and diluted into water as a beverage. Hydrosols use is also beginning to be revived as a therapeutic when diluted in water (15-30ml- 1 L), and sipped on for three weeks, similar to ingesting therapeutic teas.

I will be offering a small workshop at the Good Medicine Confluence in Durango, in late July, showing people the basics of essential oil steam distillation, as well as how to create their own hydrosols with simple kitchen equipment. You can learn more about the confluence and the workshops I’ll be teaching here.