Description

 

 

Ingredients

Saponified​ oils [locally pressed Helianthus annuus (sunflower) oil, locally pressed Brassica napus (canola) oil, Theobroma oil (cocoa butter), Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Ricinus communis (castor) oil]; water; homegrown and wild crafted herbs; essential oils; kaolin clay​.

Plant Spotlight: Heal All (Prunella Vulgaris)

 

 

This soap’s namesake Heal All has a long folk history all over the world for use as a wound healer, making it ideal for skin. It is also, however, used for afflictions of the throat, a fact made even more interesting because it’s little open-mouthed blossoms even resemble a throat. It was widely used in folk tradition, but has recently made a come-back with modern herbalists. While harvesting the blossoms in our field pictured here, I noticed I was surrounded by dew covered spider-webs shining in the morning sun. It reminded me of the Robert Frost poem.

 

 

 

 

Plant Poetry

Design
Robert Frost, 1874 – 1963

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth–
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches’ broth–
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?–
If design govern in a thing so small.