Beautiful Botanicals
As Rosemary is to the Spirit, so Lavender is to the Soul.
—Anonymous
Herbal extracts make powerful curatives, and they have been the basis for some...
Interview with Stewart Hill of Scotland’s Ishga Organic Skincare
So we hope that many of you have read the Outlander issue by now (though it's still on its way to some subscribers, especially...
A Healing Garden
(Feature image credit: AF Archive / Alamy Stock Photo)
C
laire Fraser, one of the two main characters in Outlander (with her husband, Jamie Fraser), was...
Yarrow and Kelp Labradorite Soap
This soap is an ode to the dancing of underwater light, the shimmering of sunlight filtering through kelp forests and the gray depths that...
Siren Beauty Secrets
As the setting sun prepares to rest, the moon is stirring. The air is filled with salt and spray, as the tide slowly rushes...
The Tears of a Mermaid
“What symmetry! What art! They are the tears of mermaids!”
—A jeweler describing a string of pearls in Desire (1936), starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary...
Spring Awakening
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems”
—Rainier Maria Rilke
As the world blooms, in the spirit of spring renewal,...
Elven Beauty
It was in the Northern Lands of old, where a change of light can shift perception, that starlight and sea first awakened the world...
The Beauty Witch MARCH: The Stirring of the Cauldron
The way she plays with us, Spring,
coyly giving us a taste of the Sun
only to wave her wand,
and cast us back again into the...
Winter Warming
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
—William Blake
With temperatures dropping, it’s time to reach for warming lotions, luscious creams, and fragrant oils...