Flowers For Mom Giveaway by Glory Be Herbals and Adirondack Aromatherapy

It's here!  The giveaway for Mother's Day is finally here and I have teamed up with Gretchen from
Adirondack Aromatherapy for this one.  I LOVE her products and you will too! 

Gretchen is giving away a bottle of her Monoi de Tahiti (coconut oil infused with Gardenia flowers), a bar of her Perfect Peace crystal gem soap, a 5 ml bottle of her Victorian Flowers perfume oil (Lemon Verbena, Lavender, Geranium, Rose and Violet leaf-a personal favorite of mine) and a wooden soap deck (keeps your soap dry between uses so it won't melt away).

I am giving away a set of floral based creams to keep your Mom's skin glowing all packaged up in a vinyl travel bag for convenient storage and travel.  This set will include a jar of my best selling cold cream (made with chamomile infused oil), Stephie's Rescue Cream (a medicated cream made with Lavender infused oil and Lavandin essential oil), a bottle of Calendula and Rose calming lotion, and a jar of my new Lavender body butter.  I haven't even listed the body butter yet but it is made with Lavender infused oils, Lavender hydrosol and High Altitude Bulgarian Lavender essential oil!  I have been using this on my hands before I go to bed and it soaks in quickly, makes my hands soft and helps me sleep soundly.

The combined value of this giveaway is at least $75-we want one lucky winner's Mom to have a FABULOUS Mother's day!  This will end at midnight on May 4th and the winner will be contacted on May 5th.  We hope to hear from the winner right away so we can get it all in the mail to you in time for Mother's Day (you will be receiving 2 packages).  To enter simply leave a comment and let me know why you think your Mom is the best!

Visit my store or Gretchen's store for more beautiful all natural gift ideas for Mom.  Open to the US only.

Sales Incentive

As I mentioned, I am trying to increase sales and , hopefully, have more steady sales.  Right now I am up to 379 sales in my etsy shop and I would like to hit 400 or more by Labor Day.  So every order until I hit 400 sales will receive a free 4 ml scar treatment.  This is my best seller-very popular!

Rose Geranium

I recently purchased some essential oils from a new supplier including some Rose Geranium (pelargonium roseum) not to be confused with Geranium (pelargonium graveolens).  I wanted to give it a try since I'm not a big fan of the scent of Geranium and it's supposed to have a rosier smell.  I am really enjoying the Rose Geranium, to the point that I even used it in my bath and in my nebulizer last night.  The properties seem to be the same as Geranium but the scent is definitely more floral and it's much more tenacious.  I am going to try it in a perfume too, and I have already made a body butter with it.  It's a great detoxifier and hormone balancer, cooling, relaxing and can be used on the skin for burns and to balance sebum production.

I am thinking about offering some incentives in my store so I can try to keep my sales up.  I'm doing well overall but my sales are all over the place.  One month I'll do $200 or $300 dollars then the next I'll do $50 and during the holidays I'm starving!  So I will be offering incentives and I would really like all my loyal customers to think of me at Christmas.  Share with your loved ones :)

Veterans Day Special

All orders over $20 will get free shipping!  This applies to all my stores for orders placed on Thursday November 11th.

Holiday Specials

I have special sales going on in all my stores for the Holidays.  All Soaps are 20% off and essential oils are 10% off through December 31st.

Glory Be Herbals Hyena Cart

JASaromatics on Etsy

Glory Be Herbals on Etsy

Glory Be Herbals on Artfire

And the Winner Is........

Crystal from Ohio is the winner of the August/September giveaway. She has chosen Love Spell.......yum. Congratulations and I hope you love your soap!
I will have the October giveaway posted sometime this weekend. Stay Tuned!

Carrot Seed Essential Oil

This essential oil is steam distilled not from the seeds of domestic carrots but from the wild carrot AKA Queen Anne's Lace. Yes this lacy plant that grows wild everywhere yields an oil that is absolutely marvelous in skin care. It has a rather earthy fragrance and really doesn't have a lot of use in blending as far as perfumery goes. I do like it blended with lavender or patchouli for skin care and to improve the smell.

Wild carrot seed oil is a must in blends for older and mature skin. Just so you know ladies, mature skin is generally defined as anyone over the age of 25, so I'm not just talking about wrinkled old ladies. It does help to moisturize dry skin and combat wrinkles, but it also improves the texture of the skin and correct scarring. So if you weird texture or scars from doing battle with acne (and using alcohol based toners) then carrot seed will help your skin look younger and healthier.

You can make your own facial oil by combining no more than 25 drops of essential oils in 1 ounce of carrier oil. Buy a cobalt blue or amber glass bottle with a dropper top. For oily/acne prone skin the best carrier oils are grapeseed or hazelnut oil. For essential oils try lavender, geranium, palmarosa and add a drop or 2 of carrot seed. For mature skin try avocado or apricot kernel oil with your choice of lavender, neroli, rose, patchouli, jasmine, with carrot seed added.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns about specific oils!

Happy Sunday

I am having a good day. It's a beautiful sunny and cool day here in Kentucky. At this point it would be beautiful if it were raining buckets but, oh well.

I made a nice cream for myself today and am wondering if I should share. I made it with light oils and essential oils (plus co2's) to help keep my skin in good shape through lots of handwashings. Plus I like a light moisturizer under my mineral makeup but it's hard to find one that doesn't leave an oily film. I used no artificial preservative, but some of the essential oils are doing double duty-skin regenerator/moisturizer and anti-fungal. I'm very happy with it-here's what I used:
Distilled water, aloe vera gel, avocado oil, grapeseed oil, apricot kernel oil, sweet almond oil, beeswax, emulsifying wax, essential oils (patchouli, carrot seed, palmarosa, lavender, rosa damscena, rosa rugosa), CO2's (calendula, rosehipseed, sea buckthorn). It is light and soaks in quickly and the scent is rosey-floral with a hint of earthy musk.

What do you think-should I put some up for sale?

Palmarosa Essential Oil

It's time for an educational post again. I have decided to talk about Palmarosa since I have rediscovered it lately. Palmarosa is a tropical grass that is closely related to citronella and lemongrass. The essential oil is very inexpensive, so much so that you may only have the option of buying large quatities from some suppliers (like 2 ounces). This oil can be very useful in any kind of skin care preaparation. It's a skin regenerator, antiseptic, anti-viral and antifungal. The aroma is bright, rosey and powdery. As an anti-fungal, it's a much more pleasant smelling cure than tea tree, plus it can help handmade creams from developing the dreaded mold. It helps to balance sebum production in the skin so it can help people with acne-prone and oily skin, plus it may help clear up some of those old acne scars. It's also used to treat and prevent wrinkles. I like it as an economical alternative for rose or geranium or an eco-friendly alternative to rosewood. And good news for us soap makers-the flashpoint is around 190 degrees so it can easily be incorporated into hot processed soap!

June Giveaway

It's time to announce the June giveaway. I will be giving away a 4ml twist up tube of my scar treatment ointment. This ointment is made with herbal oils and essential oils known to heal the skin and prevent scarring.

The giveaway will end at midnight on June 30th and all you have to do to be entered is leave a comment.

Roses

Time for another educational post. This time another favorite of mine-Roses.

Roses have been used for medecine, perfume, and to flavor foods for thousands of years (yes they taste good, too). All roses are non-toxic, astringent, healing to the skin, anti-inflammatory, regulate female hoemones, laxative, liver and blood cleansers. Plus the fruit, or hips, are higher in Vitamin C than citrus fruits. So if you have look at the bottles of chewable Vitamin C tablets, they are usually made with rosehips.

Not all roses are fragrant. Some will bloom continuously some bloom only once and they're done. They have a very low essential oil content so it takes an enormous quantity of rose petals to make a little bit of oil. It takes 30,000-50,000 pounds of roses to produce 1 pound of essential oil. Now, you know why the oil is so expensive! Thankfully, it's also a very potent oil so that expensive little vial of rose oil will last a really long time.

Although all these roses won't make much essential oil, they will make LOTS of rosewater. So if you can't afford the essential oil try purchasing the Hydrosol. It can be used as a body spray, linen spray and in foods for flavor. It's the original flavoring agent for the soft candy known as Turkish Delight.

One drop of essential oil on pulse points makes a fabulous, long-lasting, all natural perfume. Roses are also used to keep skin young looking, and to treat thread veins and redness. If you have delicate, sensitve, inflamed, mature or dry skin-rose is what you need. I love to combine roses with german chamomile, with a little calendula and lavender sometimes. They combination smells wonderful and heals your skin, and keeps you beautiful.

Any questions? Leave a comment or you can contact me through any of my stores.

Medicated Oil

I have a small amount of medicated oil back in stock. It is slightly different than the original batch since I was working with all dried herbs. There is no all-heal in it and I added some wood betony. It smells very close to the original and the addition of the wood betony will make it more relaxing.

I will be able to make more very soon as many of my plants are starting to peak above the soil. We are forecast to have warmer temps for the next week-let's hope it stays that way and Spring is finally here! We have been warming up a little but we have had so much snow this year that some of it still hasn't melted! So every now and then you see a batch of snow on the ground while you're driving around.

Man am I ready for Spring!!!!!!!!