Sunday, July 14, 2013

Summertime Cool
....because it can get hot in the Summer! This is the time when things get heated both physically and emotionally! It's time to chill and rejuvenate. It's time to work and get prepared for Winter! It's time to make Love and celebrate being alive! These are for you, Love! xo

Moon Tea
The Moon offers her calm and feminine ways of being. She invites you to work with her!
Make your infusion before you go to sleep and put outside in the moonlight. When you wake up your Moon tea will be ready to serve you easy peaceful feelings!

Vibrational Essences Bath
These are for anytime of the year, however with tension and heat they can help you to keep an equilibrium. Use Rescue Remedy Flower Essence sublingually and also in the bath. Use other flower or gemstone essences that you have made or that another wise soul has made. These are vibrational remedies that will soothe the psyche and help to shift the paradigm of mindset and behavioral patterns. Soothing emotionally. Soothing is cooling.

Wound Wash Tincture
1 part Echinacea tincture
1 part Shepard's Purse tincture
This is cleansing, antimicrobial, astringent and hemostatic. Use this to cleanse scrapes, cuts and abrasions. Safe for internal use if desired, however each injury or wound is different. Consult a healthcare practitioner for assistance if needed. 

Oatstraw Sunburn Bath
Fill a bathtub and add 1 cup of Oatstraw infused apple cider vinegar to your bath. Oats are soothing to hot burned skin and apple cider vinegar is neutralizing to burns. If you don't have Oatstraw vinegar, do you have Rose infused a.c.v.? Lavender? Got ya thinkin! No? Well one cup of apple cider vinegar will help take the heat out!

Cool Brew
 2 part Hibiscus
1 part Roses
Use a heaping tsp.per cup of H20 if brewing on the stove....
Add 1 TBSP. if brewing in the Moon or Sun.....
Brew into tea, strain and then add fruit!
1 part fresh Strawberries or Raspberries!
Sweeten to taste! 

Coconut Oil
A very cooling moisturizing oil. Oil up in the bath or the shower. Add a TBSP to your smoothie for energy and yummy blood stabilizing fat! Coconut is cooling energetically in Ayurveda.



Aloe Vera
Add some Aloe Vera juice to your smoothie and add some to your bath for restorative moisturizing and cooling properties internally and externally! Much beauty!

First Aid Essential Oil Blend
Use equal parts of Tea Tree essential oil and Lavender. Antiseptic, antimicrobial. External use only. Cleanses and increase cellular regeneration for scrapes, cuts, abrasions.

Cucumber/Spearmint Water
Need I say more about this anti-inflammatory super chill duo of beauty, health and ambiance?

Aromatherapy Insect Repellant
4 oz. of Catnip Tea
10 drops of Patchouli
10 drops of Cedarwood
10 drops of Lemongrass
10 drops of Lavender
Spray liberally when needed. 

Aromatherapy Spritzer
10 drops per 1 ounce of H20
Patchouli
Lavender
Clary Sage
Rose
Geranium
Chamomile
Frankincense
Ylang Ylang
Jasmine
Peppermint
Spearmint
Basil
Using one of these essential oils or making a blend of some, will lend a calming influence to the psyche and rejuvenation to the skin!

Solar Love Tea
1 part Lavender
1 part Calendula
1/2 part Lemon Balm
Make a large Sun tea and add fresh Lemon slices to it! 
Herbal lemonade! Sweeten to taste! The Sun gives its Solar power which bestows growth, strength and power! It is a more masculine energy!

 Sugar Sugar
What is sugar good for? Exfoliation! 
Blend 2 cups of sugar and 3/4 to 1 cup of your favorite skin nourishing oil. Add essential oils like lavender, lemon or patchouli. Add used coffee grounds or rose petals! Exfoliate and moisturize at the same time! The smoothness!

Above all else....treat yourself to some time in Nature. 
Get with the Earth and restore your soul!
xo








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