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: Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis)

Evening Primrose is a remarkable, humble little plant that blooms throughout the night-time and is fabulous for skin, making it the perfect addition to this soap dedicated to the moon. This picture a winter landscape of our field and woods after which I fashioned the soap, and a black and white of our primrose blooming on a balmy summer evening.

Also known as “moth plant,” Evening Primrose blooms at dusk, and its sweet fragrance attracts a myriad of nighttime pollinators such as Sphinx and Hawk moths, who depend on plants like primrose for nectar. The blossoms magically take only minutes to open, easily visible to a patient eye. They make a beautiful addition to any moon garden. Primrose is associated with the Greek moon goddess, Artemis and may have been used to decorate altars in moon ceremonies from long ago.

Plant Poetry

POEM by John Clare

When once the sun sinks in the west,

And dewdrops pearl the evening’s breast;

Almost as pale as moonbeams are,

Or its companionable star,

The evening primrose opens anew

Its delicate blossoms to the dew;

And, hermit-like, shunning the light,

Wastes its fair bloom upon the night,

Who, blindfold to its fond caresses,

Knows not the beauty it possesses;

Thus it blooms on while night is by;

When day looks out with open eye,

Bashed at the gaze it cannot shun,

It faints and withers and is gone.